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Abstract：
Creativity is considered the ability to generate new ideas or behaviors, an ability that have diverse expressions in different human groups, such as painters and non-painters. Art major students require more creative activities than non-art students do. In this study, we plan to explore the figural creativity abilities of art major students and whether these students exhibited higher figural creativity scores and why their brain structure of gray matter are lower which may benefit from their professional training relative to non-art majors. Therefore, in this study, we use voxel-based morphometry (VBM) to identify different behavioral and brain mechanisms between art major students and non-art major students by using the figural Torrance Test of Creative Thinking. Our results showed that the TTCT-figural (TTCT-F) scores of art majors were higher than those of non-art majors. The TTCT-F score of art major students and practicing and study time have positive correlations which means art major\'s figural creativity score benefit from there art professional training in some degree. Subsequently, the interaction analysis revealed that the TTCT-figural scores of art majors and non-majors exhibited significant correlations with the gray matter volumes (GMV) of the left anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the left medial frontal gyrus (MFG). While the simple slope analysis showed that art majors, compared with non-art majors, exhibited a marginal significantly positive association with the left ACC and MFG, non-art majors exhibited a significantly negative association with the left ACC and MFG. Overall, our study revealed that people who major in artistic work are more likely to possess enhanced figural creative skills relative to non-artistic people. These results indicated that professional artistic programs or training may increase creativity skills via reorganized intercortical connections.
摘要：
创造力被认为是产生新想法或行为的能力，在不同的人类群体中具有不同表达的能力，比如画家和非画家。艺术专业的学生比非艺术专业的学生需要更多的创造性活动。在这项研究中,我们计划探索艺术专业学生的形象创造力，以及这些学生是否表现出更高的形象创造力分数，以及为什么他们的灰质大脑结构较低，这可能会受益于他们相对于非艺术专业的专业培训。因此,在这项研究中，我们使用基于体素的形态计量学（VBM），通过使用创造性思维的形象扭转测验来识别艺术专业学生与非艺术专业学生之间的不同行为和大脑机制。我们的结果表明，艺术专业的TTCT图形（TTCT-F）成绩高于非艺术专业的成绩。艺术专业学生的TTCT-F分数与练习和学习时间呈正相关，这意味着艺术专业的形象创造力分数在一定程度上受益于艺术专业的培训。随后，交互作用分析显示，艺术专业和非专业学生的TTCT图形分数与左前扣带回皮质（ACC）和左额内侧回（MFG）的灰质体积（GMV）显着相关。而简单的斜率分析表明，艺术类专业，与非艺术专业相比，与左ACC和MFG表现出边缘显著正相关，非艺术专业学生与左ACC和MFG呈显著负相关。总的来说,我们的研究表明，相对于非艺术人士，从事艺术工作的人更有可能拥有增强的形象创造技能。这些结果表明，专业的艺术计划或培训可能会通过重组的皮层间连接来提高创造力。
