Abstract
Creativity is the capacity to come up with novel and useful ideas. (e.g. Benedek et al., 2012).
Literature reports that two main thought processes behind creativity are divergent and convergent thinking. Bilinguals reported to have a.o. an advantage in inhibition of attention to misleading information, i.e. mechanisms used in convergent thinking (e.g.
Hofweber, Marinis & Treffers-Daller, 2016). Bilinguals are generally better in divergent thinking than monolinguals (e.g.
Kharkhurin & Wei, 2015). Aim of this study is to find functional link between types of bilingual experience and mechanisms underlying creativity.
Using EEG and fMRI while completing bilingual version of Flankers task (Wu & Thierry, 2013), both spatial and temporal patterns of brain activity are to be determined. The EEG end fMRI data will be analysed alongside the outcomes from creativity test, intelligence test and the Language and Social Background Questionnaire (LSBQ) (Anderson et al., 2018)