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Tiny Brain Region Determines How Creative You Are, Study Finds

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Buried just behind your forehead, in a strip of cortex that neuroscientists call Brodmann area 10, sits roughly a thumb’s width of tissue that accounts for nearly half of what makes you creative. Not the broad strokes of imagination, not artistic temperament. Something far more specific: the functional distance between two zones of this region, which can now be measured, varies between individuals, and predicts creative ability with statistical reliability. The finding emerged from an unli

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