In this workshop-like session of STEM Quest 3.0, Amirali explores the neuroscience of creativity, focusing on how creative thinking can be intentionally enhanced rather than treated as a rare moment of inspiration. Drawing on research from cognitive neuroscience, his talk breaks down the neural networks involved in creativity—particularly the Default Mode Network—and explains how processes such as mind-wandering, incubation, and exploration support idea generation.
The session then outlines five neuroscience-backed strategies, including reclaiming childlike curiosity, reducing perfectionism, leveraging sleep and dopamine balance, and using cross-modal learning to strengthen creative circuits in the brain. In providing a practical, neuroscience-backed framework for cultivating creativity as a trainable cognitive skill that can be used consistently in daily life, this session is a guide on how you can leverage your inner creative power to make you more creative without having to consciously think about it.
Watch the full session, How to Become More Creative - with Lessons from Neuroscience, with Amirali and more STEM Quest 3.0 sessions here on Everything YSI!
The biggest STEM program for youth we’ve hosted at Youth STEM Initiative yet, in partnership with MedXplorer and STEM Up.
