Table 3. Relationship between cortical thickness and Creative Ability Test performance.
Measures of divergent thinking | Brain area | Side | Talairach coordinates* | Size(mm2) | t max | ||
x | y | z | |||||
CAT fluency 1 | |||||||
Lateral Occipital Cortex | left | −41.2 | −75.2 | −2.5 | 118.2 | 5.48 | |
Postcentral Gyrus | left | −37.5 | −33.7 | 62.2 | 46.4 | 4.61 | |
CAT originality | |||||||
Lingual Gyrus | left | −18.7 | −75.8 | −9.2 | 398.0 | 5.03 | |
Lateral Occipital Cortex | left | −28.4 | −94.0 | −5.2 | 753.7 | 4.67 | |
Superior Parietal Cortex | left | −13.0 | −76.4 | 43.7 | 78.7 | 3.90 | |
Temporal Pole | left | −32.7 | 8.9 | 37.7 | 84.8 | 3.87 | |
Enthorinal Cortex | left | −27.8 | −17.4 | −30.6 | 49.3 | 3.63 | |
Isthmus Cingulate Cortex | left | −5.4 | −45.1 | 30.7 | 36.2 | 3.60 | |
Superior Frontal Gyrus | left | −7.8 | 29.5 | 45.3 | 25.0 | 3.36 | |
CAT originality with IQ | |||||||
Lingual Gyrus | left | −15.5 | −78,9 | −10.8 | 484.5 | 5.00 | |
Temporal Pole | left | −33.0 | 10.5 | −38.0 | 143.7 | 4.21 | |
Lateral Occipital Cortex | left | −28.5 | −94.4 | −3.0 | 580.2 | 4.16 | |
Superior Frontal Gyrus | left | −7.4 | 28.4 | 45.8 | 130.4 | 4.15 | |
Superior Parietal Cortex | left | −12.5 | −76.2 | 43.5 | 105.0 | 4.02 | |
Isthmus Cingulate Cortex | left | −4.3 | −43.2 | 29.7 | 53.9 | 3.72 | |
Inferior Temporal Cortex | left | −47.3 | −63.6 | −5.4 | 20.6 | 3.46 |
t max = t-value of maximum positive correlation between cortical thickness and CAT performance. All regions survive FDR-correction p<0.05 with Total Intracranial Volume, sex and age as nuisance variables. Size (mm2) = surface area of the cluster in square millimeters.*Note on Talairach: FreeSurfer does not report true "Talairach" coordinates. The coordinates listed under "Talairach" are actually based on Matthew Brett's 10/8/98 non-linear transform from MNI305 space (see https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/CoordinateSystems).
No significant associations after IQ correction.