ABSTRACT
Creativity is a product of the brain's activities and to understand the basis of the creative process, we have to understand the brain. Before people can perform creative acts they almost always have to spend several years developing their stores of knowledge and developing their talents. To understand how brains might work when people are performing creative acts, we have to understand the modular organization of the brain, and the modular organization of the brain is at least in part dependent on its anatomy. Some researchers have believed that the storage of knowledge is distributed over almost the entire cerebral cortex, whereas others believe that different forms of knowledge and different types of thinking are mediated by different parts of the brain. To be creative a person has to have rich stores of knowledge in her or his chosen field. Detailed knowledge allows one to discover the anomalies that lead to new theories.
