When you solve brain teasers, your prefrontal cortex and parietal lobes—areas responsible for logic, reasoning, and visual perception—are actively engaged. Psychologists believe that individuals who ...

the temporal lobe, the parietal lobe, and the occipital lobe—with one of each on either half of the brain. The cerebral cortex is the thin, outermost layer of the cerebrum, extending across all ...

and even in regions in the inferior parietal lobe that have been linked to discerning others’ mental states. According to Thalia Wheatley of Dartmouth College, people in the same social network ...

Specifically, the precuneus in the parietal lobe, one area where artists had more gray matter, “is involved in a range of functions but potentially in things that could be linked to creativity, like ...