智慧系跨学科的研究热点,是人类追求美好生活、提升生命质量、增进文化与文明不可或缺的要素.创造性作为智慧的核心,对其研究进行阐述能很好地反映智慧的本质和揭示智慧活动的规律.已有创造性研究显示,假设检验主要激活了左侧前额叶、前扣带回、小脑和丘脑等区域;顿悟思维激活了双侧额叶、前扣带回、颞叶、顶下小叶和小脑等脑区;创新设计多与颞叶、前扣带回、前额叶和丘脑有关;定势和批判思维则主要与右侧前额叶、前扣带回和丘脑有关.基于创造性智力与智慧的内在关联,上述结果表明,智慧与双侧额叶、前扣带回、颞叶、顶下小叶以及丘脑等区域有密切关系.未来研究需联合多种高精度信号记录技术和实验范式,并在仔细分析智慧内涵的基础上来对整合了价值观的智慧的认知过程和脑机制进行深入探讨.
Wisdom is an extremely important multidimensional issue, which not only reflects the pursuit of a better life and improvement in quality of life, but also enhances cultural development and human civilization. Creative intelligence or creative thinking, which is the main creative element of wisdom, is thought to consist of hypothesis testing, insight, novel design, and set-criticizing. Theoretical and empirical studies on the notion of wisdom have shown that creative intelligence research could largely reveal the nature and cognitive mechanism of wisdom. Existing studies on this issue have shown that hypothesis testing is mainly activated in the bilateral frontal regions, anterior cingulate cortex, cerebellum, and thalamus. Insight thinking is primarily associated with prefrontal regions, anterior cingulate gyrus, temporal regions, inferior parietal lobule, and the cerebellum. Novel design is mainly associated with activation in the temporal regions, anterior cingulate cortex, prefrontal cortex, and thalamus, whereas set-shift and critical thinking mostly involves the right prefrontal regions, anterior cingulate cortex, and thalamus. These results consistently suggest that human wisdom is closely correlated at the neural level with prefrontal regions, anterior cingulate cortex, temporal lobe, inferior parietal lobule, and the thalamus. Given the well-established concept of wisdom, future studies should combine appropriate paradigms and multidisciplinary methods with excellent resolution to directly investigate the neural basis and cognitive process underlying wisdom.