Dad -

These findings don't surprise me at all. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain responsible for you being able to plan your actions. It's also the last part of the human brain to develop so maybe the decreased activity there is an indicator that creative behavior is more primal in humans than reason and logic.

But don't tell anyone that I'm such a nerd and actually DID pay attention in college.

"Primal", I like that.

Albert Einstein knew something about reason and logic but said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge".

But Einstein might be wrong. A big fat school bus driver, who likes to get drunk on the weekend and pilot speedboats on Lake Lanier, told me that sailboats and bicycles are for idiots. I told her that Albert Einstein rode a bicycle and loved to sail. She said, "that guy must be a moron."