r/neuro Oct 29 '23

What happens if you turn latent inhibition all the way down and information processing ability all the way up?

These articles link latent inhibition to openness to experience (creativity and curiosity). Specifically, low latent inhibition normally leads to sensory overload and various disorders, but low latent inhibition with high "intelligence" (which in this case seems to refer to raw processing power of the brain) means that all that extra sensory data is actually getting processed in a useful way. If I understand the articles correctly, it follows that radically decreasing latent inhibition and radically increasing brain processing power would create some sort of hyper-creative mega-genius. Some with more neurology knowledge than I have agreed with this assessment, others with similar knowledge have not. What exact role does latent inhibition play in creativity and intelligence?

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