Emotional intelligence and creativity in the structure of abilities

This article presents a brief review of modern Russian and foreign interdisciplinary research of abilities, their structure and development. We explored researches in the psychophysiology field and behavioural genetics of abilities. The research of musical abilities as an example showed that the structure includes several levels: genetic, psychophysiological and psychological levels. In addition to the above emotional intelligence and creativity are involved in the process of development of musical abilities in all these levels, directly manifested in the performance of professional musical activity. Genetic examinations of professional musicians show the relationship between emotional intelligence and creativity and GALM and SLC6A4 gene. Studies using neuroimaging show that high emotional intelligence and high creative abilities are associated with activation of cortical and subcortical areas of the brain. According to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) it is showed that in a creative approach to improvisation of professional musicians in the music there are two systems of neural networks, which functionally interact: default mode network and executive control networks.