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Interesting literature on both sides of this question, with some studies (with humans) showing association between creativity and effective inhibition (inhibit strong response tendencies to allow lower-priority options to be explored)--e.g.,

Benedek, M., Franz, F., Heene, M., & Neubauer, A. C. (2012). Differential effects of cognitive inhibition and intelligence on creativity. Personality and individual differences, 53(4), 480-485. --

but others showing the relation that you predicted, where idea generation improves with lower inhibition, for example:

Radel, R., Davranche, K., Fournier, M., & Dietrich, A. (2015). The role of (dis) inhibition in creativity: Decreased inhibition improves idea generation. Cognition, 134, 110-120.

So it probably depends on how creativity is measured, and whether there is strong functional fixedness (look that up too, everyone) to overcome