Neuroscience of Creativity (MIT Press)

Neuroscience of Creativity (MIT Press)

James C. Kaufman

Language: English

Pages: 330

ISBN: 0262019582

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological fundamentals to systems neuroscience and neuroimaging, leading scholars describe the latest theoretical, genetic, structural, clinical, functional, and applied research on the neural bases of creativity. The treatment is both broad and in depth, offering a range of neuroscientific perspectives with detailed coverage by experts in each area. The contributors discuss such issues as the heritability of creativity; creativity in patients with brain damage, neurodegenerative conditions, and mental illness; clinical interventions and the relationship between psychopathology and creativity; neuroimaging studies of intelligence and creativity; the neuroscientific basis of creativity-enhancing methodologies; and the information-processing challenges of viewing visual art.

ContributorsBaptiste Barbot, Mathias Benedek, David Q. Beversdorf, Aaron P. Blaisdell, Margaret A. Boden, Dorret I. Boomsma, Adam S. Bristol, Shelley Carson, Marleen H. M. de Moor, Andreas Fink, Liane Gabora, Dennis Garlick, Elena L. Grigorenko, Richard J. Haier, Rex E. Jung, James C. Kaufman, Helmut Leder, Kenneth J. Leising, Bruce L. Miller, Apara Ranjan, Mark P. Roeling, W. David Stahlman, Mei Tan, Pablo P. L. Tinio, Oshin Vartanian, Indre V. Viskontas, Dahlia W. Zaidel

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with items that could be considered inexpensive was altered to include a new kind of PAINT. Note how in the quantum representation, 36 L. Gabora and A. Ranjan probability is treated as arising not from a lack of information per se, but from the limitations of any particular context (even a “default” context). Though we do not have space to discuss them here, mathematical (Veloz, Gabora, Eyjolfson, & Aerts, 2011) as well as computational (DiPaola & Gabora, 2009; Gabora, Chia, & Firouzi, 2013;

Zaidel General creative processes apply not only to the arts but also to science, technology, business, education, humor, interpersonal relationships, and many other domains of human expressions. The concept of creativity typically refers to the innovation of something new and positive for society, something that transcends the traditional and “received” knowledge. Even when the moment of innovation seems at times to be nonlinear, accidental, or to “come from nowhere,” it comes on top of a body

dopaminergic system associate with creativity: Evidence from voxel-based morphometry. NeuroImage, 51, 578–585. Pharmacological Effects on Creativity 173 Tivarus, M. E., Hillier, A., Schmalbrock, P., & Beversdorf, D. Q. (2008). Functional connectivity in an fMRI study of semantic and phonological processes and the effect of L-dopa. Brain and Language, 104, 42–50. Usher, M., Cohen, J. D., Servan-Schreiber, D., Rajkowski, J., & Aston-Jones, G. (1999). The role of locus coeruleus in the

individuals (Miller, 2001). In fact, studies have shown that individuals deemed creative have more sexual partners than those deemed less creative (Nettle & Clegg, 2006) and are rated as highly desirable potential mates (Buss & Barnes, 1986). Yet despite the value of creativity at the personal and societal level, the tendency for creative individuals to suffer from what we would now call mental illness has been noted for thousands of years. Plato, for example, remarked that poets, philosophers,

disorders (psychosis proneness), and substance abuse disorders. In addition, several recent studies have begun to investigate the association between creativity and the relatively new diagnosis of ADHD (Abraham, Windmann, Siefen, Daum, & Gunturkun, 2006; Cramond, 1994; White & Shah, 2006). Because the evidence for the ADHD-creativity association is not clearly established, I will limit this review to the three categories of disorders that have been more thoroughly investigated. Creativity and

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