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Neuroscience of creativity /edited by Oshin Vartanian, Adam S. Bristol, and James C. Kaufman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 314 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461943266
  • 9780262314701
  • 9780262314695
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BF408 .N487 2013
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Contents:
Introduction / Adam S. Bristol, James C. Kaufman, and Oshin Vartanian -- Theories and constraints -- Creativity as a neuroscientific mystery / Margaret A. Boden -- How insight emerges in a distributed, content-addressable memory / Liane Gabora and Apara Ranjan -- There is room for conditioning in the creative process : associative learning and the control of behavioral variability / W. David Stahlman, Kenneth J. Leising, Dennis Garlick, and Aaron P. Blaisdell -- Genetics -- The genetics of creativity : the generative and receptive sides of the creativity equation / Baptiste Barbot, Mei Tan, and Elena L. Grigorenko -- Creativity and talent : etiology of familial clustering / M.H.M. de Moor, M.P. Roeling, and Dorret I. Boomsma -- Neuropsychology -- Art and dementia : how degeneration of some brain regions can lead to new creative impulses / Indre V. Viskontas and Bruce L. Miller -- Biological and neuronal underpinnings of creativity in the arts / Dahlia W. Zaidel -- Pharmacology and psychopathology -- Pharmacological effects on creativity / David Q. Beversdorf -- Creativity and psychopathology : shared neurocognitive vulnerabilities / Shelley Carson -- Neuroimaging -- The creative brain : brain correlates underlying the generation of original ideas / Andreas Fink and Mathias Benedek -- Creativity and intelligence : brain networks that link and differentiate the expression of genius / Rex E. Jung and Richard J. Haier -- Aesthetic and creative products -- Fostering creativity : insights from neuroscience / Oshin Vartanian -- The means to art's end: styles, creative devices, and the challenge of art / Pablo P.L. Tinio and Helmut Leder -- Index.
Summary: 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 of neuroscience and neuro-imaging, leading scholars describe the latest theoretical, genetic, structural, clinical, functional, and applied research on the neural bases of creativity.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Adam S. Bristol, James C. Kaufman, and Oshin Vartanian -- Theories and constraints -- Creativity as a neuroscientific mystery / Margaret A. Boden -- How insight emerges in a distributed, content-addressable memory / Liane Gabora and Apara Ranjan -- There is room for conditioning in the creative process : associative learning and the control of behavioral variability / W. David Stahlman, Kenneth J. Leising, Dennis Garlick, and Aaron P. Blaisdell -- Genetics -- The genetics of creativity : the generative and receptive sides of the creativity equation / Baptiste Barbot, Mei Tan, and Elena L. Grigorenko -- Creativity and talent : etiology of familial clustering / M.H.M. de Moor, M.P. Roeling, and Dorret I. Boomsma -- Neuropsychology -- Art and dementia : how degeneration of some brain regions can lead to new creative impulses / Indre V. Viskontas and Bruce L. Miller -- Biological and neuronal underpinnings of creativity in the arts / Dahlia W. Zaidel -- Pharmacology and psychopathology -- Pharmacological effects on creativity / David Q. Beversdorf -- Creativity and psychopathology : shared neurocognitive vulnerabilities / Shelley Carson -- Neuroimaging -- The creative brain : brain correlates underlying the generation of original ideas / Andreas Fink and Mathias Benedek -- Creativity and intelligence : brain networks that link and differentiate the expression of genius / Rex E. Jung and Richard J. Haier -- Aesthetic and creative products -- Fostering creativity : insights from neuroscience / Oshin Vartanian -- The means to art's end: styles, creative devices, and the challenge of art / Pablo P.L. Tinio and Helmut Leder -- Index.

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 of neuroscience and neuro-imaging, leading scholars describe the latest theoretical, genetic, structural, clinical, functional, and applied research on the neural bases of creativity.

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