Neuroscience of creativity
By: edited by Oshin Vartanian, Adam S. Bristol, and James C. Kaufman
Series: Cognitive neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780262019583; 9780262314695; 9780262529020
Subjects: Creative ability; Cognitive neuroscience
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Adam S. Bristol, Oshin Vartanian, and James C. Kaufman; title: Creativity as a neuroscientific mystery  -- Margaret A. Boden; title: How insight emerges in a distributed, content-addressable memory  -- Liane Gabora and Apara Ranjan; title: 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; title: The genetics of creativity : the generative and receptive sides of the creativity equation  -- Baptiste Barbot, Mei Tan, and Elena L. Grigorenko; title: Creativity and talent : etiology of familial clustering  -- Marleen H.M. de Moor, Mark Patrick Roeling, and Dorret I. Boomsma; title: Art and dementia : how degeneration of some brain regions can lead to new creative impulses  -- Indre V. Viskontas and Bruce L. Miller; title: Biological and neuronal underpinnings of creativity in the arts  -- Dahlia W. Zaidel; title: Pharmacological effects on creativity  -- David Q. Beversdorf; title: Creativity and psychopathology : shared neurocognitive vulnerabilities  -- Shelley Carson; title: The creative brain : brain correlates underlying the generation of original ideas  -- Andreas Fink and Mathias Benedek; title: Creativity and intelligence : brain networks that link and differentiate the expression of genius  -- Rex E. Jung and Richard J. Haier; title: Fostering creativity : insights from neuroscience  -- Oshin Vartanian; title: The means to art's end: styles, creative devices, and the challenge of art -- Pablo P.L. Tinio and Helmut Leder.