The Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity

ISBN-13: 9781316602102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 566 str.

Rex E. Jung; Oshin Vartanian

Opis

This volume represents the most authoritative overview of how the brain gives rise to creativity in all of its many forms.

Recenzje

'If your tastes favor basic neural and cognitive mechanisms of creativity, then you would be hard-pressed to find a better compendium than this one.' Aaron Kozbelt, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture

Spis treści

Introduction Rex E. Jung and Oshin Vartanian; Part I. Fundamental Concepts: 1. Creative ideas and the creative process: good news and bad news for the neuroscience of creativity Dean Keith Simonton; 2. Homeostasis and the control of creative drive Alice W. Flaherty; 3. Laterality and creativity: a false trail? Michael C. Corballis; 4. The neural basis and evolution of divergent and convergent thought Liane Gabora; Part II. Pharmacology and Psychopathology: 5. Stress, pharmacology, and creativity David Q. Beversdorf; 6. Functional neuroimaging of psychedelic experience: an overview of psychological and neural effects and their relevance to research on creativity, daydreaming, and dreaming Kieran C. R. Fox, Cameron C. Parro and Kalina Christoff; 7. A heated debate: time to address the underpinnings of the association between creativity and psychopathology? Simon Kyaga; 8. Creativity and psychopathology: a relationship of shared neurocognitive vulnerabilities Shelley H. Carson; Part III. Attention and Imagination: 9. Attention and creativity Darya L. Zabelina; 10. Internally directed attention in creative cognition Mathias Benedek; 11. The forest versus the trees: creativity, cognition and imagination Anna Abraham; 12. A common mode of processing governing divergent thinking and future imagination Reece P. Roberts and Donna Rose Addis; Part IV. Memory and Language: 13. Going the extra creative mile: the role of semantic distance in creativity theory, research, and measurement Yoed N. Kenett; 14. Episodic memory and cognitive control: contributions to creative idea production Roger E. Beaty and Daniel L. Schacter; 15. Free association, divergent thinking and creativity: cognitive and neural perspectives Tali Marron and Miriam Faust; 16. Figurative language comprehension and laterality in Autism Spectrum Disorder Ronit Saban-Bezalel and Nira Mashal; Part V. Cognitive Control and Executive Functions: 17. The costs and benefits of cognitive control for creativity Evangelia G. Chrysikou; 18. Creativity and cognitive control in the cognitive and affective domains Andreas Fink, Corinna Perchtold and Christian Rominger; 19. Associative and controlled cognition in divergent thinking: theoretical, experimental, neuroimaging evidence, and new directions Emmanuelle Volle; Part VI. Reasoning and Intelligence: 20. Creativity in the distance: the neurocognition of semantically distant relational thinking and reasoning Adam Green; 21. Network dynamics theory of human intelligence Aki Nikolaidis and Aron K. Barbey; 22. Training to be creative: the interplay between cognition, skill learning, and motivation Indre V. Viskontas; 23. Intelligence and creativity from the neuroscience perspective Emanuel Jauk; Part VII. Individual Differences: 24. The genetics of creativity: the underdog of behavior genetics? Davide Piffer; 25. Structural studies of creativity measured by divergent thinking Hikaru Takeuchi and Ryuta Kawashima; 26. Openness to experience: insights from personality neuroscience Oshin Vartanian; 27. Creativity and the aging brain Kenneth M. Heilman and Ira S. Fleischer; Part VIII. Artistic and Eesthetic Processes: 28. The neuroscience of musical creativity David Bashwiner; 29. Artistic and aesthetic production: progress and limitations Malinda J. McPherson; 30. Polymathy: the resurrection of renaissance man and the renaissance brain Claudia Garcia-Vega and Vincent Walsh.