The Neuroscience of Creativity

ISBN-13: 9781107176461 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 386 str.

Anna Abraham

Opis

Discover how the creative brain works across musical, literary, visual artistic, kinesthetic and scientific spheres, and how to study it.

Recenzje

'It occupies a useful and necessary niche, with distinction. Of all the books I have recently read on the neuroscience of creativity (even beyond those reviewed here), it is a clear first choice as a prospective classroom text for this intersection of topics.' Aaron Kozbelt, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture

Spis treści

1. What is creativity?; 2. How can creativity be assessed?; 3. Cognitive explanations of creativity; 4. Brain-based global explanations of creativity; 5. Brain-based local explanations of creativity; 6. Neuroscientific methods in the study of creativity; 7. Unique problems in the neuroscientific study of creativity; 8. Musical creativity; 9. Literary creativity; 10. Visual artistic creativity; 11. Kinesthetic creativity; 12. Scientific creativity; Afterword – from cave art to latte art.