Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal
Suzanne Nalbantian and Paul M. Matthews
Abstract
This book draws from leading neuroscientists and scholars in the humanities and the arts to probe creativity in its many manifestations, including the everyday mind, the exceptional mind, the pathological mind, the scientific mind, and the artistic mind. It offers a brand new interdisciplinary approach revealing secrets of creativity that emerge from our everyday lives and from the minds of exceptional individuals and their discoveries or creations. Neuroscientists, psychologists, and humanities researchers provide new insights about the workings of the creative brain. Components of creativity ... More
This book draws from leading neuroscientists and scholars in the humanities and the arts to probe creativity in its many manifestations, including the everyday mind, the exceptional mind, the pathological mind, the scientific mind, and the artistic mind. It offers a brand new interdisciplinary approach revealing secrets of creativity that emerge from our everyday lives and from the minds of exceptional individuals and their discoveries or creations. Neuroscientists, psychologists, and humanities researchers provide new insights about the workings of the creative brain. Components of creativity are specified with respect to types of memory, forms of intelligence, modes of experience, and kinds of emotion. Authors in this volume take on the challenge of simultaneously characterizing creativity at behavioral, cognitive, and neurophysiological levels. It becomes apparent to all our authors that, with creativity, there is an interaction between consciously controlled processing and spontaneous processing. Neuroscientists describe the functioning of the brain and its circuitry in creative acts of scientific discovery or aesthetic production. Humanists from the fields of literature, art, and music give analyses of creativity in major literary works, musical compositions, and works of visual art. This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of contributors for a novel discussion of creativity from the confluence of neuroscience and the arts.
Keywords:
memory,
prefrontal cortex,
default mode network,
REM sleep,
neuroimaging,
associative networks,
context,
emotion,
imagination,
interdisciplinarity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190462321 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2019 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190462321.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Suzanne Nalbantian, editor
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Long Island University
Paul M. Matthews, editor
Edmund J. and Lily Safra Chair of Translational Neuroscience and Therapeutics, Imperial College London
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