Secrets of creativity : what neuroscience, the arts, and our minds reveal /
Secrets of Creativity combines insights from an interdisciplinary group of experts to reveal the secrets of creativity that emerge from our everyday lives, and from the minds of exceptional individuals and their discoveries. Neuroscientists describe the functioning of the brain in creative acts of s...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Secrets of Creativity; Copyright; Contents; Color Plates; Introduction: The Twists and Turns of Creativity: An Overview from Neuroscience and the Arts; PART I. THEORIES OF CREATIVITY; 1. Artistic Creativity: A Neuronal Hypothesis; 2. Fluid Intelligence, Working Memory, and Creativity: A Componential View; 3. The Psychology of Creativity; 4. Clues to Human Creativity: From Neurons to Computation; PART II. CREATIVITY AND THE BRAIN; 5. Creativity and the Brain's Default Mode Network; 6. Creativity of the Dream and Sleep State
- 7. Creativity: Lessons from Disease, Drugs, and Neuroimaging8. Using Neuroscience to Image the Creative Brain; PART III. MECHANISMS OF CREATIVITY; 9. Memory Linking and Creativity: Underlying Molecular, Cellular, and Circuit Mechanisms; 10. Emotional Foundations of Creativity: The Brain's SEEKING System; 11. Creativity and the Self-Made Worldview; PART IV. LITERARY CREATIVITY IN CONTEXT; 12. Henry James and the Creative Process: The Stewpot of the Imagination; 13. Contrasting Modes of Creativity: Artist Counterparts in Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Nabokov
- 14. Twentieth-Century Pathological Writers and Their Creativity: Joyce, Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence15. Conceptual Blending and Genre Invention from Chrétien de Troyes to Cervantes and Shakespeare; PART V. AESTHETICS AND CREATIVITY; 16. Creativity in Modernist Literary Writers: Acts of Mental Transformation; 17. Significant Form and Aesthetic Emotion: Bloomsbury Theorizes Modern Art's "Mysterious Laws" of Creativity; 18. The Distinctive Creativity of Leonardo and Michelangelo: A Perspective from Neuroarthistory; 19. The Musical Imagination: Mystery and Method in Musical Composition
- PART VI. CREATIVITY AND THECONTEMPORARY NOVELIST20. An Interview with Richard Powers; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Index