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Neuroscience of creativity / edited by Oshin Vartanian, Adam S. Bristol, and James C. Kaufman

Published
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 314 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Additional Creators
Vartanian, Oshin, 1970-, Bristol, Adam S., 1975-, and Kaufman, James C.
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English.
Contents
Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Adam S. Bristol, James C. Kaufman, and Oshin Vartanian -- Theories and constraints -- Creativity as a neuroscientific mystery / Margaret A. Boden -- How insight emerges in a distributed, content-addressable memory / Liane Gabora and Apara Ranjan -- 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 -- Genetics -- The genetics of creativity : the generative and receptive sides of the creativity equation / Baptiste Barbot, Mei Tan, and Elena L. Grigorenko -- Creativity and talent : etiology of familial clustering / M.H.M. de Moor, M.P. Roeling, and Dorret I. Boomsma -- Neuropsychology -- Art and dementia : how degeneration of some brain regions can lead to new creative impulses / Indre V. Viskontas and Bruce L. Miller -- Biological and neuronal underpinnings of creativity in the arts / Dahlia W. Zaidel -- Pharmacology and psychopathology -- Pharmacological effects on creativity / David Q. Beversdorf -- Creativity and psychopathology : shared neurocognitive vulnerabilities / Shelley Carson -- Neuroimaging -- The creative brain : brain correlates underlying the generation of original ideas / Andreas Fink and Mathias Benedek -- Creativity and intelligence : brain networks that link and differentiate the expression of genius / Rex E. Jung and Richard J. Haier -- Aesthetic and creative products -- Fostering creativity : insights from neuroscience / Oshin Vartanian -- The means to art's end: styles, creative devices, and the challenge of art / Pablo P.L. Tinio and Helmut Leder -- Index.
Summary
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological fundamentals to systems of neuroscience and neuro-imaging, leading scholars describe the latest theoretical, genetic, structural, clinical, functional, and applied research on the neural bases of creativity.
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ISBN
9781461943266 (electronic bk.)
1461943264 (electronic bk.)
1299848435 (ebk)
9781299848436 (ebk)
9780262314701 (electronic bk.)
0262314703 (electronic bk.)
9780262314695 (electronic bk.)
026231469X (electronic bk.)
9780262019583
0262019582
9780262529020
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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