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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA : , : MIT Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
• Disciplina: 153.3/5
• Soggetto topico: Creative ability; Cognitive neuroscience
• Soggetto non controllato: COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology; NEUROSCIENCE/General
• Persona (resp. second.): VartanianOshin <1970->; BristolAdam S. <1975->; KaufmanJames C.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Neuroscience of creativity
• ISBN: 0-262-31470-3; 0-262-31469-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823109003321
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