Secrets of Creativity
What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 December 2020
- ISBN 9780197550816
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages460 pages
- Size 155x231x33 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English 69
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Short description:
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 scientific discovery or artistic production. Humanists describe the workings of the creative mind in the composition of literary works and in works of art and music. Creativity is explored with respect to forms of intelligence, modes of experience, emotions, memory, and the interplay between the brain's nonconscious and conscious system activities.
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Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal draws on insights from leading neuroscientists and scholars in the humanities and the arts to probe creativity in its many contexts, in the everyday mind, the exceptional mind, the scientific mind, the artistic mind, and the pathological mind. 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 showing how creativity can be characterized behaviorally, cognitively, and neurophysiologically. The complementary perspectives of the authors add to the richness of these findings. 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.
The singular strength of this curated collection is the varied areas of expertise represented, which allows readers to see how creativity is conceptualized at the microscopic and macroscopic levels through hard science and empiricism, as articulated in historical, literary, and personal narratives of creative individuals. This collection draws on multiple disciplines[...] but undergraduates in any of the individual fields of neuroscience, psychology, literature, art, or history can appreciate their respective sections. Readers will hopefully come away with a new understanding, or at least an appreciation, of the challenges involved in deconstructing creativity.
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Suzanne Nalbantian, "The Twists and Turns of Creativity: An Overview from Neuroscience and the Arts"
Part I: Theories of Creativity
1. Jean-Pierre Changeux, "Artistic Creativity: A Neuronal Hypothesis"
2. Oshin Vartanian, "Fluid Intelligence, Working Memory and Creativity: A Componential View"
3. Robert J. Sternberg, "The Psychology of Creativity"
4. Charlotte Stagg and Geraint A. Wiggins, "Clues to Human Creativity: From Neurons to Computation"
Part II: Creativity and the Brain
5. Marcus Raichle, "Creativity and the Brain's Default Network"
6. Robert Stickgold, "Creativity of the Dream and Sleep State"
7. Paul M. Matthews, "Creativity: Lessons from Disease, Drugs and Neuroimaging"
8. Nancy C. Andreasen, "Using Neuroscience to Image the Creative Brain"
Part III: Mechanisms of Creativity
9. Alcino J. Silva and John Bickle, "Memory Linking and Creativity: Underlying Molecular, Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms"
10. Jaak Panksepp, "Emotional Foundations of Creativity: The Brain's SEEKING System"
11. Liane Gabora, "Creativity and the Self-Made World View"
Part IV: Literary Creativity in Context
12. Peter Schneck, "Henry James and the Creative Process: The Stewpot of the Imagination"
13. John Burt Foster, "Contrasting Modes of Creativity: Artist Counterparts in Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Nabokov"
14. Suzette Henke, "Twentieth-Century Pathological Writers and Their Creativity: Joyce, Woolf and D. H. Lawrence"
15. Donald R. Wehrs, "Conceptual Blending and Genre Invention from Chrétien de Troyes to Cervantes and Shakespeare"
Part V: Aesthetics and Creativity
16. Suzanne Nalbantian, "Creativity in Modernist Literary Writers: Acts of Mental Transformation"
17. Mark Hussey, "Significant Form and Aesthetic Emotion: Bloomsbury Theorizes Modern Art's 'Mysterious Laws' of Creativity"
18. John Onians, "The Distinctive Creativity of Leonardo and Michelangelo: A Perspective from Neuroarthistory"
19. Bruce Adolphe, "The Musical Imagination: Mystery and Method in Musical Composition"
Part VI: An Interview with Richard Powers: Creativity and the Contemporary Novelist
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