Creativity

I've got a short column for the Seed website on the neuroscience of improvisation. I begin with one of my favorite stories of improv, which is Al Kooper's organ playing during the studio sessions for "Like A Rolling Stone":

Al Kooper didn't know what to play. He'd told some half-truths to get into Bob Dylan's recording session -- the musicians were working on some song tentatively titled "Like A Rolling Stone" -- and Kooper had been assigned the Hammond organ. There was only one problem: Kooper