Neuroscience of Creativity

by Oshin Vartanian (Editor), Adam S. Bristol (Editor), James C. Kaufman (Editor)

With new tools and theories, researchers have generated a body of neuroscientific research and theorizing to complement the nearly 100 years of sociocultural, cognitive, developmental, educational, and historiometric perspectives on creative processes. This volume brings together leading researchers from around the world to provide an up-to-date review of empirical and theoretical approaches to the neurobiological bases of creativity. It is organized into six sections, which roughly correspond to a progression of theoretical, genetic, structural, clinical, functional, and applied approaches. Creativity researchers will find this volume to be a valuable summation for current theoretic and empirical approaches, from which new ideas will be born to inform interdisciplinary perspectives. It will also inspire advanced students and researchers in adjacent fields to consider contributing to the advances in creativity research.

Genres: Psychology, Neuroscience, Science

352 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2012

Reviews

[Rick Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

This Work focuses more on Genetics, Pharmacology.

Outline

1.Theories
2.Genetics
3.Neuropsychology
4.Pharmacology
5.NeuroImaging
6.Aesthetic & Creative Products

Also, includes, Liane Gabora's, a Pyschologist, who researches on Culture, Evolution of Societies

I suggest,

Gabora's Honing Theory of Creativity

Excerpts from Oshin's Work

Creativity involves pulling something out of your brain that was never put into it.

Memory is said to be content addressable, meaning that there is a systematic relationship between the content of a representation and the neurons where it gets encoded.

This emerges naturally as a consequence of the fact that representations activate neurons that are tuned to respond to particular features, so representations that get encoded in overlapping regions of memory share features.

Perhaps, Connectionism is the way to go in Cognitive Science, Machine Learning.

This is to understand, the Brain?

I suggest a better work on Creativity,

Neuroscience of Creativity by Anna Abraham

Deus Vult,
Gottfried

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