In his 2018 book Creativity, Goldberg debunked the popular notion that creativity resides in the brain’s right hemisphere (while the left hemisphere is a repository for reasoning). The real story is more complicated and interwoven. The right hemisphere matures in childhood; the development of the left is consistent with the development of the prefrontal cortex, which is not fully mature until the mid-twenties, by the estimates of some scientists, and “early to mid-thirties” in Goldberg’s experience. The right hemisphere is home to visual recognition and the ability to process novelty; the left
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