Neuroscience of Creativity (MIT Press)
James C. Kaufman
Language: English
Pages: 330
ISBN: 0262019582
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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 neuroscience and neuroimaging, leading scholars describe the latest theoretical, genetic, structural, clinical, functional, and applied research on the neural bases of creativity. The treatment is both broad and in depth, offering a range of neuroscientific perspectives with detailed coverage by experts in each area. The contributors discuss such issues as the heritability of creativity; creativity in patients with brain damage, neurodegenerative conditions, and mental illness; clinical interventions and the relationship between psychopathology and creativity; neuroimaging studies of intelligence and creativity; the neuroscientific basis of creativity-enhancing methodologies; and the information-processing challenges of viewing visual art.
ContributorsBaptiste Barbot, Mathias Benedek, David Q. Beversdorf, Aaron P. Blaisdell, Margaret A. Boden, Dorret I. Boomsma, Adam S. Bristol, Shelley Carson, Marleen H. M. de Moor, Andreas Fink, Liane Gabora, Dennis Garlick, Elena L. Grigorenko, Richard J. Haier, Rex E. Jung, James C. Kaufman, Helmut Leder, Kenneth J. Leising, Bruce L. Miller, Apara Ranjan, Mark P. Roeling, W. David Stahlman, Mei Tan, Pablo P. L. Tinio, Oshin Vartanian, Indre V. Viskontas, Dahlia W. Zaidel
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Inactivation of dorsolateral striatum enhances sensitivity to changes in the action-outcome contingency in instrumental conditioning. Behavioural Brain Research, 166, 189–196. II Genetics 4 The Genetics of Creativity: The Generative and Receptive Sides of the Creativity Equation Baptiste Barbot, Mei Tan, and Elena L. Grigorenko Art is the social within us, and even if its action is performed by a single individual, it does not mean that its essence is individual. —Lev Vygotsky (1971, p.
rather than biology underlie familial clustering, Galton introduced an early variant of the “adoption design,” in which he used the adopted sons of Popes and their nephews as a control group. Assessing the influence of genetics and environment is essential for our understanding of the etiology of individual differences in behavior and 96 M. H. M. de Moor, M. P. Roeling, and D. I. Boomsma complex traits, including talents. In addition to the adoption design, Galton pioneered several techniques
different degree of genetic relatedness of MZ and DZ twins is used to identify the relative contribution of genes and environment. MZ twins derive from one fertilized egg (one zygote) and are genetically (nearly) identical, whereas DZ twins derive from two different fertilized eggs (two zygotes) and share on average half of their segregating genes, just like nontwin brothers and sisters. If the resemblance for a particular trait is larger in MZ than in DZ twins, this strongly suggests that their
norm taken from Kessler et al. (2005). creative arts (artists, musical composers and performers, and writers) than among those luminaries in other professions. While these empirical studies suggest that people in creative professions (especially professions affiliated with the arts) tend to display higher rates of affective psychopathology than the norm, severe forms of affective illness may interfere with creativity. For example, writers from Andreasen’s (1987) Writers Workshop study reported