Your creative brain : seven steps to maximize imagination, productivity, and innovation in your life / Shelley Carson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carson, Shelley, 1949-

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc.

Delphine Okie Richardson Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability.

Cognition.

Brain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Seven steps to maximize imagination, productivity, and innovation in your life

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, [2010]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Meet Your Creative Brain; 1: Wanted: Your Creative Brain; ""Isn't Creativity Mainly for Artists, Writers, and Musicians?""; ""What If I'm Just Not a Creative Person?""; 2: Your Mental Comfort Zone; The Connect Brainset; The Reason Brainset; The Envision Brainset; The Absorb Brainset; The Transform Brainset; The Evaluate Brainset; The Stream Brainset; Which Brainset Do You Prefer?; Cluster One Questions; Cluster Two Exercises; Exercise #1.

Exercise #2 Part 1Exercise #3; Exercise #4; Exercise #5; Exercise #6; Exercise #7; Exercise #8; Exercise #9; Exercise #10; Exercise #2 Part 2; 3: Tour Your Creative Brain; How the Brain Communicates with Itself; Geography of the Brain; The Right and Left Hemispheres; The Lobes of the Cerebral Cortex; The Executive Center; The ""Me"" Center; The Judgment Center; The Reward Center; The Fear Center; The Association Centers; 4: Brainsets and the Creative Process; The Deliberate and Spontaneous Pathways to Creativity; Deliberate and Spontaneous Networks in the Brain; The Creative Process.

PreparationIncubation; Illumination; Verification; Part 2: Training Your Creative Brain; 5: Opening the Mind: Accessing the Absorb Brainset; So Easy a Caveman Could Do It; Defining the Absorb Brainset; Attraction to Novelty; Delayed Judgment; Cognitive Disinhibition; Neuroscience of the Absorb Brainset; The Absorb Brainset and Alpha Activity; Cognitive Disinhibition and the Open Brainset; Attraction to Novelty and the Absorb Brainset; When to Access the Absorb Brainset; The Preparation Stage; The Incubation/Insight Stage; Cavemen, Take Heart; Exercises: The Absorb Brainset.

Absorb Exercise #1: Attraction to Novelty: Noticing New AspectsAbsorb Exercise #2: Delayed Judgment: The Absorb Brainset and Food; Absorb Exercise #3: Enhance Alpha and Theta Activity: Aerobic Activity Recovery; Absorb Exercise #4: Enhance Alpha and Theta Activity: Openness Meditation; Absorb Exercise #5: Disinhibition: The Absorb Brainset and REM Sleep; Absorb Exercise #6: Induce Mild Disinhibition: Dialogue with Your TOP; 6: Imagining the Possibilities: Accessing the Envision Brainset; From Memory to Imagination; Defining the Envision Brainset; Mental Imagery; Hypothetical Thinking.

Neuroscience of the Envision BrainsetSpontaneous Generation of Mental Imagery; Generating Versus Manipulating Mental Images; Exercises: The Envision Brainset; Envision Exercise #1: Visual Mental Imagery: Your Bedroom; Envision Exercise #2: Generating Multi-Modal Mental Imagery: Mental Holiday; Envision Exercise #3: Visual Mental Imagery: Muscle Memory; Envision Exercise #4: Mental Imagery: Floor Plan; Envision Exercise #5: Manipulating Mental Imagery: Your Car; Envision Exercise #6: Hypothetical Thinking: ""What If?""; Envision Exercise #7: Mental Imagery: Modulation of Executive Control.

Notes:

"Harvard Health Publications."

Title from title screen.

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Delphine Okie Richardson Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Carson, Shelley, 1949- Your creative brain.

ISBN:

9780470651032

0470651032

9780470651421

0470651423

9780470651438

0470651431

1118396545

9781118396544

Publisher Number:

99963637163

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.