Creativity : the human brain in the age of innovation / by Elkhonon Goldberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberg, Elkhonon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain--Physiology.

Brain.

Creative ability.

Brain--physiology.

Creativity.

Medical Subjects:

Brain--physiology.

Creativity.

Physical Description:

xiii, 274 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Contents:

1 The Age of Novelty 1

Punctuated Equilibrium in History 2

Many Kinds of Revolution 3

Culture and Cognitive Styles 5

How Realities Fuse 7

The Human Brain in the New Age 9

2 The Neuromythology of Creativity 13

From Neuroorphans to Neurofads 13

"Bad and Useless" 14

Deconstructing Innovation and Creativity 16

Multiple Creativities 19

3 The Conservative Brain 23

How We Know What We Know 23

Mapping the World in the Brain 26

How Language Found Its Home 31

"Isomorphic Gradients" 38

Dementia with a Silver Lining? 39

4 The Mermaid and the Lego ® Master (and the Cave Lion-Man) 43

How Is a New Idea Born? 43

Mechanics Behind the Metaphor-the Macro View 50

The Working Memory Conundrum 56

Phantoms in the Brain-the Micro View 61

5 It Is All About Salience! 71

The Salience Circuit 71

Salient Default 74

Salience, Dopamine, and Frontal Arousal-or Lack Thereof 76

Salience Diluted 82

Salience Hijacked 85

6 The Innovating Brain 91

The Novelty Challenge 91

Hemispheres Misunderstood 93

The Novel and the Routine 95

Wired for Novelty 103

Driven by Novelty 107

Novelty Overdrive 110

7 Directed Wandering and the Ineffable Creative Spark 119

No Monkey Business 119

The Extreme Frontal Lobes 121

Dorsolateral Bistability: Inspiration and Perspiration 126

Lego ® Master at Work: Creative Perspiration 127

Lego ® Master at Rest: Creative Inspiration? Not Yet 128

The Brain's Small World 130

Directed Mental Wandering: The Creative Spark 132

Iteration and Selection 140

8 Is the Baboon Creative? 141

Novelty in Evolution 141

Human Development and Animal Creativity 147

9 The Creative Mind 155

A Few Worthy Feats 155

Conform or Not Conform? 156

The Theory of Mind's Mixed Blessing 161

Creativity and Intelligence 164

A Few Worthy Tests 167

How Bad Is Mad? 169

Creating Minds 174

10 The Creative Brain 179

A Few Worthy Brains 179

Connectivity of Creativity 183

Life in a Small World 185

The Advantages of Having a Coat 186

The Advantages of Not Having a Coat 190

Are "Creativity Genes" for Real? 194

11 Epilogue-What's Next? 201

Summing Up and Looking Forward 201

Consuming Innovation 202

Creating Innovation 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190466497

0190466499

OCLC:

974213250