Secrets of creativity : what neuroscience, the arts, and our minds reveal / edited by Suzanne Nalbantian, Paul M. Matthews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nalbantian, Suzanne, 1950- editor.

Matthews, Paul M., editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability.

Brain.

Neurosciences.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Secrets of Creativity; Copyright; Contents; Color Plates; Introduction: The Twists and Turns of Creativity: ​An Overview from Neuroscience and the Arts; PART I. THEORIES OF CREATIVITY; 1. Artistic Creativity: A Neuronal Hypothesis; 2. Fluid Intelligence, Working Memory, and Creativity: A Componential View; 3. The Psychology of Creativity; 4. Clues to Human Creativity: From Neurons to Computation; PART II. CREATIVITY AND THE BRAIN; 5. Creativity and the Brain's Default Mode Network; 6. Creativity of the Dream and Sleep State

7. Creativity: Lessons from Disease, Drugs, and Neuroimaging8. Using Neuroscience to Image the Creative Brain; PART III. MECHANISMS OF CREATIVITY; 9. Memory Linking and Creativity: Underlying Molecular, Cellular, and Circuit Mechanisms; 10. Emotional Foundations of Creativity: The Brain's SEEKING System; 11. Creativity and the Self-​Made Worldview; PART IV. LITERARY CREATIVITY IN CONTEXT; 12. Henry James and the Creative Process: The Stewpot of the Imagination; 13. Contrasting Modes of Creativity: Artist Counterparts in Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Nabokov

14. Twentieth-​Century Pathological Writers and Their Creativity: Joyce, Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence15. Conceptual Blending and Genre Invention from Chrétien de Troyes to Cervantes and Shakespeare; PART V. AESTHETICS AND CREATIVITY; 16. Creativity in Modernist Literary Writers: Acts of Mental Transformation; 17. Significant Form and Aesthetic Emotion: Bloomsbury Theorizes Modern Art's "Mysterious Laws" of Creativity; 18. The Distinctive Creativity of Leonardo and Michelangelo: A Perspective from Neuroarthistory; 19. The Musical Imagination: Mystery and Method in Musical Composition

PART VI. CREATIVITY AND THECONTEMPORARY NOVELIST20. An Interview with Richard Powers; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 23, 2019).

ISBN:

9780190462345

0190462345

Publisher Number:

40029486667

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.