Creativity and the brain / editors, Mario Tokoro, Ken Mogi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tokoro, Mario, 1947-

Mogi, Ken.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive neuroscience--Congresses.

Cognitive neuroscience.

Creative ability--Congresses.

Creative ability.

Brain--Congresses.

Brain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (158 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Creativity is a uniquely human ability highly prized and sought after, defining the excellence of individuals, corporations, and nations. In the modern era of global competition, the nurturing of creativity in oneself and others has become a major concern for the general public. Until recently, however, human creativity had been treated as a mysterious process of brain activity, since we had neither tools to measure precisely the brain activities nor the theories to analyze and synthesize creativity. The quick advancement of brain science these days - thanks largely to the development of vario

Contents:

Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; A Genius Within Learning and Creativity - Accelerated by Suppressing or Circumventing Certain Brain Regions Allan Snyder; Champion Mindsets; Mindsets; The Best of BothWorlds? Case Studies of Autistic Children; Thinking Cap: A Perspective; Further Reading; A Story of Brain Clocks Complementarity and Creativity in Brain Sciences Ernst Poeppel; Chance and Meaning; Creative Processes in Evolution; Some Lessons from Walle Nauta; The 30-Millisecond 'Brain Clock':Minimal Time; The 3-SecondWindow of Consciousness: The Sense of 'Now'

Complementarity and Creativity RevisitedFurther Reading; In Search of Achilles' Heel Robustness in Biological Sciences Hiroaki Kitano; Boeing 777 VersusWright Brothers; Cancer Therapy and the Origin of Robustness; Tradeoffs: A Possible Connection with the Mindset?; Further Reading; Do Infants Dream of Baby Sheep? Creativity in the Infant's World Philippe Rochat; New Guinea, 1975; Would You Like a Rouge Spot on the Forehead?; We Are Made to Differentiate fromthe Start; First Psychological Revolution: 2Months; Second Psychological Revolution: 9Months; Conclusion; Further Reading

Baby Talk The Onset of Language and Creativity Nobuo MasatakaKicking and Babbling; By 9Months of Age, Babies Hear andMemorizeWords; Brodmann Area 9; Impairment and Genius; Further Reading; Dr Jekyl, Mr Hyde, and Qualia What Is the Difference Between Your Brain and a Computer? Ken Mogi; We Need a 'Virtual' Homunculus; Talking About Dopamine; Discussion; Computer and Creativity Geniuses and People Around Them: The 'Dark Side' of Science? Luc Steels; Children Play Together to be Creative; Children and Representations; Representation and Language; Dialog by Editors

Notes:

Based on discussions held at a workshop April 27-30, 2004 in Bertinoro, near Bologna, Italy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789812708335

9812708332