Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal draws on insights from leading neuroscientists and scholars in the humanities and the arts to probe creativity in its many contexts, in the everyday mind, the exceptional mind, the scientific mind, the artistic mind, and the pathological mind. Components of creativity are specified with respect to types of memory, forms of intelligence, modes of experience, and kinds of emotion. Authors in this volume take on the challenge of showing how creativity can be characterized behaviorally, cognitively, and neurophysiologically. The complementary perspectives of the authors add to the richness of these findings. Neuroscientists describe the functioning of the brain and its circuitry in creative acts of scientific discovery or aesthetic production. Humanists from the fields of literature, art, and music give analyses of creativity in major literary works, musical compositions, and works of visual art.
Introduction by Suzanne Nalbantian, The Twists and Turns of Creativity: An Overview from Neuroscience and the Arts
Part I: Theories of Creativity
1. Jean-Pierre Changeux, Artistic Creativity: A Neuronal Hypothesis
2. Oshin Vartanian, Fluid Intelligence, Working Memory and Creativity: A Componential View
3. Robert J. Sternberg, The Psychology of Creativity
4. Charlotte Stagg and Geraint A. Wiggins, Clues to Human Creativity: From Neurons to Computation
Part II: Creativity and the Brain
5. Marcus Raichle, Creativity and the Brain's Default Network
6. Robert Stickgold, Creativity of the Dream and Sleep State
7. Paul M. Matthews, Creativity: Lessons from Disease, Drugs and Neuroimaging
8. Nancy C. Andreasen, Using Neuroscience to Image the Creative Brain
Part III: Mechanisms of Creativity
9. Alcino J. Silva and John Bickle, Memory Linking and Creativity: Underlying Molecular, Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms
10. Jaak Panksepp, Emotional Foundations of Creativity: The Brain's SEEKING System
11. Liane Gabora, Creativity and the Self-Made World View
Part IV: Literary Creativity in Context
12. Peter Schneck, Henry James and the Creative Process: The Stewpot of the Imagination
13. John Burt Foster, Contrasting Modes of Creativity: Artist Counterparts in Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Nabokov
14. Suzette Henke, Twentieth-Century Pathological Writers and Their Creativity: Joyce, Woolf and D. H. Lawrence
15. Donald R. Wehrs, Conceptual Blending and Genre Invention from Chretien de Troyes to Cervantes and Shakespeare
Part V: Aesthetics and Creativity
16. Suzanne Nalbantian, Creativity in Modernist Literary Writers: Acts of Mental Transformation
17. Mark Hussey, Significant Form and Aesthetic Emotion: Bloomsbury Theorizes Modern Art's 'Mysterious Laws' of Creativity
18. John Onians, The Distinctive Creativity of Leonardo and Michelangelo: A Perspective from Neuroarthistory
19. Bruce Adolphe, The Musical Imagination: Mystery and Method in Musical Composition
Part VI: An Interview with Richard Powers: Creativity and the Contemporary Novelist
Bios of Contributors
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