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Six Recent Books on the Neuroscience of Creativity: Notes from the Underbelly

  • Aaron Kozbelt
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 13. Februar 2021
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Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture
Aus der Zeitschrift Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture Band 3 Heft 2

Abstract

Here I review six recent books broadly relevant to the neuroscience of creativity. The books engage these two topics in markedly different proportions and from somewhat different perspectives, but with a consistently high level of quality. All are worth a look. A common thread is a focus on the basic neural mechanisms enabling full-blown creative thought, as well as mental activities like divergent thinking, mind-wandering, and daydreaming. The neuroscience approach to the underbelly of creativity has begun to prove its mettle. However, the details of this fascinating research also reveal trade-offs between lower-level neural mechanisms versus meaningful real-world instances of creativity. Fully developed neuroscientific connections to ‘Big-C’ creativity in complex domains remain scant, though with intimations of synergy and no signs of relenting research activity.

Keywords: creativity; neuroscience; domain-specificity; domain-generality; brain networks; sponta­neous thought; mind-wandering; innovation; evolution
Published Online: 2021-02-13
Published in Print: 2019-12-01

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Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Title
  2. Table of Contents
  3. ARTICLES
  4. Disney’s Shifting Visions of Villainy from the 1990s to the 2010s: A Biocultural Analysis
  5. The Viking and the Farmer: Alternative Male Life Histories Portrayed in the Romantic Poetry of Erik Gustaf Geijer
  6. Adapting a Witch to Modern Beliefs and Values: Persecuting the Outsider through Trial, Stage, and Film
  7. Reflective Imagination via the Artistic Experience: Evolutionary Trajectory, Developmental Path, and Possible Functions
  8. REVIEW ESSAYS
  9. Six Recent Books on the Neuroscience of Creativity: Notes from the Underbelly
  10. Forays into the Dark Field of Evolutionary Horror Film Research: A Meagre Harvest
  11. BOOK REVIEWS
  12. Stephen T. Asma and Rami Gabriel. The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition
  13. Johannes Breuer, Daniel Pietschmann, Benny Liebold, and Bejamin P. Lange, eds. Evolutionary Psychology and Digital Games: Digital Hunter-Gatherers
  14. Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei. The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World
  15. Henrik Høgh-Olesen. The Aesthetic Animal
  16. Julie J. Lesnik. Edible Insects and Human Evolution
  17. Debra Lieberman and Carlton Patrick. Objection: Disgust, Morality, and the Law
  18. Randolph M. Nesse. Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
  19. Neema Parvini. Shakespeare’s Moral Compass
  20. David Reich. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
  21. Tali Sharot. The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals about Our Power to Change Others
  22. Carol Cronin Weisfeld, Glenn E. Weisfeld, and Lisa Dillon, eds. The Psychology of Marriage: An Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural View
  23. Wojciech Załuski. Law and Evil: The Evolutionary Perspective
  24. Contributors
https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.3.2.144
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
creativity; neuroscience; domain-specificity; domain-generality; brain networks; sponta­neous thought; mind-wandering; innovation; evolution

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Title
  2. Table of Contents
  3. ARTICLES
  4. Disney’s Shifting Visions of Villainy from the 1990s to the 2010s: A Biocultural Analysis
  5. The Viking and the Farmer: Alternative Male Life Histories Portrayed in the Romantic Poetry of Erik Gustaf Geijer
  6. Adapting a Witch to Modern Beliefs and Values: Persecuting the Outsider through Trial, Stage, and Film
  7. Reflective Imagination via the Artistic Experience: Evolutionary Trajectory, Developmental Path, and Possible Functions
  8. REVIEW ESSAYS
  9. Six Recent Books on the Neuroscience of Creativity: Notes from the Underbelly
  10. Forays into the Dark Field of Evolutionary Horror Film Research: A Meagre Harvest
  11. BOOK REVIEWS
  12. Stephen T. Asma and Rami Gabriel. The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition
  13. Johannes Breuer, Daniel Pietschmann, Benny Liebold, and Bejamin P. Lange, eds. Evolutionary Psychology and Digital Games: Digital Hunter-Gatherers
  14. Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei. The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World
  15. Henrik Høgh-Olesen. The Aesthetic Animal
  16. Julie J. Lesnik. Edible Insects and Human Evolution
  17. Debra Lieberman and Carlton Patrick. Objection: Disgust, Morality, and the Law
  18. Randolph M. Nesse. Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
  19. Neema Parvini. Shakespeare’s Moral Compass
  20. David Reich. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
  21. Tali Sharot. The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals about Our Power to Change Others
  22. Carol Cronin Weisfeld, Glenn E. Weisfeld, and Lisa Dillon, eds. The Psychology of Marriage: An Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural View
  23. Wojciech Załuski. Law and Evil: The Evolutionary Perspective
  24. Contributors
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