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The Cambridge handbook of the neuroscience of creativity
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
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From the Book
Introduction / Rex E. Jung and Oshin Vartanian
Part I. Fundamental Concepts
Creative ideas and the creative process: good news and bad news for the neuroscience of creativity / Dean Keith Simonton
Homeostasis and the control of creative drive / Alice W. Flaherty
Laterality and creativity: a false trail? / Michael C. Corballis
The neural basis and evolution of divergent and convergent thought / Liane Gabora
Part II. Pharmacology and Psychopathology
Stress, pharmacology, and creativity / David Q. Beversdorf
Functional neuroimaging of psychedelic experience: an overview of psychological and neural effects and their relevance to research on creativity, daydreaming, and dreaming / Kieran C.R. Fox, Cameron C. Parro and Kalina Christoff
A heated debate: time to address the underpinnings of the association between creativity and psychopathology? / Simon Kyaga
Creativity and psychopathology: a relationship of shared neurocognitive vulnerabilities / Shelley H. Carson
Part III. Attention and Imagination
Attention and creativity / Darya L. Zabelina
Internally directed attention in creative cognition / Mathias Benedek
The forest versus the trees: creativity, cognition and imagination / Anna Abraham
A common mode of processing governing divergent thinking and future imagination / Reece P. Roberts and Donna Rose Addis
Part IV. Memory and Language
Going the extra creative mile: the role of semantic distance in creativity theory, research, and measurement / Yoed N. Kenett
Episodic memory and cognitive control: contributions to creative idea production / Roger E. Beaty and Daniel L. Schacter
Free association, divergent thinking and creativity: cognitive and neural perspectives / Tali Marron and Miriam Faust
Figurative language comprehension and laterality in Autism Spectrum Disorder / Ronit Saban-Bezalel and Nira Mashal
Part V. Cognitive Control and Executive Functions
The costs and benefits of cognitive control for creativity / Evangelia G. Chrysikou
Creativity and cognitive control in the cognitive and affective domains / Andreas Fink, Corinna Perchtold and Christian Rominger
Associative and controlled cognition in divergent thinking: theoretical, experimental, neuroimaging evidence, and new directions / Emmanuelle Volle
Part VI. Reasoning and Intelligence
Creativity in the distance: the neurocognition of semantically distant relational thinking and reasoning / Adam Green
Network dynamics theory of human intelligence / Aki Nikolaidis and Aron K. Barbey
Training to be creative: the interplay between cognition, skill learning, and motivation / Indre V. Viskontas
Intelligence and creativity from the neuroscience perspective / Emanuel Jauk
Part VII. Individual Differences
The genetics of creativity: the underdog of behavior genetics? / Davide Piffer
Structural studies of creativity measured by divergent thinking / Hikaru Takeuchi and Ryuta Kawashima
Openness to experience: insights from personality neuroscience / Oshin Vartanian
Creativity and the aging brain / Kenneth M. Heilman and Ira S. Fleischer
Part VIII. Artistic and Eesthetic Processes
The neuroscience of musical creativity / David Bashwiner
Artistic and aesthetic production: progress and limitations / Malinda J. McPherson
Polymathy: the resurrection of renaissance man and the renaissance brain / Claudia Garcia-Vega and Vincent Walsh.
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9781316602102
9781107147614
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