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1 online resource (xv, 314 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cognitive neuroscience
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Cognitive neuroscience.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Adam S. Bristol, James C. Kaufman, and Oshin Vartanian -- Theories and constraints -- Creativity as a neuroscientific mystery / Margaret A. Boden -- How insight emerges in a distributed, content-addressable memory / Liane Gabora and Apara Ranjan -- There is room for conditioning in the creative process : associative learning and the control of behavioral variability / W. David Stahlman, Kenneth J. Leising, Dennis Garlick, and Aaron P. Blaisdell -- Genetics -- The genetics of creativity : the generative and receptive sides of the creativity equation / Baptiste Barbot, Mei Tan, and Elena L. Grigorenko -- Creativity and talent : etiology of familial clustering / M.H.M. de Moor, M.P. Roeling, and Dorret I. Boomsma -- Neuropsychology -- Art and dementia : how degeneration of some brain regions can lead to new creative impulses / Indre V. Viskontas and Bruce L. Miller -- Biological and neuronal underpinnings of creativity in the arts / Dahlia W. Zaidel -- Pharmacology and psychopathology -- Pharmacological effects on creativity / David Q. Beversdorf -- Creativity and psychopathology : shared neurocognitive vulnerabilities / Shelley Carson -- Neuroimaging -- The creative brain : brain correlates underlying the generation of original ideas / Andreas Fink and Mathias Benedek -- Creativity and intelligence : brain networks that link and differentiate the expression of genius / Rex E. Jung and Richard J. Haier -- Aesthetic and creative products -- Fostering creativity : insights from neuroscience / Oshin Vartanian -- The means to art's end: styles, creative devices, and the challenge of art / Pablo P.L. Tinio and Helmut Leder -- Index. |
| Summary |
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological fundamentals to systems of neuroscience and neuro-imaging, leading scholars describe the latest theoretical, genetic, structural, clinical, functional, and applied research on the neural bases of creativity. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Creative ability.
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Creative ability. |
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Cognitive neuroscience.
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Cognitive neuroscience. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Vartanian, Oshin, 1970- editor.
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Bristol, Adam S., 1975- editor.
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Kaufman, James C., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Neuroscience of creativity. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2013] 9780262019583 (DLC) 2013004389 (OCoLC)828265067 |
| ISBN |
9781461943266 (electronic book) |
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1461943264 (electronic book) |
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1299848435 (e-book) |
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9781299848436 (e-book) |
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9780262314701 (electronic book) |
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0262314703 (electronic book) |
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9780262314695 (electronic book) |
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026231469X (electronic book) |
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9780262019583 |
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0262019582 |
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