New York, NY, Estados Unidos : Oxford University Press, c2019.

vii, 442 p. : il. ; 25 cm.

Introduction: The twists and turns of creativity: an overview from neuroscience and the arts. -- I. Theories of creativity. -- 1. Artistic creativity: a neuronal hypothesis. -- 2. Fluid intelligence, working memory, and creativity: a componential view. -- 3. The psychology of creativity. --4. Clues to human creativity: from neurons to computation. -- II. Creativity and the brain. -- 5. Creativity and the brain's default mode network. -- 6. Creativity of the dream and sleep state. -- 7. Creativity: lessons from disease, drugs, and neuroimaging. -- 8. Using neuroscience to image the creative brain. -- III. Mechanisms of creativity. -- 9. Memory linking and creativity: underlying molecular, cellular, and circuit mechanisms. -- 10. Emotional foundations of creativity: the brain's SEEKING System. -- 11. Creativity and the self-made worldview. -- IV. Literary creativity in context. -- 12. Henry James and the creative process: the stewpot of the imagination. -- 13. Contrasting modes of creativity: artist counterparts in Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Nabokov. -- 14. Twentieth-century pathological writers and their creativity: Joyce, Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence. -- 15. Conceptual blending and genre invention form Chrétien de Troyes to Cervantes and Shakespeare. -- V. Aesthetics and creativity. -- 16. Creativity in modernist literary writers: acts of mental transformation. -- 17. Significant form and aesthetic emotion: Bloomsbury theorizes modern art's "Mysterious Laws" of creativity. -- 18. The distinctive creativity of Leonardo and Michelangelo: a perspective from neuroarthistory. -- 19. The musical imagination: mystery and method in musical composition. -- VI. Creativity and the contemporary novelist. -- 20. An interview with Richard Powers. -- Acknowledgments. -- About the authors. -- Index. --

Tomado de la solapa: "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."

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