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Creativity : the human brain in the age of innovation /
Drawing on a number of cutting-edge discoveries from brain research as well as on his own insights as a neuroscientist and neuropsychologist, Goldberg presents a wide-ranging discussion of history, culture, and evolution to arrive at an original understanding of the nature of human creativity. He di...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The age of novelty. Punctuated equilibrium in history ; Many kinds of revolution ; Culture and cognitive styles ; How realities fuse ; The human brain in the new age
- The neuromythology of creativity. From neuroorphans to neurofads ; "Bad and useless" ; Deconstructing innovation and creativity ; Multiple creativities
- The conservative brain. How we know what we know ; Mapping the world in the brain ; How language found its home ; "Isomorphic gradients" ; Dementia with a silver lining?
- The Mermaid and the Lego Master (and the Cave Lion-Man). How is a new idea born? ; Mechanics behind the metaphor : the macro view ; The working memory conundrum ; Phantoms in the brain : the micro view
- It is all about salience! The salience circuit ; Salient default ; Salience, dopamine, and frontal arousal : or lack thereof ; Salience diluted ; Salience hijacked
- The innovating brain. The novelty challenge ; Hemispheres misunderstood ;The novel and the routine ; Wired for novelty ; Driven by novelty ; Novelty overdrive
- Directed wandering and the ineffable creative spark. No monkey business ; The extreme frontal lobes ; Dorsolateral bistability : inspiration and perspiration ; Lego master at work : creative perspiration ; Lego master at rest : creative inspiration? Not yet ; The brain's small world ; Directed mental wondering : the creative spark ; Iteration and selection
- Is the baboon creative? Novelty in evolution ; Human development and animal creativity
- The creative mind. A few worthy feats ; Conform or not conform? ; The theory of mind's mixed blessing ; Creativity and intelligence ; A few worthy tests ; How bad is mad? ; Creating minds
- The creative brain. A few worthy brains ; Connectivity of creativity ; Life in a small world ; The advantages of having a coat ; The advantages of not having a coat ; Are "creativity genes" for real?
- Epilogue: What's next? Summing up and looking forward ; Consuming innovation ; Creating innovation.