Anna Abraham

The Neuroscience of Creativity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Discover how the creative brain works across musical, literary, visual artistic, kinesthetic and scientific spheres, and how to study it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 733g
• ISBN-13: 9781107176461
• ISBN-10: 1107176468
• Artikelnr.: 52613514

Autorenporträt

Anna Abraham is a professor of psychology at the School of Social Sciences of Leeds Beckett University. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, the Salzburg Global Seminar, and the Higher Education Academy. She is also a Member of the International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies, the Association for Psychological Science, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and the American Psychological Association's Division 10: Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics,  Creativity and the Arts. Abraham edited the 2015 book Madness and Creativity: Yes, No or Maybe? and has authored numerous publications on the human imagination.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is creativity?
2. How can creativity be assessed?
3. Cognitive explanations of creativity
4. Brain-based global explanations of creativity
5. Brain-based local explanations of creativity
6. Neuroscientific methods in the study of creativity
7. Unique problems in the neuroscientific study of creativity
8. Musical creativity
9. Literary creativity
10. Visual artistic creativity
11. Kinesthetic creativity
12. Scientific creativity
Afterword ¿ from cave art to latte art.