Historically, the brain bases of creativity have been of great interest to scholars and the public alike. However, recent technological innovations in the neurosciences, coupled with theoretical and methodological advances in creativity assessment, have enabled humans to gain unprecedented insights into the contributions of the brain to creative thought. This unique volume brings together contributions by the very best scholars to offer a comprehensive overview of cutting edge research on this important and fascinating topic. The chapters discuss creativity's relationship with intelligence, motivation, psychopathology and pharmacology, as well as the contributions of general psychological processes to creativity, such as attention, memory, imagination, and language. This book also includes specific and novel approaches to understanding creativity involving musicians, polymaths, animal models, and psychedelic experiences. The chapters are meant to give the reader a solid grasp of the diversity of approaches currently at play in this active and rapidly growing field of inquiry. Table of Contents Introduction Rex E. Jung and Oshin Vartanian Part I. Fundamental Concepts: 1. Creative ideas and the creative process: good news and bad news for the neuroscience of creativity Dean Keith Simonton 2. Homeostasis and the control of creative drive Alice W. Flaherty 3. Laterality and creativity: a false trail? Michael C. Corballis 4. The neural basis and evolution of divergent and convergent thought Liane Gabora Part II. Pharmacology and Psychopathology: 5. Stress, pharmacology, and creativity David Q. Beversdorf 6. 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 7. A heated debate: time to address the underpinnings of the association between creativity and psychopathology? Simon Kyaga 8. Creativity and psychopathology: a relationship of shared neurocognitive vulnerabilities Shelley H. Carson Part III. Attention and Imagination: 9. Attention and creativity Darya L. Zabelina 10. Internally directed attention in creative cognition Mathias Benedek 11. The forest versus the trees: creativity, cognition and imagination Anna Abraham 12. A common mode of processing governing divergent thinking and future imagination Reece P. Roberts and Donna Rose Addis Part IV. Memory and Language: 13. Going the extra creative mile: the role of semantic distance in creativity theory, research, and measurement Yoed N. Kenett 14. Episodic memory and cognitive control: contributions to creative idea production Roger E. Beaty and Daniel L. Schacter 15. Free association, divergent thinking and creativity: cognitive and neural perspectives Tali Marron and Miriam Faust 16. Figurative language comprehension and laterality in Autism Spectrum Disorder Ronit Saban-Bezalel and Nira Mashal Part V. Cognitive Control and Executive Functions: 17. The costs and benefits of cognitive control for creativity Evangelia G. Chrysikou 18. Creativity and cognitive control in the cognitive and affective domains Andreas Fink, Corinna Perchtold and Christian Rominger 19. Associative and controlled cognition in divergent thinking: theoretical, experimental, neuroimaging evidence, and new directions Emmanuelle Volle Part VI. Reasoning and Intelligence: 20. Creativity in the distance: the neurocognition of semantically distant relational thinking and reasoning Adam Green 21. Network dynamics theory of human intelligence Aki Nikolaidis and Aron K. Barbey 22. Training to be creative: the interplay between cognition, skill learning, and motivation Indre V. Viskontas 23. Intelligence and creativity from the neuroscience perspective Emanuel Jauk Part VII. Individual Differences: 24. The genetics of creativity: the underdog of behavior genetics? Davide Piffer 25. Structural studies of creativity measured by divergent thinking Hikaru Takeuchi and Ryuta Kawashima 26. Openness to experience: insights from personality neuroscience Oshin Vartanian 27. Creativity and the aging brain Kenneth M. Heilman and Ira S. Fleischer Part VIII. Artistic and Eesthetic Processes: 28. The neuroscience of musical creativity David Bashwiner 29. Artistic and aesthetic production: progress and limitations Malinda J. McPherson 30. Polymathy: the resurrection of renaissance man and the renaissance brain Claudia Garcia-Vega and Vincent Walsh. About the Editors: Rex E. Jung received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of New Mexico with specialty training in clinical neuropsychology. He is a clinical professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico, and in private practice, with current duties focused around neuropsychological assessment during awake craniotomy. He has published research articles across a wide range of disciplines, including traumatic brain injury, systemic lupus erythematosus, schizophrenia, intelligence, creativity, and genius. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, The National Endowment for the Arts, DARPA, and the John Templeton Foundation. He is on the Editorial Boards of several journals including: Intelligence, PLOS ONE, Frontiers in Neuropsychiatric Imaging and Stimulation, and the Creativity Research Journal. Oshin Vartanian received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Maine. He is a Defence Scientist at Defence Research and Development Canada, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. He is the co-editor of Neuroaesthetics (2009), Neuroscience of Decision Making (2011), and Neuroscience of Creativity (2016). He is the Editor of Empirical Studies of the Arts, and serves on the editorial boards of Creativity Research Journal, Thinking Skills and Creativity, and Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. He is the recipient of the Daniel E. Berlyne Award from Division 10 of the American Psychological Association for outstanding research by a junior scholar for his work on the neuroscience of creativity and aesthetics. Contributors: Rex E. Jung, Oshin Vartanian, Dean Keith Simonton, Alice W. Flaherty, Michael C. Corballis, Liane Gabora, David Q. Beversdorf, Kieran C. R. Fox, Cameron C. Parro, Kalina Christoff, Simon Kyaga, Shelley H. Carson, Darya L. Zabelina, Mathias Benedek, Anna Abraham, Reece P. Roberts, Donna Rose Addis, Yoed N. Kenett, Roger E. Beaty, Daniel L. Schacter, Tali Marron, Miriam Faust, Ronit Saban-Bezalel, Nira Mashal, Evangelia G. Chrysikou, Andreas Fink, Corinna Perchtold, Christian Rominger, Emmanuelle Volle, Adam Green, Aki Nikolaidis, Aron K. Barbey, Indre V. Viskontas, Emanuel Jauk, Davide Piffer, Hikaru Takeuchi, Ryuta Kawashima, Kenneth M. Heilman, Ira S. Fleischer, David Bashwiner, Malinda J. McPherson, Claudia Garcia-Vega, Vincent Walsh |