The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths

Abraham, Anna

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-30
  • 售價: $1,580
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,501
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 280
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262548003
  • ISBN-13: 9780262548007
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商品描述

A nuanced, science-based understanding of the creative mind that dispels the pervasive myths we hold about the human brain--but also uncovers the truth at their cores.

What is the relationship between creativity and madness? Creativity and intelligence? Do psychedelics truly enhance creativity? How should we understand the left and right hemispheres of the brain? Is the left brain, in fact, the seat of reasoning and the right brain the seat of creativity? These are just some of the questions Anna Abraham, a renowned expert of human creativity and the imagination, explores in The Creative Brain, a fascinating deep dive into the origins of the seven most common beliefs about the human brain. Rather than endorse or debunk these myths, Abraham traces them back to their origins to explain just how they started and why they spread--and what at their core is the truth.

Drawing on theoretical and empirical work in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, Abraham offers an examination of human creativity that reveals the true complexity underlying our conventional beliefs about the brain. The chapters in the book explore the myth of the right brain as the hemisphere responsible for creativity; the relationship between madness and creativity, psychedelics and creativity, atypical brains and creativity, and intelligence and creativity; the various functions of dopamine; and lastly, the default mode revolution, which theorized that the brain regions most likely to be involved in the creative process are those areas of the brain that are most active during rest or mind-wandering.

An accessible and engaging read, The Creative Brain gets to the heart of how our creative minds work and why some people are more creative than others, offering illuminating insights into what on its surface seems to be an endlessly magical phenomenon.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一本深入探討人類大腦的創造力的書籍,以細緻且科學為基礎的理解,揭示了我們對人腦的普遍迷思,同時也揭示了這些迷思背後的真相。

創造力與瘋狂之間的關係是什麼?創造力與智力之間的關係又如何?迷幻藥物真的能增強創造力嗎?我們應該如何理解大腦的左右半球?左腦是否真的是推理的所在,而右腦是創造力的所在?這些都是人類創造力和想像力的知名專家Anna Abraham在《創造力大腦》一書中探索的問題。這本書深入挖掘了關於人腦的七個最常見信念的起源,而不是支持或揭穿這些迷思,Abraham將它們追溯到其起源,解釋了它們是如何產生並傳播的,以及它們的核心真相是什麼。

Abraham在書中借鑒了認知心理學和神經科學的理論和實證研究,對人類創造力進行了探討,揭示了我們對大腦的傳統信念背後的真正複雜性。書中的章節探討了右腦作為負責創造力的半球的迷思;瘋狂與創造力、迷幻藥物與創造力、非典型大腦與創造力以及智力與創造力之間的關係;多巴胺的各種功能;最後,預設模式革命理論,該理論認為在創造過程中最有可能參與的大腦區域是在休息或心智漫遊期間最活躍的腦區。

《創造力大腦》是一本易於理解且引人入勝的讀物,深入探討了我們的創造思維如何運作,以及為什麼有些人比其他人更具創造力,為看似無窮的神奇現象提供了啟發性的見解。

作者簡介

Anna Abraham is the E. Paul Torrance Professor and Director of the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at the University of Georgia. She is the author of The Neuroscience of Creativity and the editor of the multidisciplinary volume The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Anna Abraham是喬治亞大學的E. Paul Torrance教授和Torrance創造力與才能發展中心的主任。她是《創造力的神經科學》的作者,也是跨學科著作《劍橋想像力手冊》的編輯。