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“ We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.” ~Albert Einstein. ABSORB. I CREATE: Neuroscience of Creativity 1.2

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  1. “We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.” ~Albert Einstein

  2. ABSORB I CREATE: Neuroscience of Creativity 1.2 Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. – Scott Adams A creative person is a person who does things that have never been done before.

  3. REVIEW TRADITIONAL PROCESS OF CREATIVITY? WAYS TO STUDY? NEURON? RLF? FPTO? COMMUNICATION?

  4. REVIEW TRADITIONAL PROCESS OF CREATIVITY? WAYS TO STUDY? NEURON? RLF? FPTO? COMMUNICATION?

  5. REVIEW TRADITIONAL PROCESS OF CREATIVITY? WAYS TO STUDY? NEURON? RLF? FPTO? COMMUNICATION?

  6. REVIEW TRADITIONAL PROCESS OF CREATIVITY? WAYS TO STUDY? NEURON? RLF? FPTO? COMMUNICATION?

  7. REVIEW TRADITIONAL PROCESS OF CREATIVITY? WAYS TO STUDY? NEURON? RLF? FPTO? COMMUNICATION?

  8. How do I communicate? • Just think: chemical  electrical  chemical  electrical  chemical  electrical  chemical  electrical  chemical  electrical  chemical  electrical zzzzzzzzzzz…..

  9. REVIEW TRADITIONAL PROCESS OF CREATIVITY? WAYS TO STUDY? NEURON? RLF? FPTO? COMMUNICATION?

  10. REVIEW TRADITIONAL PROCESS OF CREATIVITY? WAYS TO STUDY? NEURON? RLF? FPTO? COMMUNICATION?

  11. Metaphors/Analogies • Brainstorm – associationsand connections • “grass are french fries!” trick • Hands on! • Food • Hands on head • Real-life application

  12. How do we measure brain stuff?

  13. EEG: Electroencephalography

  14. MRI: magnetic resonance imaging

  15. Gray Matter vs. White Matter

  16. fMRI: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

  17. NOW WE BEGINCREATIVITY & NEUROSCIENCEOthers have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

  18. Left Brain vs. Right Brain

  19. Spontaneous vs Deliberate Pathway

  20. Deliberate Pathway • Lateral areas, frontal part of prefrontal cortex (activated compared to resting state) • When attention is highly focused

  21. Spontaneous Pathway • Resting state, Default Mode Network • Areas of medial (middle) PFC and other midline areas in frontal and parietal lobes, association areas in the rear of the brain • Daydreaming, automatic task • Imagination, reverie, envisioning the future

  22. Spontaneous Pathway

  23. Deliberate Pathways

  24. ABSORB

  25. ABSORB • Everything is fascinating – curiosity • Open mind to new experiences and ideas • High levels of awareness internally and externally • Uncritically view your world and take in knowledge – nonjudgmental “Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” – William James, 1890

  26. CURIOSITY

  27. CURIOSITY • Alexander Fleming: penicillin • Van Gough: sublime, hidden poetry • Issac Newton: apple How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five? —William Blake, “A Memorable Fancy,” The Prophetic Books

  28. Cognitive Disinhibition • Not behavioral disinhibition • The failure to gate out information from your conscious awareness that is irrelevant to your current goals or to your survival • Memories, mental images, and thoughts (looking for parked car…)

  29. Cognitive Disinhibition Latent Inhibition: cognitive filtering system the ability to screen out previously irrelevant stimuli Carson et. al. 2003 (high IQ and low LI)

  30. ADD/ADHD • Low latent inhibition Show decreases in naming speed and attention (reactive processing), but not long-term cognitive abilities like working memory, planning, problem solving etc.

  31. ADD/ADHD • Stimulant drugs given • Decrease in Creativity scores after givingAderrall/Ritalin • Made of amphetamines  METH! • Increases norepinephrine (increases metabolic processes) and dopamine (necessary for communication, general sense of energy, paying attention, learning)

  32. PARADOX Creative people are easily distracted by novelty in most situations, yet are capable of intense absorption Absorption scale: associated with openness, suggestibility, hypnotizability, and gullibility

  33. OPENNESS

  34. 5-trait Personality Scale • Paul Costa & Robert McCrae and Warren Norman & Lewis Goldberg • Five dimensions emerged from analyses of data • Heritability ~ 50% • YOU CAN TAKE THESE ON THE WEBSITE ICREATE

  35. 5-trait Personality Scale • Extraversion (outgoing/energetic vs. easy-going/careless) • Agreeableness (friendly/compassionate vs. cold) • Conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. easy-going/careless) • Neuroticism (sensitive/nervous vs. secure/confident) • Openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious)

  36. 5-trait Personality Scale • Extraversion (outgoing/energetic vs. easy-going/careless)  LI • Agreeableness (friendly/compassionate vs. cold) • Conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. easy-going/careless) • Neuroticism (sensitive/nervous vs. secure/confident) • Openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious)  LI

  37. Meta-Analysis • Gregory Feist in 1998: • Openness, unconventionality, intelligence, intellectual curiosity, preference for complexity, novelty seeking, independence, ego strength, assertive, forceful, self-assuredness, involvement in work, perseverance, preference for big picture and details, drive and ambition, aloofness, aggressiveness/hostility, introversion, need for solitude

  38. 5 Trait Personality Scale • Self-report • Missing? • Women: neuroticism, agreeableness, warmth (measure of extraversion) • Men: openness, assertiveness (measure of extraversion) • First borns: conscientious, socially dominanant, less agreeable, less open to new ideas • Country values individualism  extraversion; accepting of large inequalities in power structures  conscientiousness

  39. HIGH AWARENESS

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