Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Adam S. Bristol, Oshin Vartanian, and James C. Kaufman

I  Theories and Constraints

1  Creativity as a Neuroscientific Mystery

Margaret A. Boden

2  How Insight Emerges in a Distributed, Content-Addressable Memory

Liane Gabora and Apara Ranjan

3  There Is Room for Conditioning in the Creative Process: Associative Learning and the Control of Behavioral Variability

W. David Stahlman, Kenneth J. Leising, Dennis Garlick, and Aaron P. Blaisdell

II  Genetics

4  The Genetics of Creativity: The Generative and Receptive Sides of the Creativity Equation

Baptiste Barbot, Mei Tan, and Elena L. Grigorenko

5  Creativity and Talent: Etiology of Familial Clustering

Marleen H. M. de Moor, Mark Patrick Roeling, and Dorret I. Boomsma

III  Neuropsychology

6  Art and Dementia: How Degeneration of Some Brain Regions Can Lead to New Creative Impulses

Indre V. Viskontas and Bruce L. Miller

7  Biological and Neuronal Underpinnings of Creativity in the Arts

Dahlia W. Zaidel

IV  Pharmacology and Psychopathology

8  Pharmacological Effects on Creativity

David Q. Beversdorf

9  Creativity and Psychopathology: Shared Neurocognitive Vulnerabilities

Shelley Carson

V  Neuroimaging

10  The Creative Brain: Brain Correlates Underlying the Generation of Original Ideas

Andreas Fink and Mathias Benedek

11  Creativity and Intelligence: Brain Networks That Link and Differentiate the Expression of Genius

Rex E. Jung and Richard J. Haier

VI  Aesthetic and Creative Products

12  Fostering Creativity: Insights from Neuroscience

Oshin Vartanian

13  The Means to Art’s End: Styles, Creative Devices, and the Challenge of Art

Pablo P. L. Tinio and Helmut Leder

Contributors

Index