How Creativity Happens in the Brain, 1st ed. 2015

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How Creativity Happens In The Brain is about the brain mechanisms of creativity, how a grapefruit-sized heap of meat crackling with electricity manages to be so outrageously creative. It has a sharp focus: to stick exclusively to sound, mechanistic explanations and convey what we can, and cannot, say about how brains give rise to creative ideas.

1. A Sneak preview of the Journey Ahead

2. A Disciplined Demolition Project

3. You ' 're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

4. The Cogwheels of Culture

5. The Mind ' 's New Tricks

6. Prophets of Design Space

7. The Brain ' 's Design Studio

8. Flow Experiences: From Mystery to Mechanisms

9. In Search of the Artificer

Arne Dietrich is Professor of Psychology at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.