Sunday, November 16, 2008

Can Everyone Be An Einstein? (Creativity)

Times Online has an interesting article entitled Can Everyone Be an Einstein, about the location of creativity in the brain, some myths about creativity, and techniques which can be done to improve it.

Here's a quote from the article:

In fact, the whole process seems to be centred on one small part of the brain: the anterior superior temporal gyrus. This seems to be the point at which bits of information stored far apart in the brain are brought together. This may be an important clue as to how the brain organises itself. But it's only the beginning. At Goldsmiths College in London, Dr Joydeep Bhattacharya says the real issue is not the 'Aha!' moment itself, but the way it is produced in the brain and how we recognise it. 'We need to know the brain processes involved, to find how this moment is strong enough to reach consciousness. We know insight does not come from the sky.' This is the problem with all neuroscience. We don't really know what we are seeing.

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