The interplay of business, art and science
Are we getting closer to understanding the process of creativity from a neuroscience point of view? Here’s the latest… Dr. Vartanian is on a quest some neuroscientists have come to see as quixotic: to map and understand the brain circuitry involved in creative thinking. Fifteen years of brain imaging studies have left researchers unable to [...]
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photo credit: JoelMontes How Handwriting Trains the Brain Forming Letters Is Key to Learning, Memory, Ideas Handwriting is a building block to learning. Using advanced tools such as magnetic resonance imaging, researchers are finding that writing by hand is more than just a way to communicate. The practice helps with learning letters and shapes, can [...]
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photo credit: woodleywonderworks Music produces profound and lasting changes in the brain. Schools should add classes, not cut them. In the November 2010 issue of Scientific American, the editors report that neuroscientists have examined the benefits of a concerted effort to study and practice music, and have found that music lessons can produce profound and [...]
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Tips from the authors of The Winner’s Brain The brains of highly successful people function differently from those of the average Joe, according to the authors of the new book, The Winner’s Brain. Assistant neuroscience professor Mark Fenske of the University of Guelph and cognitive behavioural psychologist Jeff Brown of Harvard Medical School, say you [...]
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photo credit: Arbron New research shows musical training sharpens the ability to sense emotions. Makes sense to me. Music, especially classical, conveys many subtle emotions. Music and other arts help us develop our sense perceptions. Our perceptions shape our perspective and vice versa. According to Dana L. Strait and a team of researchers at Northwestern University [...]
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This reminds me of the work of Dr. Linda Long, a biochemist and musician, who develops Molecular Music from plant and human protein molecules. She uses the results for therapeutic purposes and to increase understanding of science and the human body. From Utne: Using people’s brain waves as the notes, scientists have created music. The [...]
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Creativity at Work Newsletter: Summer Reading Proust Was a Neuroscientist By Jonah Lehrer If you are a scientist you could choose to get nitpicky about whether or not Proust was a neuroscientist, or you could sit back, relax and enjoy the ride as Lehrer weaves together stories about art, science and creative breakthroughs. Lehrer argues that [...]
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Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork
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