Creativity and the Brain
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Author(s): K. M. Heilman
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1841694258
Format: hardback
207pp
Price: £31.00
Review Date: 18 July 2005
Review: This book discusses how brain mechanisms might be involved in human creativity, artistic and otherwise, and begins with a chapter examining the difficulties in earlier attempts to define creativity. Continuing chapters deal with intelligence, handedness, gender, neurological disorders and aging, among others topics. The very readable text is illustrated with black-and-white diagrams and photographs and also includes many of the author’s personal anecdotes. The book will be of interest to people without a background in neuroscience as well as to those in specifically related disciplines.