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Creativity in art and science: are there two cultures?
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Creativity in art and science: are there two cultures?

Nancy C Andreasen and Kanchna Ramchandran
Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, Vol.14(1), pp.49-54
03/2012
DOI: 10.31887/DCNS.2012.14.1/nandreasen
PMCID: PMC3341649
PMID: 22577304
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Abstract

The study of creativity is characterized by a variety of key questions, such as the nature of the creative process, whether there are multiple types of creativity, the relationship between high levels of creativity (“Big C”) and everyday creativity (“little c”), and the neural basis of creativity. Herein we examine the question of the relationship between creativity in the arts and the sciences, and use functional magnetic resonance imaging to explore the neural basis of creativity in a group of “Big C” individuals from both domains using a word association protocol. The findings give no support for the notion that the artists and scientists represent “two cultures. ” Rather, they suggest that very gifted artists and scientists have association cortices that respond in similar ways. Both groups display a preponderance of activation in brain circuits involved in higher-order socioaffective processing and Random Episodic Silent Thought /the default mode.
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