Neuroscience of creativity / edited by Oshin Vartanian, Adam S. Bristol, and James C. Kaufman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Adam S. Bristol, James C. Kaufman, and Oshin Vartanian -- Theories and constraints -- Creativity as a neuroscientific mystery / Margaret A. Boden -- How insight emerges in a distributed, content-addressable memory / Liane Gabora and Apara Ranjan -- There is room for conditioning in the creative process : associative learning and the control of behavioral variability / W. David Stahlman, Kenneth J. Leising, Dennis Garlick, and Aaron P. Blaisdell -- Genetics -- The genetics of creativity : the generative and receptive sides of the creativity equation / Baptiste Barbot, Mei Tan, and Elena L. Grigorenko -- Creativity and talent : etiology of familial clustering / M. H. M. de Moor, M. P. Roeling, and Dorret I. Boomsma -- Neuropsychology -- Art and dementia : how degeneration of some brain regions can lead to new creative impulses / Indre V. Viskontas and Bruce L. Miller -- Biological and neuronal underpinnings of creativity in the arts / Dahlia W. Zaidel -- Pharmacology and psychopathology -- Pharmacological effects on creativity / David Q. Beversdorf -- Creativity and psychopathology : shared neurocognitive vulnerabilities / Shelley Carson -- Neuroimaging -- The creative brain : brain correlates underlying the generation of original ideas / Andreas Fink and Mathias Benedek -- Creativity and intelligence : brain networks that link and differentiate the expression of genius / Rex E. Jung and Richard J. Haier -- Aesthetic and creative products -- Fostering creativity : insights from neuroscience / Oshin Vartanian -- The means to art's end: styles, creative devices, and the challenge of art / Pablo P. L. Tinio and Helmut Leder -- Index.