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Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation de Elkhonon Goldberg

Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation

Autor Elkhonon Goldberg
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 ian 2019

Analizând datele furnizate de Oxford University Press, notăm cu interes modul în care Creativity reușește să demistifice un concept adesea considerat intangibil prin prisma neuroștiinței moderne. Elkhonon Goldberg nu se limitează la o descriere anatomică a proceselor cerebrale, ci propune o sinteză ambițioasă între biologie și științele umaniste. Reținem că autorul explorează rădăcinile evolutive ale creativității, examinând cum cultura și inovația tehnologică — inclusiv inteligența artificială — interacționează cu arhitectura noastră neurală.

Putem afirma că lucrarea se distinge prin rigoarea științifică aplicată unor fenomene vaste, de la originea limbajului până la impactul realității virtuale asupra neuroplasticității. Față de volumele sale anterioare, precum The New Executive Brain, unde accentul cădea pe funcțiile lobilor frontali, sau The Wisdom Paradox, care analiza recunoașterea tiparelor odată cu înaintarea în vârstă, Creativity extinde cadrul de cercetare către viitorul speciei umane. Goldberg folosește experiența sa clinică pentru a ilustra modul în care tulburările neurologice pot oferi perspective unice asupra procesului de creație.

Ca alternativă la Creativity and the Brain de Kenneth M. Heilman pentru cursurile de neuropsihologie sau psihologie cognitivă, volumul lui Goldberg vine cu avantajul unei perspective mai largi, transdisciplinare. În timp ce Heilman se concentrează pe mecanismele cerebrale și factori precum handedness sau gen, Goldberg plasează creativitatea într-un context societal și istoric, oferind previziuni despre modul în care inovația va altera însăși dezvoltarea creierului în generațiile următoare. Stilul este precis, academic, dar accesibil, evitând jargonul excesiv în favoarea unei argumentații structurate.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190466497
ISBN-10: 0190466499
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 155 x 239 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă fundamentul biologic al inovației. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care creierul procesează noutatea, depășind clișeele despre „emisfera dreaptă”. Este o recomandare excelentă pentru studenții la neuroștiințe, dar și pentru profesioniștii din domenii creative care caută o bază teoretică solidă pentru înțelegerea propriei activități intelectuale.

Despre autor

Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D., este un neuropsiholog de renume mondial, îmbinând activitatea clinică cu cercetarea în neuroștiința cognitivă. Ocupă funcția de profesor clinician de neurologie la New York University School of Medicine și este director al Institute of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Performance. Elev al celebrului Alexander Luria, Goldberg este recunoscut pentru lucrările sale fundamentale despre funcțiile executive și organizarea cerebrală. Expertiza sa vastă în diagnosticul și tratamentul tulburărilor cognitive îi conferă o autoritate incontestabilă în explorarea relației complexe dintre structura creierului și manifestările minții umane.

Descriere

What is the nature of human creativity? What are the brain processes behind its mystique? What are the evolutionary roots of creativity? How does culture help shape individual creativity? Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation by Elkhonon Goldberg is arguably the first ever book to address these and other questions in a way that is both rigorous and engaging, demystifying human creativity for the general public. The synthesis of neuroscience and the humanities is a unique feature of the book, making it of interest to an unusually broad range of readership. Drawing on a number of cutting-edge discoveries from brain research as well as on his own insights as a neuroscientist and neuropsychologist, Goldberg integrates them with a wide-ranging discussion of history, culture, and evolution to arrive at an original, compelling, and at times provocative understanding of the nature of human creativity. To make his argument, Goldberg discusses the origins of language, the nature of several neurological disorders, animal cognition, virtual reality, and even artificial intelligence. In the process, he takes the reader to different times and places, from antiquity to the future, and from Western Europe to South-East Asia. He makes bold predictions about the future directions of creativity and innovation in society, their multiple biological and cultural roots and expressions, about how they will shape society for generations to come, and even how they will change the ways the human brain develops and ages.

Recenzii

well written and wide-ranging ... Throughout the book, Goldberg embraces a strongly first-person presentation, which adds to the interest and memorability of his account.
Countless contributions have dealt with the psychological, socio-cultural, cognitive, evolutionary aspects of creativity. The neuroanatomical and physiological aspects have been explored to a limited extent: which is odd, as creativity is the product of brain's activity. Elkhonon Goldberg's book has the brain as its undisputed main character; this makes it uniquely important. The role of the brain's physiology and anatomy in the generation of creativity, with the frontal lobe and the prefrontal cortex in the privileged position, are discussed exhaustively and masterfully. Goldberg is a first rate neuroscientist and a born writer.
In Creativity, Elkhonon Goldberg is subtle, judicious, relentlessly curious, fun and brutally honest about what neuroscience knows, and doesn't know, about the subject. He guides us through decades of research, to show that perhaps the most striking thing about our plastic organ of creativity, is that, while there are certain basic patterns in the creative brain, they are only starting points; the brainâs circuitry, being so plastic, likely has just as many different ways of helping to produce creative states, as there are human ways of being creative. No one interested in the neuroscience of creativity can afford to miss this book.
Dr. Goldberg has obviously travelled extensively and his observations and experiences seem like a beautifully written journey in themselves until he leads one to the point where he reveals even more involving aspects of creativity in other cultures and even species. As far as this book is concerned, Dr. Goldberg clearly knows what he's doing when it comes to Creativity.
What an inspired marriage of Creativity and Neuroscience (big C, big N), officiated by a brave scientist and original thinker. This book will spark new research, new toolkits, new conversations
Elkhonon Goldberg's new book, Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation is a very insightful study of our brains in a time of accelerating and multi-dimensional change. It is the fruit of both scholarly research and many decades of experience. Creativity is a wonderful addition to Dr. Goldberg's body of work.
Elkhonon Goldberg, PhD, a leading-edge neuropsychologist and broad-ranging thinker, has provided a brilliant, synthetic account of human creativity. A sophisticated understanding of brain function is combined with insights from contemporary psychology, evolutionary biology, and cross-cultural studies to elucidate the key processes underlying innovation in the arts, sciences and all areas of human endeavor.

Notă biografică

Elkhonon Goldberg, PhD, ABPP, is a scientist, clinician, and educator. He is Director of Luria Neuroscience Institute and Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine. Goldberg is internationally renowned for his research in cognitive neuroscience and clinical neuropsychology. He has authored several widely acclaimed books which have been translated into many languages. He lectures worldwide. Goldberg is also a clinician with an active practice in neuropsychology.