Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran provides an introduction to how we study the brain's deficits using three cool examples:
- Capgras syndrome: where a man looks at his mother and says: "It looks like my mother but she's an imposter." How can a person recognise his mother's face yet feel it's not her?
- Phantom limbs: why would an amputated limb still hurt? Can this pain be relieved?
- Synaesthesia: Numbers are colours. Notes are colours. Cross-talk between the senses has a higher incidence in creative people: why?
The science of creativity
As Pablo Picasso once pointed out, all children are creative; the challenge is to remain creative into adulthood.
Unfortunately public education systems around the world seem designed to crush creativity in favour of rote learning and test passing. As the years pass a fear of being wrong takes over from our natural creative tendencies.
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If you would like to be more creative at work and at home—and that has to be most of us—the insights in this ebook will be useful.
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