Visual artistic creativity and the brain

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 204, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-43

  Heilman, Kenneth M ^a   Acosta, Lealani Mae ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artistic creativity; Creative innovation; Divergent thinking; Global and focal attention; Hemispheric functions; Imagery; Visuospatial skills

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CREATIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DRAWING; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LANGUAGE DELAY; LEARNING; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PAINTING; PARIETAL LOBE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VISUAL ARTISTIC CREATIVITY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ARTISTIC CREATIVITY; CREATIVE INNOVATION; DIVERGENT THINKING; GLOBAL AND FOCAL ATTENTION; HEMISPHERIC FUNCTIONS; IMAGERY; VISUOSPATIAL SKILLS;

ART; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CREATIVITY; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84884157566     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63287-6.00002-6     Document Type: Chapter

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