I was pretty certain of 5 and 10 but I am surprised about 8. I am very left-brain and have been fascinated by the idea of the two hemispheres since reading Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain many years ago.
Lissa, in case it's of interest to you—here are the two pieces of "counterevidence" cited by the paper's author in regard to the statement "Creative thinking mostly happens in the right hemisphere of the brain":
Abraham, A. (2018). The neuroscience of creativity. Cambridge University Press.
Gonen-Yaacovi, G., De Souza, L. C., Levy, R., Urbanski, M., Josse, G., & Volle, E. (2013). Rostral and caudal prefrontal contribution to creativity: a meta-analysis of functional imaging data. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 465.
The paper's authors also comment: "The assumption that creativity exclusively resides in the right hemisphere of the brain seems to be seeded from indirect evidence such as brain lateralization for language and perception, but has not been supported by neuroscientific investigations of creative performance."
I was pretty certain of 5 and 10 but I am surprised about 8. I am very left-brain and have been fascinated by the idea of the two hemispheres since reading Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain many years ago.
Lissa, in case it's of interest to you—here are the two pieces of "counterevidence" cited by the paper's author in regard to the statement "Creative thinking mostly happens in the right hemisphere of the brain":
Abraham, A. (2018). The neuroscience of creativity. Cambridge University Press.
Gonen-Yaacovi, G., De Souza, L. C., Levy, R., Urbanski, M., Josse, G., & Volle, E. (2013). Rostral and caudal prefrontal contribution to creativity: a meta-analysis of functional imaging data. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 465.
The paper's authors also comment: "The assumption that creativity exclusively resides in the right hemisphere of the brain seems to be seeded from indirect evidence such as brain lateralization for language and perception, but has not been supported by neuroscientific investigations of creative performance."
Ezra Klein just did a terrific interview w Rick Rubin re his new book on
The creative life.
That sounds excellent! Thank you, Joy. I will definitely be listening to that. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/podcasts/ezra-klein-show-transcript-rick-rubin.html
Information like this is so helpful – particularly for dislodging excuses that keep some people stuck in thier "I'm not creative" poses.
Thank you, Becky! I agree—it's time we stopped thinking of creativity as being just for a rare few. To be human is to be creative.