by Institut du Cerveau (Paris Brain Institute) Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The group of Emmanuelle Volle at the Paris Brain Institute and their international collaborators established for the first time a link between real-life creativity, semantic memory structure and brain functional connectivity. The results, published in Science Advances, indicate that real-life creativity relies on individual differences...
A glove-like device which taps into a user’s semi-conscious mind to record the creativity of their dreams has been developed by scientists. The glove, named the Dormio, records users as they begin dreaming before falling fully asleep – a state known as hypnagogia. This stage takes place in the moment between sleep and wakefulness, and...
We need to rest, to read, to reconnect. It is the invisible labor that makes creative life possible. By Bonnie Tsui Ms. Tsui is writing a book about swimming. Remember Aesop’s fable? The grasshopper fiddled away the summer months, while the ants toiled to ready their grain stores for winter. When autumn arrived, the ants refused...
As an undergraduate student at York University, Joel Lopata was studying film production and jazz performance when a discrepancy became apparent. “I noticed students in the jazz program were really developing a language of creative engagement, whereas, in the film program, we weren’t having the same education. It was a lot more theoretical than practical,...
