Right Brain Smarts: Creative People’s Brains Function Differently
A new study has ended the controversy (or perhaps just stirred up more) by demonstrating that creative people do think in a fundamentally different way than everyone else. The study showed that non-creative types versus creative types do indeed exhibit quite different patterns of brain activity while going about solving problems, and even just while daydreaming. Scientists have wondered for some time if people who think “creatively” are able to somehow think differently from those who seem to think in a more methodical fashion. However, many researchers have argued that what we call “creative thought” and “noncreative thought” are really not two different things. If that were true, then people who are thought of as “creative” would not actually think in a fundamentally different way from those who are thought of as uncreative. However, other researchers have argued that creative thought is fundamentally different than other forms of thought. Posted by Rebecca Sato. Related posts:
How Time Flies
A few moments ago, I was strapped into a harness and winched 150 feet into the air. Four massive steel girders support my weight, and I can see that I'm the highest object around for miles. I am about to become the fastest-moving man in science, and I can barely keep my breakfast down. This contraption is called the Suspended Catch Air Device, but the folks at the Zero Gravity Thrill Amusement Park in Dallas prefer the more colloquial "Nothin' But Net." That's because when the operator releases my rope, I will fall, untethered, until I plop into a modified circus net. The terrifying free fall will last less than three seconds, but to me it will feel much longer. The study of how the brain perceives the passage of time is no longer just the work of philosophers. Attached to my wrist is a perceptual chronometer, basically two LED screens, each blinking random digits between 1 and 9. Your Brain on Time Travel
Language & Symbols | Smithsonian Human Origins Program
Early human creating cave art. Image courtesy of Karen Carr Studio. Humans Express Themselves From pigments to printing presses, symbols changed the way humans lived and provided new ways to cope with an unpredictable world. Modern humans used color, words, and sound to produce the artifacts you see here. Ultimately, words and symbols led to language and the richness of modern human life. Communicating with color By 350,000 years ago With ocher and manganese, our ancestors marked objects and possibly their own skin. Humans may have first used ocher either as an adhesive or a pigment, and later to make artistic drawings and paintings. Flattened areas on these pieces of pigment are signs of grinding or rubbing, telling us that they were held and used roughly like chunky crayons. Illustration of an ancient child burial. Ancient Burials By 100,000 years ago Our ancestors often buried the dead together with beads and other symbolic objects. Child burial 24,000 years ago Expressing identity Benefits Costs
CONTRECHAMP :: CERVEAU BLESSÉ, CERVEAU CRÉATIF
CARINE FLUCKIGER* L’art n’est pas forcément un don tombé du ciel. Pour Sandra Sasdi, Sandra Minotti et Thierry Ott, il s’agit plutôt d’une vocation découverte sur le tard. Après qu’une lésion cérébrale les a privés en partie du langage et les a obligés à redéfinir leurs vies. Sandra Sasdi, Sandra Minotti et Thierry Ott étaient plutôt tournés vers l’écriture dans leur vie d’avant. L’écriture comme outil professionnel, mais aussi comme passion. Sandra Sasdi aimait ainsi rédiger des textes où elle évoquait le pouvoir des mots: «La parole est mon jardin dans lequel je peux jouer à mon aise. Exprimer une idée ou des émotions: c’est aussi une difficulté que connaît Sandra Minotti et dont témoigne son mari Nicola: «Les mots de tous les jours – lait, frigo... – sont là. Entre moyen auxiliaire et moyen d’expression, l’art peut être une ressource pour compenser les mots manquants. Ce qu’elle observe dans sa pratique? Reste enfin le plaisir.
Quand l’exercice physique booste la créativité
Sylvaine Pascual – Publié dans Développer ses talents et ressources Une étude étonnante sur les fonctions cognitives après une séance d’aérobic a montré que la créativité est plus élevée après une séance de 30 minutes d’une activité physique, et ceci pendant un période de 2 heures. En entreprise? Je vois les objections poindre tout de suite: évidemment, ça n’est pas très pratique de sortir son tapis de gym une demi-heure avant le brainstorming sur l’avant-projet X/2, il n’est donc pas tout à fait certain que cette information vous soit utile individuellement au sein de l’entreprise. Et si c’est vous le chef et que vous décidez d’instaurer cette pratique au sein de votre équipe, il n’est pas certain non plus que tous ses membres vous en soient reconnaissants. En bref, il est possible qu’au sein de l’entreprise, cette technique soit tout aussi réaliste à mettre en place que les exercices de relaxation pour “lutter contre le stress”* En dehors du travail Dans quels types de situations?
