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Creativity through the lens of neuroscience

Sue Woolfe's field is how knowing basic neuroscience can enhance an artist’s creativity.

It’s commonly asked if creativity can be taught. The evidence is that we unlearn creativity. We’re taught to think in a mode that inhibits creativity, but we can all re-learn to think, when the task demands, in an alternate mode, one that facilitates creativity, and use whichever of the two modes of thought is most appropriate. What’s known about the architecture of memory suggests that humans are born to be creative - that creativity, in the words of a recent researcher, is for an otherwise fragile species, “our most extraordinary biological weapon”.

Bio
Sue Woolfe is a well-published Australian novelist, having taught Creative Writing at Sydney University and other universities for two decades. For Sue's DCA, because she was curious about what’s known about creativity and the brain, she studied the neuroscience of creativity. Sue has continued to sleuth through it, keeping up with the latest research. She been teaching the neuroscience of creativity to playwrights at NIDA for eight years for their MFA programme, because the early brain activities are known to be similar for all artists, for two semesters to musicians and composers at the Music School at ANU.
 

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