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The Secret (Musical) Life of Elephants

Image of the Week #105, August 21st, 2013: From: The Real Neuroscience of Creativity by Scott Barry Kaufman at Beautiful Minds. Source: Advertising Agency: Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R Interactive, Tel Aviv, Israel, modified by io9.

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Image of the Week #105, August 21st, 2013:

From:The Real Neuroscience of Creativity by Scott Barry Kaufman at Beautiful Minds.


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Source:Advertising Agency: Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R Interactive, Tel Aviv, Israel, modified by io9.

Are you an poet or a numbers person? Are you creative or logical? Whatever you are, you might have been offered as an explanation for your tendencies that you were right-brained or left-brained. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the reality of our brains is much messier. As Scott Barry Kaufman explains in his post, “The Real Neuroscience of Creativity” neuroscientists are rethinking how creativity is implemented in the brain.