How do we understand creativity and the brain? This course asks you to explore and debate human creativity through neurobiological, cognitive, and psychological perspectives. Main topics include discussions of the definition of creativity, psychological and cognitive profiles of creative individuals, functional neuroanatomy, the neurochemistry of the creative processes, the neural correlates of creative thought, cognitive processes and lastly, cognitive strategies for optimizing creative output.
Faculty
Anna Sircova
DIS Copenhagen Semester
Faculty
Ph.D. (Moscow State University, 2008). M.A. (Clinical Psychology, Moscow State University, 2004). Founder of the International Research Network on Time Perspective, 2006 - present. Contributor to Time Diagnostics, London, U.K., 2013-present. Supervisor of B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. students at Tallinn University in Estonia and at Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia. Works as an independent researcher in Copenhagen, Denmark. Research interests are within psychological time, cultures, design thinking, creativity, complex systems, and social simulations. With DIS since 2014.
