Anna Abraham on the Neuroscience of the Creative Brain | Closer To Truth Chats

Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Read our Q&A with Prof. Abraham where we discuss the creative brain, the human spirit, and more here: https://bit.ly/3UUZar2 Is there any truth to the idea that creativity originates from the right side of the brain? What is the link between mental illness and creativity? What role can psychedelics play in boosting creativity Professor Anna Abraham tackles these questions and more in her book, "The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths". In this interview, Abraham provides a science-based understanding of the creative mind that dispels the pervasive myths we hold about the human brain—but also uncovers the truth at their cores. Drawing on cognitive psychology and neuroscience, she offers an examination of human creativity that reveals the true complexity underlying our conventional beliefs about the brain. Abraham's book, The Creative Brain, is available for purchase now: https://amzn.to/49YfADn Anna Abraham is the E. Paul Torrance Professor and Director of the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at the University of Georgia. She is the author of "The Neuroscience of Creativity" and the editor of the multidisciplinary volume "The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination". Watch more CTT Chats here: https://t.ly/jJI7e Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.