UCLA Arts Distinguished Lecture Series - Brain, Health and Creativity
The intersection of the creative arts and neuroscience is not always a comfortable place. Artists may feel their work is misrepresented and deeply misunderstood, and neuroscientists may feel their strategies are being applied inappropriately to issues that remain ill defined.
Running risks on both sides, Dr. Bilder has taken on this challenge and examines the underpinnings of creative cognition in humans as well as in other species believed to display certain capacities for innovation and novel adaptation to their environments.
In this compelling lecture, Dr. Bilder identifies selected cognitive domains that are important contributors to the creative process and examines how the concept of creativity has been narrowed and defined in order to approach it as a target of biological science.
Robert M. Bilder, Ph.D., ABPP-CN
Dr. Bilder is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior, and holds the Tennenbaum Family Endowed Chair in Creativity Research. A widely published, board-certified neuropsychologist with decades of experience researching links between brain and behavior in health and disease, Dr. Bilder directs the Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics, supported by the National Institutes of Health as part of its theme -research teams of the future to find links between the human genome and complex brain functions.Dr. Bilder also leads a team of investigators at UCLA¹s Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity, where they are studying creative cognition and exceptional abilities that may be important keys to achievement in diverse artistic, scientific, and business domains. He is also engaged in a new campus-wide initiative -BruinBrains -that aims to apply knowledge about brain-behavior relations to foster achievement, innovation, and well being among UCLA students.
Event is free and open to the public.
This inaugural event in the UCLA Arts Distinguished Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of the Arts
and Architecture, the Arts and Music Education Programs, the Art|Sci Center, the Department of Design
Media Arts and the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation
