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Brain & Creativity lecture to kick off Brain Awareness Week

Dr. Robert Bilder of the Tennenbaum Family Center for the Biology of Creativity will deliver his lecture “Balancing Brain Stability and Flexibility for Creative Achievement,” which focuses on the brain’s role in creativity. Bilder and his team of investigators are seeking to understand the biological basis of creative thought, and have identified several cognitive dimensions that may underlie creative achievement in various arenas, including the arts, sciences, and business. Bilder’s lecture is part of Azusa Pacific University's first celebration of Brain Awareness Week (BAW). BAW is a global initiative aimed at advancing public awareness of the brain and neuroscience research. APU is hosting a series of three lectures by noted neuroscientists, all geared toward non-scientific audiences.

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New UCLA Summer Institute - Registration now open!

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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.

Creative Brains on Facebook Studio

Creatives Talk Live / Creativity and the Brain September 22, 2011 Join us for the latest Creatives Talk Live on Facebook Studio. Creatives Talk is a series designed to inspire creativity on Facebook. In this series, we will be welcoming creative thought-leaders from many fields, such as storytelling, fashion, TV, advertising, and more, to share how Facebook is influencing their creative processes.

TFCBC at APA: Phenomenal Psychologists, Creative Careers

Robert M. Bilder Phenomenal Psychologists---Creative Careers Session ID: 2287 Session Type: Symposium Division(s): APA Membership Board, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 13, 17, 29, 36, 40, 42, 46, 52, APA Committee of Early Career Psychologists, APAGS, APA Center for Workforce Studies, APA Student Science Council Building: Convention Center Room Description: Room 144B Room Location: Street Level Date: 08/05/2011 Time: 2:00PM - 3:50PM CE Credit: 2 hours. (There are no additional fees to attend CE sessions; however, there is a one-time processing fee to claim an unlimited number of CE credits. Member--$65, Nonmember--$90. Instructions for claiming CE credit for selected sessions are available on page lxxvi.)