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So You Think You’re Creative?

From imaginary friends to jazz musicians in fMRI machines, we explore the creative brain.

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Psychologist E. Paul Torrance, creator of the Torrance Tests, with gifted children at the University of Georgia College of Education in the 1970s.

University of Georgia

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We’re always talking about creativity, but what do we really mean? Can we find creativity, can we measure it, can we encourage it? Kurt Andersen talks with Gary Marcus, a psychology professor, about what science tells us about creativity. A researcher puts jazz musicians into an fMRI machine and has them improvise; an intrepid reporter gets her creativity tested and scored; and a little girl introduces us to her imaginary friends (all of them).

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