Brain Synchronicity and Creativity:
Dealing with emotion and memories, and two kinds of decision making.
Coordinating The Brain Top to Bottom
The brain has several layers that have evolved over the the course of human evolution.
(1) The oldest part of the brain, the brain stem, takes care of automatic body functions.
(2) The Limbic system, which surrounds the brain stem and is made up of several individual areas, is involved in the production of our emotions and has an important role in memory formation. Although both hemispheres of the brain have connections to this limbic system, the right hemisphere has been shown, in scientific studies, to have a special ability to process the emotional messages originating in this area of the brain.
(3) The newest evolutionary part of the brain, the cortex, is what most people refer to when speaking about the brain. The cortex is the seat of our "intellectual and thinking processes."
Visual messages arrive from the eyes, via the optic nerve, at the back of the cortex, in the occipital lobe, where they are processed on both sides of the brain in a very primitive fashion. The neural impulses are then fed forward to through the associational areas of the brain, where our long term memories are diffusely stored. The frontal lobes of the two hemispheres are the decision making and controlling functions of the brain, the left for logical decision making and the right for visio-spatial (visual thinking) decisions.
All of these parts of the brain must be synchronized for the creative and artistic functioning of the human brain. New Art Basics has designated a specific group of thinking skills that promote this synchronization of all parts and processes of the brain.
Principles
Basic Knowledge
Negative Views of Right Hemisphere
Creativity and Synchronization
II. Brain Synchronicity and Creativity
III. Brain Synchronicity and Creativity
IV. Brain Synchronicity and Creativity
Implications for Art Education