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Rapid and flexible creativity in musical improvisation: review and a model
1Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience & Behavior, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|March 27, 2018
Summary
Musical creativity involves novel and useful output, potentially relying on both general and specific brain processes. Research on musical improvisation offers insights into the neural basis of real-time creative musical expression.
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience of Creativity
- Cognitive Science of Music
Background:
- Defining creativity as producing novel, useful, and desired output.
- Investigating the domain-general versus domain-specific nature of creativity.
- Exploring the teachability of musical creativity.
Purpose of the Study:
- To isolate and understand the neural and cognitive processes underlying musical creativity.
- To examine musical improvisation as a model for real-time musical creativity.
Main Methods:
- Overview of recent research in the neuroscience of musical improvisation.
- Focus on multimodal neuroimaging studies investigating brain activity during improvisation.
Main Results:
- Musical improvisation serves as a valuable window into the real-time creative process in the brain.
- Neuroimaging studies reveal coordinated generative and reactive processes during musical improvisation.
Conclusions:
- Musical creativity arises from the interplay of generative and reactive neural processes.
- This research informs a neuroscientific model of musical creativity, emphasizing its dynamic and coordinated nature.
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