Browsing by Subject "creativity"

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    Medicine and the Arts Week 3 - Mind, art and play - an artist's interpretation
    (2015-01-21) Ndlovu, Malika
    In this video, applied artist Malika Ndlovu breaks down the three concepts of mind, play, and the arts and the intersection of these three concepts. She defines the mind as the ability to make sense of the world, play as a more fluid and spontaneous activity that allows for exploration and discovery, and the arts as a way of expressing ourselves creatively and connecting with others. This is the sixth video in Week 3 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 4 - Creative process
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve
    In this video, Steve Reid introduces the ideas of human reproduction and creativity while highlighting that such ideas are crucial in order to make the most of what is available in a situation of limited resources for health in an African context. He introduces three guest speakers: Professor Silke Dyer, a gynecologist and an expert in assisted reproductive techniques. Professor Alireza Baghai-Wadji, an engineer. And Doctor Francois Bonnici, a medical doctor involved in social entrepreneurship. This is the first video in Week 4 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 4 - Cultivating creative thoughts
    (2015-01-21) Baghai-Wadji, Alireza
    In this video, Alireza Baghai-Wadji, and electrical engineer, explores various questions related to creativity, its origins, and the idea that creativity is an ability that can be acquired. He also he discusses his ideas about the converging worlds of physics, philosophy, and neuroscience in order to get us thinking about the processes that drive our most inventive thinking. This is the second video in Week 4 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 4 - In dialogue about creativity
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve; Dyer, Silke; Bonnici, Francois; Baghai-Wadji, Alireza
    In this video, Steve Reid poses additional questions to Alireza Baghai-Wadji, François Bonnici, and Silke Dyer around the topic of creativity. Silke taslks about new developments in reproductive health, François comments on how to create new ways of thinking to tackle complex problems, and Alireza discusses how the biological conception in humans is analogus to the creation of new ideas. This is the fifthvideo in Week 4 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    The impact of physical exercise on convergent and divergent thinking
    (2013) S Colzato, Lorenza; Szapora, Ayca; Pannekoek, Justine N; Hommel, Bernhard
    Anecdotal literature suggests that creative people sometimes use bodily movement to help overcome mental blocks and lack of inspiration. Several studies have shown that physical exercise may sometimes enhance creative thinking, but the evidence is still inconclusive. In this study we investigated whether creativity in convergent- and divergent-thinking tasks is affected by acute moderate and intense physical exercise in athletes (n = 48) and non-athletes (n = 48). Exercise interfered with divergent thinking in both groups. The impact on convergent thinking, the task that presumably required more cognitive control, depended on the training level: while in non-athletes performance was significantly impaired by exercise, athletes showed a benefit that approached significance. The findings suggest that acute exercise may affect both, divergent and convergent thinking. In particular, it seems to affect control-hungry tasks through exercise-induced “ego-depletion,” which however is less pronounced in individuals with higher levels of physical fitness, presumably because of the automatization of movement control, fitness-related neuroenergetic benefits, or both.
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    Where does insight come from?
    (2014-04) d'Angelo, Alex
    This demonstration will look at research skills both as a formal step-by-step process and as an intuitive, creative process, the main purpose being to identify conditions which foster Serendipity in research. It explores the concepts of serendipity and insights as pertains to research from a cross-disciplinary perspective.