Our research was featured on KALW’s Crosscurrents: “What adults can learn from kids’ creativity.”
We used fMRI to study children improvising on the piano; improv engaged reward networks in the brain.
Creativity isn’t about expertise, but curiosity.
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What adults can learn from kids' creativity
A lot of adults feel they’ve lost touch with the ability to get messy… and also just mess up. Scientists call that childlike, everyday experimentation, “prosaic creativity.” And it's more accessible—e...