We would give a lot to know what goes on in the brain of Picasso or Sophie Calle.
What are the creators fueling? Emotions, worries, absinthe, madness? “At the anatomical level, strictly speaking, nothing distinguishes the brain of an artist from the brain of ordinary mortals,” answers the neuropsychologist Sylvie Chokron, head of research at the CNRS, author: in the brain… (Ed. Presses de la Cité), his new opus in which he deciphers the thoughts of personalities from the worlds of music, writing, perfume… make it. »
Creative dialogue
“Artists are often emotional sponges, and we can imagine that hypersensitivity is a gateway to creativity,” explains Sylvie Chocron. The artist is the recipient of sensations, emotions, and the cortex of perception in his brain begins with bubbling. This is the first stage of creation, absorption.” However, this is not enough to keep things going. “The myth of the right brain, known as the emotional brain…
Source: Le Figaro
