Cognition and Creativity
Code
73217173
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas
Credits
6
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Objectives: To clarify cognitive conditions of creativity and its cultural value
Competences:
- To be able to identify the relation between cognition and creativity.
- To understand the main issues and theories concerning cognition and creativity.
- To develop a well grounded understanding and creative approaches in cultural performance
Prerequisites
Subject matter
The study of cognitive processes has become a key-issue in understanding human behaviour and cultural
performance. How much of our cognition is universal and how much of it is based in culture? And how can one be \"creative\" within a stable framework of cognitive conditions? What does creativity mean and how does it work \"cognitively\"? The seminar will try to develop these questions without stating precipitate answers. The following topics might lead our reflection.
- The Origins of Arts: Evolution, the Brain and Creativity
- The Tacit Dimension
- A Cognitive Culture System or Architecture of Semantic Domains?
- Mirrors in the Brain and the question of empathy
- Cognition and Arts
- Cognitive Poetics and Why we read fiction
- Which way to Creative Cognition?
Bibliography
Abrantes, Ana Margarida & Hanenberg, Peter (eds.). 2011. Cognition and Culture. An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Frankfurt/M.: Lang.
Bohm, David. 2006. On Creativity. London: Routledge.
Brandt, Per Aage. 2004. Spaces, Domains and Meaning. Essays in Cognitive Semiotics. Bern etc.: Lang.
Ivcevic, Zorana. 2009. Creativity Map: Toward the Next Generation of Theories of Creativity. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts 3 (1): 1721.
Lubart, Todd. 2007. Psicologia Da Criatividade. Porto Alegre: artmed.
Reckwitz, Andreas. 2012. Die Erfindung Der Kreativität. Berlin: Suhrkamp.
Smith, Steven M., ed. 1995. The Creative Cognition Approach. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT.
Sternberg, R. J., ed. 2009. Handbook of Creativity. Cambridge: Univ. Press.
Ward, Thomas B. et al. 1995. Creativity and the Mind. Discovering the Genius Within. New York: Plenum.
Zeki, Semir. 2009. Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Teaching method
Teaching: The seminary will focus on the discussion of current research issues. It requests regular readings.
Evaluation method
Evaluation: Continuous cooperation (40%), oral presentation and debate (30%), essay (30%)