So you think you're creative?

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We're always talking about creativity, but what do we mean? Can we find creativity, can we measure it, can we encourage it? Kurt talks with Gary Marcus, a psychology professor about what science tells us about creativity. A researcher puts jazz musicians into an fMRI machine and has them improvise; an intrepid reporter gets her creativity tested and scored; and a little girl introduces us to her imaginary friends (all of them).

(Originally aired: November 23, 2012)

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0:00.0	From PRX
0:03.4	You
0:07.7	Studio
0:08.4	Studio
0:08.5	Studio
0:08.8	Studio
0:09.8	That's it
0:12.5	That's it
0:12.5	Right?
0:13.3	Studio
0:13.7	360
0:14.6	With Cardo Anders
0:16.3	Kurt Anderson
0:17.2	I listen to it on the radio in my car
0:20.7	Don't be sniffy about I'm not being sniffing I think you are No no Good Anderson. Good Anderson. I listened to it on the radio in my car.
0:22.4	Don't be sniffy about.
0:23.4	Nothing sniffy.
0:24.2	I think you're on.
0:24.8	No, no.
0:26.0	You've got a nose for it. Oh, gosh.
0:27.3	What are you saying over there?
0:29.1	Today on the show, I had a terrible fear that he'd turn the machine on and look at my brain.
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