Colleague,
You are invited you to submit a proposal for a chapter in the 2023 KIE Conference Book Series entitled “The Neuroscience of creativity” to be edited by Dr Fredricka K. Reisman, Co-director of the Drexel-Torrance Center for Creativity and Innovation and President Emeritus of the American Creativity Association. The editor is particularly interested in chapter proposals that speak to the following areas or questions:
- How is neuroscience related to creativity?
- What neuroscience says about the link between creativity and madness?
- Do creative brains work differently?
- According to neuroscience at what age is the mind most creative?
- Why are some people born creative?
- Why do adults lose their creativity?
- Why Is Creativity in Decline?
- Neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity
- The neural bases of creativity
- Is creativity inheritable
- Does brain damage affect creativity?
- Do neurodegenerative conditions affect creativity?
- Neuroimaging studies of creativity
- The neuroscientific basis of creativity-enhancing methodologies
- Applying the neuroscience of creativity to creativity training
- Are creative brains built differently?
- Is there a neurological relationship between intelligence and creativity?
If you are interested in submitting a proposal, you must send cc 200-word summary or abstract of your proposed chapter to the KIE team for review and acceptance by the deadline date of 28 March 2023.
Once your proposal is accepted, the deadline for final chapter submission, camera-ready, is 30 July 2023. Online publication date: 25th July 2023 (print publication follows afterwards).
The absolute word limit per chapter including references is 15,000. ALL tables, charts, and graphs must be CAMERA-READY and NO foot notes please. Referencing style should be APA. The book size is 16cmx23cm.
As stated, the book will be published in July just before the KIE Conference opens. As always, each conference registered participant will receive a free print copy; non-participants will access the book online.
The Conference will publish a four-page newsletter that showcases award-wining *authors – in addition to being recognised at the Annual E. Paul Torrance International Roundtable on Creative Thinking, which is in-filled into the conference.
Please send your proposed summary chapter to: kieteam[@]kiecon.org.
If you are interested in the KIE conference or attending and participating in the Torrance Roundtable, Reisman Diagnostics Creativity Assessment Special Interest Group (RDCA SIG), Kaufman Family Research Symposium, or any of the KIE in-filled events, please send enquiries to kieteam [@] kiecon.org.
Best wishes
James Ogunleye, PhD
Chairman, 2023 KIE Conference & Creativity Book Projects