In his new post Why Daydreamers Are More Creative, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD covers a number of fascinating topics relating to the creative mind, and he explains, “Latent inhibition is a filtering mechanism that we share with other animals…[and] involves the ability to consider something as relevant even if it was previously tagged as irrelevant…”
In the early 1970′s, I worked as a research assistant at the UCSF Medical Center, Langley Porter Institute, in the laboratory of David Galin, MD, who worked with Robert Ornstein, PhD. … The focus of their research was brain lateralization – the early left brain/right brain stuff.
But they also did some work with Dr. Joe Kamiya, looking at brain activity in meditation.
In the early 1970′s, I worked as a research assistant at the UCSF Medical Center, Langley Porter Institute, in the laboratory of David Galin, MD, who worked with Robert Ornstein, PhD. … The focus of their research was brain lateralization – the early left brain/right brain stuff.
But they also did some work with Dr. Joe Kamiya, looking at brain activity in meditation.
Continued in post Cognitive Filtering, Meditation, Creativity .