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Gary Marcus: Enhancing creativity

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Musicians are famous for their wild and often intoxicated lifestyles, but does a lack of inhibition in the brain actually make you a better musician?

Gary Marcus, director of New York University’s Center for Language and Music

Gary Marcus: Defining creativity

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NYU researcher doubts science can contribute to understanding creativity

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Gary Marcus: Enhancing Creativity

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Gary Marcus: Enhancing Creativity

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Gary Marcus, who directs New York University’s Center for Language and Music, talks with Kurt Andersen about scientific efforts to find and describe creativity.

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Faith talks to NYU psychologist Gary Marcus about why he thinks the brain is more a cobbled-together product of evolutionary tinkering than some ideal natural design, as explained in his new book “Kluge.”

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