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DISCUSSING MUSICAL CREATIVITY IN LEARNING: PSYCHOLOGICAL PERCEPTIONS AND BRAIN RESEARCH

Dr. Efthymios Papatzikis

Abstract

Musical creativity seems to be a fundamental and inherent element of the human behaviour and existence. It entails a process of creation which compared to the other arts is approached by many leading researchers as one of the oldest and most fundamental traits of human socio-cognitive development. Psychology research claims to combine all four dimensions of the personality, environment, process and product in musical creativity's decoding, resting still however in single-dimensional notions and perceptions through its realisation (i.e. left-right brain dichotomies). Neuroscience research on the other hand suggests that musical creativity does not appear to critically depend on any single cognitive process or brain region. This paper presents some of the most important biopsychological substrates existing in the lifelong learning process of and involvement with music, and synthetically discusses their content as to contemporary and future research0

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