Conference: Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity

创造力的神经科学是一个新兴的研究领域。该领域的新颖性提供了一扇机会之窗，使新成立的创新神经科学学会(该研究领域的第一个学术团体)成为一种机制，将科学家们围绕研究重点与教育相关性结合起来。同样，在关键的早期阶段，有机会让教育工作者和教育研究人员参与对话，以便创造力神经科学的发展能够受到现实世界挑战的指导，并应用于培养更具创造力的劳动力的愿望。从研究人员的角度来看，这次会议将通过支持有相关兴趣的研究人员之间的合作、异花授粉和互惠学习来简化和催化创造力神经科学的进步。创意性神经科学协会的成立宗旨是拓展和包容。我们的主要目标之一是让妇女和代表性不足的少数群体成员参与我们的会议和在线社区，并直接进行教育宣传。支持这些目标的计划活动的例子是为代表不足的少数族裔学生和服务不足的少数族裔学生的教师设立特别旅行基金，以及特别推广到为会议所在地区的低收入和少数族裔学生服务的高中。创意神经科学学会拟议的会议将于2017年3月24日在加利福尼亚州旧金山举行，作为认知神经科学学会会议的卫星。拟议会议的主要目标是建立一个包容的学者和教育工作者社区，寻求了解和积极利用大脑支持创造性思维、教学和学习的机制。创意神经科学学会的成立是为了在创意研究人员和致力于培养创造力的教育工作者之间架起一座明显的桥梁，特别是在创造性创新是进步的关键驱动力的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域。拟议中的会议对建立新成立的学会至关重要。除了这一总体目标之外，我们还确定了一系列具体的科学优先事项，这些优先事项对创造性神经科学的生产性发展至关重要。会议将突出推进这些优先事项的工作，并积极鼓励社会成员在这些优先事项上进行协作：1)开发基于大脑的创造力测量的可靠性；2)绘制不同形式创造力背后的共享神经网络与不同神经网络的图谱；3)将教育的关键目标(特别是在STEM领域)付诸实施，但对相关创造性思维的神经基础研究不足；4)确定神经可塑性，以促进以教育为基础的创造力的提高；5)开发迭代的、互惠适应的范例，使神经科学能够为促进创造力的教育方法的改进和个性化提供信息；6)利用脑成像来指导有针对性的、假设驱动的神经干预探索，这些干预有可能增强创造力。

The neuroscience of creativity is a new and burgeoning area of research. The newness of the field presents a window of opportunity to make the newly founded Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (this research area's first academic society) a mechanism that coalesces scientists around research priorities with educational relevance. Likewise, there is an opportunity to bring educators and education researchers into the dialogue at a critical early phase so that the growth of creativity neuroscience can be guided by and applied to real-world challenges and aspirations of educating a more creative workforce. From the perspective of the researcher, this meeting will streamline and catalyze progress in the neuroscience of creativity by supporting collaboration, cross-pollination, and reciprocal learning between researchers with related interests. The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity is founded with a charter of outreach and inclusiveness. Among our major goals is the involvement of women and members of underrepresented minority groups in our meetings and online community, and direct educational outreach. Examples of planned activities to support these goals are the establishment of special travel funds for underrepresented minority students and for teachers of underserved minority students, and special outreach to high schools that serve low-income and minority students in the area where the meeting is held.The proposed meeting of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity will be held on March 24th, 2017 in San Francisco, CA as a satellite to the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting. The primary objective of the proposed meeting is to establish an inclusive community of scholars and educators seeking to understand and actively leverage the mechanisms of the brain that support creative thinking, teaching, and learning. The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity is founded in order to build a bridge across a conspicuous gap between creativity researchers and educators working to foster creativity, especially in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields where creative innovation is a key driver of advancements. The proposed conference is critical to establishing the newly founded society. In addition to this over-arching goal, we have identified a set of specific scientific priorities as critical for the productive development of the neuroscience of creativity. The meeting will highlight work that advances these priorities and actively encourage collaboration on these priorities among society members: 1) development of reliability for brain-based measures of creativity; 2) mapping the shared vs. distinct neural networks underlying different forms of creativity; 3) operationalizing key targets in education (especially in STEM fields) for which there is insufficient research about neural bases of relevant creative thinking; 4) identifying neural plasticity that mediates education-based improvements in creativity; 5) developing iterative, reciprocally-adaptive paradigms whereby neuroscience can inform improvements and individualization of educational approaches to fostering creativity; and 6) leveraging brain imaging to guide targeted, hypothesis-driven explorations of neural interventions that have potential to bolster creativity.