Imaginative brain: biological basis of creativity
The SPbU Representative Office in Spain invites you to the online lecture "Imaginative brain: biological basis of creativity". The lecture will be delivered by Daria Podvigina, Candidate of Psychology.
Today, creative thinking becomes increasingly common in the list of requirements for job applicants. Creative approach is important not only in work, but also to solve everyday life tasks. Creativity doesn’t develop on its own. Therefore, how to develop and control creative potential?
In the modern world creativity is considered to be one of the most valuable skill for workers in the different sectors of activity — from art to business. There are numerous popular articles which offer recipes for the development of creativity. Scientific articles also describe different theories of this special and vital skill. Some of them assume creativity as specific cognitive ability, and others — as personality trait.
During our meeting we will try to understand existing scientific approaches and methods of revealing inner creator, talk about evolution prerequisites of developing creative thinking (yes, animals can be creative too!), and of course discuss neurophysiological mechanisms which provide this feature.
Lector
Daria Podvigina graduated from the Faculty of Psychology at St Petersburg University in 2002 and started working at Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the same year. Since 2015, she has been Senior Research Associate at the Laboratory for Cognitive Studies at St Petersburg University (since 2020 — the Institute for Cognitive Studies at the University). Her main research interests are neurophysiological and psychophysiological mechanisms of visual perception and recognition of complex images. She is the author of more than 40 scholarly papers. In addition to her research activities, she teaches a number of courses at the Institute for Cognitive Studies and at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at St Petersburg University (lecture courses "Introduction to Life Sciences", "Human: Evolution, Culture, Behaviour", and others).
The lecture will be held as part of the events to mark the 300th anniversary of St Petersburg University, the oldest university in Russia. The meeting will be held online in Russian with simultaneous interpreting into Spanish.