What do creators fuel?
To emotions, to anxieties, to absinthe, to madness?
“On an anatomical level strictly speaking, nothing distinguishes the brain of an artist from that of ordinary mortals,” responds neuropsychologist Sylvie Chokron, research director at the CNRS, author of
In the Brain of…
(Ed. Presses de la Cité), her new opus in which she deciphers the minds of personalities from the world of music, writing, perfume... “On the other hand, she specifies, what differs is the use that they do.
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“Artists are often emotional sponges, and we can imagine that hypersensitivity is a gateway to creating,” explains Sylvie Chokron.
The artist is the recipient of sensations, of emotions, and, in his brain, the perceptual cortex starts up with effervescence.
This is the first stage of creation: impregnation.”
However, this is not enough to keep things going.
“The myth of the right brain, known as the emotional brain…
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