Neuroscience | Leonardo/ISASTwith Arizona State University

Neuroscience

Deadline: 
16 August 2024 to 20 October 2024
Publication: 
Leonardo

Dates or Deadline: 

16 August 2024 to 20 October 2024

Publication: 

Leonardo

Leonardo Journal invites submissions for a FOCUS section dedicated to the enigmatic nature of creativity and aesthetics. Despite daily advancements in the science of creativity, this aspect of human experience remains elusive, even to those who depend on it for their life’s work. We seek to explore how cross-disciplinary practitioners blend ideas from diverse fields to forge new creative paths and innovations.

We welcome papers from artists, scientists, and creative practitioners across disciplines that delve into the origins of personal creativity and creativity in general. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • The neuroscience of creativity
  • Psychological and sociocultural factors influencing creativity
  • The impact of creativity (or its absence) on society
  • Case studies of cross-disciplinary creative processes
  • The role of technology in fostering creativity
  • Comparative analyses of creativity across different fields

Submissions should provide novel insights and contribute to a deeper understanding of how creativity manifests and evolves. We encourage a variety of methodological approaches, including empirical research, theoretical frameworks, and reflective essays.

The understanding of creativity is a topic that we hope to reinforce with contributions from around the Leosphere, in the form of manuscripts of 2,500-5,000 words or statements of up to 2,000 words.

Proposals and Inquiries
Interested authors may submit manuscript proposals or inquiries to editor@leonardo.info(link sends e-mail).

Manuscript Submissions
For detailed instructions for manuscript and art preparation, visit https://leonardo.info/preparing-your-materials-journals#man.
Completed manuscripts can be uploaded at editorialexpress.com/leonardo.

 

Cloud hands on the mountain

Submitted by Doris Monica Ia... on Monday, 07/01/2019 11:41am

My third day in residence at Djerassi, I join fellow residents Wei and Daiane in their Tai Chi practice. I have only previously tried Tai Chi once, for twenty minutes, when it was part of an employee wellness demonstration years ago. Here on the mountaintop, I decide to try it as a form of exercise. I can’t do my customary lap swims here. I imagine it will be something like yoga. Good for my body, but also meditative.

 

D(r)oubt

Submitted by Adria LeBoeuf on Monday, 07/24/2017 4:44pm

Even the gophers struggle

Tunnelling in dense caked dirt.

Fissures grow deeper

Widening the space between the plaques of dry brittle grass 

The matter straining, stiffening,

As each molecule of water evaporates.

 

Paralysis holds the nutrients in place, 

Greedily restraining what tries to grow.

 

Dig, plant, nourish,

Listen, prune then flourish. 

 

Remember. 

We need some flux 

For anything to thrive.