What can neuroscience tell about the mechanisms of artistic creation? How can we explain the creative process? Why suddenly the writer imagines such a history, the poet chooses such a word, the physicist thinks of such a model? In the common imagination, art is considered as a gift. One may wonder what are the mechanisms used by the brain when the artist creates. But can we really explain the creative process by neuroscience? The conference “Mysteries of artistic creativity” was held on April 20th at the University of Geneva. The speakers were Metin Arditi and Idan Segev.
Idan Segev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) is the head of the Israeli research team affiliated with the Human Brain Project. He specifically examines how neurons adapt to environmental permanent changes. Metin Arditi is a Turkish writer. He lives in Geneva, he is special envoy of Unesco and supports numerous cultural activities. With Elias Sanbar he created the Foundation of instruments for Peace, which works for the musical education of the West Bank / Gaza and Israel, and the third Arditi Foundation for Intercultural Dialogue was then based in the field of literature with launching of a new contest in 2014 between Arab and Israeli Jewish Israeli students, Israeli universities are associated.