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30 - Polymathy: The Resurrection of Renaissance Man and the Renaissance Brain

from Part VIII - Artistic and Aesthetic Processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

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Claudia Garcia-Vega  and
Vincent Walsh
Edited by
Rex E. Jung  and
Oshin Vartanian
Rex E. Jung
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
Oshin Vartanian
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity , pp. 528 - 539
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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