In Dr. Limb’s TED Talk, he discusses creativity and the brain. A professor of head and neck surgery, he thinks of surgery as playing an instrument. He performed a set of three musical experiments using a functional MRI and a keyboard to study creativity and the brain. Dr. Limb performed experiments to argue that artistic creativity is a neurological product of the brain. His main thesis is that we can study creativity as a neurologic process just like we study any other neurologic processes. Using a functional MRI which takes photos of the brain as well as shows areas in the brain that are active or inactive, Dr. Limb explains that active areas are where concentrations in blood flow increases. In this case, when subjects were asked to memorize
