Improvisation and creativity

Now if we could just tap into this kind of creativity in translation (or might it be adaptation at that point-I wouldn't care any more)?

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The World in Words May 24, 2018 4:30 PM EDT By Patrick Cox Player utilities PopoutShare Download File downloadListen to the story. 20180523-improv.jpg A performance from the Netherlands-based comedy improv group Easy Laughs. Credit: Robin Straaijer Does the brain of a comedy improv actor or freestyle rapperworkin a particular way? Is it measurably different? Is it processing language (or sound) faster thana regular, lower-improvisingbrain?

Or is something else also going on something to do with how we judge ourselves?

We at The World in Words podcast have wondered about all this for some time. Not because we possess lightning-fast improv skills (if only...) but because it's such a mystery.

Weasked our palAri Daniel from our partner program NOVA to look into this. As it happens, he found a group of researchers and a group of professional improvisers working together on some of thesequestions.

20180524-Veneziale.jpg Researcher Lauren Jacobs prepares comedian Anthony Veneziale for a fMRI session at a laboratory run by Dr Charles Limb at the University of California, San Francisco. Credit: Shuka Kalantari Podcast Contents

00:15 An improv challenge that combines comedy and freestyle rapping.

2:10 How words can be taken in different directions.

3:00 "The other day, I took my father out..."

3:45 Meet professional improviser Anthony Veneziale.

4:40 An extraordinary moment at aFreestyle Love Supreme show. (See video below.)

7:01 "Let's let all the doors open in the brain."

8:12 Charles Limb, otolaryngologist, neuroscientist, musician.

9:35 The opportunity to look at the creative brain in action.

10:28 The parallels between a great musician and a great comedian.

11:45 1 comedian + 1 neuroscientist = 1 bromance.

14:14 Anthony Veneziale improvises while undergoingan fMRI scan!

17:06 "Thestate of creativity is a different functional brain state."

17:30 But what does this say aboutlanguage and conversation?

18:35 And beyond language.

19:30 Don't eliminate the arts from school systems!

21:15 Uh ... no body-stabbing. Not creative.

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