Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity

Foreword .- Introduction.- Part I.- Neuroaesthetics and Creativity: How Do the Creative Arts Engage the Human Mind and Promote Creativity and Innovation Across Fields?.- Introduction to Part I.- How Artists Think (or the History of Neuroaesthetics).- Art and Neuroscience: a State of the Union.- Brain Mechanisms of Creativity: What We Know, What We Don't.- SPECIAL MULTIMEDIA FEATURE: Interviews.- Part II: How Do Arts-Science Collaboration Create New Knowledge through Aesthetic Problem Solving?.- Introduction to Part II.- Myths and Realities of Art: Science Collaborations.- Forging New Paths between Art, Materials and Society.- Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder or an Objective Truth? A Neuroscientific Approach.- Part III: Brain Mechanisms of Aesthetic Perception and Artistic Brain-Computer Interfaces.- Introduction to Part III.- How We See Art and How Artists Make It.- Reverse Engineering of Creativity.- Chapter 9 (no title yet).- SPECIAL MULTIMEDIA FEATURE Your Brain on Art: Creativity in Sound, Movement and Visual Arts.- Part IV: Cognitive and Medical Applications: How Can Arts and Neuroscience Research Improve Physical and Mental Health and Promote Wellbeing?.- Introduction to Part IV.- Outcomes of Art Therapy Treatment for Military Service Members with Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress.- Brain on Art therapy: Examining Processes and Outcomes of Art Making in Therapeutic Contexts.- Chapter 12: No title (TBC).- Part V. Mobile Brain-Body Imaging Technologies: How Disruptive Neurotechnologies Are Changing Science, Arts and Innovation.- Introduction to Part V.- Control Mechanisms in Artistic Brain-Computer Interfaces.- The Art, Science and Engineering of BCI Hackathons.- ArtScience Navigating the Ecology of Knowledge: Lessons Learned and Suggestions for Transdisciplinary Apprenticeships.- Part VI. How Can The Arts and Neuroscience Describe and Promote the Processes of Learning and Creativity in K-12 and Higher Education?.- Introduction to Part VI.-The

Dr. Jose L. Contreras-Vidal is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Site Director for the National Science Foundation Industry-University Collaborative Research Center on Building Reliable Advances and Innovations in Neurotechnologies (IUCRC BRAIN), and Director of the Laboratory for Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems at the University of Houston. He is also a Full Affiliate in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Houston Methodist Hospital and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.Dr. Contreras-Vidal's research focuses on neural, cognitive and rehabilitation engineering, and the design of noninvasive brain-machine interfaces (BMI) and wearable and therapeutical robotics to restore, augment or assist whole body movement after physical injury or neurological conditions. His laboratory has pioneered the development of noninvasive BMI systems based on scalp EEG to control motorized exoskeletons and robotic prosthetic limbs to restore motor function in individuals with spinal cord injury, stroke and limb amputation. His team has also developed experimental and computational approaches to acquire brain activity in 'action and in context' in complex real settings using context-aware mobile brain-body imaging (MoBI) technology to study aesthetics, creativity and innovation. Dr. Contreras-Vidal has pioneered the concept of "The Museum as a Public Laboratory" to understand brain dynamics in freely behaving individuals. Dr. Contreras-Vidal's research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the VA, ONR, the Cullen Foundation, Mission Connect - TIRR Foundation, and industry. He is in the editorial board of IEEE Human-Machine Systems, International Journal Mobile Human Computer Interaction, Frontiers in Neuroprosthetics, Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, Brain Computer Interfaces, and was a Guest Editor of an