Can Creativity be Trained? Neuroscience-informed Pedagogy for Creative Professionals
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Presenter Bio
Indre Viskontas is a neuroscientist, musician, stage director and science communicator. She is the President of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity, Chief Science Officer at Reverberation, co-founded by musician Peter Gabriel, and Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of San Francisco with a cross-appointment at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Presentation Description
How do the leading researchers define creativity? What elements can and should be trained in the age of generative AI? In this session, we'll explore cutting-edge neuroscience research demystifying the creative process, and leave with practical tools that can help teachers bring out the most creative work from their students.
Pre-Session Materials
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We're More Ourselves When We're In Tune with Other
Indre Viskontas—here as the Countess in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro—says live performance brings out the best in her voice. “You want it to sound like magic,” she says. “Performing with others, being on stage, can help us get out of our heads and to that place where we just rely on our training and intuition.”
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Post-Session Exercise
Refresh your knowledge by watching the LinkedIn Learning Course: Building Creativity from the Brain Up.
Publication Date
3-23-2026
Campus
Berklee Online
Recommended Citation
Viskontas, Indre and Pedagogy Arts Collective, "Can Creativity be Trained? Neuroscience-informed Pedagogy for Creative Professionals" (2026). Pedagogy Arts Collective. 31.
https://remix.berklee.edu/pac/31