The creative brain, the neuroscience of genius

One of the most famous texts dealing with imaginative inspiration was written by the nineteenth-century German organic chemist Friedrich Kekulé. Kekulé devoted most of his life to studying the nature of the carbon bond and the structure of benzene. What often happens in the creative process is that issues remain unresolved, but Kekulet solves them in his dreams while he is asleep. He says: "I was ...