Kurt Andersen and novelist and neuroradiologist Aryeh Lev Stollman explore creativity and its connection to the brain. They hear about a fiction writer with autism who satirizes special education, a jazz pianist who believes his fingers know things his brain doesn’t, and an art professor who trades in her paint brushes for an electrode headband.
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