Distractions Can Aid Creativity

Distractions Can Aid Creativity

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 4, Episode 61 , Segment 2

Municipal Fines, Creative Distraction, Attachment

Episode: Municipal Fines, Creative Distraction, Attachment

  • Apr 1, 2015 1:00 pm
  • 46:47 mins

(57:00) Dr. Darya L. Zabelina is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Northwestern University studying cognitive processes, affective processes, motivation, personality, and neural aspects involved in creativity. Her recent research shows that distractions actually help creative geniuses, but not necessarily their ability to get stuff done.