Introduction Rex E. Jung and Oshin Vartanian; Part I. Fundamental Concepts: 1. Creative ideas and the creative process: good news and bad news for the neuroscience of creativity Dean Keith Simonton; 2. Homeostasis and the control of creative drive Alice W. Flaherty; 3. Laterality and creativity: a false trail? Michael C. Corballis; 4. The neural basis and evolution of divergent and convergent thought Liane Gabora; Part II. Pharmacology and Psychopathology: 5. Stress, pharmacology, and creativity David Q. Beversdorf; 6. Functional neuroimaging of psychedelic experience: an overview of psychological and neural effects and their relevance to research on creativity, daydreaming, and dreaming Kieran C. R. Fox, Cameron C. Parro and Kalina Christoff; 7. A heated debate: time to address the underpinnings of the association between creativity and psychopathology? Simon Kyaga; 8. Creativity and psychopathology: a relationship of shared neurocognitive vulnerabilities Shelley H. Carson; Part III. Attention and Imagination: 9. Attention and creativity Darya L. Zabelina; 10. Internally directed attention in creative cognition Mathias Benedek; 11. The forest versus the trees: creativity, cognition and imagination Anna Abraham; 12. A common mode of processing governing divergent thinking and future imagination Reece P. Roberts and Donna Rose Addis; Part IV. Memory and Language: 13. Going the extra creative mile: the role of semantic distance in creativity theory, research, and measurement Yoed N. Kenett; 14. Episodic memory and cognitive control: contributions to creative idea production Roger E. Beaty and Daniel L. Schacter; 15. Free association, divergent thinking and creativity: cognitive and neural perspectives Tali Marron and Miriam Faust; 16. Figurative language comprehension and laterality in Autism Spectrum Disorder Ronit Saban-Bezalel and Nira Mashal; Part V. Cognitive Control and Executive Functions: 17. The costs and benefits of cognitive control for creativity Evangelia G. Chrysikou; 18. Creativity and cognitive control in the cognitive and affective domains Andreas Fink, Corinna Perchtold and Christian Rominger; 19. Associative and controlled cognition in divergent thinking: theoretical, experimental, neuroimaging evidence, and new directions Emmanuelle Volle; Part VI. Reasoning and Intelligence: 20. Creativity in the distance: the neurocognition of semantically distant relational thinking and reasoning Adam Green; 21. Network dynamics theory of human intelligence Aki Nikolaidis and Aron K. Barbey; 22. Training to be creative: the interplay between cognition, skill learning, and motivation Indre V. Viskontas; 23. Intelligence and creativity from the neuroscience perspective Emanuel Jauk; Part VII. Individual Differences: 24. The genetics of creativity: the underdog of behavior genetics? Davide Piffer; 25. Structural studies of creativity measured by divergent thinking Hikaru Takeuchi and Ryuta Kawashima; 26. Openness to experience: insights from personality neuroscience Oshin Vartanian; 27. Creativity and the aging brain Kenneth M. Heilman and Ira S. Fleischer; Part VIII. Artistic and Eesthetic Processes: 28. The neuroscience of musical creativity David Bashwiner; 29. Artistic and aesthetic production: progress and limitations Malinda J. McPherson; 30. Polymathy: the resurrection of renaissance man and the renaissance brain Claudia Garcia-Vega and Vincent Walsh.