Imagine: How Creativity Works

Imagine: How Creativity Works

Hardcover edition
Author Jonah Lehrer
Country United States
Language English
Subject Brain science, creativity
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Publication date
 2012
Pages 279
ISBN 9780547386072

Imagine: How Creativity Works is the third non-fiction book by Jonah Lehrer, published in 2012. It explores brain science, and creativity and its social aspects.[1] By July 2012, the book had been recalled by its publisher due to factual inaccuracies.[2]

Fabrication of quotations

In July 2012, Lehrer acknowledged that he fabricated some quotes attributed to Bob Dylan.[3] Sale of the electronic book as well as physical shipment of the book has been halted.[3]

In an article on August 10, Steve Myers alleged that quotes from magician Teller, of the performance duo Penn and Teller, were fake, after a fan saw a discrepancy in previous quotes from Teller from an article in 2009 in Wired Magazine, also by Lehrer.[4] Teller confirmed that the quotes from the Wired article in 2009[5] were accurate, while the ones from Imagine: How Creativity Works were not.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lengel, Kerry (March 31, 2012). "'Republic' April book pick: 'Imagine: How Creativity Works'". The Arizona Republic. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
  2. ↑ Kellogg, Carolyn (July 30, 2012). "Jonah Lehrer's Bob Dylan quotes lead to resignation". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  3. 1 2 Associated Press. "Author acknowledges fake Dylan quotes, resigns", omg Yahoo!, July 30, 2012.
  4. ↑ Myers, Steve. "Another false quotation found in Jonah Lehrer’s ‘Imagine’", The Poynter Institute, August 10, 2012.
  5. ↑ Jonah Lehrer. "Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion", Wired Magazine, April 20, 2009.

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