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Organising the Mind

Tom Sutcliffe discusses creativity and the organised mind with neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, cognitive scientist Maggie Boden, poet Frances Leviston and conductor Ian Page.

Tom Sutcliffe is joined in the studio by Daniel Levitin, author of New York Times bestseller 'The Organized Mind'. Levitin dismisses the idea of multi-tasking and explores how we can counter information overload. But the poet Frances Leviston with her latest collection, Disinformation, believes her best work is conceived in disorganisation. The cognitive scientist Maggie Boden puts forward the idea that computers can be highly creative, and the conductor Ian Page celebrates the genius of Mozart who wrote his first symphony in London at the age of eight.

Producer: Katy Hickman.

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43 minutes

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Mon 26 Jan 2015 21:30
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Daniel Levitin

is an award-winning scientist, musician, author and record producer. He is also the James McGill Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal, where he runs the Laboratory for Music Cognition, Perception and Expertise.Β 

'The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload' out 29th January.Β 

Margaret Boden

Neuroscientist OBE is Research Professor of cognitive science at the Department ofΒ  informatics at the University of Sussex, where her work embraces the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, cognitive and computer science.

Professor Boden will be givingΒ a at the LSE Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social ScienceΒ on 29th January 2015.

Frances Leviston

Poet ’s first collection, Public Dream, was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. 

Her latest collection, Disinformation, will be published by Picador on 12th February 2015.

Ian Page

is the founder, conductor and artistic director of Classical Opera which presents world class performances, with its own period instrument orchestra, of the works of Mozart and his contemporaries.

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Credits

Presenter Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest Daniel Levitin
Interviewed Guest Maggie Boden
Interviewed Guest Frances Leviston
Interviewed Guest Ian Page
Producer Katy Hickman

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  • Mon 26 Jan 2015 09:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Mon 26 Jan 2015 21:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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