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Creativity is notoriously difficult to study as it unfolds, but musical improvisation offers a rare chance to watch spontaneous idea-generation in action.

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An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised ...

Dame Judi Dench recently celebrated her 91st birthday and impressed everyone by reciting several Shakespearean soliloquies from memory.