Rex Jung

{{short description|American psychologist}}

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Rex Eugene Jung is an American psychologist who has researched on the neural basis of human intelligence and creativity. He is an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, where he is the director of neuropsychological services.{{Cite web|url=https://vivo.health.unm.edu/display/n1418716867|title=University faculty page}} Jung is also a practicing psychologist at his private clinic.{{Cite web|url=https://www.brainandbehavioral.com/services/|title=Neuropsychology, Neuropsychologist, Forensic, IME, Brain Injury, Concussion|website=Brain and Behavioral Associates, PC|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-17}}

Education and academic duties

Jung obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado in 1986 and obtained his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of New Mexico in 2001.{{Cite web|url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51950737e4b0cc86d60b4793/t/5b2c064f562fa7cd44e95d4e/1529611855699/jung-cv-062018.pdf|title=Rex Jung CV}}{{Cite book|title=The Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity|last1=Jung|first1=Rex E.|last2=Vartanian|first2=Oshin|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2018|isbn=978-1108340458}} Jung is a member of the American Psychological Association (division 40, clinical neuropsychology), the International Society of Intelligence Research (ISIR), and Heterodox Academy.{{Cite web|url=https://heterodoxacademy.org/about-us/members/|title=Member list, Heterodox Academy}} Jung sits on the editorial board of Intelligence,{{Cite book|url=https://www.journals.elsevier.com/intelligence/editorial-board|title=Intelligence Editorial Board}} Frontiers in Psychiatry (neuroimaging and stimulation),{{Cite web|url=https://www.frontiersin.org/journal/psychiatry/section/neuroimaging-and-stimulation|title=Neuroimaging and Stimulation|website=www.frontiersin.org|language=en|access-date=2018-12-17}} and Public Library of Science (PLoS ONE).{{Cite web|url=https://journals.plos.org/plosone/static/editorial-board|title=PLOS ONE: accelerating the publication of peer-reviewed science|website=journals.plos.org|access-date=2018-12-17}}

Research

Jung has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, most of which deal with intelligence or creativity.{{primary inline|date=December 2018}}

In 2007, Richard Haier and Jung published a study advocating the parieto-frontal integration theory (P-FIT) of intelligence.{{Cite journal|date=2018-11-01|title=Intelligence and uncertainty: Implications of hierarchical predictive processing for the neuroscience of cognitive ability|journal=Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews|language=en|volume=94|pages=93–112|doi=10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.08.013|pmid=30153441|issn=0149-7634|last1=Euler|first1=Matthew J.|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last1=Ogihara|first1=Naomichi|last2=Amano|first2=Hideki|last3=Masters|first3=Michael|last4=Cuétara|first4=De la|last5=Manuel|first5=José|last6=Bruner|first6=Emiliano|date=2014|title=Functional craniology and brain evolution: from paleontology to biomedicine|journal=Frontiers in Neuroanatomy|language=en|volume=8|pages=19|doi=10.3389/fnana.2014.00019|issn=1662-5129|pmc=3980103|pmid=24765064|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|date=2017-05-01|title=Neural correlates of Eureka moment|journal=Intelligence|language=en|volume=62|pages=99–118|doi=10.1016/j.intell.2017.03.004|issn=0160-2896|last1=Sprugnoli|first1=Giulia|last2=Rossi|first2=Simone|last3=Emmendorfer|first3=Alexandra|last4=Rossi|first4=Alessandro|last5=Liew|first5=Sook-Lei|last6=Tatti|first6=Elisa|last7=Di Lorenzo|first7=Giorgio|last8=Pascual-Leone|first8=Alvaro|last9=Santarnecchi|first9=Emiliano|doi-access=free|url=https://flore.unifi.it/bitstream/2158/1303260/1/1_2017_Sprugnoli_REV_insight.pdf}}

Jung has published papers on the neuroscience of creativity.{{Cite journal|date=2010-12-25|title=Neuroimaging creativity: A psychometric view|journal=Behavioural Brain Research|language=en|volume=214|issue=2|pages=143–156|doi=10.1016/j.bbr.2010.05.015|pmid=20488210|issn=0166-4328|last1=Arden|first1=Rosalind|last2=Chavez|first2=Robert S.|last3=Grazioplene|first3=Rachael|last4=Jung|first4=Rex E.|s2cid=16666568}}{{Cite journal|last1=Jung|first1=Rex E.|last2=Segall|first2=Judith M.|last3=Bockholt|first3=H. Jeremy|last4=Flores|first4=Ranee A.|last5=Smith|first5=Shirley M.|last6=Chavez|first6=Robert S.|last7=Haier|first7=Richard J.|date=2010|title=Neuroanatomy of creativity|journal=Human Brain Mapping|language=en|volume=31|issue=3|pages=398–409|doi=10.1002/hbm.20874|issn=1097-0193|pmc=2826582|pmid=19722171}}{{Cite journal|last1=Flores|first1=Ranee A.|last2=Carrasco|first2=Jessica|last3=Mead|first3=Brittany S.|last4=Jung|first4=Rex Eugene|date=2013|title=The structure of creative cognition in the human brain|journal=Frontiers in Human Neuroscience|language=en|volume=7|pages=330|doi=10.3389/fnhum.2013.00330|issn=1662-5161|pmc=3703539|pmid=23847503|doi-access=free}} Due to his work on creativity, Jung has been interviewed in media such as The New York Times,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/books/08creative.html|title=The Mind Research Network and Charting Creativity|last=Cohen|first=Patricia|date=2010-05-07|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-12-17|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} The Atlantic,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/11/the-creative-scientist/382633/|title=Scientists Are More Creative Than You Might Imagine|last=Ossola|first=Alexandra|date=2014-11-12|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-17}} and The Washington Post.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/creativity-can-last-well-into-old-age-as-long-as-creators-stay-open-to-new-ideas/2013/11/21/31487172-52ca-11e3-a7f0-b790929232e1_story.html|title=Creativity can last well into old age, as long as creators stay open to new ideas|last=Bahrampour|first=Tara|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=November 21, 2013}}

Bibliography

  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Jung |editor1-first=Rex |editor2-last=Vartanian |editor2-first=Oshin |title=The Cambridge handbook of the neuroscience of creativity |publisher=Cambridge University Press|series=Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology|date=2018|isbn=978-1316602102}}

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