Kevin Dunbar, a neuroscientist who devoted his life to understanding the brain's capacity for creative thought, died at seventy from complications that arrived with cruel swiftness while he was recovering from a chronic illness. Working across decades and continents, he mapped the neural geography of insight itself — identifying the frontopolar cortex as the seat of analogical reasoning — and helped build an entire academic discipline from the conviction that how we learn and how we think are questions science can answer. His passing closes a chapter in the story of how humanity came to see it
Kevin Dunbar, neuroscientist who mapped creativity in the brain, dies at 70
Dunbar died from sepsis after contracting staphylococcus during physical therapy rehabilitation for multiple sclerosis complications.