Functional organization of different brain areas during convergent and divergent thinking: An EEG investigation

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 11-18

  Razoumnikova, Olga M ^a,b  

^a SB RAMS   (Russian Federation)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Convergent and divergent thinking; Hemisphere organization; Multichannel EEG; Personality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THINKING;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; THINKING;

EID: 0033827911     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(00)00017-3     Document Type: Article

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