Enhanced dynamic complexity in the human EEG during creative thinking

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-64

  Mölle, Matthias ^a   Marshall, Lisa ^a   Lutzenberger, Werner ^b   Pietrowsky, Reinhard ^a   Fehm, Horst L ^a   Born, Jan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell assemblies; Convergent thinking; Dimensional complexity; Divergent thinking; EEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THINKING;

EID: 0343371818     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12539-8     Document Type: Article

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