Semantic divergence and creative story generation: An fMRI investigation

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 240-250

  Howard Jones, Paul A ^a   Blakemore, Sarah Jayne ^b   Samuel, Elspeth A ^a   Summers, Ian R ^c   Claxton, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creativity; fMRI; Right prefrontal cortex; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CREATIVENESS; ENVIRONMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 24644490709     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.05.013     Document Type: Article

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