Brain correlates of self-rated originality of ideas: Evidence from event-related power and phase-locking changes in the EEG

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 224-230

  Grabner, Roland H ^a   Fink, Andreas ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpha; Creativity; EEG; Human cognition; Phase locking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CREATIVENESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847304042     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.1.224     Document Type: Article

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