Creative potential, attention, and speed of information processing

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1470-1480

  Vartanian, Oshin ^a   Martindale, Colin ^a   Kwiatkowski, Jonna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Creativity; Inhibition; Intelligence; Interference; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547227161     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.04.027     Document Type: Article

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