Creativity and speed of information processing: A double dissociation involving elementary versus inhibitory cognitive tasks

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1382-1390

  Dorfman, Leonid ^a   Martindale, Colin ^b   Gassimova, Vera ^a   Vartanian, Oshin ^b  

^a Perm State Institute of Art and Culture   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 39549088101     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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