"Aha!": The neural correlates of verbal insight solutions

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 908-916

  Aziz Zadeh, Lisa ^a,b   Kaplan, Jonas T ^b   Iacoboni, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anagrams; Creativity; FMRI; Insight solutions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; INTROSPECTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CREATIVENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME;

EID: 61449233162     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20554     Document Type: Article

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