The creative brain - Revisiting concepts

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 606-612

  Chakravarty, Ambar ^a  

^a VIVEKANANDA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; CREATIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE; LATENT INHIBITION; LEARNING THEORY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; PHILOSOPHY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

BRAIN; COGNITION; CREATIVENESS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET;

EID: 77649275141     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.10.014     Document Type: Article

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