The (b)link between creativity and dopamine: Spontaneous eye blink rates predict and dissociate divergent and convergent thinking

Cognition

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 458-465

  Chermahini, Soghra Akbari ^a   Hommel, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive flexibility; Creativity; Divergent thinking; Dopamine

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CREATIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLINKING; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951666306     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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