Enhancing creativity by means of cognitive stimulation: Evidence from an fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1687-1695

  Fink, Andreas ^a   Grabner, Roland H ^b   Gebauer, Daniela ^a   Reishofer, Gernot ^c   Koschutnig, Karl ^c   Ebner, Franz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cognition; Creativity; Neuroscience; Originality; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; CREATIVENESS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SELF STIMULATION;

EID: 77954952590     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.072     Document Type: Article

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