Creativity as flexible cognitive control

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 136-143

  Zabelina, Darya L ^a   Robinson, Michael D ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Cognition; Control; Creativity; Stroop

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956277384     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017379     Document Type: Article

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