Failing to deactivate: The association between brain activity during a working memory task and creativity

NeuroImage

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 681-687

  Takeuchi, Hikaru ^a   Taki, Yasuyuki ^a   Hashizume, Hiroshi ^a   Sassa, Yuko ^a   Nagase, Tomomi ^a   Nouchi, Rui ^a   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CREATIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CREATIVENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551603627     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.052     Document Type: Article

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