Magical ideation, creativity, handedness, and cerebral asymmetries: A combined behavioural and fMRI study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2896-2903

  Badzakova Trajkov, Gjurgjica ^a   Häberling, Isabelle S ^a   Corballis, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cerebral dominance; Creativity achievement; Face processing; Handedness; Language; Laterality; Magical ideation; Spatial judgment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; CREATIVITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGIC; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CREATIVENESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MAGIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051474952     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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