Can clouds dance? Neural correlates of passive conceptual expansion using a metaphor processing task: Implications for creative cognition

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 114-122

  Rutter, Barbara ^a   Kröger, Sören ^a   Stark, Rudolf ^b   Schweckendiek, Jan ^b   Windmann, Sabine ^c   Hermann, Christiane ^a   Abraham, Anna ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Bender Institute of Neuroimaging   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

BA 10; BA 45; BA 47; Creative cognition; Divergent thinking; Novel metaphors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOLUNTEER;

COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CREATIVENESS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856229604     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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