Quantifying creativity: Can measures span the spectrum?

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 100-104

  Simonton, Dean Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Measurement; Performance; Person; Process; Product; Self report

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CREATIVE PERSONALITY SCALE; CREATIVITY; EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NEUROSCIENCE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT;

COGNITION; CREATIVITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 84861694870     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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