Creativity and the brain: Uncovering the neural signature of conceptual expansion

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1906-1917

  Abraham, Anna ^a   Pieritz, Karoline ^a   Thybusch, Kristin ^a   Rutter, Barbara ^a   Kröger, Sören ^a   Schweckendiek, Jan ^a   Stark, Rudolf ^a   Windmann, Sabine ^b   Hermann, Christiane ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Creative cognition; Divergent thinking; FMRI; Higher order cognition; Semantic cognition; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTEGRATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THINKING; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84862891670     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.04.015     Document Type: Article

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