Can clouds dance? Part 2: An ERP investigation of passive conceptual expansion

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 301-310

  Rutter, Barbara ^a   Kröger, Sören ^a   Hill, Holger ^b,c   Windmann, Sabine ^c   Hermann, Christiane ^a   Abraham, Anna ^a,d  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Conceptual expansion; Creativity; Divergent thinking; ERP; N400; Semantic cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONCEPTUAL EXPANSION; CREATIVITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LITERATURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CREATIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; TEMPORAL LOBE; THINKING; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867236542     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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