Stimulating creativity via the exposure to other people's ideas

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2603-2610

  Fink, Andreas ^a   Koschutnig, Karl ^a,b   Benedek, Mathias ^a   Reishofer, Gernot ^b   Ischebeck, Anja ^a   Weiss, Elisabeth M ^a   Ebner, Franz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cognitive stimulation; Creative cognition; fMRI; Originality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867660374     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21387     Document Type: Article

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