Good morning creativity: Task reactivation during sleep enhances beneficial effect of sleep on creative performance

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 643-647

  Ritter, Simone M ^a   Strick, Madelijn ^a   Bos, Maarten W ^b   Van Baaren, Rick B ^a   Dijksterhuis, Ap ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Idea generation; Idea selection; Odor; Sleep; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVE TASK REACTIVATION; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; SLEEP; SMELL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870246904     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: 13652869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2012.01006.x     Document Type: Article

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