Creative thinking in music: Its nature and assessment through musical exploratory behaviors

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 231-242

  Barbot, Baptiste ^a   Lubart, Todd ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b université Paris Descartes Sorbonne Paris Cité   (France)

Author keywords

Creativity; Divergent thinking; Exploratory behavior; Music; Problem finding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874004008     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027307     Document Type: Article

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