Neural correlates of creative writing: An fMRI Study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1088-1101

  Shah, Carolin ^a   Erhard, Katharina ^a   Ortheil, Hanns Josef ^b   Kaza, Evangelia ^a   Kessler, Christof ^a   Lotze, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Creativity; Temporal lobe; Writing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAINSTORMING; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; READING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; WRITING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CREATIVITY; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; QUESTIONNAIRES; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875876249     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21493     Document Type: Article

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