Evidence for a left-over-right inhibitory mechanism during figural creative thinking in healthy nonartists

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2724-2732

  Huang, Peiyu ^a,b   Qiu, Lihua ^c   Shen, Lin ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a   Song, Zhe ^a,b   Qi, Zhiguo ^a,b   Gong, Qiyong ^c   Xie, Peng ^a,b  

^a CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING KEY LABORATORY OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Creativity; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Inhibitory mechanism; The left frontal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CREATIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; INSULA; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; THINKING;

CREATIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; INHIBITORY MECHANISM; THE LEFT FRONTAL LOBE;

ADULT; ART; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CREATIVITY; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883822641     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22093     Document Type: Article

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