Difficulties in the neuroscience of creativity: Jazz improvisation and the scientific method

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1303, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 80-83

  Mcpherson, Malinda ^a   Limb, Charles J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Improvisation; Jazz; Neuroscience

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CREATIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; NEUROSCIENCE; VALIDITY;

EID: 84887621137     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12174     Document Type: Article

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