Hippocampal amnesia disrupts creative thinking

Hippocampus

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1143-1149

  Duff, Melissa C ^a,b   Kurczek, Jake ^b   Rubin, Rachael ^c   Cohen, Neal J ^c   Tranel, Daniel ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d The University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Creativity; Hippocampus; Relational binding; Representational flexibility

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY GROWTH; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATIVITY; DATA BASE; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPAL AMNESIA; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; THINKING; TORRANCE TESTS OF CREATIVE THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AMNESIA; CREATIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; RELATIONAL BINDING; REPRESENTATIONAL FLEXIBILITY;

AMNESIA; COGNITION DISORDERS; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84888131637     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22208     Document Type: Article

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