The impact of physical exercise on convergent and divergent thinking

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Colzato, Lorenza S ^a   Szapora, Ayca ^a   Pannekoek, Justine N ^a,b   Hommel, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Convergent thinking; Creativity; Divergent thinking; Fitness; Physical exercise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT THINKING; CREATIVITY; DIVERGENT THINKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; TRAINING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889656263     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00824     Document Type: Article

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