The neural coding of creative idea generation across adolescence and early adulthood

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Kleibeuker, Sietske W ^a   Koolschijn, P Cédric M P ^a,b   Jolles, Dietsje D ^a   de Dreu, Carsten K W ^b   Crone, Eveline A ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Creative cognition; Divergent thinking; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL CODE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84892582057     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00905     Document Type: Article

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