Revisiting mednick's model on creativity-related differences in associative hierarchies. Evidence for a common path to uncommon thought

Journal of Creative Behavior

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 273-289

  Benedek, Mathias ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

attention; cognition; creativity; executive functions; memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892836868     PISSN: 00220175     EISSN: 21626057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jocb.35     Document Type: Article

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