The creative brain: Brain correlates underlying the generation of original ideas

Neuroscience of Creativity

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 207-231

  Fink, Andreas ^a   Benedek, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

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