To create or to recall? Neural mechanisms underlying the generation of creative new ideas

NeuroImage

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 125-133

  Benedek, Mathias ^a   Jauk, Emanuel ^a   Fink, Andreas ^a   Koschutnig, Karl ^a   Reishofer, Gernot ^b   Ebner, Franz ^b   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Creativity; FMRI; Human cognition; Inferior parietal cortex; Memory retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CREATIVITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; THINKING; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892884554     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.11.021     Document Type: Article

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