Creative brains: Designing in the real world

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 APR, 2014, Pages

  Goel, Vinod ^a,b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architecture; Cognition; Creativity; Drawing; Hemispheric asymmetry; Lesion studies; Neuropsychology; Representations

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE THEORY; CREATIVITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL DISSOCIATION; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS DESIGN; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY;

EID: 84899693018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00241     Document Type: Review

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