Creativity and the Stroop interference effect

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 38-42

  Edl, Susanne ^a   Benedek, Mathias ^a   Papousek, Ilona ^a   Weiss, Elisabeth M ^a   Fink, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Creativity; Designer; Divergent thinking; Stroop

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901816863     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.05.009     Document Type: Article

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