Creativity and talent: Etiology of familial clustering

Neuroscience of Creativity

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 95-111

  De Moor, Marleen H M ^a   Roeling, Mark Patrick ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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