Art and dementia: How degeneration of some brain regions can lead to new creative impulses

Neuroscience of Creativity

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 115-132

  Viskontas, Indre V ^a   Miller, Bruce L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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