Professional training in creative writing is associated with enhanced fronto-striatal activity in a literary text continuation task

NeuroImage

Volumn 100, Issue , 2014, Pages 15-23

  Erhard, K ^a   Kessler, F ^b   Neumann, N ^a   Ortheil, H J ^b   Lotze, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAINSTORMING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; CUNEUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERT WRITER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INEXPERIENCED WRITER; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LITERARY TEXT CONTINUATION TASK; MALE; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SUPERIOR MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL GYRUS; THALAMUS; VERBAL CREATIVITY; WRITING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903899783     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.05.076     Document Type: Article

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