Association of creative achievement with cognitive flexibility by a combined voxel-based morphometry and resting-state functional connectivity study

NeuroImage

Volumn 102, Issue P2, 2014, Pages 474-483

  Chen, Qunlin ^a,b   Yang, Wenjing ^a,b   Li, Wenfu ^a,b   Wei, Dongtao ^a,b   Li, Haijiang ^a,b   Lei, Qiao ^a,b   Zhang, Qinglin ^a,b   Qiu, Jiang ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cognitive flexibility; Creative achievement; DACC mSFG connectivity; Gray matter volume

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRAY MATTER; GRAY MATTER VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LEFT ORBITOFRONTAL INSULA; MALE; MEDIAL SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESTING STATE NETWORK; RIGHT MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; SCORING SYSTEM; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; VENTRAL MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REST; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROANATOMY; RESTING STATE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY STUDY; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906772813     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.08.008     Document Type: Article

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