Creativity and the default network: A functional connectivity analysis of the creative brain at rest

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 64, Issue , 2014, Pages 92-98

  Beaty, Roger E ^a   Benedek, Mathias ^b   Wilkins, Robin W ^a,c   Jauk, Emanuel ^b   Fink, Andreas ^b   Silvia, Paul J ^a   Hodges, Donald A ^a   Koschutnig, Karl ^b   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Creative cognition; Default mode network; Divergent thinking; Inferior frontal gyrus; Resting state functional connectivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REST; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921834296     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.09.019     Document Type: Article

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