The interplay between spontaneous and controlled processing in creative cognition

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Mok, Leh Woon ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angular gyrus; Creativity; Default mode network; Deliberate control; Lateral posterior parietal cortex; Multiple demand network; Prefrontal cortex; Spontaneous cognition

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED PROCESSING; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); CREATIVE COGNITION; CREATIVITY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPONTANEOUS PROCESSING;

EID: 84921859381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00663     Document Type: Article

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