Frontopolar activity and connectivity support dynamic conscious augmentation of creative state

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 923-934

  Green, Adam E ^a   Cohen, Michael S ^b   Raab, Hillary A ^a   Yedibalian, Christopher G ^a   Gray, Jeremy R ^c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Frontopolar cortex; Semantic distance; State creativity; Verb generation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CLAUSTRUM; CONNECTOME; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; CUNEUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTOPOLAR CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; KERNEL METHOD; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; INDIVIDUALITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922922183     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22676     Document Type: Article

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