Creativity and working memory capacity in sports: Working memory capacity is not a limiting factor in creative decision making amongst skilled performers

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Furley, Philip ^a   Memmert, Daniel ^a  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convergent thinking; Creativity; Divergent thinking; Experience; Soccer; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926486654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00115     Document Type: Article

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