Functional role of frontal alpha oscillations in creativity

Cortex

Volumn 67, Issue , 2015, Pages 74-82

  Lustenberger, Caroline ^a   Boyle, Michael R ^a,b   Foulser, A Alban ^c   Mellin, Juliann M ^a   Fröhlich, Flavio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha power; Divergent thinking; Gamma activity; TACS; Torrance test of creative thinking (TTCT); Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS); TTCT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ALTERNATING CURRENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TORRANCE TEST OF CREATIVE THINKING; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS; ADOLESCENT; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THINKING; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; COGNITION; CREATIVITY; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; THINKING; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928155811     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.03.012     Document Type: Article

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