Pictionary-based fMRI paradigm to study the neural correlates of spontaneous improvisation and figural creativity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Saggar, Manish ^a   Quintin, Eve Marie ^a   Kienitz, Eliza ^a,b   Bott, Nicholas T ^a,b   Sun, Zhaochun ^a,f   Hong, Wei Chen ^c   Chien, Yin Hsuan ^a,d   Liu, Ning ^a   Dougherty, Robert F ^b   Royalty, Adam ^e   Hawthorne, Grace ^e   Reiss, Allan L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e Stanford University   (United States)

^f GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CREATIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84930656728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10894     Document Type: Article

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