A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on divergent thinking using activation likelihood estimation

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2703-2718

  Wu, Xin ^a,b,c   Yang, Wenjing ^a,b   Tong, Dandan ^a,b   Sun, Jiangzhou ^a,b   Chen, Qunlin ^a,b   Wei, Dongtao ^a,b   Zhang, Qinglin ^a,b   Zhang, Meng ^a,b,d   Qiu, Jiang ^a,b  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c HEZE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d XINXIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Activation likelihood estimation; Creativity; Divergent thinking; MRI studies

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DIVERGENT THINKING; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LONG TERM MEMORY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THINKING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CREATIVITY; META ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CREATIVITY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84931955624     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22801     Document Type: Article

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