The structure of creative cognition in the human brain

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Jung, Rex E ^a   Mead, Brittany S ^a   Carrasco, Jessica ^a   Flores, Ranee A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ANGULAR GYRUS; AROUSAL; ART; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); CREATIVITY; CUNEUS; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INTELLIGENCE; INTROSPECTION; INTUITION; LINGUAL GYRUS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MESENCEPHALON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RETICULAR FORMATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 84933673245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00330     Document Type: Article

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