Individual differences in verbal creative thinking are reflected in the precuneus

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 75, Issue , 2015, Pages 441-449

  Chen, Qun Lin ^a,b   Xu, Ting ^c,d   Yang, Wen Jing ^a,b   Li, Ya Dan ^a,b   Sun, Jiang Zhou ^a,b   Wang, Kang Cheng ^a,b   Beaty, Roger E ^e   Zhang, Qing Lin ^a,b   Zuo, Xi Nian ^b,d   Qiu, Jiang ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHILD MIND INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical morphology; Local functional homogeneity; Precuneus; Verbal creativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); CREATIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEFT SUPERIOR OCCIPITAL GYRUS; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PERCEPTION; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INDIVIDUALITY; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CREATIVITY; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84936884454     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.07.001     Document Type: Article

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