Training of verbal creativity modulates brain activity in regions associated with language- and memory-related demands

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4104-4115

  Fink, Andreas ^a   Benedek, Mathias ^a   Koschutnig, Karl ^a   Pirker, Eva ^a   Berger, Elisabeth ^a   Meister, Sabrina ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a   Papousek, Ilona ^a   Weiss, Elisabeth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Divergent thinking; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Inferior parietal cortex; Middle temporal gyrus; Training; Verbal creativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CALCARINE SULCUS; COGNITION; CREATIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL CORTEX; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942288050     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22901     Document Type: Article

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