Positively valenced stimuli facilitate creative novel metaphoric processes by enhancing medial prefrontal cortical activation

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Subramaniam, Karuna ^a   Beeman, Mark ^b   Faust, Miriam ^c   Mashal, Nira ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Affective valence; Conventional metaphors; Creativity; FMRI; Medial prefrontal cortex; Novel metaphors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994205588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00211     Document Type: Article

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