Prior Meditation Practice Modulates Performance and Strategy Use in Convergent- and Divergent-Thinking Problems

Mindfulness

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 10-16

  Colzato, Lorenza S ^a   Szapora, Ayca ^a   Lippelt, Dominique ^a   Hommel, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Convergent thinking; Creativity; Divergent thinking; Focused attention; Open monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009751117     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-014-0352-9     Document Type: Article

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