Neural Correlates of Creativity in Analogical Reasoning.
Brain-based evidence has implicated the frontal pole of the brain as important for analogical mapping. Separately, cognitive research has identified semantic distance as a key determinant of the creativity of analogical mapping (i.e., more distant analogies are generally more creative). Here, we use...
| Published in: | Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory & Cognition Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 264 - 273 |
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American Psychological Association
Mar2012
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