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...

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Published in:	Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory & Cognition Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 264 - 273
Main Authors:	Green, Adam E., Fugelsang, Jonathan A., Dunbar, Kevin N., Kraemer, David J. M., Gray, Jeremy R.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association Mar2012
Subjects:	Cognition research Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain Brain function localization Brain mapping Analogy
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