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1 - Creative Ideas and the Creative Process: Good News and Bad News for the Neuroscience of Creativity

from Part I - Fundamental Concepts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

By
Dean Keith Simonton
Edited by
Rex E. Jung  and
Oshin Vartanian
Rex E. Jung
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
Oshin Vartanian
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity , pp. 9 - 18
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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