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2 - Homeostasis and the Control of Creative Drive

from Part I - Fundamental Concepts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

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Alice W. Flaherty
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Rex E. Jung  and
Oshin Vartanian
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University of New Mexico
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University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity , pp. 19 - 49
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