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23 - Intelligence and Creativity from the Neuroscience Perspective

from Part VI - Reasoning and Intelligence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

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Emanuel Jauk
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Rex E. Jung  and
Oshin Vartanian
Rex E. Jung
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University of New Mexico
Oshin Vartanian
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity , pp. 421 - 434
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Print publication year: 2018

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