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25 - Structural Studies of Creativity Measured by Divergent Thinking

from Part VII - Individual Differences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

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Hikaru Takeuchi  and
Ryuta Kawashima
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. 451 - 463
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Print publication year: 2018

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