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22 - Training to be Creative: The Interplay between Cognition, Skill Learning, and Motivation

from Part VI - Reasoning and Intelligence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

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Indre V. Viskontas
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. 405 - 420
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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