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18 - Creativity and Cognitive Control in the Cognitive and Affective Domains

from Part V - Cognitive Control and Executive Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

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Andreas Fink ,
Corinna Perchtold  and
Christian Rominger
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Rex E. Jung  and
Oshin Vartanian
Rex E. Jung
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University of New Mexico
Oshin Vartanian
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University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity , pp. 318 - 332
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