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Part III - Attention and Imagination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

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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. 159 - 230
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