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19 - Associative and Controlled Cognition in Divergent Thinking: Theoretical, Experimental, Neuroimaging Evidence, and New Directions

from Part V - Cognitive Control and Executive Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

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Emmanuelle Volle
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Rex E. Jung  and
Oshin Vartanian
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University of New Mexico
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University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity , pp. 333 - 360
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