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17 - The Costs and Benefits of Cognitive Control for Creativity

from Part V - Cognitive Control and Executive Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

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Evangelia G. Chrysikou
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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. 299 - 317
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