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Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Translated from Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal imeni I. M. Sechenova, Vol. 81, No. 11, November, 1995, pp. 1–9.

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Simonov, P.V. Neurobiological basis of creativity. Neurosci Behav Physiol 27, 585–591 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02463907

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