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The study of the brain’s organization of creativity: I. Development of a psychological test

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This article describes an original psychological test on verbal creative work comprising a number of tasks designed to study the organization of creative processes in human brain with the help of positron emission tomography (PET) and electroencephalography (EEG). When approved in a group of 30 healthy volunteers, the test revealed principal cognitive strategies of performing creative tasks which formed the basis for elaborating criteria for selecting subjects for physiological study. Empirical substantiation of the proposed test showed its validity for the use in the psychophysiological investigation of creative work.

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  1. Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Science, ul. Akademika Pavlova 9, 197022, St. Petersburg, Russia

    M. G. Starchenko, V. A. Vorob’ev, V. A. Klyucharev, N. P. Bekhtereva & S. V. Medvedev

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Starchenko, M.G., Vorob’ev, V.A., Klyucharev, V.A. et al. The study of the brain’s organization of creativity: I. Development of a psychological test. Hum Physiol 26, 125–129 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02760081

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