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Executive Control In Creativity

Executive Control in Creativity is a cognitive mechanism that regulates and coordinates mental processes to facilitate the generation and evaluation of novel and adaptive ideas by selectively managing attention, inhibiting dominant responses, and maintaining task-relevant information during divergent thinking.

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502

Authors

255

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2017–2026

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169

The cognitive neuroscience of creativity

Arne Dietrich · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 2004 · 831 citations · Full text

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Intelligence, creativity, and cognitive control: The common and differential involvement of executive functions in intelligence and creativity

Mathias Benedek, Emanuel Jauk, Markus Sommer et al. · Intelligence · 2014 · 725 citations · Full text

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Divergent thinking: Strategies and executive involvement in generating novel uses for familiar objects

K. J. Gilhooly, Evie Fioratou, Susan Anthony et al. · British Journal of Psychology · 2007 · 648 citations

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Are intelligence and creativity really so different?☆Fluid intelligence, executive processes, and strategy use in divergent thinking

Emily C. Nusbaum, Paul J. Silvia · Intelligence · 2010 · 633 citations · Full text

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Why do ideas get more creative across time? An executive interpretation of the serial order effect in divergent thinking tasks.

Roger E. Beaty, Paul J. Silvia · Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts · 2012 · 545 citations · Full text

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Authors

502

  1. MB
    Mathias Benedek

    University of Graz, Austria

    17 publications · 3.8K citations

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  2. RE
    Roger E. Beaty

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    16 publications · 2.8K citations

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  3. AF
    Andréas Fink

    University of Graz, Austria

    11 publications · 2K citations

    11

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  4. PJ
    Paul J. Silvia

    University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States

    10 publications · 2.6K citations

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  5. QC
    Qunlin Chen

    Southwest University, China

    9 publications · 523 citations

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Institutions

255

  1. University of Graz

    Graz, Austria

    20 h-index

    73 publications

    15.9K citations

  2. University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    Greensboro, United States

    10 h-index

    23 publications

    6.3K citations

  3. Southwest University

    Chongqing, China

    10 h-index

    54 publications

    2.2K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    1.2K citations

  5. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    766 citations

  6. Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

    Beijing, China

    6 h-index

    46 publications

    1.8K citations

  7. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    6 h-index

    29 publications

    2.2K citations

  8. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    5 h-index

    11 publications

    1.5K citations

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Venues

  1. Neuropsychologia

    12 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

    11 publications · 1.5K citations

    11

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  3. Creativity Research Journal

    11 publications · 917 citations

    11

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  4. NeuroImage

    9 publications · 1.7K citations

    9

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  5. Thinking Skills and Creativity

    7 publications · 343 citations

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