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ERIC Number: EJ874799
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Apr
Pages: 7
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ISSN: ISSN-0278-2626
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Hemispheric Specialization and Creative Thinking: A Meta-Analytic Review of Lateralization of Creativity
Mihov, Konstantin M.; Denzler, Markus; Forster, Jens
Brain and Cognition, v72 n3 p442-448 Apr 2010
In the last two decades research on the neurophysiological processes of creativity has found contradicting results. Whereas most research suggests right hemisphere dominance in creative thinking, left-hemisphere dominance has also been reported. The present research is a meta-analytic review of the literature to establish how creative thinking relates to relative hemispheric dominance. The analysis was performed on the basis of a non-parametric vote-counting approach and effect-size calculations of Cramer's phi suggest relative dominance of the right hemisphere during creative thinking. Moderator analyses revealed no difference in predominant right-hemispheric activation for verbal vs. figural tasks, holistic vs. analytical tasks, and context-dependent vs. context-independent tasks. Suggestions for further investigations with the meta-analytic and neuroscience methodologies to answer the questions of left hemispheric activation and further moderation of the effects are discussed. (Contains 1 table.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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