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Assessing the Multiple Dimensions of Engagement to Characterize Learning: A Neurophysiological Perspective
Published on: July 1, 2015
Current methodology and methods in psychophysiological studies of creative thinking
N P Bechtereva1, S G Danko, S V Medvedev
1Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul.acad.Pavlova 9, Sankt-Peterburg 197376, Russia. bechtrv@ihb.spb.ru
Abstract:
Important points on methodology and detailed description of methods used in polymodal psychophysiological studies of human verbal creative thinking are presented. The psychophysiological studies were conducted with healthy volunteers during implementations of specially developed and adapted psychological tests aimed to bring the subjects into states of verbal creative thinking. Four different task sets ("story composition", "associative chains", "original definitions", "proverb sense flipping") were developed and applied. Positron emission tomography of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and state-related quantitative electroencephalography (power and coherence evaluated) were used. The effectiveness of the methods is illustrated with figures.
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