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Neural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Creativity
Soghra Akbari Chermahini
Cover design: Adrian Curtin, School of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University
The research presented in this thesis was supported by a post-graduate scholarship (PhD) of the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology to Soghra Akbari Chermahini.
Neural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Creativity
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van
de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden,
op gezag van Rector Magnificus Prof. mr. P.F. van der Heijden, volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties
te verdedigen op dinsdag 25 oktober 2011 klokke 11.15 uur
door
Soghra Akbari Chermahini geboren te Chermahin, Iran
in 1973
Promotor: Prof.dr. B. Hommel
Overige Leden: Dr. L.S. Colzato Prof.dr. E. van Dijk
Prof.dr. C.K.W. de Dreu, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Prof.dr. N.O. Schiller
Contents
Chapter 1 General introduction 7
Chapter 2 Development and validity of a Dutch version of the Remote Associate Task: An Item Response Theory approach.
29
Chapter 3 The (b)link between creativity and dopamine: Spontaneous eye blink rates predict and dissociate divergent and convergent thinking.
51
Chapter 4 More creative through positive mood? Not everyone! 77
Chapter 5 Creative mood swings: Divergent and convergent thinking affect mood in opposite ways.
97
Chapter 6 Cognitive control of convergent and divergent thinking: A control- state approach to human creativity.
113
Chapter 7 Summary and general discussion 155
Nederlandse samenvatting 171
Acknowledgements 173
Curriculum Vitae 174
