Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of Freestyle Rap

The neural correlates of creativity are poorly understood. Freestyle rap provides a unique opportunity to study spontaneous lyrical improvisation, a multidimensional form of creativity at the interface of music and language. Here we use functional magnetic resonance imaging to characterize this proc...

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Main Authors: Liu, Siyuan, Chow, Ho Ming, Xu, Yisheng, Erkkinen, Michael G., Swett, Katherine E., Eagle, Michael W., Rizik-Baer, Daniel A., Braun, Allen R.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498928/