Right temporal alpha oscillations as a neural mechanism for inhibiting obvious associations [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]

Creative cognition requires mental exploration of remotely connected concepts while suppressing dominant ones. Across four experiments using different samples of participants, we provide evidence that right temporal alpha oscillations play a crucial role in inhibiting habitual thinking modes, thereby paving the way for accessing more remote ideas. In the first...

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