Working Memory Capacity, Mind Wandering, and Creative Cognition: An Individual-Differences Investigation into the Benefits of Controlled Versus Spontaneous Thought.

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  2016

• Venue

  Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

• Publication date

  2016-02-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/aca0000046PMID 28458764PMCID PMC5409090
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