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    "pk": 29190,
    "title": "Examining Prefrontal Cortex Contributions to Creative Problem Solving WithNoninvasive Electric Brain Stimulation",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Cognitive neuroscience studies of creativity typically employ divergent thinking tasks that prioritize bottom-up processesto generate novel responses. However, real-world creative problem solving is guided by top-down thinking that puts anemphasis on the goal to be achieved. Here, we introduce the Alternative Objects Task (AOT)a novel task that incorpo-rates both bottom-up and down-down thought during problem solving. Guided by functional neuroimaging findings, weemployed transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over frontopolar cortex to investigate causally the impact of tran-sient changes in activity in this region for problem solving performance on the AOT. Participants were presented with aseries of goals and generated either a common or an uncommon object that could satisfy each, while undergoing eitherexcitatory (anodal) or sham tDCS. Analyses of accuracy, reaction times, and semantic distance highlight the importanceof goal-orientation during creative problem solving and its reliance on prefrontal cortex.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "text": null,
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Kent",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hubert",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Drexel University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Evangelia",
            "middle_name": "G.",
            "last_name": "Chrysikou",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Drexel University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T13:00:00-05:00",
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