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6 - Functional Neuroimaging of Psychedelic Experience: An Overview of Psychological and Neural Effects and their Relevance to Research on Creativity, Daydreaming, and Dreaming

from Part II - Pharmacology and Psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

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Kieran C. R. Fox ,
Manesh Girn ,
Cameron C. Parro  and
Kalina Christoff
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Rex E. Jung  and
Oshin Vartanian
Rex E. Jung
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University of New Mexico
Oshin Vartanian
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University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity , pp. 92 - 113
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