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Study: Individual Personal Ties Strengthen Teams’ Overall Creativity

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 05, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With more employees working in teams, it’s critical for companies to find ways to enable these teams be more creative in their work.





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Individual personal ties strengthen teams' overall creativity

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 07, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

With more employees working in teams, it is critical to find ways to enable teams to be more creative in their work. A new article in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal explores how imagination, insight, and creative ideas ...


Let me sleep on it: Creative problem solving enhanced by REM sleep

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Research led by a leading expert on the positive benefits of napping at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine suggests that Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep enhances creative problem-solving. The findings ...


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Google Books to add Creative Commons books

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created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Google Inc. is now enabling authors and publishers who release their work under Creative Commons licenses to distribute it through Google Books, a free service that allows users to search and read ...


Scientist postulates 4 aspects of 'humaniqueness' differentiating human and animal cognition

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created Feb 17, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (36) | comments 6

Shedding new light on the great cognitive rift between humans and animals, a Harvard University scientist has synthesized four key differences in human and animal cognition into a hypothesis on what exactly differentiates ...


Color boosts brain performance and receptivity to advertising, depending on task

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A new University of British Columbia study reconciles a debate that has long raged among marketers and psychologists: What colour most improves brain performance and receptivity to advertising, red or blue?


Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (93) | comments 12

Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us. Vanderbilt University psychologists have found that professionally ...


Impaired kidney function linked to cognitive decline in elderly

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study published in the medical journal Neurology suggests that impaired kidney function is a risk factor for cognitive decline in old age.


Moderate pay best for job performance, study suggests

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created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Employers hoping to get the best out of employees with huge performance contingent payments may actually be helping them to do worse, suggests a new paper published by a team of researchers in behavioral ...


Researchers find phone assessment effective for evaluating cognition in the elderly

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cognitive testing by telephone in elderly individuals is generally as effective as in-person testing, according to a new study by Effie M. Mitsis, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and ...


Mad genius: Study suggests link between psychosis and creativity

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 10

Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. Sylvia Plath stuck her head in the oven. History teems with examples of great artists acting in very peculiar ways. Were these artists simply mad or brilliant? According to new research reported ...



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