The Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity Laboratory (CNCL) at Penn State University studies the psychology and neuroscience of creative thinking.
Our lab uses a combination of behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational approaches to investigate the mechanisms underlying human creativity. We create open-access tools for evaluating creative thinking and examine creativity across diverse domains, such as music, science, and education.
Lab News
CNCL Grad Student Wins STEM Fellowship
Congratulations to Simone Luchini for being awarded the Chateaubriand Fellowship in STEM! This fellowship aims to reinforce collaboration partnership or joint projects between French and American research teams. Simone will be using this to work with Emmanuelle Volle at the Paris Brain Institute. Great job Simone!
CNCL Grad Students Awarded at Psychology Department Reception
Congratulations to Clin Lai and Dan Zeitlen on being recognized for their hard work at the Psychology department’s end of year reception! Clin was awarded the Matthew Ryan Serafino Graduate Scholarship and Dan was awarded Outstanding Teaching by a Psychology Graduate Student.
CNCL Grad Student Wins Teaching Award
Congratulations to Dan Zeitlen for winning the Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award! The award recognizes Dan’s impact and hard work in teaching and mentoring. Great job Dan!
Dr. Beaty Gives a Keynote at Penn State
Dr. Beaty recently gave a keynote speech titled “Beyond Generation: Language Models as Creativity Evaluators” at the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning at Penn State University!
CNCL Grad Student wins SfNC Travel Award
Congratulations to Clin Lai for winning a travel award for this years Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity conference! Good job Clin!
New Papers
New Paper in Cerebral Cortex
CNCL grad student Simone Luchini recently published a new paper in Cerebral Cortex titled “Enhancing creativity with covert neurofeedback: causal evidence for default-executive network coupling in creative thinking”. Check out the paper here!
New Articles in PACA
CNCL grad student Simone Luchini recently published 2 new papers in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts titled “Automated scoring of creative problem solving with large language models: A comparison of originality and quality ratings” and “Automated assessment of creativity in multilingual narratives”. Check out both papers here and here!
New Article in Communications Biology
Former postdoc Dr. Qunlin Chen, Dan Zeitlen, and Dr. Beaty recently published a new paper in Communication Biology titled “Dynamic switching between brain networks predicts creative ability”. Check out the paper here!
New Article in Thinking Skills and Creativity
Paul DiStefano, Dr. Patterson, and Dr. Beaty recently coauthored a new paper in Thinking Skills and Creativity titled “Evaluating Overinclusive Thinking: Development and Validation of the Categorical Overinclusive Thinking Task (COverTT)”. Check out the paper here!
New preprint on ArXiv
Dr. Laverghetta, Simone Luchini, and Dr. Beaty recently put up a preprint on ArXiv titled “The creative psychometric item generator: a framework for item generation and validation using large language models”. Check out the paper here!