Dan Zeitlen and Dr. Beaty recently coauthored a new paper in Cerebral Cortex titled “Diverse functional interaction driven by control-default network hubs supports creative thinking” Check out the paper here!
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!
Congratulations to Simone Luchini for winning the Frank X. Barron award for this year's Division 10 awards! This award recognizes superior contribution to the psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts. Way to go Simone!
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!
Dr. Beaty recently gave a virtual talk titled “Making connections: Creativity, learning, and associative thinking” at the University of Virginia’s cognitive psychology colloquium!
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!
Dr. Beaty recently presented on creativity and associative thinking at the Music-Evoked Imaginings Workshop at Princeton University! The workshop focused on new insights into the psychology of the imagination considering the case of daydreams sustained while listening...
Simon Ceh recently joined the lab as a Fulbright postdoctoral researcher from Austria. He was one of five people in all of Austria to have received this fellowship. Welcome to the lab, Simon!
Dr. Beaty recently gave a talk on bridging fields in creativity research at the Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Study in Germany and a keynote address on using AI to assess and enhance human creativity at the 2024 Marconi Institute for Creativity in Italy!
Congratulations to former CNCL RA Shuyao Wang, who recently started as a research assistant for Dr. Leah Somerville's lab at Harvard University, the Affective Neuroscience and Development Laboratory. Great job, Shuyao!
Clin Lai and Dr. Beaty recently coauthored a new paper in Thinking Skills and Creativity titled “Fostering creativity in science education reshapes semantic memory". Check out the paper here!