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Great work, Clin!

CNCL graduate student Clin Lai recently won a best poster award at the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC) annual conference! Check out the poster here. Congratulations, Clin!

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Congrats Paul!

CNCL graduate student Paul DiStefano has a pre-print out of his first first-author paper, "Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models." Amazing work, Paul! Check out the pre-print here!

New article in Cerebral Cortex

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!

New article in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Hannah Merseal, Dr. Patterson, and Dr. Beaty recently coauthored a new paper in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts titled "Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages." Check out the paper here!

Congrats to Hannah!

CNCL graduate student Hannah Merseal was awarded the Delbert F. and Marie S. Welch Graduate Fellowship from the College of the Liberal Arts for her dissertation work. Nice job, Hannah!

Congratulations to Tingyi!

CNCL research assistant alum Tingyi Zu will be pursuing a Master's in the Interdisciplinary Studies of Human Development program at the University of Pennsylvania this fall. We're so proud of you, Tingyi!

New article in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Hannah Merseal, Simone Luchini, and Dr. Beaty recently coauthored a new paper in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts titled "Free association ability distinguishes highly creative artists from scientists: Findings from the Big-C Project". Check out the...

New article in Nature Reviews Psychology

Dr. Beaty recently coauthored a new perspectives paper in Nature Reviews Psychology titled "The role of memory in creative ideation". Check out the paper here!

New article in Thinking Skills and Creativity

Simone Luchini, Daniel Zeitlen, and Dr. Beaty recently coauthored a new article in Thinking Skills and Creativity titled “Convergent thinking and insight problem solving relate to semantic memory network structure”. Check out the paper here!