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CNCL Grad Student Successfully Defends Dissertation

CNCL alum Dr. Hannah Merseal recently defended her Ph.D.! Dr. Merseal will next work as a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Anjan Chatterjee’s lab, the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics. We are so proud, Hannah!

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CNCL Grad Students Awarded at Psychology Department Reception

May 7, 2025

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...

CNCL Grad Student Wins Teaching Award

Apr 14, 2025

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!

New Paper in Cerebral Cortex

Apr 9, 2025

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!

Dr. Beaty Gives a Keynote at Penn State

Apr 7, 2025

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!

New Articles in PACA

Mar 24, 2025

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...

CNCL Grad Student Wins Dissertation Award

Mar 24, 2025

Congratulations to Paul DiStefano for winning the Dissertation Award from the Center for Language Science! This award helps support doctoral dissertation research. Way to go Paul!

New Article in Communications Biology

Jan 22, 2025

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!

CNCL Grad Student Wins the Frank X. Barron Award

Jan 15, 2025

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!

New Article in Thinking Skills and Creativity

Dec 11, 2024

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!