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Dr. Beaty Gives a Talk at Princeton University

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 to music.

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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!

Dr. Beaty Gives a Talk at University of Virginia

Nov 4, 2024

Dr. Beaty recently gave a virtual talk titled “Making connections: Creativity, learning, and associative thinking” at the University of Virginia’s cognitive psychology colloquium!

New preprint on ArXiv

Oct 24, 2024

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!

New Postdoc Joins CNCL

Sep 20, 2024

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 Gives Talks in Germany and Italy

Sep 18, 2024

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!