CNCL research assistant Lydia Wolf was recently accepted to the Master of Science in Animal Welfare and Behavior program at the University of Pennsylvania. Way to go, Lydia!
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!
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!
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!
CNCL graduate student Dan Zeitlen recently received the STAR (Superior Teaching And Research) award, which recognizes him for his all-around excellence in teaching, research, and service. Well deserved, Dan!