Dr. Beaty recently gave a virtual talk titled “Making connections: Creativity, learning, and associative thinking” at the University of Virginia’s cognitive psychology colloquium!
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 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!
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...
Congratulations to Clin Lai for winning a travel award for this years Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity conference! Good job Clin!
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!
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. 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...