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Best Article Award from Psychonomic Society

Dr. Beaty and Dr. Dan Johnson (Washington & Lee University) received the 2021 Best Article Award from the Psychonomic Society for their article “Automating creativity assessment with SemDis: An open platform for computing semantic distance”.  Congratulations!

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Dr. Beaty Featured on NPR’s “Where We Live”

Jul 25, 2025

Dr. Beaty recently appeared as a guest on NPR’s Where We Live to discuss the science of creativity! The conversation explored how AI is changing the way we understand human creativity. You can listen to the full episode here!

New Paper in Science of Learning

Jul 2, 2025

CNCL grad student Simone Luchini recently published a new paper in Science of Learning titled “Creativity supports learning through associative thinking”. Check out the paper here!

New Paper in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Jun 27, 2025

CNCL grad student Simone Luchini recently published a new paper in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences titled “The Role of the Default Mode Network in Creativity”. Check out the paper here!

CAP Up For Preprint

Jun 27, 2025

Dr. Patterson, Jimmy Pronchick, and Dr. Beaty put up a new paper for preprint titled “CAP: The Creativity Assessment Platform for Online Testing and Automated Scoring”. Check out the paper here!

CNCL Grad Student Wins STEM Fellowship

Jun 4, 2025

Congratulations to Simone Luchini for being awarded the Chateaubriand Fellowship in STEM! This fellowship aims to reinforce collaboration partnership or joint projects between French and American research teams. Simone will be using this to work with Emmanuelle Volle...

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...