Preprints
DeYoung, C. G., Sassenberg, T. A., Abend, R., Allen, T., Beaty, R., Bellgrove, M., … & Wacker, J. (2022). Reproducible between-person brain-behavior associations do not always require thousands of individuals. PsyArXiv.
DiStefano, P. V., Patterson, J. D., & Beaty, R. (2023). Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models. PsyArXiv.
Gerver, C. R., Griffin, J. W., Dennis, N. A., & Beaty, R. E. (2022). Memory and creativity: A meta-analytic examination of the relationship between memory systems and creative cognition. PsyArXiv.
Hedayati, S., Beaty, R. E., & Wyble, B. (2021). Seeking the building blocks of visual imagery and creativity in a cognitively inspired neural network. arXiv, 2112.06832.
Smith, A. P., Barr, N., Christensen, A. P., Williams, C., Schooler, J., Beaty, R., … & Seli, P. (2022). Back to the basics: Correspondences between creativity measures and creative output (painting). PsyArXiv.
2023 and In Press
Anderson, S., Cameron, C. D., & Beaty, R. E. (2023). Creative Empathy. Creativity Research Journal, 1-23. Advance online publication.
Beaty, R. E., Cortes, R. A., Merseal, H. M.*, Hardiman, M. M., & Green, A. E. (2023). Brain networks supporting scientific creative thinking. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication.
Beaty, R. E. & Kenett, Y. N. (2023). Associative thinking at the core of creativity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Advance online publication.
Beaty, R. E., Kenett, Y. N., Hass, R. W., & Schacter, D. L. (2023). Semantic memory and creativity: The costs and benefits of semantic memory structure in generating original ideas. Thinking & Reasoning, 29(2), 305-339.
Beaty, R. E., Merseal, H. M., & Zeitlen, D. C. (in press). Network neuroscience of domain-general and domain-specific creativity. In L. J. Ball & F. Vallée-Tourangeau (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition. Taylor & Francis.
Bellaiche, L., Smith, A. P., Barr, N., Christensen, A., Williams, C., Ragnhildstveit, A., Schooler, J., Beaty, R., Chatterjee, A., & Seli, P. (2023). Back to the basics: Abstract painting as an index of creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 1-16. Advance online publication.
Benedek, M., Beaty, R. E., Schacter, D. L., & Kenett, Y. N. (in press). The role of memory in creative ideation. Nature Reviews Psychology.
Chan, Y. C., Zeitlen, D. C., & Beaty, R. E. (2023). Amygdala‐frontoparietal effective connectivity in creativity and humor processing. Human Brain Mapping.
Chen, Q., Christensen, A. P., Kenett, Y. N., Ren, Z., Condon, D. M. …& Beaty, R. E. (in press). Mapping the creative personality: A psychometric network analysis of highly creative artists and scientists. Creativity Research Journal.
Cosgrove, A. L., Beaty, R. E., Diaz, M. T., & Kenett, Y. N. (2023). Age differences in semantic network structure: Acquiring knowledge shapes semantic memory. Psychology and Aging.
Duval, P. E., Fornari, E., Décaillet, M., Ledoux, J. B., Beaty, R. E., & Denervaud, S. (2023). Creative thinking and brain network development in schoolchildren. Developmental Science, e13389.
Forthmann, B., Goecke, B.*, & Beaty, R. E. (2023). Planning missing data designs for human ratings in creativity research: A practical guide. Creativity Research Journal.
Forthmann, B., Karwowski, M., & Beaty, R. E. (in press). Don’t throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top-scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Gerver, C. R.*, Griffin, J. W., Dennis, N. A., & Beaty, R. E. (2023). Memory and creativity: A meta-analytic examination of the relationship between memory systems and creative cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-39. Advance online publication.
Kenett, Y. N. & Beaty, R. E. (in press). On semantic structures and processes in creative thinking. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Lloyd-Cox, J. L., Pickering, A. D., Beaty, R. E., & Bhattacharya, J. (in press). Towards greater computational modeling in neurocognitive creativity research. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Luchini, S.*, Kenett, Y. N., Zeitlen, D. C.*, Christensen, A. P., Ellis, D. M., Brewer, G. A., & Beaty, R. E. (2023). Convergent thinking and insight problem solving relate to semantic memory network structure. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 101277.
Matheson, H. E., Kenett, Y. N., Gerver, C.*, & Beaty, R. E. (2023). Representing creative thought: A representational similarity analysis of creative idea generation and evaluation. Neuropsychologia,
Merseal, H. M., Beaty, R. E., Kenett, Y. N., Lloyd-Cox, J., de Manzano, Ö., & Norgaard, M. (2023). Representing melodic relationships using network science. Cognition, 233, 105362.
Merseal, H. M., Luchini, S., Kenett, Y. N., Knudsen, K., Bilder, R. M., & Beaty, R. E. (in press). Free association ability distinguishes highly creative artists from scientists: Findings from the Big C Project. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Patterson, J. D., Barbot, B., Lloyd-Cox, J., & Beaty, R. E. (2022). AuDrA: An automated drawing assessment platform for evaluating creativity. PsyArXiv.
Patterson, J. D.*, Merseal, H. M.*, Johnson, D. R., Agnoli, S., Baas, M., … & Beaty, R. E. (2023). Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Peña, J., Muthalib, M., Beaty, R. E., Sampedro, A., Ibarretxe-Bilbao, N., Zubiaurre-Elorza, L., … & Ojeda, N. (2023). Enhancement of divergent creative thinking after transcranial near-infrared photobiomodulation over the default mode network. Creativity Research Journal, 1-14. Advance online publication.
Rafner, J., Wang, Q. J., Gadjacz, M., Badts, T., Baker, B.*, Bergenholtz, C., … Beaty, R. E., & Sherson, J. (2023). Towards game-based assessment of creative thinking. Creativity Research Journal, 1-20. Advance online publication.
Samuel, G., Stella, M., Beaty, R. E., & Kenett, Y. N. (2023). Predicting openness to experience via a multiplex cognitive network approach. Journal of Research in Personality, 104369.
Yu, Y., Beaty, R., Forthmann, B., Beeman, M., Cruz, J. H., & Johnson, D. R. (in press). A MAD method to assess idea novelty: Improving validity of automatic scoring using maximum associative distance (MAD). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
2022
Beaty, R. E., Kenett, Y. N., Hass, R. W., & Schacter, D. L. (2022). Semantic memory and creativity: the costs and benefits of semantic memory structure in generating original ideas. Thinking & Reasoning, 1-35.
Beaty, R. E., Johnson, D. R., Zeitlen, D. C., & Forthmann, B. (2022). Semantic distance and the Alternate Uses Task: Recommendations for reliable automated assessment of originality. Creativity Research Journal, 34(3), 245-260.
Forthmann, B., Beaty, R. E., & Johnson, D. R. (2022). Semantic spaces are not created equal—How should we weigh them in the sequel? On composites in automated creativity scoring. European Journal of Psychological Assessment.
Frith, E., Gerver, C. R., Benedek, M., Christensen, A. P., & Beaty, R. E. (2022). Neural representations of conceptual fixation during creative imagination. Creativity Research Journal, 34, 106-122.
Johnson, D. R., Kaufman, J. C., Baker, B., Patterson, J. D., Barbot, B., Green, A., van Hell, J., … & Beaty, R. E., (2022). Extracting creativity from narratives using distributional semantic modeling. Behavior Research Methods.
Li, Y., Beaty, R. E., Luchini, S., Dai, D. Y., Xiang, S., Qi, S., … & Hu, W. (2022). Accelerating creativity: Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on the temporal dynamics of divergent thinking. Creativity Research Journal, 1-20.
Lloyd-Cox, J. L., Chen, Q., & Beaty, R. E. (2022). The time course of creativity: Multivariate classification of default and executive network contributions to creative cognition over time. Cortex.
Merseal, H. M., Cortes, R. A., Cotter, K. N., & Beaty, R. E. (2022). Trends in translational creativity research: Introduction to the special issue. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 8(1), 1-5.
van Genugten, R. D., Beaty, R. E., Madore, K. P., & Schacter, D. L. (2022). Does episodic retrieval contribute to creative writing? an exploratory study. Creativity Research Journal, 34(2), 145-158.
Xie, C., Luchini, S., Beaty, R. E., Du, Y., Liu, C., & Li, Y. (2022). Automated Creativity Prediction Using Natural Language Processing and Resting-State Functional Connectivity: An fNIRS Study. Creativity Research Journal, 1-18.
Zeitlen, D. C., Silvia, P. J., Kane, M. J., & Beaty, R. E. (2022). The creative mind in daily life: How cognitive and affective experiences relate to creative thinking and behavior. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
2021
Beaty, R. E. & Johnson, D. R. (2021). Automating creativity assessment with SemDis: An open platform for computing semantic distance. Behavior Research Methods, 53, 757-780.
Beaty, R. E., Zeitlen, D. C., Baker, B. S., & Kenett, Y. N. (2021). Forward Flow and Creative Thought: Assessing Associative Cognition and its Role in Divergent Thinking. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 100859.
Cosgrove, A. L., Kenett, Y. N., Beaty, R. E., & Diaz, M. T. (2021). Quantifying flexibility in thought: The resiliency of semantic networks differs across the lifespan. Cognition, 211, 104631.
Denervaud, S., Christensen, A. P., Kenett, Y., & Beaty, R. E. (2021). Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking. npj Science of Learning, 6(1), 1-7.
Frith, E., Kane, M. J., Welhaf, M. S., Christensen, A. P., Silvia, P. J., & Beaty, R. E. (2021). Keeping creativity under control: Contributions of attention control and fluid intelligence to divergent thinking. Creativity Research Journal, 1-20.
Gross, M. E., Smith, A. P., Graveline, Y. M., Beaty, R. E., Schooler, J. W., & Seli, P. (2021). Comparing the phenomenological qualities of stimulus-independent thought, stimulus-dependent thought and dreams using experience sampling. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1817), 20190694.
Kenett, Y., Baker, B., Hills, T., Hart, Y., & Beaty, R. (2021). Creative foraging: Examining relations between foraging styles, semantic memory structure, and creative thinking. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 43, No. 43).
Li, Y., Kenett, Y. N., Hu, W., & Beaty, R. E. (2021). Flexible semantic network structure supports the production of creative metaphor. Creativity Research Journal, 1-20.
Orwig, W., Diez, I., Bueichekú, E., Vannini, P., Beaty, R., & Sepulcre, J. (2021). Cortical Networks of Creative Ability Trace Gene Expression Profiles of Synaptic Plasticity in the Human Brain. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 423.
Orwig, W., Diez, I., Vannini, P., Beaty, R., & Sepulcre, J. (2021). Creative Connections: Computational Semantic Distance Captures Individual Creativity and Resting-State Functional Connectivity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(3), 499-509.
Ren, Z., Daker, R. J., Shi, L., Sun, J., Beaty, R. E., Wu, X., … & Qiu, J. (2021). Connectome-Based Predictive Modeling of Creativity Anxiety. NeuroImage, 225, 117469.
Seli, P., O’Neill, K., Carriere, J. S., Smilek, D., Beaty, R. E., & Schacter, D. L. (2021). Mind-wandering across the age gap: Age-related differences in mind-wandering are partially attributable to age-related differences in motivation. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(7) 1265-1271.
Silvia, P. J., & Beaty, R. E. (2021). When figurative language goes off the rails and under the bus: Fluid intelligence, openness to experience, and the production of poor metaphors. Journal of Intelligence, 9(1), 2.
Silvia, P. J., Rodriguez, R. M., Beaty, R. E., Frith, E., Kaufman, J. C., Loprinzi, P., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2021). Measuring everyday creativity: A Rasch model analysis of the Biographical Inventory of Creative Behaviors (BICB) scale. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 100797.
van Genugten, R. D., Beaty, R. E., Madore, K. P., & Schacter, D. L. (2021). Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study. Creativity Research Journal, 1-14.
Vergara, V. M., Norgaard, M., Miller, R., Beaty, R. E., Dhakal, K., Dhamala, M., & Calhoun, V. D. (2021). Functional network connectivity during Jazz improvisation. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-12.
Xie, H., Beaty, R. E., Jahanikia, S., Geniesse, C., Sonalkar, N. S., & Saggar, M. (2021). Spontaneous and deliberate modes of creativity: Multitask eigen-connectivity analysis captures latent cognitive modes during creative thinking. BioRxiv, 2020-12.
2020
Beaty, R. E. (2020, January). The Creative Brain. In Cerebrum: The Dana Forum on Brain Science (Vol. 2020). Dana Foundation.
Beaty, R. E., Chen, Q., Christensen, A. P., Kenett, Y. N., Silvia, P. J., Benedek, M., & Schacter, D. L. (2020). Default network contributions to episodic and semantic processing during divergent creative thinking: A representational similarity analysis. NeuroImage, 209, 116499.
Beaty, R. E., & Johnson, D. R. (2020). Automating creativity assessment with SemDis: An open platform for computing semantic distance. Behavior Research Methods.
Beaty, R. E., & Lloyd-Cox (2020). The default network. In Encyclopedia of Creativity. Elsevier.
Benedek, M., Jurisch, J., Koschutnig, K., Fink, A., & Beaty, R. E. (2020). Elements of creative thought: Investigating the cognitive and neural correlates of association and bi-association processes. NeuroImage.
Chen, Q., Beaty, R. E., & Qiu, J. (2020). Mapping the artistic brain: Common and distinct neural activations associated with musical, drawing, and literary creativity. Human Brain Mapping.
Frith, E., Elbich, D., Christensen, A. P., Rosenberg, M. D., Chen, Q., Silvia, P., … & Beaty, R. E. (2020). Intelligence and Creativity Share a Common Cognitive and Neural Basis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Kenett, Y. N., Betzel, R. F., & Beaty, R. E. (2020). Community structure of the creative brain at rest. NeuroImage.
Lloyd-Cox, J., Christensen, A. P., Silvia, P. J., & Beaty, R. E. (2020). Seeing outside the box: Salient associations disrupt visual idea generation. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Shi, L., Beaty, R. E., Chen, Q., Sun, J., Wei, D., Yang, W., & Qiu, J. (2020). Brain entropy is associated with divergent thinking. Cerebral Cortex, 30, 708-717.
Sonalkar, N., Jahanikia, S., Xie, H., Geniesse, C., Ayub, R., Beaty, R. E., & Saggar, M. (2020). Mining the role of design reflection and associated brain dynamics in creativity. In Design Thinking Research (pp. 155-167). Springer, Cham.
2019
Adnan, A., Beaty, R. E., Lam, J., Spreng, R. N., & Turner, G. R. (2019). Intrinsic default – executive coupling of the creative aging brain. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 14, 291-303.
Adnan, A., Beaty, R. E., Silvia, P. J., Spreng, R. N., & Turner, G. R. (2019). Creative aging: functional brain networks associated with divergent thinking in older and younger adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 75, 150-158.
Annerer-Walcher, S., Körner, C., Beaty, R. E., & Benedek, M. (2019). Eye behavior predicts susceptibility to visual distraction during internally directed cognition. PsyArXiv.
Beaty, R. E., Seli, P., & Schacter, D. L. (2019). Thinking about the past and future in daily life: An experience sampling investigation of individual differences in mental time travel. Psychological Research, 83, 805-816.
Beaty, R. E., Seli, P., & Schacter, D. L. (2019). Network neuroscience of creative cognition: mapping cognitive mechanisms and individual differences in the creative brain. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 27, 22-30.
Benedek, M., Christensen, A. P., Fink, A., & Beaty, R. E. (2019). Creativity assessment in neuroscience research. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13, 218.
Chen, Q., Beaty, R. E., Cui, Z., Sun, J., , He, H., Zhuang, K., Ren, Z., Liu, G., & Qiu, J. (2019). Brain hemispheric involvement in visuospatial and verbal divergent thinking. NeuroImage.
Christensen, A. P., Benedek, M., Silvia, P. J., & Beaty, R. E. (2019). Executive and default network connectivity reflects conceptual interference during creative imagery generation. PsyArXiv.
Fox, K. C., & Beaty, R. E. (2019). Mind-wandering as creative thinking: Neural, psychological, and theoretical considerations. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 27, 123-130.
Maillet, D., Beaty, R. E., Kucyi, A., & Schacter, D. L. (2019). Large-scale network interactions involved in dividing attention between the external environment and internal thoughts to pursue two distinct goals. NeuroImage, 197, 49-59.
Saggar, M., Xie, H., Beaty, R. E., Stankov, A. D., Schreier, M., & Reiss, A. L. (2019). Creativity slumps and bumps: Examining the neurobehavioral basis of creativity development during middle childhood. NeuroImage, 196, 94-101.
Seli, P., Beaty, R. E., Marty-Dugas, J., & Smilek, D. (2019). Depression, anxiety, and stress, and the distinction between intentional and unintentional mind wandering. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, & Practice, 6, 163-170.
2018
Beaty, R. E., Chen, Q., Christensen, A. P., Qiu, J., Silvia, P. J., & Schacter, D. L. (2018). Brain networks of the imaginative mind: Dynamic functional connectivity of default and cognitive control networks relates to Openness to Experience. Human Brain Mapping, 39, 811-821.
Beaty, R. E., & Jung, R. E. (2018). Interacting brain networks underlying creative cognition and artistic performance. In K. Fox & K. Christoff (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of spontaneous thought: Mind-wandering, creativity, dreaming, and clinical disorders. New York: Oxford University Press.
Beaty, R. E., Kenett, Y. N., Christensen, A. P., Rosenberg, M. D., Benedek, M…& Silvia, P. J. (2018). Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 1087-1092.
Beaty, R. E., & Schacter, D. L. (2018). Episodic memory and cognitive control: Contributions to creative idea production. In R. Jung & O. Vartanian (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of the neuroscience of creativity (pp. 249-260). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Beaty, R. E., Thakral, P. P., Madore, K. P., Benedek, M., & Schacter, D. L. (2018). Core network contributions to remembering the past, imagining the future, and thinking creatively. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30, 1939-1951.
Benedek, M., Schues, T., Beaty, R. E., Jauk, E., Koschutnig, K., Fink, A., & Neubauer, A. C. (2018). To create or to recall original ideas: Brain processes associated with the imagination of novel object uses. Cortex, 99, 93-102.
Christensen, A. P., Kenett, Y. N., Cotter, K. N., Beaty, R. E., & Silvia, P. J. (2018). Remotely close associations: Openness to experience and semantic memory structure. European Journal of Personality, 32, 480-492.
Christensen, A. P., Silvia, P. J., Nusbaum, E. C., & Beaty, R. E. (2018). Clever people: Intelligence and humor production ability. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 12, 136-143.
Hass, R. W., & Beaty, R. E. (2018). Use or consequences: Probing the cognitive difference between two measures of divergent thinking. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2327.
Kenett, Y. N., Beaty, R. E., & Medaglia, J. D. (2018). A network control theory analysis of preclinical depression. Personality Neuroscience.
Kenett, Y. N., Medaglia, J. D., Beaty, R. E., Chen, Q., Betzel, R. F., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Qiu, J. (2018). Driving the brain towards creativity and intelligence: A network control theory analysis. Neuropsychologia, 118, 79-90.
Maillet, D., Beaty, R. E., Jordano, M. L., Touron, D. R., Silvia, P. J. …& Kane, M. J. (2018). Age-related differences in mind-wandering in daily life. Psychology and Aging, 33, 643-653.
Seli, P., Beaty, R. E., Cheyne, J. A., Smilek, D., Oakman, J., & Schacter, D. L. (2018). How pervasive is mind wandering, really?. Consciousness and Cognition, 66, 74-78.
2017
Beaty, R. E., Christensen, A. P., Benedek, M., Silvia, P. J., & Schacter, D. L. (2017). Creative constraints: Brain activity and network dynamics underlying semantic interference during idea production. NeuroImage, 148, 189-196.
Beaty, R. E., & Schacter, D. L. (2017). Creativity, self-generated thought, and the brain’s default network. In M. Karwowski & J. Kaufman (Eds.), Explorations in creativity research (pp. 171- 183). London: Academic Press.
Beaty, R. E., Silvia, P. J., & Benedek, M. (2017). Brain networks underlying novel metaphor production. Brain and Cognition, 111, 163-170.
Madore, K. P., Thakral, P. P., Beaty, R. E., Addis, D. R., & Schacter, D. L. (2017). Neural mechanisms of episodic retrieval support divergent creative thinking. Cerebral Cortex, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhx312.
Nusbaum, E. C., Silvia, P. J., & Beaty, R. E. (2017). Ha ha? Assessing individual differences in humor production ability. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 11, 231-241.
Oleynick, V. C., DeYoung, C. G., Hyde, E., Kaufman, S. B., Beaty, R. E., & Silvia, P. J. (2017). Openness/Intellect: The core of the creative personality. In G. J. Feist, R. Reiter-Palmon, & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of creativity and personality research (pp. 9-27). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Silvia, P. J., Nusbaum, E. C., & Beaty, R. E. (2017). Old or new? Evaluating the old/new scoring method for divergent thinking tasks. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 51, 216-224.
Vartanian, O., Vartanian, A., Beaty, R. E., Nusbaum, E. C., Blackler, K., Lam, Q., … & Silvia, P. J. (2017). Revered today, loved tomorrow: Expert creativity ratings predict popularity of architects’ works 50 years later. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 11, 386-391.
Zhu, W., Chen, Q., Xia, L., Beaty, R. E., Yang, W., Tian, F., … & Qiu, J. (2017). Common and distinct brain networks underlying verbal and visual creativity. Human Brain Mapping, 38, 2094-2111.
2016
Beaty, R. E., Benedek, M., Silvia, P. J., & Schacter, D. L. (2016). Creative cognition and brain network dynamics. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 87-95.
Beaty, R. E., Kaufman, S. B., Benedek, M., Jung, R. E., Kenett, Y. N., Jauk, E…& Silvia, P. J. (2016). Personality and complex brain networks: The role of openness to experience in default network efficiency. Human Brain Mapping, 37, 773-779.
Benedek, M., Jauk, E., Beaty, R. E., Fink, A., Koschutnig, K., & Neubauer, A. C. (2016). Brain mechanisms associated with internally directed attention and self-generated thought. Scientific Reports, 6, 22959.
Chen, Q., Beaty, R. E., Wei, D., Yang, J., Sun, J., Liu, W., Yang, W., Zhang, Q. & Qiu, J. (2016). Longitudinal alterations of frontoparietal and frontotemporal networks predict future creative cognitive ability. Cerebral Cortex, 28, 103-115.
Kenett, Y. N., Beaty, R. E., Silvia, P. J., Anaki, D., & Faust, M. (2016). Structure and flexibility: Investigating the relation between the structure of the mental lexicon, fluid intelligence, and creative achievement. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 10, 377.
Silvia, P. J., Thomas, K. S., Nusbaum, E. C., Beaty, R. E., & Hodges, D. A. (2016). How does music training predict cognitive abilities? A bifactor approach to musical expertise and intelligence. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 10, 184-190.
Thomas, K. S., Silvia, P. J., Nusbaum, E. C., Beaty, R. E., & Hodges, D. A. (2016). Openness to experience and auditory discrimination ability in music: An investment approach. Psychology of Music, 44, 792-801.
2015
Beaty, R. E. (2015). The neuroscience of musical improvisation. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 51, 108-117.
Beaty, R. E., Benedek, M., Kaufman, S. B., & Silvia, P. J. (2015). Default and executive network coupling supports creative idea production. Scientific Reports, 5, 10964.
Chen, Q., Xu, T., Yang, W., Li, Y., Zhou, J., Wang, K., Beaty, R. E……. & Qiu, J. (2015). Individual differences in verbal creative thinking are reflected in the precuneus. Neuropsychologia, 75, 441-449.
Nusbaum, E. C., Silvia, P. J., Beaty, R. E., Burgin, C. J., & Kwapil, T. R. (2015). Turn that racket down! Physical anhedonia and diminished pleasure from music. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 33, 228- 243.
Silvia, P. J., Fayn, K., Nusbaum, E. C., & Beaty, R. E. (2015). Openness to experience and awe in response to nature and music: Personality and profound aesthetic experiences. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 9, 376-384.
2014
Beaty, R. E., Benedek, M., Wilkins, R. W., Jauk, E., Fink, A., Silvia, P. J…& Neubauer, A. C. (2014). Creativity and the default network: A functional connectivity analysis of the creative brain at rest. Neuropsychologia, 64, 92-98.
Beaty, R. E., Nusbaum, E. C., & Silvia, P. J. (2014). Does insight problem solving predict real-world creativity? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 8, 287-292.
Beaty, R. E., Silvia, P. J., Jauk, E., & Benedek, M. (2014). The roles of associative and executive processes in creative cognition. Memory & Cognition, 42, 1186-1197.
Benedek, M.*, Beaty, R. E.*, Jauk, E., Koschutnig, K., Fink, A., Silvia, P. J…& Neubauer, A. C. (2014). Creating metaphors: The neural basis of figurative language production. NeuroImage, 90, 99-106. *Authors contributed equally.
Nusbaum, E. C., Beaty, R. E., & Silvia, P. J. (2014). Ruminating about mental illness and creativity. In J. C. Kaufman (Ed.), Mental illness and creativity (pp. 395-402). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Nusbaum, E. C., Silvia, P. J., & Beaty, R. E. (2014). Ready, set, create: What instructing people to “be creative” reveals about the meaning and mechanisms of divergent thinking. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 8, 423-432.
Nusbaum, E. C., Silvia, P. J., Beaty, R. E., Burgin, C. J., Hodges, D. A., & Kwapil, T. R. (2014). Listening between the notes: Aesthetic chills in everyday music listening. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 8, 104-109.
Silvia, P. J., Beaty, R. E., Nusbaum, E. C., Eddington, K. M, Levin-Aspenson, H., & Kwapil, T. R. (2014). Everyday creativity in daily life: An experience-sampling study of “little c” creativity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 8, 183-188.
Silvia, P. J., Beaty, R. E., Nusbaum, E. C., Eddington, K. M, & Kwapil, T. R. (2014). Creative motivation: Creative achievement predicts cardiac autonomic markers of effort during divergent thinking. Biological Psychology, 102, 30-37.
Silvia, P. J., Nusbaum, E. C., & Beaty, R. E. (2014). Blessed are the meek? Honesty–Humility, Agreeableness, and the HEXACO structure of religious beliefs, motives, and values. Personality and Individual Differences, 66, 19-23.
Silvia, P. J., Nusbaum, E. C., Eddington, K. M., Beaty, R. E., & Kwapil, T. R. (2014). Effort deficits and depression: The influence of anhedonic depressive symptoms on cardiac autonomic activity during a mental challenge. Motivation and Emotion, 38, 779-789.
2013
Beaty, R. E., Burgin, C. J., Nusbaum, E. C., Kwapil, T. R., Hodges, D. A., & Silvia, P. J. (2013). Music to the inner ears: Exploring individual differences in musical imagery. Consciousness and Cognition, 22, 1163-1173.
Beaty, R. E., & Silvia, P.J. (2013). Metaphorically speaking: Cognitive abilities and the production of figurative language. Memory & Cognition, 41, 255-267.
Beaty, R. E., Silvia, P. J., Nusbaum, E. C., & Vartanian, O. (2013). Tired minds, tired ideas? Exploring insomnia and creativity. Thinking Skills & Creativity, 9, 69-75.
Beaty, R. E., Smeekens, B. A., Silvia, P. J., Hodges, D. A., & Kane, M. J. (2013). A first look at the role of domain-general cognitive and creative abilities in jazz improvisation. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 23, 262-268.
Silvia, P. J., Beaty, R. E., & Nusbaum, E. C. (2013). Verbal fluency and creativity: Higher-order and lower-order contributions of Broad Retrieval Ability (Gr) to divergent thinking. Intelligence, 41, 323-340.
Silvia, P. J., Eddington, K. M., Beaty, R. E., Nusbaum, E. C., & Kwapil, T. R. (2013). Gritty people try harder: Grit and effort-related cardiac autonomic activity during an active coping challenge. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 88, 200-205.
2012
Beaty, R. E. & Silvia, P. J. (2012). Why do ideas get more creative across time? An executive interpretation of the serial order effect in divergent thinking tasks. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 6, 309-319.
Silvia, P. J. & Beaty, R. E. (2012). Making creative metaphors: The importance of fluid intelligence for creative thought. Intelligence, 40, 343-351.