Anna Abraham, PhD

Reader in Psychology

School of Social Sciences
Leeds Beckett University, UK

Email: annaabr[@]gmail.com        Twitter: @_imaginatrix        Leeds Beckett Uni: MCI Lab

Research Expertise:        Creativity, Imagination, Reality-Fiction Distinction, Mental Time Travel, Theory of Mind, Self-Referential Thought
Domains/Disciplines:     Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, Clinical Neuroscience, Social Neuroscience

WHAT'S NEW?   

Nov 2016:  New article - The Imaginative Mind - to be published in Human Brain Mapping.

Sep 2016:  Brief interview with the Naked Scientists on Where Do New Ideas Come From? (audio/transcript) for their BBC radio podcast on the
                   Science of Animation.

Aug 2016:  Present a talk - The Brain Basis of Creative Conceptual Expansion - at the Neuroscience of Creativity symposium in the
                   APA Annual Convention in Denver, Colorado (Chair: Darya Zabelina |Other Presenters: Adam Green, Darya Zabelina, Roger Beaty).

Jul 2016:    Present a talk -  Imagination in relation to memory and beyond  - at the ICOM 2016 (International Conference on Memory) in
                   Budapest, Hungary.

Jun 2016:   Conduct a workshop - The Science of Creativity - ENCODS 2016 (European Neuroscience Conference for Doctoral Students), 
                    Helsingør, Denmark.

Jun 2016:   Chair the Creativity: A Multidimensional Approach conference to foster cross-disciplinary collaborations. Organized within
                    the Cognition & Behaviour Programme of the Centre for Applied Social Research (CeASR), Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Jun 2016:   New book chapter accepted - The Forest versus the Trees: Creativity, Cognition and Imagination. In R. E. Jung & O. Vartanian (Eds.)
                    Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity. Cambridge University Press.

May 2016:  New article - Commentary on “Creativity and memory: Effects of an episodic-specificity induction on divergent thinking”
                    (Madore, Addis & Schacter, 2015) - Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition.

May 2016:  Conduct a workshop - The Science of Creativity and Creativity for Science - for the Annual Retreat of the Vienna Biocenter (VBC),
                     Austria.

Apr 2016:   Present a talk - The Brain on Imagination at the CogNovo workshop on "The Neural Basis for Creativity", University of
                    Plymouth, UK.

Feb 2016:   Present a talk - The Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity at the School of Psychology External Research Seminar, University of
                    Nottingham, UK.