Anna Abraham, PhDE. Paul Torrance Professor, Department of Educational Psychology Director, Torrance Center for Creativity Mary Frances Early College of Education University of Georgia (UGA) Athens, GA, USA |
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Email: annaabr[@]gmail.com | University Webpage: UGA | Profile: Google Scholar | Group: Creativity & Imagination Lab | ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4954-8205
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
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-- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS -- As Editor of the Cambridge Elements in Creativity & Imagination, I seek contributions for this innovative short book publication series by Cambridge University Press from all corners of the academic and practitioner community.
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A newsletter (via SUBSTACK) from the Torrance Center for Creativity featuring interviews & discussions (text + audio) with experts from across field of study who share their reflections on human creativity.
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WHAT'S NEW?
Jun 2026: Speaker -- When Rhetoric Turns Truth into Lies: Using Fictional Literary Aids in Non-Fiction -- Fourth International Congress of the Association for Studies in Fiction & Fictionality (Conference Theme: Fiction & Lies), Edinburgh, UK.
Jun 2026: Paper -- The Creative Brain & Individuality: Three Surprising Insights from Half a Century of Research -- accepted in the journal Imagination, Cognition & Personality.
May 2026: Paper -- Themes and Trends in Creativity Research between 1894-2022: A Topic Modeling Approach -- published in PRINT in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. [click here to access FIGURES & TABLES]
May 2026: Speaker -- Myths & Truths of the Creative Brain -- professional development seminar for the Alabama Association for Gifted Children (AAGC).
May 2026: Interviewed Kathryn Friedlander ("Passion over Drudgery: The Interplay between Talent & Deliberate Practice in Expertise") for the In Pursuit of Creativity Substack.
Apr 2026: Chair & Organizer of the 2026 Torrance Festival of Ideas (Theme: CREATIVITY & AI) [festival website] [festival flyer]
Mar 2026: Panel Discussant -- Neuroaesthetics and the Power of Designing for the Edges -- Spaces for Possibility Symposium organized by Mannington Commercial + International Interior Design Association (IIDA), Atlanta.
Mar 2026: Public Lecture -- Understanding the Human Imagination: A Neurophilosophical Approach -- for the IMPULSE-Focus Event Series 2026/27 on Imagination/Memory at the Impulse House of Intellectual Innovation and Creativity, University of Bonn, Germany. [program pdf]
Mar 2026: Workshop Instructor -- A Palette of Possibilities to Nurture the Imagination -- for the IMPULSE-Focus Event Series 2026/27 on Imagination/Memory at the Impulse House of Intellectual Innovation and Creativity, University of Bonn, Germany. [program pdf]
Mar 2026: Speaker -- How Educational Systems are Designed to Erode the Imaginative, the Experiential, and the Agentic -- for the Neuroscience-informed educational policy and practice symposium at the Scientia/De Lange Conference XIV in Houston, TX.
Mar 2026: Interviewed Chris Holmes ("The Cogito Teaching Process: The Long Game in Planting the Seeds of Self-Awareness in Children") for the In Pursuit of Creativity Substack.
Feb 2026: Research Grant awarded -- Targeting the Creativity Brain Network Using Behavioral and Neural Intervention Methods to Improve Rehabilitative Outcomes in Diverse Neurological Populations -- UGA Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant program.
Jan 2026: Conducted a comprehensive 3-year review of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) (Frankfurt, Germany) for the Max Planck Society as a member of the MPIEA Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).