Anna Abraham, PhD
E. Paul Torrance Professor in Creativity & Gifted Education Professor, Department of Educational Psychology Director, Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development Mary Frances Early College of Education University of Georgia Athens, 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
WHAT'S NEW?
Mar 2021: Guest Lecture - The Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying Creative Conceptual Expansion - Rice University, TX, US
Feb 2021: Workshop Instructor - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Being More Creative - The Guardian Masterclasses
Jan 2021: Speaker - The Creative Brain - for the Max Planck School of Cognition (First Cognition Academy 2021)
Dec 2020: Speaker - How do we Tell Reality from Fiction - for the Athens Chautauqua Society
Dec 2020: Interview in PSYCHOLOGIE HEUTE with Anna Gielas [in German]
Oct 2020: Workshop Instructor - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Being More Creative - The Guardian Masterclasses
Oct 2020: Workshop Instructor - A Snapshot on Creativity - CIG & The Merage Foundations
Oct 2020: Interview in the UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2020 Annual Report - Thought Leaders
Oct 2020: Interview in SEISMA Magazine 01 EDITION - Waves of Creativity: John Kounios + Anna Abraham In Conversation With Andrew Dickson [Page 004 - 012]
Oct 2020: Speaker - The Nature of Human Creativity - for the ‘Automation and Creativity: Practice, Aesthetics and Reception of the Digital in Music and Literature’ conference at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany [Organizer: Robin Auer]
Sep 2020: Interview for SOSA Freestyle Friday by Stuby Kas of Life is a Freestyle [INSTAGRAM | BLOG]
Jul-Aug 2020: Speaker - Understanding the True Nature of Creative Neurocognition by Adopting Multiple Methodologies - for the ‘Neuroscience of creativity: Individual difference and brain dynamics’ workshop at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Neuroscience Society in Kobe, Japan [Organizer: Takeshi Ogawa]
Jul 2020: Publication of new edited volume (48 chapters) - The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination - with Cambridge University Press
Jun-Aug 2020: Participant in the Oxford Beliefs & Imagination Workshop (OBW) [Host: Jonathan Jong, Sponsor: John Templeton Foundation]