Anna Abraham, PhD

Professor of Psychology

School of Social Sciences
Leeds Beckett University, UK
 

Email: annaabr[@]gmail.com | Twitter: @_imaginatrix | Group: Creativity & Imagination Lab | Profile: Google Scholar

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?   

Jul 2019:   Panel Discussant - BBC Radio 4 - Beyond Belief episode on The Imagination.

Jun 2019: Forthcoming book  - The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination - with Cambridge University Press.

May 2019: Present a Talk - Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows - Zangwill Club, University of Cambridge, UK.

May 2019: Panel Discussant - Beyond Belief - Faith and the Imagination Event - at the Hay Festival, UK.

May 2019: Present a Lecture - The Truth About Creativity - Leeds International Festival, UK.

Apr 2019: Paper (article) - Comparing the efficacy of four brief inductions in boosting short-term creativity - published in the Journal of
                  Cognitive Enhancement.

Apr 2019: Chairing a conference on Rhythm, Synchrony & Flow in the Context of Health & Illness in Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Apr 2019: Present a talk - Telling Reality from Fiction: A Neurocognitive Perspective - at the School of Psychological and Social Sciences, York St
                  John University, UK.

Mar 2019: Present a talk - Myths and Truths of the Creative Brain - at the Mad Hatter Grey Matter Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Mar 2019: Plenary Lecture - Creative Neurocognition - at the 111th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy & Psychology (SSPP)
                   Cincinnati Ohio, USA.

Jan 2019: Q & A in the Scientific American Beautiful Minds Blog on The Neuroscience of Creativity.

Dec 2018: Paper (article) published in Journal of Consciousness Studies - The Wandering Mind: Where Imagination Meets Consciousness.

Nov 2018: Webster University Geneva Podcast (with Professor Vlad Glaveanu) on Creativity and Neuroscience.

Nov 2018: Present a talk - The Imaginative Mind: A Neurophilosophical Approach - at the Department of Comparative Psychology, Heinrich
                   Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany.

Nov 2018: Present a talk - Examining the Brain Basis of Creativity - at the Webster Center for Creativity and Innovation (WCCI), Webster
                   University, Geneva, Switzerland.

Oct 2018: Book published: The Neuroscience of Creativity with Cambridge University Press.

Sep 2018: Paper (article) accepted in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences - The Neuropsychology of Creativity.

Sep 2018: Paper (article) published in Neuropsychologia - Creative conceptual expansion: A combined fMRI replication & extension study.

Jul 2018:   Keynote Address - The Creative Brain - at the Open Source Festival Congress (An interdisciplinary congress for creativity, innovation and
                   new business markets), in Duesseldorf, Germany. [PROGRAMME]

Jul 2018:   Panel Discussant - Touched with Fire - Genius of Madness Panel Event - at the Bradford Literature Festival, UK.

Jul 2018:   Keynote Address - The Whys and Hows of Studying The Creative Brain - at the Eighth International Conference on Design Computing
                  and Cognition (DCC'18) in Politecnico di Milano, Lecco Campus on Lake Como, Italy.