Anna Abraham, PhDE. Paul Torrance 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
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As the Founding Editor of the new Cambridge Elements in Creativity and Imagination, I am seeking short book contributions for this exciting new series at Cambridge University Press from all corners of the academic and practitioner community. If you are interested in authoring a short book for this series, contact me for more information. This is a rolling call. (WEBSITE)
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Nov 2021: Speaker & Discussant - What’s Your Curiosity? Exploring the psychological ideas of ‘Looking-Glass’, from perception and identity to the science of creativity - at the V&A 'Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser' Friday Forum Symposium. The Victoria & Albert Museum celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
Oct 2021: Panel Discussant - Roundtable Discussion on AI, Ethics, and Aesthetics - Athenaeum, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, USA.
Oct 2021: Guest Lecture - Creativity in Science: What Educators Need To Know - ESCI 7040E course: Strategies for Middle and Secondary School Science Teachers, Science Education Unit, Department of Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Oct 2021: Guest Speaker - The Neuroscience of Creativity in a Nutshell - at the General Body Meeting of the Undergraduate Neuroscience Organization, University of Georgia, Athens, USA.
Oct 2021: Workshop Instructor - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Being More Creative - The Guardian Masterclasses.
Sep 2021: Speaker - The Neuroscience of Creativity in a Nutshell - Frontiers in Neuroscience seminar series, Emory University, GA, USA.
Sep 2021: Interview - Setting the conditions for discovery - INSPIRE NORTH BEHIND GREATNESS Podcast.
Aug 2021: Paper - How we tell apart fiction from reality - accepted for publication in the American Journal of Psychology.
Aug 2021: Paper - Conceptual expansion via novel metaphor processing: An ERP replication and extension study examining individual differences in creativity - accepted for publication in Brain and Language.
Aug 2021: Speaker - Creativity: The Case for Disease-Resistant Capacities of the Human Brain - at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA 2021): Division 40 (Society for Clinical Neuropsychology) Symposium on Creativity and the Brain: Current Perspectives from Neuropsychology, Neuroscience, and the Arts.
Jun 2021: Panel Discussant - The Humanizing Power of the Arts: Building Back Smarter - Focus Group session for the Salzburg Global Seminar.
Jun 2021: Speaker - The Benefits of Engaging Your Creative Drive - Care/Of workshop with P & G, Canada.
Jun 2021: Panel Discussant - The Importance of the ‘Collective’ - Science, Consciousness and Design - feature session for the Imagination Infrastructuring (Organizer: The National Lottery Community Fund).
May 2021: Interview - Creativity and the Imagination in Learning - Webinar for the CREATE Centre, Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia.
May 2021: Speaker - Adopting a Neuroscientific Perspective in the Study of Creativity - Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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As the Founding Editor of the new Cambridge Elements in Creativity and Imagination, I am seeking short book contributions for this exciting new series at Cambridge University Press from all corners of the academic and practitioner community. If you are interested in authoring a short book for this series, contact me for more information. This is a rolling call. (WEBSITE)
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Nov 2021: Speaker & Discussant - What’s Your Curiosity? Exploring the psychological ideas of ‘Looking-Glass’, from perception and identity to the science of creativity - at the V&A 'Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser' Friday Forum Symposium. The Victoria & Albert Museum celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
Oct 2021: Panel Discussant - Roundtable Discussion on AI, Ethics, and Aesthetics - Athenaeum, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, USA.
Oct 2021: Guest Lecture - Creativity in Science: What Educators Need To Know - ESCI 7040E course: Strategies for Middle and Secondary School Science Teachers, Science Education Unit, Department of Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Oct 2021: Guest Speaker - The Neuroscience of Creativity in a Nutshell - at the General Body Meeting of the Undergraduate Neuroscience Organization, University of Georgia, Athens, USA.
Oct 2021: Workshop Instructor - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Being More Creative - The Guardian Masterclasses.
Sep 2021: Speaker - The Neuroscience of Creativity in a Nutshell - Frontiers in Neuroscience seminar series, Emory University, GA, USA.
Sep 2021: Interview - Setting the conditions for discovery - INSPIRE NORTH BEHIND GREATNESS Podcast.
Aug 2021: Paper - How we tell apart fiction from reality - accepted for publication in the American Journal of Psychology.
Aug 2021: Paper - Conceptual expansion via novel metaphor processing: An ERP replication and extension study examining individual differences in creativity - accepted for publication in Brain and Language.
Aug 2021: Speaker - Creativity: The Case for Disease-Resistant Capacities of the Human Brain - at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA 2021): Division 40 (Society for Clinical Neuropsychology) Symposium on Creativity and the Brain: Current Perspectives from Neuropsychology, Neuroscience, and the Arts.
Jun 2021: Panel Discussant - The Humanizing Power of the Arts: Building Back Smarter - Focus Group session for the Salzburg Global Seminar.
Jun 2021: Speaker - The Benefits of Engaging Your Creative Drive - Care/Of workshop with P & G, Canada.
Jun 2021: Panel Discussant - The Importance of the ‘Collective’ - Science, Consciousness and Design - feature session for the Imagination Infrastructuring (Organizer: The National Lottery Community Fund).
May 2021: Interview - Creativity and the Imagination in Learning - Webinar for the CREATE Centre, Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia.
May 2021: Speaker - Adopting a Neuroscientific Perspective in the Study of Creativity - Edinburgh Psychology Keynote Talk, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.