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?
Nov 2025: Speaker -- Not just Glitter & Glue for the Gifted: Teaching for Creativity is a Necessity for All -- Clarke County School District (CCSD) Professional Learning Day session in Athens, GA.
Oct 2025: Featured Faculty Speaker -- Myths & Truths of the Creative Brain -- UGA Annual Neuroscience Research Symposium in Athens, GA.
Oct 2025: Interviewed Ron Beghetto and Maciej Karwowski ("Going from creative potential to actually doing something impactful in the world") for the In Pursuit of Creativity Substack.
Aug 2025: Paper -- Occam’s Razor Misapplied: Pinpointing the Role of the Default Mode Network in Creativity -- published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
Aug 2025: Interviewed Robert Sternberg ("What we see today in the world is so much of creativity being used for dark purposes") for the In Pursuit of Creativity Substack.
Jul 2025: Interviewee -- On 'The Creative Brain' -- for Interalia Magazine.
Jul 2025: Interviewee -- The Creative Brain: A Conversation with Anna Abraham -- for The Fueling Creativity Podcast.
Jun 2025: Featured Panelist -- Creativity and Brain Power -- at The 2025 Seminar Annual Forum in Savannah, GA [program pdf].
Jun 2025: Workshop Instructor -- Nurturing Creativity in Educational Contexts -- 2025 Torrance Center Summer Institute (TCSI).
Jun 2025: Interviewed Keith Sawyer ("How do you teach students how to create?") for the In Pursuit of Creativity Substack.
May 2025: Keynote Speaker -- Creativity: The Disease-Resistant Capacity of the Brain -- 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC) in Paris, France.
May 2025: Featured Panelist -- Behind Creativity: Neural Insights -- “Art, Science, and the Mind: Exploring Creativity” event organized by Figure1A: The Scientific Art Exhibition in Lausanne, Switzerland.
May 2025: Paper -- Many Roads to Rome: Cautious Considerations on the Computability of Creativity -- published online in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
May 2025: Instructor -- Unleashing the Creative Brain -- Professional Development workshop for the Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).
Apr 2025: Featured Speaker & Panelist -- The Igniting Lifeforce of the Arts -- at the Renée Fleming Panel Discussion: Music & Mind, a UGA Signature Lectures series event organized by the UGA Performing Arts Center in Athens, GA.
Apr 2025: Chair & Organizer of the 2025 Torrance Festival of Ideas (Theme: CREATIVITY & HEALTH) [festival website]
Apr 2025: Paper -- An Examination of Schizotypy, Creativity, and Wellbeing in Young Populations -- now published in Behavioral Sciences.
Apr 2025: Discussion Moderator -- Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley -- Honors Book Discussion with Dr. Anna Abraham, Morehead Honors College, University of Georgia.
Apr 2025: Featured Panelist -- The Spark and the Code: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Human Imagination - event organized by the Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, AZ.
Apr 2025: Speaker -- Redefining Creativity: Acknowledging the Creator’s Perspective -- online seminar for the Association for the Philosophical Study of Creativity (APSC).
Mar 2025: Speaker -- Creative Neurocognition -- Designing Design Education: Impulse for a New Curriculum symposium. Organized by the iF Foundation and The Design Museum in Munich, Germany.