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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WHAT'S NEW?
June 2025: Featured Panelist -- Creativity and Brain Power -- at The 2025 Seminar Annual Forum in Savannah, GA [program pdf].
June 2025: Workshop Instructor -- Nurturing Creativity in Educational Contexts -- 2025 Torrance Center Summer Institute (TCSI), Gwinnett, GA.
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.
Feb 2025: Paper -- Creativity and Brain Disease: Mapping Neuroimaging Findings onto a Common Brain Circuit -- now published in publication in JAMA Network Open.
Feb 2025: Speaker -- Creativity and Design -- Guest Lecture for 'Design Methodology' course (ECSE 2920), UGA College of Engineering.
Feb 2025: Keynote Speaker -- Creativity and the Brain -- World Art Therapy 2025 Conference: Art Therapies and Neuroscience.
Feb 2025: Speaker -- The Myths and Truths of the Creative Brain -- Guest Lecture for ‘Creativity Up Close’ course (MUSI 379 001), Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, TX.
Feb 2025: Speaker -- Combining AI Tools with Biofeedback to Determine the Drivers of Interest and Curiosity during Science Learning -- Seed-Grant Awardee Research Talk @ IAI Research Spotlight, UGA Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI).
Jan 2025: Roundtable Discussant -- The Imaginary Realm in the Age of Artifice -- Roundtable on Religion at Halewell Manor (UK), Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation.
Jan 2025: Interviewee -- Could Utopian Thinking Save Democracy -- Program: Future Tense (Interviewer: Antony Funnell), ABC National Radio Australia.
Jan 2025: Speaker -- The Neuropsychology of Creativity: The Myths and Truths of the Creative Brain -- at the BARTS Academic Afternoon on Arts & Creativity in Mental Health for the East London NHS Foundation Trust.
Jan 2025: Interviewee -- Myths and Truths of the Creative Brain -- for The Science of Creativity podcast (with Professor Keith Sawyer).
Dec 2024: Book Review of THE CREATIVE BRAIN: MYTHS & TRUTHS published in The Lancet Neurology.
Dec 2024: Paper -- Themes and trends in creativity research between 1894-2022: A topic modeling approach - now published online in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. [click here to access FIGURES & TABLES]