Anna Abraham, PhD
E. 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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WHAT'S NEW?
Apr 2021: Organizer & Chair - 2021 TORRANCE FESTIVAL OF IDEAS - Event Dates: April 23-25, 2021
An online cultural festival that is open to the global community. Featuring 21 speakers & spotlights on 6 local non-profits in Athens (GA, USA).
For more information (talk summaries, event schedule, and speaker bios), visit the FESTIVAL PAGE.
To attend the event for free, register online at the REGISTRATION PAGE (NOTE: Attendance is limited to the first 1,000 attendees). [Flyer]
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]
WHAT'S NEW?
Apr 2021: Organizer & Chair - 2021 TORRANCE FESTIVAL OF IDEAS - Event Dates: April 23-25, 2021
An online cultural festival that is open to the global community. Featuring 21 speakers & spotlights on 6 local non-profits in Athens (GA, USA).
For more information (talk summaries, event schedule, and speaker bios), visit the FESTIVAL PAGE.
To attend the event for free, register online at the REGISTRATION PAGE (NOTE: Attendance is limited to the first 1,000 attendees). [Flyer]
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]