Anna Abraham, PhD

Reader in Psychology

School of Social Sciences
Leeds Beckett University, UK

Email: annaabr[@]gmail.com        Twitter: @_imaginatrix        Leeds Beckett Uni: MCI Lab

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?   

May 2017: Present a talk - How the Brain Tells Reality from Fiction: A Neurocognitive Perspective - at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and
                    Society's "FACT AND FICTION: CREATION, FORMS, BOUNDARIES" symposium, University of Chicago, USA. [PROGRAM: ONLINE or PDF]

May 2017: Present a talk - Imagination: Perspectives from Psychology & Neuroscience - at the "IMAGINATION AND LEGAL PRACTICE" workshop
                   at Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University, UK.

Mar 2017:  Conduct a Creativity Workshop for Year 10s and Year 12s in Harrogate High School, UK.

Jan 2017:    New book chapter in press - The Forest versus the Trees: Creativity, Cognition and Imagination. In R. E. Jung & O. Vartanian (Eds.)
                    Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity. Cambridge University Press.

Nov 2016:  New article - The Imaginative Mind - published in Human Brain Mapping.

Oct 2016:  New article with Harry Ballan - Multimodal imagery in music: Active ingredients and mechanisms underlying music therapy
                   engagement - published in Music and Medicine.

Sep 2016:  Brief interview with the Naked Scientists on Where Do New Ideas Come From? (audio/transcript) for their BBC radio podcast on the
                   Science of Animation.

Aug 2016:  Present a talk - The Brain Basis of Creative Conceptual Expansion - at the "NEUROSCIENCE OF CREATIVITY" symposium in the
                   APA Annual Convention in Denver, Colorado (Chair: Darya Zabelina |Other Presenters: Adam Green, Darya Zabelina, Roger Beaty).

Jul 2016:    Present a talk -  Imagination in relation to memory and beyond  - at the ICOM 2016 (International Conference on Memory) in
                   Budapest, Hungary.

Jun 2016:   Conduct a workshop - The Science of Creativity - ENCODS 2016 (European Neuroscience Conference for Doctoral Students), 
                    Helsingør, Denmark.

Jun 2016:   Chair the Creativity: A Multidimensional Approach conference to foster cross-disciplinary collaborations. Organized within
                    the Cognition & Behaviour Programme of the Centre for Applied Social Research (CeASR), Leeds Beckett University, UK.