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 (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?
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: 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]
Dec 2024: Paper -- Creativity and Brain Disease: Mapping Neuroimaging Findings onto a Common Brain Circuit -- now accepted for publication in JAMA Network Open.
Nov 2024: Speaker -- Understanding the Reality-Fiction Distinction: The BLINCS model -- at the EFMWR seminar in the College of Engineering (Host: Prof. Francesco Fedele) at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Oct 2024: Paper -- Why the Standard Definition of Creativity Fails to Capture the Creative Act -- now published online in Theory & Psychology.
Oct 2024: Speaker -- Understanding the Human Imagination: A Neurophilosophical Framework -- at the Music-Evoked Imaginings Workshop at Princeton University.
Sep 2024: Interviewee -- Unlocking Creativity: Dr. Anna Abraham on Interdisciplinarity, AI, and Human Innovation -- in the journal TechTrends [Interviewers: Danah Henriksen, Lauren Woo, & Punya Mishra].
Sep 2024: Speaker -- Many Roads to Rome: Cautious Considerations on the Computability of Creativity -- at the Bridging Fields in Creativity Research – Towards Circuit Mechanisms of the Creative Process conference organized by the Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS) in Oppenheim, Germany.
Sep 2024: Discussant -- Panel Discussion on Developing Circuit Mechanisms of the Creative Process -- at the Bridging Fields in Creativity Research – Towards Circuit Mechanisms of the Creative Process conference organized by the Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS) in Oppenheim, Germany.
Sep 2024: Book -- The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths (2024, MIT Press) -- longlisted for the getAbstract International Book Award 2024 [Category: Learning Impact].
Aug 2024: Paper -- Hating an Outgroup is to Render their Stories a Fiction: A BLINCS Model Hypothesis and Commentary -- now published online in Imagination, Cognition and Personality.
Aug 2024: Media mention -- The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths listed as one of the notable neuroscience book releases of the year -- The Transmitter, a publication by the Simons Foundation.