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Anna Abraham, PhD


E. Paul Torrance Professor in Creativity & Gifted Education

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
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Social Neuroscience
 
WHAT'S NEW?   

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]