Anna Abraham, PhD

Professor of Psychology

School of Social Sciences
Leeds Beckett University, UK
 

Email: annaabr[@]gmail.com | Twitter: @_imaginatrix | Group: Creativity & Imagination Lab | Profile: Google Scholar

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?   

Nov 2018: Present a talk - The Imaginative Mind: A Neurophilosophical Approach - at the Department of Comparative Psychology, Heinrich
                   Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany.

Nov 2018: Present a talk - Examining the Brain Basis of Creativity - at the Webster Center for Creativity and Innovation (WCCI), Webster
                   University, Geneva, Switzerland.

Oct 2018: Book published: The Neuroscience of Creativity with Cambridge University Press.

Sep 2018: Paper (article) accepted in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences - The Neuropsychology of Creativity.

Jul 2018:   Keynote Address - The Creative Brain - at the Open Source Festival Congress (An interdisciplinary congress for creativity, innovation and
                   new business markets), in Duesseldorf, Germany. [PROGRAMME]

Jul 2018:   Panel Discussant - Touched with Fire - Genius of Madness Panel Event - at the Bradford Literature Festival, UK.

Jul 2018:   Keynote Address - The Whys and Hows of Studying The Creative Brain - at the Eighth International Conference on Design Computing
                  and Cognition (DCC'18) in Politecnico di Milano, Lecco Campus on Lake Como, Italy.

Jun 2018: Paper (article) accepted in  Journal of Cognitive Enhancement- Comparing the efficacy of four brief inductions in boosting
                  short-term creativity.

May 2018: Paper (article) accepted in Neuropsychologia - Creative conceptual expansion: A combined fMRI replication & extension study.

Apr 2018: Paper (chapter) accepted in Re/Searching the Social in Creativity Research: Methods, Studies, & Reflections - Creativity & the Social Brain. 
                   Preprint - DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/5YFNW

Apr 2018:  Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Discovering the Imaginative Mind.

Mar 2018: Paper (article) accepted in Journal of Consciousness Studies - The Wandering Mind: Where Imagination Meets Consciousness.

Mar 2018: Paper (chapter) accepted in Creativity Partnerships, Policy & Practice in Education - The Antecedents & Outcomes of Creative Cognition.

Mar 2018:  Chair the IMAGINATION: DIVERSE APPROACHES & PERSPECTIVES symposium and present a talk - A Neurophilosophical Approach to
                     the Imagination - organized at the Center for Psychological Research (PsyCen), Leeds Beckett University, UK (see REPORT).
                     (Other Presenters: GREG CURRIE, AARON MESKIN, PAUL NOORDHOF, CHAKRAVARTI RAM-PRASAD, DEE REYNOLDS, KARL SPRACKLEN, FREYA BAILES, SIMON MORRIS, JACQUELINE BUTLER)

Feb 2018: Book in production: The Neuroscience of Creativity with Cambridge University Press.

Nov 2017: Present a talk - Creative Neurocognition: A Primer - at the CONSTRUING CREATIVITY: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE conference at
                   Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Oct 2017: Present a talk - Reality versus Fiction: Perspectives from Psychology & Neuroscience - in the Centre for Aesthetics seminar series at
                  the School of Philosophy, Religion & the History of Science, University of Leeds, UK.

Sep 2017: Present a talk - The Creative Brain - at the EDGES OF NEUROSCIENCE satellite symposium of the Federation of European Neuroscience
                  Societies (FENS) Regional Meeting, Pécs, Hungary.

Sep 2017: Present a talk - The Neuroscience of Creative Cognition - at the Institute of Training and Computer Science in Sport, 
                  German Sport University Cologne, Germany.

Aug 2017:  Chair the FROM MIND TO WORLD AND BACK: THE IMAGINATIVE BRAIN symposium and present a talk - The Brain Basis of
                   Imagination: From Imagery to Altered States - at the 125th APA Annual Convention in Washington, DC.
                   (Other Presenters: Rex Jung, Harry Ballan, Naomi Aguiar).

Jul 2017:   Interview with the Guardian Science Podcast on A History of Human Creativity. 

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]