Anna Abraham, PhD
Professor of Psychology School of Social Sciences Leeds Beckett University, UK |
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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?
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: 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
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)
May 2020: Feature Interview in The Neuropsychologist
Apr 2020: Commenced a new position in the College of Education at the University of Georgia
Mar 2020: Article accepted - Predictors of Creativity in Young People: Using Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches in Estimating the Importance of Individual and Contextual Factors - in the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts
Jan 2020: Speaker - workshop on The Creative Imagination for the School of Events, Tourism & Hospitality Management at Leeds Beckett University, UK
Nov 2019: Keynote Address - The World in My Mind - at the "Does Fiction Change the World?" Founding Conference of the International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies (ISFFS), Paris, France.
Nov 2019: Guest Lecture - The Whys and Hows of the Neuroscience of Creativity - at the 'Research Skills Invited Speaker Series' for the MSc in Music Mind and the Brain and the MSc in Psychology of Aesthetics, Neuroscience and Creativity programmes, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Oct 2019: Speaker - Understanding the Creative Mind: A Neuroscientific Perspective - at the INSIDE/OUT Lecture Series, Leeds School of Art, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Oct 2019: Speaker - A Neurophilosophical Approach to the Imagination - at the Exploring the Mind’s Eye: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Imagination conference at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Oct 2019: Keynote Address - Nurturing the Imagination - at the Empathy & Kindness at the Heart of Learning conference, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France.
Sep 2019: Keynote session on Creativity at a private event in California, USA
Jul 2019: Panel Discussant - BBC Radio 4 - Beyond Belief episode on The Imagination.
Jun 2019: Article published - The Neuropsychology of Creativity - in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
Jun 2019: Forthcoming book - The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination - with Cambridge University Press.
May 2019: Speaker - Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows - Zangwill Club, University of Cambridge, UK.
May 2019: Panel Discussant - Beyond Belief - Faith and the Imagination Event - at the Hay Festival, UK.
May 2019: Present a Lecture - The Truth About Creativity - Leeds International Festival, UK.