Publications

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Books

Author:
  1. Abraham A (2024). The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths. MIT Press. ISBN: 9780262548007.
  2. Abraham A (2018). The Neuroscience of Creativity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781316629611.
Editor:
  1. Abraham A [Ed] (2020). The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108429245.
  2. Abraham A [Ed] (2015). Madness and Creativity: Yes, No or Maybe? Lausanne: Frontiers Media. ISBN: 9782889196708. [ebook]

Journal Articles

  1. Abraham A (accepted). Why the Standard Definition of Creativity Fails to Capture the Creative Act. Theory & Psychology.
  2. Abraham A (2024). Hating an Outgroup is to Render their Stories a Fiction: A BLINCS Model Hypothesis and Commentary. Imagination, Cognition & Personality. 
  3. Abraham A, Mardones-Segovia C, Sarles-Whittlesey H, & Cohen AS (in press). Themes and trends in creativity research between 1894-2022: A topic modeling approach. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 
  4. Chapman H & Abraham A (2024). Trending Now: Implicit Factors Influence Users’ Online Audiovisual Media Motivations and Engagement. Imagination, Cognition & Personality. 
  5. Chapman H & Abraham A (2024). Recommended For You: Explicit Motivations and Recommender Systems Influence Users’ Media Engagement and Well-being. Imagination, Cognition & Personality. 
  6. Asquith SA, Wang X, Quintana DS & Abraham A (2024). Predictors of change in creative thinking abilities in young people: A longitudinal study. Journal of Creative Behavior, 58(2), 262-278.
  7. Ahmed H, Pauly-Takacs K & Abraham A (2023). Evaluating the effects of episodic and semantic memory induction procedures on divergent thinking in younger and older adults. PLoS ONE, 18(6): e0286305.
  8. Asquith SA, Wang X, Quintana D & Abraham A (2022). The Role of Personality Traits and Leisure Activities in Predicting Wellbeing in Young People. BMC Psychology, 10: 249. 
  9. Abraham A (2022). Creativity or creativities? Why context matters. Design Studies, 78: 101060. ​
  10. Abraham A (2022). How we tell apart fiction from reality. American Journal of Psychology, 135 (1), 1-18. 
  11. Asquith SA, Wang X, Quintana D & Abraham A (2022). Predictors of Creativity in Young People: Using Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches in Estimating the Importance of Individual and Contextual Factors. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 16(2), 209–220. PDF  Supp Info
  12. Abraham A, Rutter B & Hermann C (2021). Conceptual expansion via novel metaphor processing: An ERP replication and extension study examining individual differences in creativity​. Brain and Language, 221: 105007. ​
  13. Abraham A (2021). The Problem of Equating Content with Process in the Mythopoetic Model. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 5 (2), 33-36. 
  14. Abraham A (2021). The ingredients of the creative mind. American Journal of Psychology, 134 (1), 107-110.  PDF
  15. Abraham A (2019). The neuropsychology of creativity. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 27, 71-76. PDF
  16. Abraham A, Asquith S, Ahmed H & Bourisly AK (2019). Comparing the efficacy of four brief inductions in boosting short-term creativity. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 3 (1), 85-93. PDF
  17. Abraham A (2018). The wandering mind: Where imagination meets consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 25 (11-12), 34-52.  PDF
  18. Abraham A, Rutter B, Bantin T & Hermann C (2018). Creative conceptual expansion: A combined fMRI replication and extension study to examine individual differences in creativity. Neuropsychologia, 118, 29-39. PDF
  19. Abraham A (2016). The imaginative mind. Human Brain Mapping, 37, 4197-4211. PDF
  20. Ballan H & Abraham A (2016). Multimodal imagery in music: Active ingredients and mechanisms underlying music therapy engagement. Music and Medicine, 8 (4), 170-179. PDF
  21. Abraham A (2016). Gender and creativity: An overview of psychological and neuroscientific literature. Brain Imaging & Behavior,  10 (2), 609-618. PDF
  22. Abraham A (2016). Commentary: Creativity and Memory: Effects of an Episodic-Specificity Induction on Divergent Thinking. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 824: 1-3. PDF
  23. Abraham A & Hermann C (2015). Biases in probabilistic category learning in relation to social anxiety. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1218: 1-12. PDF
  24. Abraham A (2015). Editorial: Madness and Creativity – Yes, No or Maybe? Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1055: 1-3. PDF
  25. Abraham A & Bubic A (2015). Semantic memory as the root of imagination. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 325:1-4. PDF
  26. Bubic A & Abraham A (2014). Neurocognitive bases of future oriented cognition. Review of Psychology, 21(1), 3-15. PDF
  27. Abraham A (2014). Is there an inverted-U relationship between creativity and psychopathology? Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 750: 1-2. PDF 
  28. Abraham A (2014). Creative thinking as orchestrated by semantic processing versus cognitive control brain networks. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 95: 1-4. PDF
  29. Abraham A, Thybusch K, Pieritz K & Hermann C (2014). Gender Differences in Creative Thinking: Behavioral and fMRI Findings. Brain Imaging & Behavior, 8 (1): 39-51. PDF
  30. Stevens S, Peters A, Abraham A & Hermann C (2014). Enhanced avoidance behavior in social anxiety: Evidence from a probabilistic learning task. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 45 (1), 39-45. PDF
  31. Kröger S, Rutter B, Hill H, Windmann S, Hermann C & Abraham A (2013). An ERP study of passive creative conceptual expansion using a modified alternate uses task. Brain Research, 1527: 189-98.  PDF    Supp Info
  32. Abraham A (2013). The world according to me: Personal relevance and the medial prefrontal cortex. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 341: 1-4. PDF 
  33. Abraham A (2013). The promises and perils of the neuroscience of creativity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 246: 1-9. PDF
  34. Abraham A, Kaufmann C, Redlich R, Hermann A, Stark R, Stevens S & Hermann C (2013). Self-referential and anxiety-relevant information processing in subclinical social anxiety: An fMRI study. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 7 (1), 35-48.  PDF
  35. Abraham A, Beudt S, Ott DV & von Cramon DY (2012). Creative cognition and the brain: Dissociations between frontal, parieto-temporal and basal ganglia groups. Brain Research, 1482, 55-70.  PDF     Supp Info
  36. Abraham A, Pieritz K, Thybusch K, Rutter B, Kröger S, Schweckendiek J, Stark R, Windmann S & Hermann C (2012). Creativity and the brain: Uncovering the neural signature of conceptual expansion. Neuropsychologia, 50 (8), 1906-17.  PDF     Supp Info   Stimuli 
  37. Kröger S, Rutter B, Stark R, Windmann S, Hermann C & Abraham A (2012). Using a shoe as a plant pot: Neural correlates of passive conceptual expansion. Brain Research, 1430, 52-61.  PDF     Supp Info
  38. Rutter B, Kröger S, Hill H, Windmann S, Hermann C & Abraham A (2012). Can clouds dance? Part 2: An ERP investigation of passive conceptual expansion. Brain and Cognition, 80 (3), 301-310.  PDF     Supp Info
  39. Rutter B, Kröger S, Stark R, Schweckendiek J, Windmann S, Hermann C & Abraham A (2012). Can clouds dance? A new approach to investigate neural correlates of creativity using unusual metaphors in an fMRI setting. Brain and Cognition, 78 (2), 114-122.  PDF     Supp Info
  40. Abraham A, Rakoczy H, Werning M, von Cramon DY & Schubotz RI (2010). Matching mind to world and vice versa: Functional dissociations between belief and desire mental state processing. Social Neuroscience, 5 (1), 1-18.  PDF
  41. Abraham A & von Cramon DY (2009) Reality = Relevance? Insights from spontaneous modulations of the brain’s default network when telling apart reality from fiction. PLoS ONE, 4(3), e4741: 1-9.  PDF
  42. Abraham A, Schubotz RI & von Cramon DY (2008) Thinking about the future versus the past in personal and non-personal contexts. Brain Research, 1233, 106-119.   PDF     Supp Info
  43. Abraham A, von Cramon DY & Schubotz RI (2008). Meeting George Bush versus meeting Cinderella: The neural response when telling apart what is real from what is fictional in the context of our reality. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20 (6), 965-976.  PDF
  44. Abraham A, Werning M, Rakoczy H, von Cramon DY & Schubotz RI (2008). Minds, persons, and space: An fMRI investigation into the relational complexity of higher-order intentionality. Consciousness and Cognition, 17 (2), 438-450.  PDF   Stimuli 
  45. Abraham A & Windmann S (2008). Selective information processing advantages in creative cognition as a function of schizotypy. Creativity Research Journal, 20(1), 1-6.  PDF
  46. Abraham A & Windmann S (2007) Creative cognition: The diverse operations and the prospect of applying a cognitive neuroscience perspective. Methods, 42 (1), 38-48.  PDF
  47. Abraham A (2007). Can a neural system geared to bring about rapid, predictive and efficient function explain creativity? Creativity Research Journal, 19 (1), 19-24.  PDF
  48. Karimi Z, Windmann S, Güntürkün O & Abraham A (2007). Insight problem solving in individuals with high versus low schizotypy. Journal of Research in Personality, 41 (7), 473-480.  PDF
  49. Abraham A, Windmann S, McKenna PJ & Güntürkün O (2007). Creative thinking in schizophrenia: The role of executive dysfunction and symptom severity. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 12 (3), 235-258.  PDF
  50. Abraham A, Windmann S, Siefen R., Daum I & Güntürkün O (2006) Creative thinking in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Child Neuropsychology, 12 (2), 111-123.  PDF
  51. Abraham A, Windmann S, Daum I & Güntürkün O (2005) Conceptual expansion and creative imagery as a function of psychoticism. Consciousness and Cognition, 14 (3), 520-534.  PDF
  52. Nayak MB, Byrne CA, Martin MK & Abraham AG (2003). Attitudes towards violence against women: A cross-nation study. Sex Roles, 49 (7-8), 333-342.  PDF

Book Chapters

  1. Abraham A & Sharpe DI (accepted). E. P. Torrance on Cultivating Conditions that are Conducive to Creativity. In V. Glaveanu, G. Puccio & M. Schwartz (Eds.). Mid-Century Creativity Reader. Oxford University Press.
  2. Ahmed H, Pauly-Takacs K & Abraham A (2023). The role of semantic versus episodic memory in creative cognition. In L J. Ball & F. Vallée-Tourangeau (Eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition. London: Routledge. 
  3. Abraham A (2020). Surveying the imagination landscape. In A. Abraham (Ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination (pp. 1-10). Cambridge University Press. PDF
  4. Abraham A (2020). The force of the imagination. In A. Abraham (Ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination (pp. 811-814). Cambridge University Press. PDF
  5. Abraham A (2018). Creativity and the social brain. In V. Glaveanu & I. Lebuda (Eds.) Re/Searching the Social in Creativity Research: Methods, Studies, and Reflections (pp. 527-239). Palgrave Macmillan. PDF
  6. Asquith S, Wang X & Abraham A (2018). The antecedents and outcomes of creative cognition. In A. Harris, P. Thomson & K. Snepvangers (Eds.) Creativity Partnerships, Policy and Practice in Education (pp. 215-237). Palgrave Macmillan. PDF
  7. Abraham A (2018). The forest versus the trees: Creativity, cognition and imagination. In R. E. Jung & O. Vartanian (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity (pp. 195-210). Cambridge University Press. PDF
  8. Abraham A (2015). How social dynamics shape our understanding of reality. In J. E. Warnick & D. Landis (Eds.) Neuroscience in Intercultural Contexts (pp. 243-256). New York: Springer. PDF
  9. Abraham A (2014). Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying creative thinking: Indications from studies of mental illness. In J. Kaufmann (Ed.) Creativity and Mental Illness (pp. 79-101). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. PDF         
  10. Abraham A (2012). The neuroscience of creativity: A promising or perilous enterprise? In A. P. Alejandre (Ed.), Creativity and Cognitive Neuroscience (pp. 15-24). Madrid: Fundación Tomás Pascual y Pilar Gómez-Cuétera.  PDF
  11. Schubotz RI & Abraham A (2008). Ich glaube, dass Du denkst, dass ich hoffe, dass es stimmt. In R. I. Schubotz (Ed.), Other Minds: Die Gedanken und Gefühle Anderer (pp. 71-78). Paderborn, Germany: Mentis.  PDF
Images on this website adapted from: Abraham et al. (2005) Consciousness and Cognition.