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Yuhua Yu @yuhuay.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

We are excited about the potential of this flexible, intuitive and automated measure: testing process-centered creativity theory, phenotyping divergent thinking in vast verbal data generated in naturalistic contexts. Did I mention the neural substrate of perplexity? www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Mapping Content and Dynamics in the Stream of Consciousness Through Latent Brain State Analysis

Human thoughts often arise unprompted, forming a stream of consciousness. Despite their ubiquity, it remains unknown how the brain supports unprompted thoughts as an integrated experience with rich co...

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Yuhua Yu @yuhuay.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Preprint alert: an out-of-the-box LLM metric for assessing Divergent Thinking, linking process-centered theory of creativity, spontaneous cognition and entropy. #perplexity www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Chaleece Sandberg @chaleece.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Excited to share this new article I worked on with Abby Cosgrove, Michele Diaz, @roger-beaty.bsky.social, and @yoedkenett.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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Mario Krenn @mariokrenn.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

📢Several PhD and Postdoc positions in my group (focusing on AI for Scientific Discovery in Physics) at @unituebingen.bsky.social If you are excited about using AI to design new ways for observing the universe, please apply here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...

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Mete @mismayil.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

💡Can we optimize LLMs to be more creative? Introducing Creative Preference Optimization (CrPO) and MuCE (Multi-task Creativity Evaluation Dataset). Result: More novel, diverse, surprising text—without losing quality! 📝 Appearing at #EMNLP2025

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simoneluchini.bsky.social @simoneluchini.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

How does the DMN contribute to creativity? Our review with Roger Beaty (@roger-beaty.bsky.social) and Emmanuelle Volle explores 4 novel trends in research.

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Zorana Ivcevic Pringle @z-i-pringle.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Final day of the @nytimes.com Well week-long #creativity challenge. Ending the run with the most important trait of creative individuals - openness to experience #writingsky #booksky www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The Creativity Challenge: Try Something New With One of These Hobbies

Today, try one new thing.

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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

We spy some familiar faces to the SfNC community in this week's New York Times Creativity Challenge! Check out these short daily creativity exercises to flex those divergent thinking muscles @jamesckaufman.bsky.social @z-i-pringle.bsky.social @roger-beaty.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Welcome to the 5-Day Creativity Challenge

Today, a fun way to feel less stuck.

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Hannah Merseal @hannahmerseal.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

So grateful to @tsfnc.bsky.social for the dissertation award (handed to me by my forever mentor and pal @roger-beaty.bsky.social), for the vibrant community, and for picking me to co-chair next year's meeting in Philly! I can't wait to welcome my favorite society to celebrate all things creativity ❤️

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

New paper: AI can generate creative ideas when prompted—but can it actually improve our own creativity? In 2 studies (total N = 36,752), we show AI can enhance human creativity through real-time feedback, helping people better evaluate their own ideas.

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simoneluchini.bsky.social @simoneluchini.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Enhancing creativity through neurofeedback: Check out our recent paper where we use covert neurofeedback to entrain default-executive coupling during creative thinking! Xinbing (Jack) Zhang, Jack White, Michael Luehrs, Michal Ramot, & @roger-beaty.bsky.social t.co/glnpPNmJ6R

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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Join us on May 21 for AI, Creativity & a Changing World, a special symposium on the latest in Creativity & AI research: 🔹 AI & Human Co-Creativity 🔹 Advances in Automated Creativity Scoring 🔹 Expert panel on future trends led by @roger-beaty.bsky.social Registration opens next week! #SfNC2025

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Yuhua Yu @yuhuay.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Paper alert - the sister series on metaphor generation! Insight (aha!) has been traditionally studied in a problem-solving context. Does insight during idea generation have the same characteristics and impact?https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.13488

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Exploring How Generating Metaphor Via Insight Versus Analysis Affects Metaphor Quality and Learning Outcomes

Metaphor generation is both a creative act and a means of learning. When learning a new concept, people often create a metaphor to connect the new concept to existing knowledge. Does the manner in wh...

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

SfNC is pleased to offer up to 10 travel awards ($500) for our conference in Paris. Open to all members, presenting or not. Apply through the member portal. @tsfnc.bsky.social

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Congratulations to CNCL grad student @simoneluchini.bsky.social on receiving the Frank Baron Award---for superior contributions to creativity research by a grad student---from Division 10 of the APA. And congrats to the other Div10 award winners this year! 🥳👏

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Five years in the making: our meta-analysis of 10 fMRI datasets across Asia, Europe, and North America (N=2,433). We find creative ability emerges from dynamic switching between default and executive brain networks, with optimal creativity at a "sweet spot."

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Dynamic switching between brain networks predicts creative ability - Communications Biology

Robust evidence that creativity is tied to the capacity to dynamically switch between brain networks supporting spontaneous and controlled cognition.

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Rosalie Andrae @rosalieandrae.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

How should we score divergent thinking tasks to best assess the ability to generate creative ideas? 🤔 It’s a big question in creativity research, so we systematically compared different scoring approaches to evaluate their psychometric quality. Check out our findings! doi.org/10.1002/jocb...

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Investigation of Response Aggregation Methods in Divergent Thinking Assessments

Divergent thinking (DT) ability is widely regarded as a central cognitive capacity underlying creativity, but its assessment is challenged by the fact that DT tasks yield a variable number of respons...

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

New study finds enhanced creativity in autistic adults is linked to co-occurring ADHD rather than autism itself (N=352). psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC) is now accepting nominations for our 2025 awards. We have three awards open to grad students and early-career creativity researchers: Young Investigator Award Dissertation Award Sarah A. Burgess Award Apply by Feb 1: tsfnc.org/sfnc-awards

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity is coming to Europe (Paris) for the first time! Abstracts are due Feb. 1. We welcome neuroscience, behavioral, and computational work. @tsfnc.bsky.social www.tsfnc.org/sfnc2025-cre...

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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Don't miss from Dr. Keith Sawyer: Is creativity connected to mental illness, psychedelic drugs, or autism? Listen to the interview with DR. ANNA ABRAHAM, a neuroscientist and leading creativity researcher on THE SCIENCE OF CREATIVITY podcast keithsawyer.com/bio/podcast....

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Keith Sawyer | Creativity, Collaboration, and Learning

Keith Sawyer is one of the country's leading scientific experts on creativity. His 2013 book Zig Zag identifies the 8 stages of the creative process.

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (@tsfnc.bsky.social) has a starter pack of folks doing creativity research. We're trying to build the creativity research community here. Please follow and let us know if you'd like to be added.

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

New work from the lab! Paul developed and validated a new test of overinclusive thinking and explored its relationship to creativity measures. Congrats Paul (and happy birthday 🥳)!

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Meta-analysis (n=52 studies, 195 effect sizes) confirms the incubation effect: taking breaks away from a problem leads to more creative solutions (d=0.39)

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

How creative are large language models compared to humans? This paper tested 13 standardized creativity tasks, finding LLMs rank at the 52nd percentile overall - essentially average at ideation tasks but notably weaker at creative writing.

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Large Language Models show both individual and collective creativity comparable to humans

Artificial intelligence has, so far, largely automated routine tasks, but what does it mean for the future of work if Large Language Models (LLMs) show creativity comparable to humans? To measure the ...

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Meta-analysis of PISA creative thinking data by @benjamingoecke.bsky.social across 62 countries (n=493,660) finds SES is a strong predictor of creativity, along with gender: girls scored higher than boys—a bigger gender gap than boys’ slight advantage in math. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

How does AI impact our sense of agency in the creative process? This paper suggests a few key factors: whether AI competes or complements human abilities, how effective we perceive AI to be, and whether the stakes are high or low; AI literacy may moderate these effects.

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AI’s Influence on Human Creative Agency

Emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities are redefining roles traditionally assigned to humans or tools in numerous tasks, and thereby creating tensions in professions ranging from educat...

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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We are also accepting nominations for our 2025 awards! Find out more here: www.tsfnc.org/sfnc-awards

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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Speaking of Paris... Our abstract submissions are now open! SfNC members are welcome to submit for our May 2025 conference on our new member website: www.tsfnc.org/sfnc2025-cre...

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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

SfNC is on Bluesky now! Connect with our society to see all the latest news on creativity research, updates from our community, and information about our upcoming conference in Paris! #SfNC25 And as always, you can join our member list at tsfnc.org to receive our newsletters straight to your inbox.

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Thalia R. Goldstein @thaliargoldstein.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

So excited to share my episode of "Fueling Creativity in Education" is now live! What a fun conversation with Cyndi Burnett, Ed.D and Matthew Worwood all about theatre education, imagination, and creativity! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3dVp... Podbean: www.podbean.com/media/share/...

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The "LLM World of Words" (n=12,000 cue words) finds humans generate more unique word associations than Llama3, Mistral, or Haiku. Semantic networks of LLMs overlap to varying degrees with humans and show similar semantic priming effects. arxiv.org/abs/2412.01330

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The "LLM World of Words" English free association norms generated by large language models

Free associations have been extensively used in cognitive psychology and linguistics for studying how conceptual knowledge is organized. Recently, the potential of applying a similar approach for inve...

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

New intervention study of 38 classes (n=793, 7th-8th grade) finds benefits of teaching creativity in science through divergent thinking, problem-solving, & metacognition. Quality of teaching explained 71-90% of class differences, while frequency had no effect. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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The effectiveness of the teaching program “scientific creativity in practice” - Discover Education

This study examines the impact of the Scientific Creativity in Practice program on students’ scientific creativity. This comprehensive teaching program aims to foster general creative skills, domain-s...

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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Excited about this new paper in Elife where we show for the first time resting state patterns contain information about a participants states (e.g. their thoughts) as well as traits (e.g. personality). Led by the awesome @hardigirl.bsky.social postdoc in THINC Lab elifesciences.org/articles/93689

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Macro-scale patterns in functional connectivity associated with ongoing thought patterns and dispositional traits

Interactions between attention systems and the default mode network are linked to individual differences in trait and state-level experience and cognition.

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

☀️ New preprint! ☀️ Cognitive tests from 23,000+ participants in 4 datasets show cyclical fluctuations across the calendar year, including a small but replicable “summer slide” where youth show worst performance after school vacation. t.ly/OMzgl #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci Thread /1

a graph showing a drop in cognitive performance during the summer months in the ABCD Study dataset

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Do AI language models (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini) agree when evaluating creativity? Study shows strong LLM consensus (r>0.7) when rating responses to creative thinking tasks. Models didn't favor their own outputs & aligned with benchmarks. arxiv.org/abs/2411.15560

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Do LLMs Agree on the Creativity Evaluation of Alternative Uses?

This paper investigates whether large language models (LLMs) show agreement in assessing creativity in responses to the Alternative Uses Test (AUT). While LLMs are increasingly used to evaluate creati...

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

New meta-analysis of 35 studies (N=48,979) finds small but significant link between bipolar traits and creativity (g=0.20). *Subclinical* bipolar traits showed stronger association than clinical diagnosis, suggesting moderate mood variation may impact creativity. doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5509147/v1

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A Meta-Analysis of Bipolar Disorder and Creativity:

The relationship between bipolar disorder (BD) and creativity has long fascinated both the academic community and the public. However, empirical evidence and meta-analytic findings have remained ambig...

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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

APS student affiliates: The APS Student Grant Competition is OPEN and provides small “seed grant” #funding to support research in its initial development stages. The Deadline to submit is December 16 - apply today!

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Student Grant Competition

Submissions for the APS Student Grant Competition are now open. Submit by December 16 for "seed grant" funding to support your research in its development stages!

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Starter pack for researchers studying the control of cognitive processes e.g., attentional control, inhibition, task switching, working memory, error adaptation etc go.bsky.app/12KTqED

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