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Will Orwig @willorwig.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Excited to see our work highlighted in today's New York Times article exploring the potential benefits of intentional mind wandering in creative thinking! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The Creativity Challenge: Practice “Intentional Daydreaming”

Today, let’s get lost in our thoughts.

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

The schedule is out for our biggest meeting yet as we celebrate 10 years! 🥳 We’ve added a Day Zero symposium on May 21 focused on Creativity & AI, so mark your calendars.📆 Keynotes from Anna Abraham & Andreas Fink and much more - registration opens next week with more info to come! #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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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post... Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723

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Will Orwig @willorwig.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Excited to share our latest publication: Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality? Findings suggest that highly creative people generate more semantically distant prompts, which inspire more creative AI-generated images. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Using AI to Generate Visual Art: Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality?

As artificial intelligence (AI) advances in the realm of generative art, a critical question emerges: does human creativity matter? That is, do more-creative people produce more-creative AI-assiste...

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