Roger Beaty
@roger-beaty.bsky.social
Associate professor of cognitive psychology at Penn State University. Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity Lab (beatylab.la.psu.edu). President-elect of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC; tsfnc.org; @tsfnc.bsky.social).
Reposted by Roger Beaty
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...
Did I mention the neural substrate of perplexity? www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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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October 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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...
Did I mention the neural substrate of perplexity? www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Thanks for the shoutout!
January 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thanks for the shoutout!
We've seen these networks before in relation to creativity. The key new finding is the switching effect: people who toggled between DMN and ECN being *integrated or segregated* showed higher creativity scores.
January 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
We've seen these networks before in relation to creativity. The key new finding is the switching effect: people who toggled between DMN and ECN being *integrated or segregated* showed higher creativity scores.
*effects are small and we only assessed creative thinking with a single task (AUT). But we were encouraged to see some findings replicate across countries, scanners, task vs rest, etc.
January 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
*effects are small and we only assessed creative thinking with a single task (AUT). But we were encouraged to see some findings replicate across countries, scanners, task vs rest, etc.
Good question - I could see domain mattering here, but don’t believe they looked at that, perhaps given sample size and skew of the creative achievement questionnaire (though data is open access).
January 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Good question - I could see domain mattering here, but don’t believe they looked at that, perhaps given sample size and skew of the creative achievement questionnaire (though data is open access).