Yoed Kenett
@yoedkenett.bsky.social
High-level cognition, knowledge, creativity, question asking, associative thinking, cognitive complexity, network
Neuroscience
Neuroscience
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🎉 Happy to see our paper is finally out! Huge thanks to Lucie and all co-authors for their contribution 🙌
We show that deviations from optimal semantic search are predicted by brain connectivity and help explain creative performance. @emmavolle.bsky.social @mbene.bsky.social @yoedkenett.bsky.social
We show that deviations from optimal semantic search are predicted by brain connectivity and help explain creative performance. @emmavolle.bsky.social @mbene.bsky.social @yoedkenett.bsky.social
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Marcela Ovando-Tellez, Lucie Vigreux, Yoed N. Kenett, Mathias Benedek, et al:
Switching, fast and slow: Deciphering the dynamics of memory search, its brain connectivity patterns, and its role in creativity
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Switching, fast and slow: Deciphering the dynamics of memory search, its brain connectivity patterns, and its role in creativity
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
🎉 Happy to see our paper is finally out! Huge thanks to Lucie and all co-authors for their contribution 🙌
We show that deviations from optimal semantic search are predicted by brain connectivity and help explain creative performance. @emmavolle.bsky.social @mbene.bsky.social @yoedkenett.bsky.social
We show that deviations from optimal semantic search are predicted by brain connectivity and help explain creative performance. @emmavolle.bsky.social @mbene.bsky.social @yoedkenett.bsky.social
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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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October 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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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Next @yoedkenett.bsky.social discusses novel computational model for semantic creative exploration using entropy modulation theory
May 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Next @yoedkenett.bsky.social discusses novel computational model for semantic creative exploration using entropy modulation theory
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Next week: see firsthand what happens when our organizing committee is given a wine and cheese budget. Hint: you do NOT want to miss Poster Session 2.
May 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Next week: see firsthand what happens when our organizing committee is given a wine and cheese budget. Hint: you do NOT want to miss Poster Session 2.
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Making some slides about network science and reflecting on how awesome SemNA is. All you need is some verbal fluency data and R thanks to @yoedkenett.bsky.social and Alex: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
March 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Making some slides about network science and reflecting on how awesome SemNA is. All you need is some verbal fluency data and R thanks to @yoedkenett.bsky.social and Alex: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Was an honor to co-guest edit this awesome special issue with Cynthia Siew and Mike Vitevitch! Check it out!
New special issue of @cjep.bsky.social on network science in experimental psychology, covering topics such as collective #cognition, vocabulary learning, and socially based #language entropy bit.ly/4hkQv9s, guest edited by @yoedkenett.bsky.social et al.
@canadianpsychology.bsky.social
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March 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Was an honor to co-guest edit this awesome special issue with Cynthia Siew and Mike Vitevitch! Check it out!
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More evidence of LLM homogeneity on creativity tasks. Even across different LLM models/families, their outputs are more similar to each other than human responses are, lacking semantic diversity. @yoedkenett.bsky.social
We're Different, We're the Same: Creative Homogeneity Across LLMs
Numerous powerful large language models (LLMs) are now available for use as writing support tools, idea generators, and beyond. Although these LLMs are marketed as helpful creative assistants, several...
arxiv.org
February 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
More evidence of LLM homogeneity on creativity tasks. Even across different LLM models/families, their outputs are more similar to each other than human responses are, lacking semantic diversity. @yoedkenett.bsky.social
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Great new study by @roger-beaty.bsky.social, @yoedkenett.bsky.social and others (not on bluesky, yet...), showing: Creativity seems to need a sweet spot of dynamic switching between default and executive brain networks. Effects are small (as normal with fMRI), but the size of the dataset is amazing.
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."
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.
www.nature.com
January 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Great new study by @roger-beaty.bsky.social, @yoedkenett.bsky.social and others (not on bluesky, yet...), showing: Creativity seems to need a sweet spot of dynamic switching between default and executive brain networks. Effects are small (as normal with fMRI), but the size of the dataset is amazing.
I am so excited our project is finally out! The largest creativity neuroscience study so far, with fantastic co-authors! Check it out!
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."
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.
www.nature.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I am so excited our project is finally out! The largest creativity neuroscience study so far, with fantastic co-authors! Check it out!
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🚨 Abstract deadline extended! 🚨 Please consider joining us in Paris and submit abstracts and award nominations by February 1.
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...
@tsfnc.bsky.social
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January 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🚨 Abstract deadline extended! 🚨 Please consider joining us in Paris and submit abstracts and award nominations by February 1.
@thomhills.bsky.social said it best as always! Creativity requires increasing noise/entropy
Here's a network lesson on #creativity @yoedkenett.bsky.social and I came up: How to be more creative? Get noisy! Try lots of things. It's the old exploration-exploitation trade-off, and good practice when you don't know what to do. DM for a copy of the paper. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
APA PsycNet
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January 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
@thomhills.bsky.social said it best as always! Creativity requires increasing noise/entropy
The best conference is finally coming to Europe! Don’t miss out!!
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...
@tsfnc.bsky.social
www.tsfnc.org/sfnc2025-cre...
January 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The best conference is finally coming to Europe! Don’t miss out!!
Super exciting preprint alert, just for the holidays! Ever wonder why we ask questions? Over the past year, my stellar student @tuvalraz.bsky.social and I have been working on a comprehensive review on human question asking which can now be found at tinyurl.com/mrxfh2hs
OSF
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December 25, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Super exciting preprint alert, just for the holidays! Ever wonder why we ask questions? Over the past year, my stellar student @tuvalraz.bsky.social and I have been working on a comprehensive review on human question asking which can now be found at tinyurl.com/mrxfh2hs
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Excited to share that the Categorical Overinclusive Thinking Task (COverTT) is now published in Thinking Skills and Creativity! In this paper we introduce and psychometrically validate a novel measure of overinclusive thinking! Check it out here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kIcU6fTMp...
authors.elsevier.com
December 20, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Excited to share that the Categorical Overinclusive Thinking Task (COverTT) is now published in Thinking Skills and Creativity! In this paper we introduce and psychometrically validate a novel measure of overinclusive thinking! Check it out here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kIcU6fTMp...
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Who is more creative: two humans, or a human and an AI? This study finds human teams generate better ideas than human-AI pairs, pointing to benefits of human collaboration over AI co-creativity.
“Who” Is the Best Creative Thinking Partner? An Experimental Investigation of Human–Human, Human–Internet, and Human–AI Co‐Creation
Recent research suggests that working with generative artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, can produce more creative outcomes than humans alone. However, does AI retain its creative edge wh...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Who is more creative: two humans, or a human and an AI? This study finds human teams generate better ideas than human-AI pairs, pointing to benefits of human collaboration over AI co-creativity.
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Meta-analysis of 39 studies (N=4,917) confirms the bilingual creativity advantage, finding bilinguals are modestly more creative than monolinguals (r=.18) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Are Bilinguals More Creative Than Monolinguals? A Meta‐Analysis
This study synthesizes quantitative research on the relationship between creativity and bilingualism. Extant literature underlines the role of developmental, cognitive, and socio-cultural factors to ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Meta-analysis of 39 studies (N=4,917) confirms the bilingual creativity advantage, finding bilinguals are modestly more creative than monolinguals (r=.18) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Interesting paper by @jaanaru.bsky.social on human vs AI creativity. Argues while both can produce similar creative products, the internal processes are very different - from neural architecture to the role of conscious experience.
Artificial intelligence and the internal processes of creativity
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of generating creative outputs are reshaping our understanding of creativity. This shift presents an opportunity for creativity researchers to reevaluate t...
arxiv.org
December 6, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Interesting paper by @jaanaru.bsky.social on human vs AI creativity. Argues while both can produce similar creative products, the internal processes are very different - from neural architecture to the role of conscious experience.
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Post-doc position:
AI might often enhance natural stupidity
But which factors determine whether AI will lead to smarter humans or more natural stupidity?
Let's figure it out 👋
🙏 Please repost so I could find someone crazy enough to work w me in Estonia on this✍️ ✉️
#edusky #psychscisky #neuroAI
AI might often enhance natural stupidity
But which factors determine whether AI will lead to smarter humans or more natural stupidity?
Let's figure it out 👋
🙏 Please repost so I could find someone crazy enough to work w me in Estonia on this✍️ ✉️
#edusky #psychscisky #neuroAI
December 12, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Post-doc position:
AI might often enhance natural stupidity
But which factors determine whether AI will lead to smarter humans or more natural stupidity?
Let's figure it out 👋
🙏 Please repost so I could find someone crazy enough to work w me in Estonia on this✍️ ✉️
#edusky #psychscisky #neuroAI
AI might often enhance natural stupidity
But which factors determine whether AI will lead to smarter humans or more natural stupidity?
Let's figure it out 👋
🙏 Please repost so I could find someone crazy enough to work w me in Estonia on this✍️ ✉️
#edusky #psychscisky #neuroAI
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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...
December 5, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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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If you're a native speaker of English, you might not have experienced any language barriers in your scientific career, but their negative impacts on early-career scientists nonfluent in English are big, as summarized in the figure below created by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social and colleagues. (1/10)
November 27, 2024 at 7:12 PM
If you're a native speaker of English, you might not have experienced any language barriers in your scientific career, but their negative impacts on early-career scientists nonfluent in English are big, as summarized in the figure below created by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social and colleagues. (1/10)
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fMRI network measures are affected by sampling error 🎲, physiological artifacts 💗, arousal 👀, and task state 🎞️. We argue that a major challenge in studies of 🧠 network dynamics is distinguishing between these sources of variability.
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November 22, 2024 at 6:21 PM
fMRI network measures are affected by sampling error 🎲, physiological artifacts 💗, arousal 👀, and task state 🎞️. We argue that a major challenge in studies of 🧠 network dynamics is distinguishing between these sources of variability.
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1/ New paper and first real foray into “precision fMRI”: Individual variability in neural representations of mind-wandering direct.mit.edu/netn/article...
November 22, 2024 at 8:11 PM
1/ New paper and first real foray into “precision fMRI”: Individual variability in neural representations of mind-wandering direct.mit.edu/netn/article...
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Unifying prefrontal sequence memory with hippocampal maps
The authors "develop a mathematical theory relating the algorithms and representations of episodic memory and working memory by unveiling a duality between storing memories in synapses versus neural activity".
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
The authors "develop a mathematical theory relating the algorithms and representations of episodic memory and working memory by unveiling a duality between storing memories in synapses versus neural activity".
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
A tale of two algorithms: Structured slots explain prefrontal sequence memory and are unified with hippocampal cognitive maps
The algorithm of the prefrontal working memory system on sequence memory tasks is
not well understood, whereas it is well understood for the hippocampal episodic memory
system. This work shows a mathe...
www.cell.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Unifying prefrontal sequence memory with hippocampal maps
The authors "develop a mathematical theory relating the algorithms and representations of episodic memory and working memory by unveiling a duality between storing memories in synapses versus neural activity".
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
The authors "develop a mathematical theory relating the algorithms and representations of episodic memory and working memory by unveiling a duality between storing memories in synapses versus neural activity".
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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We now publish rich fMRI data in Scientific Data where participants viewed magic trick videos. Curiosity, memory, and reward manipulation are available: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a result of incredible effort by Stef Meliss (first author). Congrats!!
This is a result of incredible effort by Stef Meliss (first author). Congrats!!
The magic, memory, and curiosity fMRI dataset of people viewing magic tricks - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The magic, memory, and curiosity fMRI dataset of people viewing magic tricks
www.nature.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:31 AM
We now publish rich fMRI data in Scientific Data where participants viewed magic trick videos. Curiosity, memory, and reward manipulation are available: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a result of incredible effort by Stef Meliss (first author). Congrats!!
This is a result of incredible effort by Stef Meliss (first author). Congrats!!
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(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...
November 19, 2024 at 9:33 PM
(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...