PhD in Psychology from Harvard University studying the Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity
Cambridge, MA
Joined May 2020
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How does AI evaluate visual creativity? Our preprint finds LLMs can approximate human judgements of visual art zero-shot, and explicit reasoning chains offer a window into their process. Collaboration w/@Roger_Beaty #Creativity #LLM #OpenScience
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Excited to see our work highlighted in today's New York Times article exploring the potential benefits of intentional mind wandering in creative thinking!
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Exciting opportunity to take part in the Trends in Psychology Summit (TiPS) -- a one-day academic research conference hosted by Harvard's graduate student Women in Psychology group. Registration is free, but spots are limited. See below for more details!
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We are so thrilled that our 10th annual meeting of SfNC will be taking place in Paris! Our theme, "Creativity and Changing Brains", is an exploration of how creativity influences and is shaped by changes in the brain. Abstracts are open until Jan 17th: tsfnc.org/sfnc2025-creativit…
New research in collaboration with @LucasBellaiche now published in the Creativity Research Journal -- Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality?
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After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇
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"Just as we now glance at nutrition labels without a second thought, we could one day check content labels before diving into a news article or blog post."
Column: Why the internet needs content labels 📝 Tali Sharot and Christopher A. Kelly time.com/7177598/internet-co…
Our latest work "Cortical Hubs of Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory" is now published in Cortex! We apply graph theory analysis in resting-state data to describe connectivity profiles associated with this rare form of enhanced memory. Full article: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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🧵Happy to share our last work on tau propagation and smell perception in aging. @LauraOrtizTeran @ThomasNgImaging @AlbersLab Marshall G @will_orwig Kim C @neuroeli Montal V @jokriolo @_PatriziaV Fahkri, Sperling R, Johnson K, @HeidiJacobsLab @SepulcreLab
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And another huge thank you to our Organizing Committee Members for making it all possible, here with President @drchrysikou; @NL_Mason @christinecheesy @JoshuaUpshaw6 @will_orwig @hannah_merseal @AnaelleCamarda, just missing Kristin Sanders!
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To our European friends, thank you for your patience and dedication in traveling to the US for so many SfNC meetings. It’s past time for a meeting in Europe—I can’t wait to see everyone in Paris next year!
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Next, @will_orwig shares recent work on the role of episodic memory in idea evaluation! #SfNC2024
Check out our latest work "Creative Evaluation: The Role of Memory in Novelty & Effectiveness Judgements" out now in Creativity Research Journal! Many thanks to my collaborators @Roger_Beaty @BenedekMathias @SchacterLab
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Let Me Tell You a Story: Creative Writing in Humans and Large Language Models
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A recent highlight of our research, finding that creative writing involves the integration of semantically distant ideas with perceptually descriptive information in stories from humans and Large Language Models @harvardbrainsci @_CreativeEd
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Check out our latest work, "The Language of Creativity: Evidence from Humans and Large Language Models" now published in the Journal of Creative Behavior! Thanks to my collaborators @SchacterLab
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Get ready for #sfnc2024! We are now accepting abstracts for our annual conference in Toronto, April 11-12 2024. Talk and poster submissions will close on November 30: maastrichtuniversity.eu.qual…
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Registration is open for our virtual midyear event! Join us for a methods panel featuring leading researchers and SfNC members; followed by a CrossTalk between brothers Fiery & O'Neill Cushman: tsfnc.org/conference-events
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New paper out today in #CreativityResearchJournal with co-first author @anna_p_smith and an incredible lineup of co-authors!!! We show that abstract paintings, created by participants in-lab, can be rated as an index of creativity (w a normal distribution) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Our latest paper 'Creativity at Rest: Exploring Functional Network Connectivity of Creative Experts' is now published in Network Neuroscience! @netneuroscin
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We suggest that in the absence of an external task (namely, during resting-state) highly creative people are more prone to engage in internally directed cognition, thus attenuating sensory information from their present environment.
This work was made possible through the generosity and collaborative spirit of an outstanding team of researchers. Thanks to all for your contributions! @DianaTamir @meghanlmeyer @IbaiDiezPalacio @neuroeli @SepulcreLab @r_setton @SchacterLab