Anna Abraham, PhDE. Paul Torrance Professor, Department of Educational Psychology Director, Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development Mary Frances Early College of Education University of Georgia (UGA) Athens, GA, USA |
Email: annaabr[@]gmail.com | University Webpage: UGA | Profile: Google Scholar | Group: Creativity & Imagination Lab | ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4954-8205
Research Expertise: Creativity, Imagination, Reality-Fiction Distinction, Mental Time Travel, Theory of Mind, Self-Referential Thought
Domains/Disciplines: Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, Clinical Neuroscience, Social Neuroscience
The 2024 Torrance Festival of Ideas is a global online three-day event featuring world-renowned scholars who will present their pioneering ideas on the most important contemporary questions on the topic of CREATIVITY & LEARNING.
- Tickets are FREE but limited to the first 1,000 participants:
- Registration: https://2024torranceideasfest.eventbrite.com
- Festival Website: https://tinyurl.com/2024ideasfest
Register for the 2024 Torrance Ideas Festival ...
... to watch the sessions LIVE (& interact with the speakers).
... to catch up on the RECORDINGS of any missed sessions.
... to network with festival registrants who are people from all over the world with a deep interest in creativity, learning, and education.
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As the Editor of the Cambridge Elements in Creativity and Imagination, I seek contributions for this short book publication series by Cambridge University Press from all corners of the academic and practitioner community. If you are interested in contributing to this series, contact me via email for more information. This is a rolling call.
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WHAT'S NEW?
\\\\\ New book in production --- The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths --- to published by MIT Press in April 2024 /////
Apr 2024: Speaker -- The Creativity-Learning Nexus -- for the 2024 Torrance Festival of Ideas.
Apr 2024: Chair & Organizer of the 2024 Torrance Festival of Ideas (Festival Theme: CREATIVITY & LEARNING).
Apr 2024: Keynote Speaker -- The Neuroscience of Creative Imagination: Implications for the AI Age -- for the Learning & the Brain conference on Future Ready Brains, New York City.
Apr 2024: Speaker -- The Neuropsychology of Creativity: Myths and Truths of the Creative Brain -- a continuing education seminar for the Swiss Association of Neuropsychologists (SVNP).
Apr 2024: Keynote Speaker -- Myths and Truths of the Creative Mind -- 14th Symposium of the BIAL Foundation on CREATIVITY - Behind and Beyond the Brain, Casa do Médico, Porto, Portugal.
Mar 2024: Paper -- Predictors of change in creative thinking abilities in young people: A longitudinal study -- published online in Journal of Creative Behavior.
Mar 2024: Panel Discussant -- Curiosity, Creativity, & Imagination -- United Cognitive Science Associations (UCA).
Mar 2024: Featured Interviewee -- The Science of Creativity: A Conversation with Anna Abraham -- Chapter 1 in Conversations on Creative Process, Methods, Research and Practice (2024, Routledge). Editors: Christina Reading and Jess Moriarty).
Feb 2024: Guest Lecture -- Redefining Creativity: Acknowledging the Creator’s Perspective -- Music Education Seminar, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, University of Georgia.
Feb 2024: Distinguished Lecture -- Myths/Truths of the Creative Mind -- Nornes Lectureship in Neuroscience, Concordia College, Minnesota.
Feb 2024: Interview -- On Creativity, Brain vs. Mind, and more -- Prairie Public Radio.
Jan 2024: Book Chapter -- E. P. Torrance on Cultivating the Conditions that are Conducive to Creativity -- to be published in Mid-Century Creativity Reader (Oxford University Press).
Dec 2023: Paper -- Themes and trends in creativity research between 1894-2022: A topic modeling approach -- accepted in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Dec 2023: Preprint -- Why the standard definition of creativity fails to capture the creative act -- https://doi.org/10.32388/LS88G9.
Nov 2023: Chair & Organizer -- A daylong series of free public engagement events Celebrating Black Musical Creativity @UGA (7-Nov-2023)
Nov 2023: Featured Interviewee -- Wozu gibt es Fantasie? - ARTE 42: Die Antwort auf fast alles program, ARTE - the European culture TV channel (Languages: German, French). [What is Imagination for? - an ARTE 42: The Answer to Almost Everything series episode - YouTube link]
WHAT'S NEW?
\\\\\ New book in production --- The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths --- to published by MIT Press in April 2024 /////
Apr 2024: Speaker -- The Creativity-Learning Nexus -- for the 2024 Torrance Festival of Ideas.
Apr 2024: Chair & Organizer of the 2024 Torrance Festival of Ideas (Festival Theme: CREATIVITY & LEARNING).
Apr 2024: Keynote Speaker -- The Neuroscience of Creative Imagination: Implications for the AI Age -- for the Learning & the Brain conference on Future Ready Brains, New York City.
Apr 2024: Speaker -- The Neuropsychology of Creativity: Myths and Truths of the Creative Brain -- a continuing education seminar for the Swiss Association of Neuropsychologists (SVNP).
Apr 2024: Keynote Speaker -- Myths and Truths of the Creative Mind -- 14th Symposium of the BIAL Foundation on CREATIVITY - Behind and Beyond the Brain, Casa do Médico, Porto, Portugal.
Mar 2024: Paper -- Predictors of change in creative thinking abilities in young people: A longitudinal study -- published online in Journal of Creative Behavior.
Mar 2024: Panel Discussant -- Curiosity, Creativity, & Imagination -- United Cognitive Science Associations (UCA).
Mar 2024: Featured Interviewee -- The Science of Creativity: A Conversation with Anna Abraham -- Chapter 1 in Conversations on Creative Process, Methods, Research and Practice (2024, Routledge). Editors: Christina Reading and Jess Moriarty).
Feb 2024: Guest Lecture -- Redefining Creativity: Acknowledging the Creator’s Perspective -- Music Education Seminar, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, University of Georgia.
Feb 2024: Distinguished Lecture -- Myths/Truths of the Creative Mind -- Nornes Lectureship in Neuroscience, Concordia College, Minnesota.
Feb 2024: Interview -- On Creativity, Brain vs. Mind, and more -- Prairie Public Radio.
Jan 2024: Book Chapter -- E. P. Torrance on Cultivating the Conditions that are Conducive to Creativity -- to be published in Mid-Century Creativity Reader (Oxford University Press).
Dec 2023: Paper -- Themes and trends in creativity research between 1894-2022: A topic modeling approach -- accepted in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Dec 2023: Preprint -- Why the standard definition of creativity fails to capture the creative act -- https://doi.org/10.32388/LS88G9.
Nov 2023: Chair & Organizer -- A daylong series of free public engagement events Celebrating Black Musical Creativity @UGA (7-Nov-2023)
- Mini-Conference: THE SINGULAR CREATIVITY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC
- Annual Torrance Lecture: COMMUNITY, CULTURE AND BLACK MUSICAL CREATIVITY by PORTIA K. MAULTSBY (ethnomusicologist)
- Public Concert: CELEBRATING CONTEMPORARY BLACK MUSIC @ATHENS
Nov 2023: Featured Interviewee -- Wozu gibt es Fantasie? - ARTE 42: Die Antwort auf fast alles program, ARTE - the European culture TV channel (Languages: German, French). [What is Imagination for? - an ARTE 42: The Answer to Almost Everything series episode - YouTube link]