Mathias Benedek

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MIC Conference 2025: EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE!

Due to several requests, we are pleased to inform you that we decided to extend up until *APRIL 30* the submission deadline for your potential contribution to the MIC Conference 2025!

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The Promise of American Higher Education No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

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We get a WHOLE EXTRA DAY OF SFNC THIS YEAR

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...

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....

SfNC is pleased to offer up to 10 travel awards ($500) for our conference in Paris. Open to all members, presenting or not. Apply through the member portal. @tsfnc.bsky.social

Member Site — The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity

SfNC is pleased to offer up to 10 travel awards (up to $500 each) for our conference in Paris. Open to all members, presenting or not. Apply through the member portal here: www.tsfnc.org/member-sign-on

Much-anticipated for 2025! 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: t.co/CoVLsIGFDg

Investigation of Response Aggregation Methods in Divergent Thinking Assessments Divergent thinking (DT) ability is widely regarded as a central cognitive capacity underlying creativity, but its assessment is challenged by the fact that DT tasks yield a variable number of respons...

How should we score divergent thinking tasks to best assess the ability to generate creative ideas? 🤔 It’s a big question in creativity research, so we systematically compared different scoring approaches to evaluate their psychometric quality. Check out our findings!

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SfNC Starter Pack Join the conversation

The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (@tsfnc.bsky.social) has a starter pack of folks doing creativity research. We're trying to build the creativity research community here. Please follow and let us know if you'd like to be added.

Are you a creativity researcher just starting in Bluesky? Check out the @tsfnc SfNC Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/S5Ce66c

Meta-analysis of PISA creative thinking data by @benjamingoecke.bsky.social across 62 countries (n=493,660) finds SES is a strong predictor of creativity, along with gender: girls scored higher than boys—a bigger gender gap than boys’ slight advantage in math. osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are also accepting nominations for our 2025 awards! Find out more here: www.tsfnc.org/sfnc-awards

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...