New in CRJ: Ke Ding, Amitai Shenhav & @yoedkenett.bsky.social show the left angular gyrus plays a causal role in creative thinking. Brain stimulation boosted flexible, interconnected semantic networks during storytelling. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1080/1040...
🎉 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
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...
Next @yoedkenett.bsky.social discusses novel computational model for semantic creative exploration using entropy modulation theory
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.
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!
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
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!
🚨 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
The best conference is finally coming to Europe! Don’t miss out!!
This review complements a series of studies on question asking, spearheaded by @tuvalraz.bsky.social .bsky.social on the role of complex questions in creativity (tinyurl.com/ycxnwysd) or how it facilitates open-ended problem solving (tinyurl.com/35cr3szf).
May we all ask complex questions in 2025!
We conclude by highlighting general future directions in question asking research. Critically, the aim of our review is to highlight the impact of asking questions, and especially complex questions on a whole range of cognitive domains, guiding information seeking behavior.
Next we review studies on question asking in different contexts, focusing on child development, social interaction, and interaction with AI (e.g., chatbots).
We then review studies on the cognitive mechanistic role of question asking, focusing on its relation to curiosity, its impact on creativity, its influence on effective learning, and how it facilitates problem solving (especially ill-defined problems).
Theoretically, questioning can be defined as a cognitive process that is a) motivated by information seeking, b) is based on prior knowledge, c) questions themselves are tools eliciting required information, and d) questions serve to minimize ambiguity driving information seeking
We begin by reviewing classic theories on question asking, and propose a new framework - the Questions in Information Seeking (QuInS) framework.
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
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...
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.
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/...
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.
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
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...
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)
Pyramid showing relative influence of non-neural (sampling variability, physiology, head motion) and neural (arousal, task state, spontaneous cognition) effects on functional connectivity
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.
A 🧵 …
1/ New paper and first real foray into “precision fMRI”: Individual variability in neural representations of mind-wandering direct.mit.edu/netn/article...
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...
