Roger Beaty
Assistant Professor of Psychology
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140 Moore
University Park, PA - rub736@psu.edu
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Research Summary
The cognitive neuroscience of creative thinking and problem solving.
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Brain Creativity Thinking Magnetic Resonance Imaging Cognition Research Aptitude Parietal Lobe Semantics Prefrontal Cortex Individuality Sampling Young Adult Language Metaphor Executive Function Neurosciences Ecological Momentary Assessment Divergent Thinking Individual Differences Time Travel Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Chemical Activation Anxiety ElectroencephalogramMost Recent Papers
Brain hemispheric involvement in visuospatial and verbal divergent thinking
Qunlin Chen, Roger E. Beaty, Z. Cui, Jiangzhou Sun, Hong He, Kaixiang Zhuang, Zhiting Ren, Guangyuan Liu, J. Qiu, 2019, NeuroImage
Large-scale network interactions involved in dividing attention between the external environment and internal thoughts to pursue two distinct goals
David Maillet, Roger E. Beaty, Aaron Kucyi, Daniel L. Schacter, 2019, NeuroImage on p. 49-59
Creativity slumps and bumps
Manish Saggar, Hua Xie, Roger Beaty, Atanas D. Stankov, Meredith Schreier, Allan L. Reiss, 2019, NeuroImage on p. 94-101
Depression, anxiety, and stress and the distinction between intentional and unintentional mind wandering
Paul Seli, Roger Beaty, Jeremy Marty-Dugas, Daniel Smilek, 2019, Psychology of Consciousness: Theory Research, and Practice on p. 163-170
Thinking about the past and future in daily life
Roger Beaty, Paul Seli, Daniel L. Schacter, 2019, Psychological Research on p. 805-816
Creativity assessment in neuroscience research
Mathias Benedek, Alexander P. Christensen, Andreas Fink, Roger Beaty, 2019, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts on p. 218-226
Creative aging
Areeba Adnan, Roger Beaty, Paul Silvia, R. Nathan Spreng, Gary R. Turner, 2019, Neurobiology of Aging on p. 150-158
Aging and the wandering brain
David Maillet, Roger E. Beaty, Areeba Adnan, Kieran C.R. Fox, Gary R. Turner, R. Nathan Spreng, 2019, PloS one
Neural Mechanisms of Episodic Retrieval Support Divergent Creative Thinking
Kevin P. Madore, Preston P. Thakral, Roger Beaty, Donna Rose Addis, Daniel L. Schacter, 2019, Cerebral Cortex on p. 150-166
Use or Consequences
Richard W. Hass, Roger E. Beaty, 2018, Frontiers in Psychology
Most-Cited Papers
Default and Executive Network Coupling Supports Creative Idea Production
Roger E. Beaty, Mathias Benedek, Scott Barry Kaufman, Paul J. Silvia, 2015, Scientific reports
Creativity and the default network
Roger E. Beaty, Mathias Benedek, Robin W. Wilkins, Emanuel Jauk, Andreas Fink, Paul J. Silvia, Donald A. Hodges, Karl Koschutnig, Aljoscha C. Neubauer, 2014, Neuropsychologia on p. 92-98
The roles of associative and executive processes in creative cognition
Roger Beaty, Paul J. Silvia, Emily C. Nusbaum, Emanuel Jauk, Mathias Benedek, 2014, Memory and Cognition on p. 1186-1197
Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity
Roger E. Beaty, Yoed N. Kenett, Alexander P. Christensen, Monica D. Rosenberg, Mathias Benedek, Qunlin Chen, Andreas Fink, Jiang Qiu, Thomas R. Kwapil, Michael J. Kane, Paul J. Silvia, 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 1087-1092
Creating metaphors
Mathias Benedek, Roger Beaty, Emanuel Jauk, Karl Koschutnig, Andreas Fink, Paul J. Silvia, Beate Dunst, Aljoscha C. Neubauer, 2014, NeuroImage on p. 99-106
Metaphorically speaking
Roger E. Beaty, Paul J. Silvia, 2013, Memory and Cognition on p. 255-267
Brain mechanisms associated with internally directed attention and self-generated thought
Mathias Benedek, Emanuel Jauk, Roger E. Beaty, Andreas Fink, Karl Koschutnig, Aljoscha C. Neubauer, 2016, Scientific reports
Individual differences in verbal creative thinking are reflected in the precuneus
Qun Lin Chen, Ting Xu, Wen Jing Yang, Ya Dan Li, Jiang Zhou Sun, Kang Cheng Wang, Roger E. Beaty, Qing Lin Zhang, Xi Nian Zuo, Jiang Qiu, 2015, Neuropsychologia on p. 441-449
Creative constraints
Roger E. Beaty, Alexander P. Christensen, Mathias Benedek, Paul J. Silvia, Daniel L. Schacter, 2017, NeuroImage on p. 189-196
Neural Mechanisms of Episodic Retrieval Support Divergent Creative Thinking
Kevin P. Madore, Preston P. Thakral, Roger Beaty, Donna Rose Addis, Daniel L. Schacter, 2019, Cerebral Cortex on p. 150-166
News Articles Featuring Roger Beaty
Aug 13, 2019
NSF grant to fund research on brain activity and scientific creative thinking
Roger Beaty, assistant professor of psychology and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity Lab in the Penn State Department of Psychology, has received a $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) along with co-investigators from two other institutions to collaborate on a project aimed at understanding and measuring creativity in the context of science.
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May 24, 2019
Creative People Have A Special ‘Default Network’ In The Brain
George Bernard Shaw once called imagination the “beginning of creation.” Joseph Joubert called it the “eye of the soul,” and J.K Rowling defined it as the “uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not.”
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May 22, 2019
Creative Types Reserve a Special Corner of the Brain for Dreaming Big
Artists, novelists, actors and directors excel at tapping into “imagination” circuits
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