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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Creativity Thinking Cognition Intelligence Metaphor Divergent Thinking Brain Aptitude Semantics Language Thought Life Span Semantic Network Sampling Semantic Web Prefrontal Cortex Verbal Fluency Fluency Young Adult Performance Research Executive Function Experience Associative FlexibilityMost Recent Papers
Openness/intellect: The core of the creative personality
Victoria Oleynick, Colin DeYoung, Elizabeth Hyde, Scott Kaufman, Roger Beaty, Paul Silvia, on p. 9-27
Quantifying flexibility in thought
Abigail L. Cosgrove, Yoed N. Kenett, Roger E. Beaty, Michele T. Diaz, 2021, Cognition
Measuring everyday creativity
Paul J. Silvia, Rebekah M. Rodriguez, Roger E. Beaty, Emily Frith, James C. Kaufman, Paul Loprinzi, Roni Reiter-Palmon, 2021, Thinking Skills and Creativity
When figurative language goes off the rails and under the bus
Paul J. Silvia, Roger E. Beaty, 2021, Journal of Intelligence on p. 1-13
Comparing the phenomenological qualities of stimulus-independent thought, stimulus-dependent thought and dreams using experience sampling
M. E. Gross, A. P. Smith, Y. M. Graveline, R. E. Beaty, J. W. Schooler, P. Seli, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Connectome-Based Predictive Modeling of Creativity Anxiety
Zhiting Ren, Richard J. Daker, Liang Shi, Jiangzhou Sun, Roger E. Beaty, Xinran Wu, Qunlin Chen, Wenjing Yang, Ian M. Lyons, Adam E. Green, Jiang Qiu, 2021, NeuroImage
Keeping Creativity under Control
Emily Frith, Michael J. Kane, Matthew S. Welhaf, Alexander P. Christensen, Paul J. Silvia, Roger E. Beaty, 2021, Creativity Research Journal on p. 138-157
Flexible Semantic Network Structure Supports the Production of Creative Metaphor
Yangping Li, Yoed N. Kenett, Weiping Hu, Roger E. Beaty, 2021, Creativity Research Journal on p. 209-223
Eye behavior predicts susceptibility to visual distraction during internally directed cognition
Sonja Annerer-Walcher, Christof Körner, Roger E. Beaty, Mathias Benedek, 2020, Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics on p. 3432-3444
Mapping the artistic brain: Common and distinct neural activations associated with musical, drawing, and literary creativity
Qunlin Chen, Roger E. Beaty, Jiang Qiu, 2020, Human Brain Mapping on p. 3403-3419
Most-Cited Papers
Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics
Roger E. Beaty, Mathias Benedek, Paul J. Silvia, Daniel L. Schacter, 2016, Trends in Cognitive Sciences on p. 87-95
Default and executive network coupling supports creative idea production
Roger E. Beaty, Mathias Benedek, Scott Barry Kaufman, Paul J. Silvia, 2015, Scientific Reports
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
Why do ideas get more creative across time? An executive interpretation of the serial order effect in divergent thinking tasks
Roger E. Beaty, Paul J. Silvia, 2012, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts on p. 309-319
Creativity and the default network: A functional connectivity analysis of the creative brain at rest
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 E. Beaty, Paul J. Silvia, Emily C. Nusbaum, Emanuel Jauk, Mathias Benedek, 2014, Memory and Cognition on p. 1186-1197
Making creative metaphors
Paul J. Silvia, Roger E. Beaty, 2012, Intelligence on p. 343-351
Verbal fluency and creativity
Paul J. Silvia, Roger E. Beaty, Emily C. Nusbaum, 2013, Intelligence on p. 328-340
Creating metaphors: The neural basis of figurative language production
Mathias Benedek, Roger Beaty, Emanuel Jauk, Karl Koschutnig, Andreas Fink, Paul J. Silvia, Beate Dunst, Aljoscha C. Neubauer, 2014, NeuroImage on p. 99-106
Ready, set, create
Emily C. Nusbaum, Paul J. Silvia, Roger Beaty, 2014, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts on p. 423-432
News Articles Featuring Roger Beaty
Dec 01, 2020
Making Connections: Psychologist explores the neuroscience of creativity
Is there anything more mysterious — or human — than the creative impulse? Whatever the field of endeavor: music, art, science, business… What accounts for the inspired burst of innovation? The spark that flits to flame and lights the way to something entirely new?
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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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