Roger Beaty

Associate Professor of Psychology

Roger Beaty

Research Summary

The cognitive neuroscience of creative thinking and problem solving.

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Most Recent Publications

Dynamic switching between brain networks predicts creative ability

Qunlin Chen, Yoed N. Kenett, Zaixu Cui, Hikaru Takeuchi, Andreas Fink, Mathias Benedek, Daniel C. Zeitlen, Kaixiang Zhuang, James Lloyd-Cox, Ryuta Kawashima, Jiang Qiu, Roger E. Beaty, 2025, Communications Biology

Evaluating overinclusive thinking: Development and validation of the Categorical Overinclusive Thinking Task (COverTT)

Paul V. DiStefano, John D. Patterson, Roger E. Beaty, 2025, Thinking Skills and Creativity

What is creative in childhood writing? Computationally measured linguistic characteristics explain much of the variance in subjective human-rated creativity scores

Birsu Kandemirci, Roger E. Beaty, Dan Johnson, Bonamy R. Oliver, Yulia Kovas, Teemu Toivainen, 2025, Learning and Individual Differences

Response to “Comment on the Process Definition of Creativity”

Adam Green, Roger Beaty, Yoed Kenett, James Kaufman, 2025, Creativity Research Journal

Associative Thinking and Creative Ability in Older Adulthood

Abigail L. Cosgrove, Michele Theresa Diaz, Paul V. DiStefano, Yoed N. Kenett, Roger E. Beaty, 2025, Creativity Research Journal

Automated scoring of creative problem solving with large language models: A comparison of originality and quality ratings

Simone Luchini, Nadine Maliakkal, Paul DiStefano, Antonio Laverghetta, John Patterson, Roger Beaty, Roni Reiter-Palmon, 2025, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Differences in spatiotemporal brain network dynamics of Montessori and traditionally schooled students

Paola Zanchi, Emeline Mullier, Eleonora Fornari, Priscille Guerrier de Dumast, Yasser Alemán-Gómez, Jean Baptiste Ledoux, Roger Beaty, Patric Hagmann, Solange Denervaud, 2024, npj Science of Learning

Neural, genetic, and cognitive signatures of creativity

Cheng Liu, Kaixiang Zhuang, Daniel C. Zeitlen, Qunlin Chen, Xueyang Wang, Qiuyang Feng, Roger E. Beaty, Jiang Qiu, 2024, Communications Biology

A Contest Study to Reduce Attractiveness-Based Discrimination in Social Judgment

Eliane Roy, Bastian Jaeger, Anthony M. Evans, Kate M. Turetsky, Brian A. O’Shea, Michael Bang Petersen, Balbir Singh, Joshua Correll, Denise Yiran Zheng, Kirk Warren Brown, Erika L. Kirgios, Linda W. Chang, Edward H. Chang, Jennifer R. Steele, Julia Sebastien, Jennifer R. Sedgewick, Amy Hackney, Rachel Cook, Xin Yang, Arin Korkmaz, Jessica J. Sim, Nazia Khan, Maximilian A. Primbs, Gijsbert Bijlstra, Ruddy Faure, Johan C. Karremans, Luiza A. Santos, Jan G. Voelkel, Maddalena Marini, Jacqueline M. Chen, Teneille Brown, Haewon Yoon, Carey K. Morewedge, Irene Scopelliti, Neil Hester, Xi Shen, Ming Ma, Danila Medvedev, Emily G. Ritchie, Chieh Lu, Yen Ping Chang, Aishwarya Kumar, Ranjavati Banerji, Jeremy D. Gretton, Landon Schnabel, Bethany A. Teachman, Ariella S. Kristal, Kao Wei Chua, Jonathan B. Freeman, Sean Fath, Lusine Grigoryan, M. Isabelle Weißflog, Yalda Daryani, Reza Pourhosein, Stefanie K. Johnson, Elsa T. Chan, Samantha M. Stevens, Stephen Anderson, Roger E. Beaty, Sandro Rubichi, Veronica Margherita Cocco, Loris Vezzali, Calvin K. Lai, Jordan R. Axt, 2024, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology on p. 508-535

Fostering creativity in science education reshapes semantic memory

Clin KY Lai, Edith Haim, Wolfgang Aschauer, Kurt Haim, Roger E. Beaty, 2024, Thinking Skills and Creativity

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

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

Default and Executive Network Coupling Supports Creative Idea Production

Roger E. Beaty, Mathias Benedek, Scott Barry Kaufman, Paul J. Silvia, 2015, Scientific Reports

Automating creativity assessment with SemDis: An open platform for computing semantic distance

Roger E. Beaty, Dan R. Johnson, 2020, Behavior Research Methods

Openness to experience and awe in response to nature and music: Personality and profound aesthetic experiences

Paul J. Silvia, Kirill Fayn, Emily C. Nusbaum, Roger E. Beaty, 2015, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts on p. 376-384

Network neuroscience of creative cognition: mapping cognitive mechanisms and individual differences in the creative brain

Roger E. Beaty, Paul Seli, Daniel L. Schacter, 2019, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences on p. 22-30

The neuroscience of musical improvisation

Roger E. Beaty, 2015, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews on p. 108-117

Creative constraints: Brain activity and network dynamics underlying semantic interference during idea production

Roger E. Beaty, Alexander P. Christensen, Mathias Benedek, Paul J. Silvia, Daniel L. Schacter, 2017, NeuroImage on p. 189-196

Personality and complex brain networks: The role of openness to experience in default network efficiency

Roger E. Beaty, Scott Barry Kaufman, Mathias Benedek, Rex E. Jung, Yoed N. Kenett, Emanuel Jauk, Aljoscha C. Neubauer, Paul J. Silvia, 2016, Human Brain Mapping on p. 773-779

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