Roger Beaty
Associate 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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Most Recent Publications
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
AuDrA: An automated drawing assessment platform for evaluating creativity
John D. Patterson, Baptiste Barbot, James Lloyd-Cox, Roger E. Beaty, 2024, Behavior Research Methods on p. 3619-3636
Mapping the Memory Structure of High-Knowledge Students: A Longitudinal Semantic Network Analysis
Simone A. Luchini, Shuyao Wang, Yoed N. Kenett, Roger E. Beaty, 2024, Journal of Intelligence
Mood regulation as a shared basis for creativity and curiosity
Daniel C. Zeitlen, Karen Gasper, Roger E. Beaty, 2024, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
The role of semantic memory networks in crystallized intelligence and creative thinking ability
Yangping Li, Roger E. Beaty, Simone Luchini, Weiping Hu, Yoed N. Kenett, 2024, Learning and Individual Differences
Automated Scoring of Scientific Creativity in German
Benjamin Goecke, Paul V. DiStefano, Wolfgang Aschauer, Kurt Haim, Roger Beaty, Boris Forthmann, 2024, Journal of Creative Behavior
The Process Definition of Creativity
Adam E. Green, Roger E. Beaty, Yoed N. Kenett, James C. Kaufman, 2024, Creativity Research Journal on p. 544-572
Creative Evaluation: The Role of Memory in Novelty & Effectiveness Judgements
William Orwig, Roger E. Beaty, Mathias Benedek, Daniel L. Schacter, 2024, Creativity Research Journal
Evaluation of Poetic Creativity: Predictors and the Role of Expertise—A Multilevel Approach
Soma Chaudhuri, Maura Dooley, Dan Johnson, Roger Beaty, Joydeep Bhattacharya, 2024, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models
Paul V. DiStefano, John D. Patterson, Roger E. Beaty, 2024, Creativity Research Journal
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
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
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
Ready, set, create: What instructing people to "be creative" reveals about the meaning and mechanisms of divergent thinking
Emily C. Nusbaum, Paul J. Silvia, Roger Beaty, 2014, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts on p. 423-432
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
Automating creativity assessment with SemDis: An open platform for computing semantic distance
Roger E. Beaty, Dan R. Johnson, 2020, Behavior Research Methods
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
The neuroscience of musical improvisation
Roger E. Beaty, 2015, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews on p. 108-117
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 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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