Creativity & Imagination Lab @UGA
The Creativity & Imagination Lab @UGA (PI: Anna Abraham) explores a wide array of themes within the multifaceted realm of the human imagination. The adopted perspectives of study are systemic and multidisciplinary (psychology, neuroscience, philosophy). Our conceptual and empirical work is relevant for diverse basic and applied (e.g., education, public health) domains of scholarship and practice.
The Creativity and Imagination Lab (PI & Lab Director: Anna Abraham, Ph.D.) explores a wide array of themes within the multifaceted realm that is the human imagination.
The adopted perspectives of study are systemic and multidisciplinary (primarily psychology & neuroscience). Our conceptual and empirical work is relevant for diverse basic and applied (e.g., education, public health) domains of research and scholarship.
We investigate questions in the following topics from empirical and theoretical standpoints.
Programs & Activities
Research Interests:
-- Neuroscience of creativity (fMRI; EEG/ERP; neuropsychology)
-- Psychology of creativity (cognition; development across lifespan; personality)
-- Cross-disciplinary study of the imagination (aesthetics, imagery, intentionality, altered states)
-- Theoretical examinations of creativity and imagination
Areas of Expertise
-- Creativity
-- Imagination
-- Reality-fiction distinction
-- Mental time travel
-- Mental state reasoning
-- Self-referential thinking
-- Social cognition & behavior
-- Neurophilosophy
-- Aesthetic experience