Neurofeedback and Creativity with Simone Luchini (Part 1) Quickly and easily listen to Healthy Brain Happy Body for free!

Part 1 of my conversation with Dr. Saul Rosenthal is out now on his podcast Healthy Brain Happy Body!

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Great research I conducted alongside the great @carolasalvi.bsky.social! We use DTI to investigate the white matter of insight.

"[Our] findings suggest that insight may benefit from more diffuse connectivity patterns, allowing for broader semantic activation and cognitive flexibility."

💡Can we optimize LLMs to be more creative?
Introducing Creative Preference Optimization (CrPO) and MuCE (Multi-task Creativity Evaluation Dataset).
Result: More novel, diverse, surprising text—without losing quality!
📝 Appearing at #EMNLP2025

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(1) causal links to creative abilities, (2) associative thinking, (3) idea evaluation, and (4) diverse functional integration.

How does the DMN contribute to creativity?

Our review with Roger Beaty (@roger-beaty.bsky.social) and Emmanuelle Volle explores 4 novel trends in research.

🚨 Check out our recent preprint on human-AI co-creativity in story writing!

🔍🔍🔍 We investigate the mechanisms that underlie the outcomes of human-AI co-creativity in a highly naturalistic setting.

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The discussion will take place on zoom - you can register directly from here:

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Thank you Creativity Research Network for setting up the event!
See you next Thursday!

I'll be discussing the findings from my recent Cerebral Cortex article

Enhancing creativity with covert neurofeedback: causal evidence for default-executive network coupling in creative thinking

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Excited to share my research at the upcoming Creativity Research Network online event on Thursday, May 15th (1:30 PM, EST)! 📅

Read more on the event and the amazing work done by the Creativity Research Network on their website:

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Our findings constitute the first direct evidence that coupling between the DMN and ECN is causally involved in driving creative performance.

Read the paper for more details, there's much more to explore!

Behaviorally, we observed a double dissociation.

The experimental neurofeedback led to benefits in AUT performance, while the motor control neurofeedback led to benefits in Go/No-Go performance.

Participants completed two tasks.

Alternate Uses Task (AUT) : Measures creative performance.
Go/No-Go Task : Measures motor performance and sustained attention.

We administered covert neurofeedback -

Where the participant is not aware that we are entraining their brain activity, allowing for unbiased evaluations of cognitive and neural impacts.

For more details on covert neurofeedback :
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Participants were assigned to either an experimental or control neurofeedback condition.

Experimental Neurofeedback : Entraining coupling between DMN and ECN
Motor Control Neurofeedback : Entraining coupling between DMN and a motor control region.

This was a two-day study.

Day (1) : Participants completed a pre-neurofeedback baseline on our creativity and control task. Then, they took part in the neurofeedback.
Day (2) : Participants completed the post-neurofeedback measurement

Enhancing creativity through neurofeedback:
Check out our recent paper where we use covert neurofeedback to entrain default-executive coupling during creative thinking!

Xinbing (Jack) Zhang, Jack White, Michael Luehrs, Michal Ramot, & @roger-beaty.bsky.social

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We make openly available our data, code and fine-tuned models. Check them out on OSF (links in papers).

Huge thanks to my advisor @Roger_Beaty and the many co-authors who's help was invaluable in the making of these projects.

[1] The first large multilingual solution for automated creativity scoring of narratives with LLMs.

[2] The first solution for automated scoring of quality (and originality) in a naturalistic creativity task.

[2] In our second paper, we develop two models for scoring the originality and quality of responses to the creative problem-solving task.

Correlations between human and AI scores are ≥ .79 across both metrics.

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[1] In the first paper, we develop and validate a model that can quickly score the originality of short stories across 11 different languages.

Correlations between human and AI originality scores are ≥ .73 across all languages.

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Very happy to announce the release of two papers on automated creativity scoring in @APADivision10's own Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts!

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A great honor to have my work at the CNCL recognized by Division 10 of APA!
All my work wouldn’t have been possible without the amazing mentorship I received throughout my PhD.
Thank you @roger-beaty.bsky.social @rrpcreativity.bsky.social among many others.

Stay tuned for updates on my work!