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PhD candidate in the Schacter Memory Lab at Harvard University studying the Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity | www.willorwig.com

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The Creativity Challenge: Practice โ€œIntentional Daydreamingโ€ Today, letโ€™s get lost in our thoughts.

Excited to see our work highlighted in today's New York Times article exploring the potential benefits of intentional mind wandering in creative thinking!
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

04.06.2025 18:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The schedule is out for our biggest meeting yet as we celebrate 10 years! ๐Ÿฅณ

Weโ€™ve added a Day Zero symposium on May 21 focused on Creativity & AI, so mark your calendars.๐Ÿ“†

Keynotes from Anna Abraham & Andreas Fink and much more - registration opens next week with more info to come! #SfNC2025

28.02.2025 20:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Exploring How Generating Metaphor Via Insight Versus Analysis Affects Metaphor Quality and Learning Outcomes Metaphor generation is both a creative act and a means of learning. When learning a new concept, people often create a metaphor to connect the new concept to existing knowledge. Does the manner in wh...

Paper alert - the sister series on metaphor generation! Insight (aha!) has been traditionally studied in a problem-solving context. Does insight during idea generation have the same characteristics and impact?https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.13488

17.02.2025 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall.

It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested.

More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post...

Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723

13.02.2025 14:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 109    ๐Ÿ” 87    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Thanks, Camille!

24.01.2025 20:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Using AI to Generate Visual Art: Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality? As artificial intelligence (AI) advances in the realm of generative art, a critical question emerges: does human creativity matter? That is, do more-creative people produce more-creative AI-assiste...

Excited to share our latest publication: Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality? Findings suggest that highly creative people generate more semantically distant prompts, which inspire more creative AI-generated images.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

24.01.2025 15:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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