Roger E Beaty
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1935199 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Roger E Beaty |
| NOMBRES | Roger E |
| APELLIDO | Beaty |
| FIRMA | BEATY R E |
| AFILIACIONES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6114-5973 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Tracking Divergent Thinking
Automated Scoring of Question Complexity with Transformer Language Models
Introduces two automated transformer models for assessing cognitive question complexity: high-performing LLaMA 2 and efficient, robust RoBERTa. • These fine-tuned transformer language models greatly outperform surface-based and semantic-distance baselines. • Both models predict open-ended question complexity and align strongly with human ratings. • Introduces PrediQT , a free web app for automated question-complexity scoring. • Bridges creativity…
Automated assessment of creativity in multilingual narratives
Researchers and educators interested in creative writing need a reliable and efficient tool to score the creativity of narratives, such as short stories. Typically, human raters manually assess narrative creativity, but such subjective scoring is limited by labor costs and rater disagreement. Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable success on creativity tasks, yet they have not been applied to scoring narratives, including multilingual…
Response to “Comment on the Process Definition of Creativity”
Dr Weisberg has presented a commentary on our paper, The Process Definition of Creativity, in which he formulates criticisms of several elements of the process definition that we propose. Here, we
The Scientific Creative Thinking Test (SCTT)
Creative thinking is a primary driver of innovation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), allowing students and practitioners to generate novel hypotheses, flexibly connect information from diverse sources, and solve ill-defined problems. To foster creativity in STEM education, there is a crucial need for assessment tools for measuring STEM creativity that educators and researchers can apply to test how different teaching approach…
Associative Thinking and Creative Ability in Older Adulthood
Successful problem-solving and enhanced creative ability may improve physical health, cognitive well-being, and overall independence of older adults. In general, older adults who are more creative, may be better able to cope with cognitive decline and navigate everyday tasks. While previous research on creative performance in older adulthood showed age-related stability, open questions remain regarding the specific underlying cognitive basis for …
The Impact of Transcranial Photobiomodulation on the Bilateral Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Enhancing Convergent Thinking and Stroop Test
Transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM) has been employed for cognitive enhancement in healthy individuals. This study aimed to investigate the effects of tPBM applied bilaterally over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) on convergent thinking (CT), divergent thinking (DT), and the Stroop test. Additionally, we explored whether Stroop performance mediates the effect of tPBM on creativity. In this double‐blind, between‐subjects study, 56 hea…
Semantic memory network resilience in aging
AI‐Powered Scoring for Creative Thinking
The introduction of the PISA 2022 Creative Thinking assessment underscores the growing need for scalable, valid, and reliable methods to evaluate creativity in international large‐scale assessments. Traditional human scoring, while nuanced, is time‐consuming, costly, and subject to inconsistencies. This paper explores recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP)—particularly transformer‐based large languag…
Free association ability distinguishes highly creative artists from scientists
The associative theory posits that creativity relates to people's ability to connect remote associations to form new ideas, based on the structure of their semantic memory.This theory has spurred several recent studies connecting semantic memory structure and associative thinking to creativity, capitalizing on advances in computational methods.To date, however, this research has almost exclusively focused on assessing creativity in the general po…
Automated scoring of creative problem solving with large language models
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A MAD method to assess idea novelty
Thematic profile analysis reveals the explanatory power of themes in creative ideas
Toward greater computational modeling in neurocognitive creativity research
Creative cognition is the driving force behind all cultural and scientific progress. In recent years, the field of neurocognitive creativity research (NCR) has made considerable progress in revealing the neural and psychological correlates of creative cognition. However, a detailed understanding of how cognitive processes produce creative ideas, and how these processes interact differently across tasks and individuals, remains elusive. In this ar…
Evaluation of poetic creativity
Poetry is one of the most creative expressions of language, but how we evaluate the creativity of a poem is not properly characterized. The present study investigated the role of various subjective qualities – clarity, aesthetic appeal, felt valence, arousal, and surprise – in predicting the creativity judgment of English poems. Participants (N=129) were presented with a broad range of English poems; they rated each poem on six characteristics: c…
The creative mind in daily life
Brain networks supporting scientific creative thinking
Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks
Effects of Combined tDCS-tRNS Over the Left Prefrontal Cortex on Convergent Thinking After 24 Hours
This study aimed to investigate whether combined transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) applied to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) with the cathode over the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) produce effects on creativity 1-day after being stimulated. In a double-blind, between-subjects design, 54 healthy participants were randomly assigned to either tDCS-tRNS or sham. The tDCS-tR…
Automatic Scoring of Metaphor Creativity with Large Language Models
Metaphor is crucial in human cognition and creativity, facilitating abstract thinking, analogical reasoning, and idea generation.Typically, human raters manually score the originality of responses to creative thinking tasks -a laborious and error-prone process.Previous research sought to remedy these risks by scoring creativity tasks automatically using semantic distance and large language models (LLMs).Here, we extend research on automatic creat…
Creative Evaluation
How do we assess the quality of an idea? Current theories suggest that episodic memory contributes to creative ideation, implicating memory retrieval and mental simulation in the generation of creative ideas; however, the role of memory in creative evaluation has not been systematically examined. Across two independent online samples (Study 1 n = 50, Study 2 n = 626), we explore how episodic retrieval supports the evaluation of two distinct aspec…
Planning Missing Data Designs for Human Ratings in Creativity Research
Human ratings are ubiquitous in creativity research. Yet, the process of rating responses to creativity tasks – typically several hundred or thousands of responses, per rater – is often time-consuming and expensive. Planned missing data designs, where raters only rate a subset of the total number of responses, have been recently proposed as one possible solution to decrease overall rating time and monetary costs. However, researchers also need ra…
Creative Empathy
Empathy research has long emphasized accuracy when imagining other minds. We explore whether empathy can be a creative process, where people think of multiple diverging possibilities of others’ experiences. We developed two tasks to measure creative empathy. First, we adapted “forward flow” to measure the dynamic unfolding of creativity while imagining other minds, quantified as semantic distance between mental state concepts when freely associat…
Envisioning the Future of Creative Thinking Assessment
The PISA assessment 2022 of creative thinking was a moonshot effort that introduced significant advancements over existing creativity tests, including a broad range of domains (written, visual, social, and scientific), implementation in many languages, and sophisticated scoring methods. PISA 2022 demonstrated the general feasibility of assessing creative thinking ability comprehensively at an international scale. However, the complexity of its as…
A ‘Sweet Spot’ for Creative Ideation
Creativity researchers have recently sought to standardize idea assessment via computational measures of semantic distance: the degree of conceptual dissimilarity between words. The relationship between semantic distance and creativity has traditionally been described using linear models, with the embedded assumption that as semantic distance increases, so does the creative quality of ideas. However, informal observations would suggest that dista…
Creativity in the age of generative AI
Envisioning the Future of Creative Thinking Assessment
The PISA assessment 2022 of creative thinking was a moonshot effort that introduced significant advancements over existing creativity tests, including a broad range of domains (written, visual, social, and scientific), implementation in many languages, and sophisticated scoring methods. PISA 2022 demonstrated the general feasibility of assessing creative thinking ability comprehensively at an international scale. However, the complexity of its as…
A contest study to reduce attractiveness-based discrimination in social judgment
Discrimination in the evaluation of others is a key cause of social inequality around the world. However, relatively little is known about psychological interventions that can be used to prevent biased evaluations. The limited evidence that exists on these strategies is spread across many methods and populations, making it difficult to generate reliable best practices that can be effective across contexts. In the present work, we held a research …
Predicting openness to experience via a multiplex cognitive network approach
Why do ideas get more creative across time? An executive interpretation of the serial order effect in divergent thinking tasks.
The serial order effect—the tendency for later responses to a divergent thinking task to be better than earlier ones—is one of the oldest and most robust findings in modern creativity work. But why do ideas get better? Using new methods that afford a fine-grained look at temporal trajectories, we contrasted two explanations: the classic spreading activation account and a new account based on executive and strategic aspects of creative thought. Af…
Music to the inner ears
Ready, set, create
The “be creative effect”—instructing people to “be creative” before a divergent thinking task makes the responses more creative—is one of the oldest findings in creativity science. The present research suggests that this seemingly simple effect has underappreciated implications for the assessment of divergent thinking and for theories of the executive and controlled nature of creative thought. An experiment measured fluid intelligence and gave 2 …
The roles of associative and executive processes in creative cognition
Default and Executive Network Coupling Supports Creative Idea Production
The role of attention in creative cognition remains controversial. Neuroimaging studies have reported activation of brain regions linked to both cognitive control and spontaneous imaginative processes, raising questions about how these regions interact to support creative thought. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we explored this question by examining dynamic interactions between brain regions during a divergent thinking task. …
Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics
Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity
Significance People’s capacity to generate creative ideas is central to technological and cultural progress. Despite advances in the neuroscience of creativity, the field lacks clarity on whether a specific neural architecture distinguishes the highly creative brain. Using methods in network neuroscience, we modeled individual creative thinking ability as a function of variation in whole-brain functional connectivity. We identified a brain networ…
How pervasive is mind wandering, really
Mind-Wandering Across the Age Gap
We consider these results in the context of theories on age-related differences in mind wandering, with a specific focus on their relevance to the recently proposed motivational account of such age-related differences
Automating creativity assessment with SemDis
Creativity research requires assessing the quality of ideas and products. In practice, conducting creativity research often involves asking several human raters to judge participants’ responses to creativity tasks, such as judging the novelty of ideas from the alternate uses task (AUT). Although such subjective scoring methods have proved useful, they have two inherent limitations—labor cost (raters typically code thousands of responses) and subj…
Seeing outside the box
Keeping Creativity under Control
Increasing research efforts are focused on explaining the cognitive bases of creativity. However, it remains unclear when and how cognitive factors such as intelligence and executive function uniquely contribute to performance on creative thinking tasks. Although a relationship between fluid intelligence (Gf) and creative cognition has been well-documented, the underlying mechanism of this relation is unknown. Here, we test one possible mechanism…
Flexible Semantic Network Structure Supports the Production of Creative Metaphor
Metaphors are a common way to express creative language, yet the cognitive basis of figurative language production remains poorly understood. Previous studies found that higher creative individuals can better comprehend novel metaphors, potentially due to a more flexible semantic memory network structure conducive to remote conceptual combination. The present study extends this domain to creative metaphor production and examined whether the abili…
Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study
Previous research indicates that episodic retrieval contributes to divergent creative thinking. However, this research has relied on standard laboratory tests of divergent creative thinking, such as generating creative uses for objects; it is unknown whether episodic retrieval also contributes to domain-specific forms of creativity. Here we start to explore whether episodic retrieval contributes to content generation on one such domain-specific t…
Neural Representations of Conceptual Fixation during Creative Imagination
A large body of research has revealed that viewing example image stimuli tends to constrain creative idea generation. However, the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying such visual fixation in creative cognition are unclear. In the present experiment, we explored whether example images impacted creative imagination and patterns of neural activity within brain regions associated with visual object recognition. Participants first viewed example imag…
Semantic Distance and the Alternate Uses Task
Semantic distance is increasingly used for automated scoring of originality on divergent thinking tasks, such as the Alternate Uses Task (AUT). Despite some psychometric support for semantic distance – including positive correlations with human creativity ratings – additional work is needed to optimize its reliability and validity, including identifying maximally reliable items (objects) for AUT administration. We identify a set of 13 AUT items b…
Automated Creativity Prediction Using Natural Language Processing and Resting-State Functional Connectivity
Evidence from fMRI research indicates that individual creative thinking ability – defined as performance on divergent thinking tasks, subjectively assessed by human raters – can be predicted based on the strength of functional connectivity (FC) between the brain’s default mode network (DMN) and frontoparietal control network (FPCN). Here, we sought to replicate and extend these findings in two ways: 1) using a natural language processing method t…
Associative thinking at the core of creativity
Multilingual semantic distance
Creativity research commonly involves recruiting human raters to judge the originality of responses to divergent thinking tasks, such as the alternate uses task (AUT). These manual scoring practices have benefited the field, but they also have limitations, including labor-intensiveness and subjectivity, which can adversely impact the reliability and validity of assessments. To address these challenges, researchers are increasingly employing autom…
Memory and creativity
Mapping the Creative Personality
Existing research has consistently supported a relationship between creative achievement and specific personality traits (e.g. openness to experience). However, such work has largely focused on univariate associations, potentially obscuring complex interactions among multiple personality factors, rendering an incomplete picture of the creative personality. We applied a psychometric network approach to characterize the multidimensional personality…
Accelerating Creativity
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been shown to enhance divergent and convergent creative thinking. Yet, how stimulation impacts creative performance over time, and what cognitive mechanisms underlie any such enhancement, remain largely unanswered questions. In the present research, we aimed to (1) verify the impact of DLPFC tDCS on both convergent and divergent thinking, and furthe…
Towards Game-Based Assessment of Creative Thinking
For decades, researchers have struggled with measurement problems related to the construct validity of divergent and convergent thinking in creativity assessments. In response, some have called for battery-based approaches. Recently, digital games have emerged as a potential alternative, offering increased scalability and improved ecological validity. This article presents CREA: a new, scalable, game-based assessment suite. CREA includes crea.til…
Back to the basics
Researchers have invested a great deal in creating reliable, “gold-standard” creativity assessments that can be administered in controlled laboratory settings, though these efforts have come at the cost of not using ecologically and face-valid tasks. To help fill this critical gap, we developed and implemented a novel, face-valid paradigm that required participants to paint abstract pieces of art, which were later rated for creative quality. We f…
Representing melodic relationships using network science
Psychology (50 obras) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (45 obras) · Social Psychology (43 obras) · Creativity (42 obras) · Cognitive psychology (39 obras) · Computer Science (28 obras) · Cognition (25 obras) · Cognitive science (15 obras) · Neuroscience (14 obras) · Divergent thinking (12 obras)