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Overview

Andreas Fink is affiliated with the University of Graz in Austria. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a substantial focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Humor Studies and Applications
  • Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function

Some of the recent papers involving Andreas Fink are:

  • Elements of creative thought: Investigating the cognitive and neural correlates of association and bi-association processes, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Creative, Antagonistic, and Angry? Exploring the Roots of Malevolent Creativity with a Real-World Idea Generation Task, 2020, The Journal of Creative Behavior
  • More habitual physical activity is linked to the use of specific, more adaptive cognitive reappraisal strategies in dealing with stressful events, 2020, Stress and Health
  • Neurophysiological indicators of internal attention: An electroencephalography-eye-tracking coregistration study, 2020, Brain and Behavior
  • Humor comprehension and creative cognition: Shared and distinct neurocognitive mechanisms as indicated by EEG alpha activity, 2020, NeuroImage

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Andreas Fink include:

  • Christian Rominger
  • Corinna M. Perchtold-Stefan
  • Ilona Papousek
  • Mathias Benedek
  • Andreas Schwerdtfeger

Publishing venues frequently featuring their work encompass:

  • Scientific Reports
  • NeuroImage
  • The Journal of Creative Behavior
  • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
  • PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Intelligence and neural efficiency

    Aljoscha C. Neubauer;Andreas Fink

  • Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity

    Roger E. Beaty;Yoed N. Kenett;Alexander P. Christensen;Monica D. Rosenberg

  • The creative brain: investigation of brain activity during creative problem solving by means of EEG and FMRI.

    Andreas Fink;Roland H. Grabner;Mathias Benedek;Gernot Reishofer

  • EEG alpha power and creative ideation

    Andreas Fink;Mathias Benedek

  • 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

  • To create or to recall? Neural mechanisms underlying the generation of creative new ideas.

    Mathias Benedek;Emanuel Jauk;Andreas Fink;Karl Koschutnig

  • Brain correlates underlying creative thinking: EEG alpha activity in professional vs. novice dancers.

    Andreas Fink;Barbara Graif;Aljoscha C. Neubauer

  • Alpha power increases in right parietal cortex reflects focused internal attention

    Mathias Benedek;Rainer J. Schickel;Emanuel Jauk;Andreas Fink

  • Enhancing creativity by means of cognitive stimulation: evidence from an fMRI study.

    Andreas Fink;Roland H. Grabner;Daniela Gebauer;Gernot Reishofer

  • Creativity meets neuroscience: experimental tasks for the neuroscientific study of creative thinking.

    Andreas Fink;Mathias Benedek;Roland H Grabner;Beate Staudt

  • EEG alpha oscillations during the performance of verbal creativity tasks: differential effects of sex and verbal intelligence.

    Andreas Fink;Aljoscha C. Neubauer

  • EEG alpha synchronization is related to top-down processing in convergent and divergent thinking

    Mathias Benedek;Sabine Bergner;Tanja Könen;Andreas Fink

  • Creating metaphors: the neural basis of figurative language production.

    Mathias Benedek;Roger E. Beaty;Emanuel Jauk;Karl Koschutnig

  • Toward a neurocognitive framework of creative cognition: The role of memory, attention, and cognitive control.

    Mathias Benedek;Andreas Fink

  • Religious/Spiritual Well-being, personality and mental health: a review of results and conceptual issues.

    H. F. Unterrainer;A. J. Lewis;A. Fink

  • Sensitivity of human EEG alpha band desynchronization to different working memory components and increasing levels of memory load.

    A. Stipacek;R.H. Grabner;C. Neuper;A. Fink

  • Divergent thinking training is related to frontal electroencephalogram alpha synchronization

    Andreas Fink;Roland H. Grabner;Mathias Benedek;Aljoscha C. Neubauer

  • EEG alpha band dissociation with increasing task demands.

    A. Fink;R.H. Grabner;C. Neuper;A.C. Neubauer

  • Intelligence and neural efficiency: further evidence of the influence of task content and sex on the brain-IQ relationship

    Aljoscha C. Neubauer;Roland H. Grabner;Andreas Fink;Christa Neuper

  • Dimensions of Religious/Spiritual Well-Being and their relation to Personality and Psychological Well-Being

    H.-F. Unterrainer;K.H. Ladenhauf;M.L. Moazedi;S.J. Wallner-Liebmann

  • Intelligence and neural efficiency: Measures of brain activation versus measures of functional connectivity in the brain

    Aljoscha C. Neubauer;Andreas Fink

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilona Papousek
Ilona Papousek University of Graz
Elisabeth M. Weiss
Elisabeth M. Weiss University of Innsbruck
Aljoscha C. Neubauer
Aljoscha C. Neubauer University of Graz
Mathias Benedek
Mathias Benedek University of Graz
Roland H. Grabner
Roland H. Grabner University of Graz
Emanuel Jauk
Emanuel Jauk TU Dresden
Roger E. Beaty
Roger E. Beaty Pennsylvania State University
Paul J. Silvia
Paul J. Silvia University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Daniel Memmert
Daniel Memmert German Sport University Cologne
Walther Parson
Walther Parson Innsbruck Medical University

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