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Anna Abraham is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a notable focus on experimental and cognitive psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience. The subfields encompassed by their work include sociology and political science, social psychology, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's body of research includes several recent publications in various peer-reviewed journals. Among these are:

  • Conceptual expansion via novel metaphor processing: An ERP replication and extension study examining individual differences in creativity (2021) published in Brain and Language
  • Creativity or creativities? Why context matters (2021) published in Design Studies
  • Why the standard definition of creativity fails to capture the creative act (2024) published in Theory & Psychology

In addition to these, Anna Abraham has coauthored papers with frequent collaborators such as Sarah L. Asquith, Daniel Quintana, Harrison E. Chapman, and Xu Wang.

Their work covers multiple topics related to creativity and cognition, including:

  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
  • Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research

Anna Abraham frequently publishes in journals such as Imagination Cognition and Personality, BMC Psychology, Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, The American Journal of Psychology, and Behavioral Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Attitudes Toward Violence Against Women: A Cross-Nation Study

    Madhabika B. Nayak;Christina A. Byrne;Mutsumi K. Martin;Anna George Abraham

  • Gender and creativity: an overview of psychological and neuroscientific literature

    Anna Abraham

  • Creativity and the brain: uncovering the neural signature of conceptual expansion.

    Anna Abraham;Karoline Pieritz;Kristin Thybusch;Barbara Rutter

  • Creative thinking as orchestrated by semantic processing vs. cognitive control brain networks.

    Anna Abraham

  • Thinking about the future versus the past in personal and non-personal contexts.

    Anna Abraham;Ricarda Ines Schubotz;D. Yves von Cramon

  • Gender differences in creative thinking: behavioral and fMRI findings

    Anna Abraham;Anna Abraham;Kristin Thybusch;Karoline Pieritz;Christiane Hermann

  • The promises and perils of the neuroscience of creativity

    Anna Abraham

  • Creative thinking in adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

    Anna Abraham;Sabine Windmann;Rainer Siefen;Irene Daum

  • Conceptual expansion and creative imagery as a function of psychoticism.

    Anna Abraham;Sabine Windmann;Irene Daum;Onur Güntürkün

  • Creative cognition: The diverse operations and the prospect of applying a cognitive neuroscience perspective

    Anna Abraham;Sabine Windmann;Sabine Windmann

  • Semantic memory as the root of imagination.

    Anna Abraham;Andreja Bubic

  • The imaginative mind.

    Anna Abraham

  • Creative cognition and the brain: Dissociations between frontal, parietal-temporal and basal ganglia groups

    Anna Abraham;Susan Beudt;Derek V. M. Ott;D. Yves von Cramon

  • Meeting george bush versus meeting cinderella: The neural response when telling apart what is real from what is fictional in the context of our reality

    Anna Abraham;D. Yves von Cramon;Ricarda I. Schubotz

  • The Neuroscience of Creativity

    Anna Abraham

  • Can clouds dance? Part 2: an ERP investigation of passive conceptual expansion.

    Barbara Rutter;Sören Kröger;Holger Hill;Sabine Windmann

  • Reality = Relevance? Insights from spontaneous modulations of the brain's default network when telling apart reality from fiction

    Anna Abraham;Anna Abraham;D. Yves von Cramon

  • Creative thinking in schizophrenia: the role of executive dysfunction and symptom severity.

    Anna Abraham;Sabine Windmann;Peter McKenna;Onur Güntürkün

  • Selective Information Processing Advantages in Creative Cognition as a Function of Schizotypy

    Anna Abraham;Sabine Windmann

  • Matching mind to world and vice versa: Functional dissociations between belief and desire mental state processing.

    Anna Abraham;Anna Abraham;Hannes Rakoczy;Markus Werning;D. Yves von Cramon

  • Commentary: Creativity and Memory: Effects of an Episodic-Specificity Induction on Divergent Thinking

    Anna Abraham

Frequent Co-Authors

Christiane Hermann
Christiane Hermann University of Giessen
Ricarda Ines Schubotz
Ricarda Ines Schubotz University of Münster
Irene Daum
Irene Daum Ruhr University Bochum
Rudolf Stark
Rudolf Stark University of Giessen
Hannes Rakoczy
Hannes Rakoczy University of Göttingen
Julian Paul Keenan
Julian Paul Keenan Montclair State University
Henk Aarts
Henk Aarts Utrecht University
Frederick Aardema
Frederick Aardema University of Montreal
Peter A. Frensch
Peter A. Frensch Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Peter J. McKenna
Peter J. McKenna Fidmag Sisters Hospitallers

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