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Overview

Yoed N. Kenett is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with notable focus on subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their work covers a range of topics centered on creativity, education, neuroscience, and cognitive function. The main topics they address are:

  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
  • Cognitive Science and Mapping
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Publication venues where Yoed N. Kenett has frequently contributed include:

  • Creativity Research Journal
  • Thinking Skills and Creativity
  • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
  • Communications Biology
  • NeuroImage

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Kenett illustrate the scope of their research interests:

  • "Associative thinking at the core of creativity," 2023, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "The role of memory in creative ideation," 2023, Nature Reviews Psychology
  • "Psychological and neural responses to architectural interiors," 2020, Cortex
  • "The Process Definition of Creativity," 2023, Creativity Research Journal
  • "The relation between semantic memory structure, associative abilities, and verbal and figural creativity," 2020, Thinking & Reasoning

They have established collaborative relationships with various researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Roger E. Beaty
  • Mathias Benedek
  • Emmanuelle Volle
  • Marcela Ovando-Tellez
  • Anjan Chatterjee

Kenett's scholarship integrates psychological and neural perspectives on creativity, memory, and cognitive processes, contributing to interdisciplinary research that bridges cognition, educational neuroscience, and aesthetic perception.

Best Publications

  • Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity

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

  • Investigating the structure of semantic networks in low and high creative persons.

    Yoed Nissan Kenett;David Anaki;Miriam Faust

  • Cognitive Network Science: A Review of Research on Cognition through the Lens of Network Representations, Processes, and Dynamics

    Cynthia S. Q. Siew;Cynthia S. Q. Siew;Dirk U. Wulff;Dirk U. Wulff;Nicole M. Beckage;Yoed N. Kenett

  • A Semantic Network Cartography of the Creative Mind.

    Yoed N. Kenett;Miriam Faust

  • How semantic memory structure and intelligence contribute to creative thought: a network science approach

    Mathias Benedek;Yoed N. Kenett;Konstantin Umdasch;David Anaki

  • Flexibility of thought in high creative individuals represented by percolation analysis.

    Yoed N. Kenett;Yoed N. Kenett;Orr Levy;Dror Y. Kenett;H. Eugene Stanley

  • The role of memory in creative ideation

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  • Personality and complex brain networks: The role of openness to experience in default network efficiency.

    Roger E. Beaty;Scott Barry Kaufman;Mathias Benedek;Rex E. Jung

  • Associative thinking at the core of creativity

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  • The semantic distance task: Quantifying semantic distance with semantic network path length.

    Yoed N. Kenett;Effi Levi;David Anaki;Miriam Faust

  • "Forward flow": A new measure to quantify free thought and predict creativity.

    Kurt Gray;Stephen Anderson;Eric Evan Chen;John Michael Kelly

  • What can quantitative measures of semantic distance tell us about creativity

    Yoed N Kenett

  • Psychological and neural responses to architectural interiors.

    Alexander Coburn;Alexander Coburn;Oshin Vartanian;Yoed N. Kenett;Marcos Nadal

  • New Perspectives on the Aging Lexicon

    Dirk U. Wulff;Simon De Deyne;Michael N. Jones;Rui Mata

  • Structure and flexibility: Investigating the relation between the structure of the mental lexicon, fluid intelligence, and creative achievement.

    Yoed N. Kenett;Roger E. Beaty;Paul J. Silvia;David Anaki

  • When pumpkin is closer to onion than to squash: The structure of the second language lexicon

    Katy Borodkin;Yoed N. Kenett;Miriam Faust;Nira Mashal

  • Semantic organization in children with cochlear implants: computational analysis of verbal fluency

    Yoed N. Kenett;Deena Wechsler-Kashi;Deena Wechsler-Kashi;Dror Y. Kenett;Dror Y. Kenett;Richard G. Schwartz

  • An investigation of the cognitive and neural correlates of semantic memory search related to creative ability

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  • Global and Local Features of Semantic Networks: Evidence from the Hebrew Mental Lexicon

    Yoed N. Kenett;Dror Y. Kenett;Eshel Ben-Jacob;Miriam Faust

  • Brain connectivity–based prediction of real-life creativity is mediated by semantic memory structure

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  • Driving the brain towards creativity and intelligence: A network control theory analysis.

    Yoed N. Kenett;John D. Medaglia;Roger E. Beaty;Qunlin Chen

  • Network Structure of the Wisconsin Schizotypy Scales-Short Forms: Examining Psychometric Network Filtering Approaches

    Alexander P. Christensen;Yoed N. Kenett;Tomaso Aste;Paul J. Silvia

  • Enhanced creative thinking under dopaminergic therapy in Parkinson disease.

    Achinoam Faust-Socher;Yoed N. Kenett;Oren S. Cohen;Sharon Hassin-Baer

  • Rigidity, chaos and integration: hemispheric interaction and individual differences in metaphor comprehension

    Miriam Faust;Yoed N. Kenett

Frequent Co-Authors

Miriam Faust
Miriam Faust Bar-Ilan University
Roger E. Beaty
Roger E. Beaty Pennsylvania State University
Mathias Benedek
Mathias Benedek University of Graz
Paul J. Silvia
Paul J. Silvia University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Sharon L. Thompson-Schill
Sharon L. Thompson-Schill University of Pennsylvania
Anjan Chatterjee
Anjan Chatterjee University of Pennsylvania
Kurt Gray
Kurt Gray University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thomas R. Kwapil
Thomas R. Kwapil University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jiang Qiu
Jiang Qiu Southwest University
Richard F. Betzel
Richard F. Betzel Indiana University

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