Simone Luchini

How does the DMN contribute to creativity? Our new review with @Roger_Beaty and Emmanuelle Volle explores 4 novel trends in research: (1) causal links to creative abilities, (2) associative thinking, (3) idea evaluation, and (4) diverse functional integration.

@Yu_Yu_Hua @Roger_Beaty Thrilled to have been part of this! Can't wait to see how the field puts perplexity to work as a creativity metric

Perplexity, aka surprise, or prediction error, tracks divergent thinking in thought process #thinkaloud and product. Native LLM metric, zero-training, broad-applicability. Shout out to my collaborators @Roger_Beaty @Simone_Luchini and Dr. Raffaelli, Dr. Andrews-Hanna.

New paper alert! A theoretically grounded, scalable metric of Divergent thinking, #perplexity, applicable to a range of human verbal production. Limited time open access here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Does knowing more make you ask better questions? 🧠 In our new paper, we say yes, but traditional tests don't reward it. ​We find that great question-askers actually score WORSE on multiple-choice exams, but excel at open-ended projects! @yoed_kenett nature.com/articles/s4153…

I'm pleased to share a recent study from myself and @JamesKaufman. We used instructional prompts to guide participants through the creative problem-solving process. They improved solution creativity, and the effect was mediated by engagement. Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mFBR3QACxzF…

New paper out!📄@yoed_kenett Can people accurately judge their own question? Across 3 studies, self-ratings weakly match objective scores. People overrate simple questions, underrate complex ones, and greatly improve after brief training. Open access: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Part 1 of my conversation with Dr. Saul Rosenthal is out now on his podcast Healthy Brain Happy Body! player.captivate.fm/episode/90cbd7…

New paper: Generative AI Does Not Erase Individual Differences in Human Creativity osf.io/preprints/psya… People with higher intelligence and creativity produce better ideas with GPT-4o, suggesting cognitive abilities still matter, even when everyone has the same AI tools.

@moreno__sarah Congrats Sarah!! See you on bluesky ;)

I am proud to announce that I successfully defended my PhD last month! Thank you Emmanuelle Volle and Alizée Lopez-Persem for the wonderful past 4 years! & it's a good time as any to also announce that I've officially moved to bluesky: bsky.app/profile/sarah-… See you all there!

Our npj Science of Learning paper features in PsyPost!

Excited to share a preprint: an out-of-the-box LLM metric for assessing Divergent Thinking, linking process-centered theory of creativity, spontaneous cognition and entropy. Available on @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/39…

Creativity is collaborative. But with LLMs, many now collaborate with AI. Are people more creative working with other people or LLMs? We find human pairs are MORE creative, and AI actually reduces human originality over time, despite increasing verbosity. osf.io/preprints/psya…

Amazing project by @mismayilsoy! It was a pleasure to collaborate on this ambitious study on the creativity of generative AI

It's a real pleasure to share with you the first first-authored paper by Lorenzo Campidelli @campidelli_lore, brilliant and super-enthusiastic PhD student at the Doc Lab (open access). sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thrilled to share CAP: The Creativity Assessment Platform. CAP is a free web-app with creativity tests and automated scoring. App: cap.ist.psu.edu Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.375… We built CAP to make creativity testing easier and more reliable. Here's a quick tour.🧵

Creativity has been linked to better learning—but why? We find that both rely on associative thinking: the ability to form new connections. nature.com/articles/s4153…

Read the paper "Cyber-#Creativity: A Decalogue of Research Challenges" here! doi.org/10.3390/jintel…

New theory: Categorization is Baked Into the Brain It is not at the end of sensory processing but a core computation that begins at the earliest stages, occurring throughout the cortex as predictive feedback shapes feedforward processing. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… #neuroscience

🚨 New article 🚨 How to measure semantic #networks of individuals reliably? Excited to share this article, led by @samuelaeschbach, Based on simulations, we provide recommendations on designing and interpreting behavioral studies. Article: lnkd.in/dhWiwEBU

In neuroscience, we often try to understand systems by analyzing their representations — using tools like regression or RSA. But are these analyses biased towards discovering a subset of what a system represents? If you're interested, check out our new commentary! Thread:

Thrilled to share our latest work in @Nature studying inter-brain neural dynamics in both biological and artificial intelligence systems — amazing work by @xzh_brain, Nguyen Phi, and fantastic collaboration with @JonathanCKao! Read the full article here: rdcu.be/euu5Z