Abstract Submission Guidelines — The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity

Exciting news: Abstract submissions for SfNC2026 are now open!

This year, we are accepting both scientific abstracts and artist presentations. We encourage our greater community to submit and join us this June.

Learn more about guidelines and requirements here: www.tsfnc.org/sfnc2026-sub...

The Causal Role of the Left Angular Gyrus in Creativity-Driven Restructuring Creative problem-solving relies on the flexible reorganization of prior knowledge to reshape complex memory structures, yet the behavioral and neural processes supporting this transformation remain...

New in CRJ: Ke Ding, Amitai Shenhav & @yoedkenett.bsky.social show the left angular gyrus plays a causal role in creative thinking. Brain stimulation boosted flexible, interconnected semantic networks during storytelling. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1080/1040...

SfNC Awards — The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity

It's almost time to apply or nominate someone for the 2026 SfNC Awards!

Each year, the Sarah A. Burgess Award, the Young Investigator Award, and the Dissertation Award are presented to outstanding members of our community.

Applications open on 12/15/25. Learn more here: www.tsfnc.org/sfnc-awards

SfNC Membership — The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity

Over the past few years, our community has experienced remarkable growth. Did you know our membership, conference attendance, and content subscriptions have more than doubled? 🚀

So, thank you - our members make everything we do possible.

New to SfNC? Learn more: www.tsfnc.org/become-a-mem...

Excited to co-chair SfNC 2026: Liberty to Create and welcome our creativity neuroscience community to Philly! Next year we’re bringing the arts back to center stage at FringeArts. If you work in creativity, neuroscience, or the arts, hope to see you there! 🎨🧠✨

Are You Moved by Beauty? Beauty is in the hand more than in the eye of the beholder.

How we subconsciously reach towards beauty 🫳

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

Hands holding a copy of "Natural Neuroscience: Toward a System Neuroscience of Natural Behaviors" by Nachum Ulanovsky. Along the bottom of the cover is a skyline of trees. In the background and center, a faint drawing of the brain from a birds eye view.

"Ideally, it will not only inspire neuroscientists to make their studies more 'natural' but also encourage behavioral ecologists to tackle the neural basis of fascinating behaviors."

@science.org reviews "Natural Neuroscience" by Nachum Ulanovsky: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

'ggplothko' #aRt

Halibut Crochet Pattern (U.S. National Park Service)

TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns!

www.nps.gov/articles/000...

How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why is it an exciting time to be a creativity researcher?

We’re asking our editorial board, starting with Creativity Research Journal editor-in-chief Adam Green.

See his thoughts below, and stay tuned for more insights and featured research: www.tandfonline.com/journals/hcr...

We're catching up with Mariola as she wraps up her postdoc with us, looking at bright spots in the last 2 years and exciting future directions!

Mariola, how did it all begin?

New Apple study challenges whether AI models truly “reason” through problems Puzzle-based experiments reveal limitations of simulated reasoning, but others dispute findings.

The results seem to strengthen the case that these systems rely on elaborate pattern-matching rather than the kind of systematic reasoning their marketing might suggest.

Treemap showing measurement fragmentation across subfields in psychology. Hill-Shannon Diversity 𝐷=1626.05

How often measures in the APA PsycTESTS database are (re)used according to the APA PsycInfo database: rarely, the majority are never reused.

Our fragmentation index (Hill-Shannon diversity) over time across subdisciplines shows fragmentation rising.

Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising).
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

The science events summit is here in Philly this week!

We’re at the Main Branch of the Philly library connecting and talking about the wild times we’re living through as science communicators.

The session starting now is about how us adults perceive science in this moment.

We need to fight for the next generation of US researchers Nature Human Behaviour - Federal funding of science has been cut, and trainee scientists in the USA face an unstable and uncertain future. Nicole Rust explains how and why we should act to support...

My new piece in Nature Human Behavior: "We need to fight for the next generation of US researchers"

All trainees need 3 things to thrive. In the US, those things have been ripped away. Let's brainstorm and fight to get them back.

(share link):
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Welcome to the 5-Day Creativity Challenge Today, a fun way to feel less stuck.

We spy some familiar faces to the SfNC community in this week's New York Times Creativity Challenge! Check out these short daily creativity exercises to flex those divergent thinking muscles @jamesckaufman.bsky.social @z-i-pringle.bsky.social @roger-beaty.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"We cannot build bananas in America"

Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article) Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

President Trump’s FY26 budget for #NSF will slash funding for the agency by 56.9% and funding for Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences by 67.6%

These cuts will end US STEM leadership, weaken national security, and set-back individual prosperity and well-being.

🎯 Want to add eye tracking to your #PsychoPy experiment with zero coding?

👁️ This beginner-friendly tutorial uses MouseGaze to simulate tracking + covers ROIs, calibration, plugins & more!

📺 Watch now: youtu.be/f6uNKBFN82o

#OpenScience #EyeTracking

Did you ever wanted to see a visualisation how two common brain 🧠 network parcellations (Yeo 7 vs. CAB NP) differ?

Here is a small something I quickly cooked up because I was curious myself.

#neurosky #neuro #brain #brainsky #neuroimaging

Code: github.com/JAQuent/netw...

Going to #NetSci2025 next week? Check out the satellite on "Software and Data for Supporting Network Science"

Hear some great short talks & get involved:
▪️ Discussion on sharing data
▪️ Discussion on standards for describing data
▪️ Interactive software fair

Complete details at netsci.nascol.net

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So grateful to @tsfnc.bsky.social for the dissertation award (handed to me by my forever mentor and pal @roger-beaty.bsky.social), for the vibrant community, and for picking me to co-chair next year's meeting in Philly! I can't wait to welcome my favorite society to celebrate all things creativity ❤️

ICYMI: SfNC. 2026. Philly. See you there 😎

We have been enjoying this morning's sessions so much!!! Stay tuned for more this afternoon.

See you soon 👀

WE'RE STARTING!!! Our special symposium on AI & Creativity starts now in Paris and on Zoom #SfNC2025

Don't miss SfNC 2025 this week! Live now in Paris and on Zoom #SfNC2025