Dr. Anna Abraham, psychologist, neuroscientist, and author of The Creative Brain, joins Tammy Coron to talk about what the science of creativity shows and where popular ideas about it go wrong.
Anna holds the E. Paul Torrance Professorship at the University of Georgia and directs the Torrance Center for Creativity. Her research spans creativity, imagination, and the reality-fiction distinction, and she has written two books: The Neuroscience of Creativity and The Creative Brain. She also edited the Cambridge Handbook of Imagination.
In this conversation, they work through Anna's definition of creativity (novel, surprising, and satisfying) and why the creator's experience and the recipient's experience need to be kept separate. They also discuss the myths examined in The Creative Brain: the right-brain hypothesis, the link between creativity and mental illness, the effects psychedelics and alcohol have on creative output, and why Anna has reversed course on generative AI. She argues that outsourcing expression to these tools erodes the cognitive and emotional skills that creative confidence depends on. They get into how incubation works (the Poincaré model of preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification), the difference between imagination and creativity, and what Anna thinks is the evolutionary root of human creative drive.
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