Will Orwig
@willorwig.bsky.social
PhD candidate in the Schacter Memory Lab at Harvard University studying the Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity | www.willorwig.com
Excited to see our work highlighted in today's New York Times article exploring the potential benefits of intentional mind wandering in creative thinking!
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The Creativity Challenge: Practice “Intentional Daydreaming”
Today, let’s get lost in our thoughts.
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June 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Excited to see our work highlighted in today's New York Times article exploring the potential benefits of intentional mind wandering in creative thinking!
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The schedule is out for our biggest meeting yet as we celebrate 10 years! 🥳
We’ve added a Day Zero symposium on May 21 focused on Creativity & AI, so mark your calendars.📆
Keynotes from Anna Abraham & Andreas Fink and much more - registration opens next week with more info to come! #SfNC2025
We’ve added a Day Zero symposium on May 21 focused on Creativity & AI, so mark your calendars.📆
Keynotes from Anna Abraham & Andreas Fink and much more - registration opens next week with more info to come! #SfNC2025
February 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The schedule is out for our biggest meeting yet as we celebrate 10 years! 🥳
We’ve added a Day Zero symposium on May 21 focused on Creativity & AI, so mark your calendars.📆
Keynotes from Anna Abraham & Andreas Fink and much more - registration opens next week with more info to come! #SfNC2025
We’ve added a Day Zero symposium on May 21 focused on Creativity & AI, so mark your calendars.📆
Keynotes from Anna Abraham & Andreas Fink and much more - registration opens next week with more info to come! #SfNC2025
Reposted by Will Orwig
Paper alert - the sister series on metaphor generation! Insight (aha!) has been traditionally studied in a problem-solving context. Does insight during idea generation have the same characteristics and impact?https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.13488
Exploring How Generating Metaphor Via Insight Versus Analysis Affects Metaphor Quality and Learning Outcomes
Metaphor generation is both a creative act and a means of learning. When learning a new concept, people often create a metaphor to connect the new concept to existing knowledge. Does the manner in wh...
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February 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Paper alert - the sister series on metaphor generation! Insight (aha!) has been traditionally studied in a problem-solving context. Does insight during idea generation have the same characteristics and impact?https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.13488
Reposted by Will Orwig
Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall.
It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested.
More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post...
Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723
It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested.
More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post...
Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723
February 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall.
It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested.
More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post...
Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723
It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested.
More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post...
Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723
Excited to share our latest publication: Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality? Findings suggest that highly creative people generate more semantically distant prompts, which inspire more creative AI-generated images.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Using AI to Generate Visual Art: Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality?
As artificial intelligence (AI) advances in the realm of generative art, a critical question emerges: does human creativity matter? That is, do more-creative people produce more-creative AI-assiste...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Excited to share our latest publication: Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality? Findings suggest that highly creative people generate more semantically distant prompts, which inspire more creative AI-generated images.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....