Roger Beaty

@Roger_Beaty

Associate Professor of Psychology @penn_state. Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity Lab. President @tsfnc.

State College, PA beatylab.la.psu.edu Joined May 2015

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Roger Beaty @Roger_Beaty Aug 20, 2025

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.🧵

Roger Beaty @Roger_Beaty Oct 14

My Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity Lab at Penn State is hiring a fulltime research assistant! Please share and reach out with any questions:
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Staf…

Roger Beaty @Roger_Beaty Jul 1

LLM judges track human creativity ratings surprisingly well. Reasoning doesn’t help human alignment, but reasoning chains do provide clues as to how LLMs judge the creativity of images/drawings.

Will Orwig @will_orwig Jul 1

How does AI evaluate visual creativity? Our preprint finds LLMs can approximate human judgements of visual art zero-shot, and explicit reasoning chains offer a window into their process. Collaboration w/@Roger_Beaty #Creativity #LLM #OpenScience

arxiv.org/abs/2606.29672
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Roger Beaty @Roger_Beaty Feb 5

The 2026 Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (@tsfnc) meeting is coming to Philly! This year, our theme is "Liberty to Create." We're welcoming both scientists and artists. Submit an abstract by Feb 15. tsfnc.org/sfnc2026-liber…

www.tsfnc.org SfNC2026: Liberty to Create — The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity

Roger Beaty @Roger_Beaty Nov 14, 2025

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.

osf.io Generative AI Does Not Erase Individual Differences in Human Creativity For over a century, researchers have documented robust individual differences in people’s ability to think creatively. Today, however, generative AI appears to democratize creativity, potentially...