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Academic Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

10. Gerver, C. R., Griffin, J. W., Dennis, N. A., & Beaty, R. E. (2023). Memory and creativity: A meta-analytic examination of the relationship between memory systems and creative cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30(6), 2116– 2154. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02303-4

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9. Matheson, H. E., Kenett, Y. N., Gerver, C.R., & Beaty, R. E. (2023). Representing creative thought: A representational similarity analysis of creative idea generation and evaluation. Neuropsychologia, 187, 108587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108587

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8. Hakun, J. G., Roque, N. A., Gerver, C. R., & Cerino, E. S. (2023). Ultra-brief assessment of working memory capacity: Ambulatory assessment study using smartphones. JMIR Formative Research, 7, e40188. https://doi.org/10.2196/40188

 

7. Ricupero, S., Carpenter, C. M., Steinkrauss, A. C., Gerver, C. R., Chamberlain, J. D., Monkman, R. G., Overman, A. A., & Dennis, N. A. (2023). Neural distinctiveness and reinstatement of hippocampal representations support unitization for associations. Brain Research, 1798, 148143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2022.148143

 

6. Gerver, C.R. (2022). The creativity-specificity induction: A memory-based creativity strategy can enhance creative divergent thinking but not memory in older adults. [Doctoral dissertation: The Pennsylvania State University]. https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/22096cxg428

 

5. Frith, E.*, Gerver, C. R.*, Benedek, M., Christensen, A. P., & Beaty, R. E. (2022). Neural representations of conceptual fixation during creative imagination. Creativity Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2021.2008699.

 

4. Dennis, N. A., Overman, A. A., Carpenter, C. M., & Gerver, C. R. (2022). Understanding associative false memories in aging using multivoxel pattern analyses. Aging, Neuropsychology, & Cognition.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2022.2037500.

 

3. Gerver, C. R., Overman, A. A., Babu, H. J., Hultman, C. E., & Dennis, N. A. (2020). Examining the neural basis of congruent and incongruent configural contexts during associative retrieval. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32 (9), 1796– 1812. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01593

 

2. Gerver, C. R., Neely, K. A., Kurkela, K. A., Diaz, M. T., Goodman, J. T., Blouch, S. L., Samimy, S., & Dennis, N. A. (2019). Shared neural recruitment across working memory and motor control tasks as a function of task difficulty and age. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. 27(6), 864-879. https://doi.org/ 10.1080/13825585.2019.1700898

 

1. Dennis, N. A., Overman, A. A., Gerver, C. R., McGraw, K., Rowley, M. A., & Salerno, J. M. (2019). Different types of associative encoding evoke differential processing in both younger and older adults: evidence from univariate and multivariate analyses. Neuropsychologia, 135. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.neuropsychologia.2019.107240

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Note: * = Co-first authors.

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