Adam E. Green is an American cognitive neuroscientist and founder of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC).[1] He is Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor[2] at Georgetown University and director of the Georgetown Laboratory for Relational Cognition. A leading scholar in the neuroscience of creativity and reasoning, he currently serves as SfNC President,[1] and is incoming Editor-in-Chief at Creativity Research Journal.[3]
Green's research has integrated creativity and reasoning through the cognitive and brain-based study of "semantic distance" as a measure of creativity in reasoning.[4] His work has investigated creativity as a dynamic state that can be augmented within an individual,[5] distinct from traditional research on creativity as a stable trait. His work includes research into endogenous neural mechanisms and exogenous neuromodulation that support creativity, and research on the neuroscience of teaching and learning in real-world contexts.[6]
Green was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and attended Northwest Guilford High School.[7] Green received his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University, and his Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from Dartmouth College. He completed post-doctoral training at Yale University.[7] His sister is the poet, Leah Naomi Green.[8]
↑Green, A. (2016). Creativity, within reason: Semantic distance and dynamic state creativity in relational thinking and reasoning. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25, 28-35.
Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., Fugelsang, J., Gray, J.R., & Dunbar, K. (2012). Neural correlates of creativity in analogical reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 264-272.
Green, A., Kraemer, D.J.M., Fugelsang, J., Gray, J.R., & Dunbar, K. (2010). Connecting Long Distance: Semantic distance in analogical reasoning modulates frontopolar cortex activity. Cerebral Cortex, 10, 70-76.
↑Green, A., Cohen, M., Raab, H., Yedibalian, C., & Gray, J. R. (2015). Frontopolar activity and connectivity support conscious augmentation of creative state. Human Brain Mapping, 36, 923-934.
Weinberger, A., Iyer, H., Green, A. (2016). Conscious Augmentation of Creative State Enhances “Real” Creativity in Open-Ended Analogical Reasoning. PLoS One, 11, e0150773
Green, A., Spiegel, K., Giangrande, E., Weinberger, A., Gallagher, N. & Turkeltaub, P. (2017). Thinking cap plus thinking zap: tDCS of frontopolar cortex improves creative analogical reasoning and facilitates conscious augmentation of state creativity. Cerebral Cortex, 27(4), 2628-2639.