Roger Beaty uses cutting edge neuro-imaging to study the brain’s dynamic behavior during creative thinking. Dr. Beaty’s research also encompasses the relationship between intelligence and creativity, how the brain retrieves memories, and the cognitive processes underlying metaphor production.  

This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please email creativityupclose@rice.edu.

Co-sponsored by Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts, Humanities Research Center, Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, and Arts Initiative Fund