Attend the Brain Health Seminar Series with Anna Abraham on Jan. 25

• Date: Wednesday, Jan. 25
• Time: 10-11 a.m.
• Location: Aderhold Hall Room 119
• Facilitator: Anna Abraham, Ph.D.

The Department of Kinesiology, along with the Institute of Gerontology and Athens Presbyterian Village, will be hosting the Brain Health Seminar Series: “On the Move: Brain Health and Movement Disorders.”

The aim of this series is to provide educational knowledge to students and faculty at UGA on the current research frontiers in the neuroscience of human movement.

The fifth seminar will be facilitated by Anna Abraham, the E. Paul Torrance Professor and director of the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development in the University of Georgia’s Mary Frances Early College of Education. She investigates the psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying creativity and other aspects of the human imagination, including the reality-fiction distinction, mental time travel, social and self-referential cognition, and mental state reasoning. She is the author of the 2018 book, “The Neuroscience of Creativity” (Cambridge University Press) and the editor of the multidisciplinary volume, “The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination” (2020). She will speak on myths and truths of the creative mind.

An applied presentation titled “Aging and Creativity” and a discussion will be held at 1 p.m. at the Presbyterian Village.