Papers and Projects
Under Review
Merseal, H. M., Frieler, K., Weiss, D. J., & Beaty, R. E. (Under review). Temporal constraints on melodic sequencing in jazz improvisation.
Publications
Eyre, H., Carnevale, S., Smith, E., Mannix, D., Chen, S., Berk, M., Abbott, R., Dawson, W., Edmonds, T., Jo-An Occhipinti, J., Moses-Eisenstein, M., Hynes, W., Kenett, Y. N., Merseal, H. M., Storch, E. A., Munir, D., Veron, F., Gilbert, B. J., Leboyer, M., … & Rosand, J. 7 steps for igniting the brain capital industrial strategy. Research paper no. 09.14.23. Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, Houston, Texas. https://doi.org/10.25613/TYZC-0N60
Patterson, J. D., Merseal, H. M., Agnoli, S., Baas, M., Baker, B., Barbot, B., Benedek, M., Chen, Q., Corazza, G. E., Forthmann, B., Karwowski, M., Kreisberg-Nitzav, A., Kenett, Y. N., Link, A., Lubart, T., Mercier, M., Miroshnik, K., Ovando-Tellez, M., Primi, R., Puente-Diaz, R., Said-Metwaly, S., Stevenson, C., Volle, E., van Hell, J. G., & Beaty, R. E. (2023). Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000618
Beaty, R. E., Cortes, R. A., Merseal, H. M., Hardiman, M. M., & Green, A. E. (2023). Brain networks for scientific creative thinking: Functional connectivity associated with the generation of original hypotheses. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000603
Beaty, R. E., Merseal, H. M., & Zeitlen, D. C. (2023). Network neuroscience of domain-general and domain-specific creativity. In L. J. Ball & F. Vallée-Tourangeau (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003009351
Merseal, H. M., Luchini, S., Kenett, Y. N., Knudsen, K., Bilder, R. M., & Beaty, R. E. (2023). Free association ability distinguishes highly creative artists from scientists: Findings from the Big C Project. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/aca0000545
Merseal, H. M., Beaty, R. E., Kenett, Y. N., Lloyd-Cox, J., de Manzano, Ö, & Norgaard, M. (2023). Representing melodic relationships using network science. Cognition, 233, 105362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105362
Merseal, H. M., Cortes, R. A., Cotter, K. N., & Beaty, R. E. (2022). Trends in translational creativity research: Introduction to the special issue. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 8(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000331
Beaty, R. E., Frieler, K., Norgaard, M., Merseal, H. M., MacDonald, M. C., & Weiss, D. J. (2021). Spontaneous melodic productions of expert musicians contain sequencing biases seen in language production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001107
Hickey, P., Merseal, H. M., Patel, A. D., & Race, E. (2020). Memory in time: Neural tracking of low-frequency rhythm dynamically modulates memory formation. NeuroImage, 213(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116693
Merseal, H. M. (2019). Be still in haste, for small orchestra. Score and parts available here.