Kathryn Friedlander walks us through her recent article on mental imagery in the BPS Cognitive Psychology Bulletin. The article was based on a keynote speech at the BPS Cognitive Section research seminars in August 2025. For those who couldn’t make it to the BPS event, links are also given to Kathryn’s 40-minute webinar on YouTube, which uses the keynote slides.
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A Special Issue on Creative Performance and Expertise (Open-Access)
Kathryn Friedlander invites you to a conversation about how creative expertise develops. This open-access special issue of the Journal of Expertise pairs a précis of her book The Psychology of Creative Performance and Expertise with commentaries from leading researchers, followed by her response and reflections on where the field goes next.
Continue readingCalling all performers and visual artists! How does your environment affect how you think?
Do you paint, dance or act? Perhaps you’re a budding novelist or poet? Maybe you write concertos in your spare time?
We’re looking for artists of all varieties to participate in a survey exploring how a person’s response to their environment affects their thinking style.
Continue readingLet’s Be Creative: What’s new in creativity research?
Philip Fine tells us about a newly published eBook looking at novel ways of researching creativity.

Though creativity has many definitions, it essentially describes behaviours which lead to novel and meaningful products and outcomes. We can observe creativity in all domains of human behaviour, thought and experience, including creative cognition and problem-solving (divergent thinking and insight), artistic performance (music, dance) and creative design and production (art, design, fashion).