Adam E. Green
Adam Green is a graduate student with Dr. Dunbar.
He received his undergraduate degree in Cognitive Science at The Johns Hopkins University. Adam on his research:
My motivating interest is in creative intelligence and especially in understanding how the entirely physical substance and processes of the brain are this intelligence. Analogical thinking has been the main focus of my research during graduate school because it is a valuable and relatively well-constrained form of creative intelligence. My analogy-related research in the Dunbar lab. is primarily directed along two active lines: 1) We are using fMRI to characterize analogical reasoning within and across semantic domains. In particular, we are testing whether left frontopolar cortex (BA 9/10) is more active for cross-domain analogies, which are more creative, than within-domain analogies, which are less creative. This hypothesis has been suggested by our recent brain-based research (Green, Fugelsang, Kraemer, Shamosh, & Dunbar, 2006). 2) We are testing and establishing boundary conditions for the “Micro-Category” account of analogical reasoning (Green, Fugelsang, & Dunbar, in press), which explains analogical alignment and mapping in terms of categorization. In early 2006, I trained with John Fossella at the Sackler Institute in New York in order to learn genotyping techniques that will be combined with brain-imaging in ongoing research in the Dunbar lab as well as in my future research.
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