Publications

Metacognition

George, T. & Salvi, C. (2023). Putting the Framework to Work: Comment on “A Systematic Framework of Creative Metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek. Physics of Life Reviews. View Article 

George, T. & Mielicki, M. K. (2022). Bullshit receptivity, problem solving, and metacognition: Simply the BS, not better than all the rest. Thinking & Reasoning. View Article. 

George, T., Mielicki M. K., & Wiley, J. (2021). Great expectations: Misleading effects of images in the alternate uses task. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. View Article. 

Creative Idea Generation

Beaudoin, M. E., Jones, K. M., Jerome, B., Martinez, D., George, T., & Pandža, N. B. (in press).  Systematic research is needed on the potential impacts of lifelong technology exposure on cognition. Frontiers in Psychology. 

George, T., & *Lasher, K. (2023). Limited imagination: Effects of constraints and individual differences in working memory capacity on idea generation. Creativity Research Journal. View Article. 

George, T., & Wiley, J. (2020). Need something different? Here’s what’s been done: Effects of examples and task instructions on creative idea generation. Memory & Cognition, 48, 226-243. View Article. 

George, T., Wiley, J., Koppel, R. H. & Storm, B. C. (2019). Constraining or constructive? The effects of examples on idea novelty. The Journal of Creative Behavior 53, 396-403  View Article

George, T., & Wiley, J. (2019). Fixation, flexibility, and forgetting during alternate uses tasks. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13, 305-313. View Article

Metaphor and analogy

George, T. & Chesebrough, C. (2023). Retrieval dynamics in resolving relational inconsistency during verbal analogical reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. View Article

George, T. & Wiley, J. (2021). Forgetting of competing solutions as a consequence of analogical problem solving attempts. Memory, 29, 1058-1075. View Article

George, T., & Wiley, J. (2019). When is literal meaning inhibited? Evidence from nonsense in the metaphor-induced lexical forgetting paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 869-880. View Article

George, T., & Wiley, J. (2016). Forgetting the literal: The role of inhibition in metaphor comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 42, 1324-1330. View Article

Book chapters

Koppel, R., George, T. & Wiley, J. (in press). Does working memory capacity predict fixation in problem solving, and who do warnings help? To appear in The Emergence of Insight. Cambridge Press. 

Storm, B.C., Ditta, A.S., & George, T., (2020). Memory. In M. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (3rd ed., pp. 116–120). Elsevier, Academic Press.   View Article

George T., & Wiley, J. (2018). Breaking past the surface: Analogical transfer as creative insight. In F. Vallée-Tourangeau (Ed.), Insight: On the origin of new ideas (pp. 143-168). New York, NY: Routledge. View Article

Cognitive neuroscience and Eye-tracking

Wiley, J., George, T., & Rayner, K. (2018). Baseball fans don't like lumpy batters: Influence of domain knowledge on the access of subordinate meanings. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 93-102.  View Article

O’Rourke, P., Haarmann, H.J., George, T., Smaliy, A., Grunewald, K., & Dien, J. (2015). Hemispheric alpha asymmetry and self-rated originality of ideas. Laterality: Asymmetries of the Body, Brain and Cognition, 20, 685-698. View Article

Haarmann, H.J., George, T., Smaliy, A., & Dien, J. (2012). Remote associates test and alpha brain waves. The Journal of Problem Solving, 4, Article 5.  View Article