Selected Publications

Ortega, J. R., Gross, M.E., Schooler, J.W. (2025). When life is but a dream: Does transliminality
predict continuity of thought across the sleep-wake cycle? Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.

Academic Presentations

Ortega, J. R., McGuinness, J.E., Schooler, J.W., Gross, M.E. (2025, November 22). Diverging meaning-makers: Apophenia as a common cognitive basis for psychoticism and creativity [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society 66^th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

Ortega, J. R., Christensen, A.P., Gross, M.E., Schooler, J.W. (2024, May 31). Abstract moments: A network approach to capturing states of openness [Conference Talk]. Psychological and Brain Sciences Mini-Con, Santa Barbara, CA.

Ortega, J. R., Gross, M.E., McGuinness, J.E., Schooler, J.W. (2024, February 10). The virtuous cycle of creativity: Exploring the impact of art on cognitive judgements and divergent thinking [Poster presentation]. Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), San Diego, CA.

Ortega, J. R., Gross, M.E., Schooler, J.W. (2023, March 24). Intuitive, creative or transliminal?
Crossing the threshold from intuition to convergent thinking [Poster presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC), San Francisco, CA.