Society for Neuroscience of Creativity 2026

https://www.tsfnc.org/sfnc2026-liberty-to-create

Over the past ten years, our field has focused on measuring creativity to study innovation, problem-solving, and creative thinking. Somewhere along the way, the creative arts were pushed out to the fringe. Liberty to Create invites us to revisit that imbalance. 

After ten years, SfNC is ready to be emotional, expressive, and unapologetically engaged with the arts. We can ask how art is produced and experienced in the brain without stripping it of its vitality. We can balance our need for empirical clarity with the desire to be provoked and delighted. Our science will advance not by minimizing this tension but by confronting it. 

This is an invitation to reconnect with expression; to remember that art is not only a means to an end, not only important because it improves health or well-being or contributes to economic growth, but because it is essential to what it means to be human.