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Liane Gabora

ResearcherPsychology (Okanagan)University of British Columbia

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Liane Gabora

Researcher

Psychology (Okanagan)

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
7 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (3 NSERC, 3 SSHRC), most recently in 2023.

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Research

creativity autocatalytic network conceptual change conceptual network context cultural evolution evolutionary process mathematical model

Latest papers

The dismantling and reconstitution of mental models by child peer groups.
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2026 · first author
The cognitive and evolutionary science of behavioural modernity goes beyond material chronology.
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2025 · senior author
Ignoring the role of reiterative processing and worldview transformation leads to exaggeration of the role of curiosity in creativity.
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2024 · first author

All 23 publications

Latest funding

An Autocatalytic Evolutionary Framework for Cognition
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$78,000
An Interactive 'Visual Diary' for Self--understanding
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$29,115
An Interactive 'Visual Diary' for Self--understanding
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$35,405

All 7 grants and awards

23 publications.

The dismantling and reconstitution of mental models by child peer groups.

Gabora L

The Behavioral and brain sciences2026First author

DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25101921 PMID: 42402464

The cognitive and evolutionary science of behavioural modernity goes beyond material chronology.

Sergiou ASE, Gabora L

The Behavioral and brain sciences2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x24000943 PMID: 39807724

Ignoring the role of reiterative processing and worldview transformation leads to exaggeration of the role of curiosity in creativity.

Gabora L, Ganesh K, Bashmakova I

The Behavioral and brain sciences2024First author

DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x23003527 PMID: 38770860

The allure of the unknown in a tamed, mapped, and homogenized world.

Gabora L, Gomez I

The Behavioral and brain sciences2022First author

DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x21002193 PMID: 36396394

Beyond two modes of thought: A quantum model of how three cognitive variables yield conceptual change.

Winslow M, Gabora L

Frontiers in psychology2022Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.905446 PMID: 36237701

A Dynamic Autocatalytic Network Model of Therapeutic Change.

Ganesh K, Gabora L

Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)2022Senior author

DOI: 10.3390/e24040547 PMID: 35455210

Modeling Discontinuous Cultural Evolution: The Impact of Cross-Domain Transfer.

Ganesh K, Gabora L

Frontiers in psychology2022Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.786072 PMID: 35282262

An evolutionary process without variation and selection.

Gabora L, Steel M

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface2021First author

DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2021.0334 PMID: 34314653

A model of the transition to behavioural and cognitive modernity using reflexively autocatalytic networks.

Gabora L, Steel M

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface2020First author

DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2020.0545 PMID: 33109019

The form of a 'half-baked' creative idea: Empirical explorations into the structure of ill-defined mental representations.

Scotney VS, Schwartz J, Carbert N, Saab A, Gabora L

Acta psychologica2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.102981 PMID: 31918155

An Autocatalytic Evolutionary Framework for Cognition

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Gabora, Liane

Keywords: autocatalytic network; conceptual network; semantic network; creativity; context; evolutionary process; mathematical model; cultural evolution; quantum interaction; conceptual change

$78,000

An Interactive 'Visual Diary' for Self--understanding

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Gabora, Liane

Keywords: biofeedback; creativity; mobile app; new media; personal growth; repression; self-understanding; story; visualization; wellbeing

$29,115

An Interactive 'Visual Diary' for Self--understanding

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Gabora, Liane

Keywords: biofeedback; creativity; mobile app; new media; personal growth; repression; self-understanding; story; visualization; wellbeing

$35,405

`Toward an Scientific Framework for the Origin of Evolutionary Processes: Biological and Cultural

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Gabora, Liane

$28,000

Creating and training a network of digital humanities scholars on the Lower Mainland

Co-investigatorSSHRC2014

Principal investigators: McElduff, Siobhan R.

Keywords: digital humanities; digital editions; 3D modeling; data mining; visualization; text analysis; content management; digital preservation; databases

$23,785

Development of a Cultural Algorithm and a Trans-disciplinary Framework for Evolutionary Processes

Principal investigatorNSERC2012Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Gabora, Liane

$105,000

The cultural evolution of integrated worldviews

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Gabora, Liane M.

Keywords: cultural evolution; social learning; imitation; innovation; creativity; conceptual integration; worldviews; computer model

$99,970

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Liane Gabora

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

The dismantling and reconstitution of mental models by child peer groups.

The cognitive and evolutionary science of behavioural modernity goes beyond material chronology.

Ignoring the role of reiterative processing and worldview transformation leads to exaggeration of the role of curiosity in creativity.

The allure of the unknown in a tamed, mapped, and homogenized world.

Beyond two modes of thought: A quantum model of how three cognitive variables yield conceptual change.

A Dynamic Autocatalytic Network Model of Therapeutic Change.

Modeling Discontinuous Cultural Evolution: The Impact of Cross-Domain Transfer.

An evolutionary process without variation and selection.

A model of the transition to behavioural and cognitive modernity using reflexively autocatalytic networks.

The form of a 'half-baked' creative idea: Empirical explorations into the structure of ill-defined mental representations.

An Autocatalytic Evolutionary Framework for Cognition

An Interactive 'Visual Diary' for Self--understanding

An Interactive 'Visual Diary' for Self--understanding

`Toward an Scientific Framework for the Origin of Evolutionary Processes: Biological and Cultural

Creating and training a network of digital humanities scholars on the Lower Mainland

Development of a Cultural Algorithm and a Trans-disciplinary Framework for Evolutionary Processes

The cultural evolution of integrated worldviews

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Burton Voorhees