Lucas Bellaiche

Journal Article iScience · June 2025 Across the literatures of aesthetics, philosophy, and psychology, art has long been revered as a powerful means to enhance mental well-being-a perspective that has been integrated into clinical practices worldwide. While some empirical research supports th ... Full text Cite

Beyond the Brush: Human Versus Artificial Intelligence Creativity in the Realm of Generative Art

Journal Article Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts · January 1, 2025 Several decades ago, J. P. Guilford (1950) speculated that, although artificial intelligence (AI) might one day take over much of human thinking, creativity would remain a uniquely human faculty. However, rapid advancements in AI have led to the recent dev ... Full text Cite

Targeted dream incubation at a distance: the development of a remote and sensor-free tool for incubating hypnagogic dreams and mind-wandering.

Journal Article Frontiers in sleep · January 2024 Hypnagogia-the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep-is marked by "hypnagogic dreams," during which our brains tend to forge connections among concepts that are otherwise unrelated. This process of creating novel associations during hypnagogic d ... Full text Cite

Using AI to Generate Visual Art: Do Individual Differences in Creativity Predict AI-Assisted Art Quality?

Journal Article Creativity Research Journal · January 1, 2024 As artificial intelligence (AI) advances in the realm of generative art, a critical question emerges: does human creativity matter? That is, do more-creative people produce more-creative AI-assisted artwork? To explore this, we conducted an online, pre-reg ... Full text Cite

Depression and emotion regulation strategy use moderate age-related attentional positivity bias.

Journal Article Front Psychol · 2024 Effective emotion regulation is critical for maintaining emotional health in the face of adverse events that accumulate over the lifespan. These abilities are thought to be generally maintained in older adults, accompanied by the emergence of attentional b ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Humans versus AI: whether and why we prefer human-created compared to AI-created artwork.

Journal Article Cognitive research: principles and implications · July 2023 With the recent proliferation of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models capable of mimicking human artworks, AI creations might soon replace products of human creativity, although skeptics argue that this outcome is unlikely. One possible reason this ... Full text Cite

Back to the basics: Abstract painting as an index of creativity

Journal Article Creativity Research Journal · January 1, 2023 Researchers have invested a great deal in creating reliable, “gold-standard” creativity assessments that can be administered in controlled laboratory settings, though these efforts have come at the cost of not using ecologically and face-valid tasks. To he ... Full text Cite

What Drives Narrative Engagement With Music?

Journal Article Music Perception · June 1, 2021 Although people across multiple cultures have been shown to experience music narratively, it has proven difficult to disentangle whether narrative dimensions of music derive from learned extramusical associations within a culture or from less exper ... Full text Cite