Tim George
Dr. Tim George is an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Maryland Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS). He spent four years as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Union College where he taught and mentored students in the Psychology and Neuroscience programs. While there, he also ran his Creativity, Attention, and Memory Lab (CAMlab), where he mentored several student research projects. His research interests lie within higher-level cognition. Most of his past research has explored cognitive mechanisms underlying analogical thinking, figurative language processing, and creative problem solving - particularly the conditions that give rise to, and mitigate, mental fixation. Some of his more recent work focuses on the role of controlled attention in idea generation, such as individual differences in working memory capacity and the presence of cognitive load. Newer research also explores factors influencing people’s metacognition judgments in creative thinking tasks. He completed his doctorate in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he worked under the mentorship of Jennifer Wiley. Prior to that, he was a Senior Research Assistant at the Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL) where he was part of a project that researched neurocognitive correlates of divergent thinking.