Creativity And Mental Imagery

Author : Valerie Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351744968
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Using Mental Imagery to Enhance Creative and Work-related Processes written by Valerie Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Using Mental Imagery to Enhance Creative and Work-Related Processes, Valerie Thomas explores the productive use of mental imagery skills to engage with the processes of creativity. Practical and original, the book offers detailed guidance for a highly effective method that can provide rich insights into the development of a range of creative enterprises, including artistic and work-related projects. In this accessible and innovative book, Thomas pays equal attention to the theory and application of mental imagery. First, she explains how imagination-based methods have been developed and theorised within the discipline of creative behaviour, especially with regard to dual-processing theories of creativity. The book then considers mental imagery as a dialogical method informed by contemporary post-Cartesian theories of embodied cognition that reprise an earlier premodern understanding of imagination as a mediator between body and mind. Thomas introduces a particular approach to mental imagery that, informed by a functional research-informed framework (the Interactive Communicative model of mental imagery), can be applied very effectively to creative processes. The second half of the book provides detailed guidance on how to apply this particular method and is copiously illustrated with case vignettes. It includes chapters on using imagery theorised as conceptual metaphors such as the plant image for representing creative capabilities and the building image for representing creative and work-related projects. It also explains how to use imagery to represent and work with the conceptual processes of undertaking qualitative research projects. This original and wide-ranging book advances the scope and use of creative image-work in diverse settings. It will be an essential resource for everyone who is interested in developing their own mental imagery skills for creative real-world applications and for all professionals such as coaches, therapists and research educators who want to facilitate creativity in others.

Author : Massimiliano Palmiero
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889199940
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Mental Imagery written by Massimiliano Palmiero and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity is increasingly attracting attention of scientific community given its role in different aspects of human life. So far we have only began to understand its complexity and how it correlates with other cognitive processes. A further understanding of its key processes is essential to better implement applications of creativity tools to daily life. Therefore, it is the aim of this Research Topics to further elucidate how creativity can be measured, and its components, such as mental imagery, are determined.

Author : Ronald A. Finke
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317783328
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Imagery written by Ronald A. Finke and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the results of experiments on discovery and invention in visualization conducted by the author over a three year period, this book reports new findings on the generation of creative inventions and concepts using mental imagery, and proposes a reconceptualization of the creative process. Creative Imagery introduces the concept of “preinventive forms” and describes an approach to creative invention differing from those typically used in problem-solving studies. There are two unique features of this book. First, it combines the experimental methods of cognitive science with the opportunity to explore and discover creative inventions in imagination. Second, it provides readers with numerous opportunities to use the creative imagery techniques to develop their own inventions and conceptual discoveries. This text is of particular interest to scientists working in the fields of experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, and cognitive science. The techniques for generating creative inventions will also be of interest to people working in engineering, architectural design, and the visual arts.

Author : B. Roskos-Ewoldsen
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080867526
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagery, Creativity, and Discovery written by B. Roskos-Ewoldsen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1993-05-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What factors affect creativity and the generation of creative images? What factors affect the ability to reinterpret those images? Research described in this book indicates that expectations constrain both of these attributes of creativity. Characteristics of the imagined pattern, such as cohesiveness or its psychological goodness, also affect image generation and reinterpretation. Other evidence indicates that images can be combined mentally to yield new, manipulable composites. Cognitive models encompass the research and extend it to fields as diverse as architecture, music, and problem solving.

Author : Ronald A. Finke
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262560968
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Cognition written by Ronald A. Finke and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996-01-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative Cognition combines original experiments with existing work in cognitive psychology to provide the first explicit account of the cognitive processes and structures that contribute to creative thinking and discovery. Creative Cognition combines original experiments with existing work in cognitive psychology to provide the first explicit account of the cognitive processes and structures that contribute to creative thinking and discovery. In separate chapters, the authors take up visualization, concept formation, categorization, memory retrieval, and problem solving. They describe novel experimental methods for studying creative cognitive processes under controlled laboratory conditions, along with techniques that can be used to generate many different types of inventions and concepts. Unlike traditional approaches, Creative Cognition considers creativity as a product of numerous cognitive processes, each of which helps to set the stage for insight and discovery. It identifies many of these processes as well as general principles of creative cognition that can be applied across a variety of different domains, with examples in artificial intelligence, engineering design, product development, architecture, education, and the visual arts. Following a summary of previous approaches to creativity, the authors present a theoretical model of the creative process. They review research involving an innovative imagery recombination technique, developed by Finke, that clearly demonstrates that creative inventions can be induced in the laboratory. They then describe experiments in category learning that support the provocative claim that the factors constraining category formation similarly constrain imagination and illustrate the role of various memory processes and other strategies in creative problem solving.

Author : James C. Kaufman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107021693
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Mental Illness written by James C. Kaufman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines the common view that a high level of individual creativity often correlates with a heightened risk of mental illness.

Author : Stephen M. Kosslyn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190292512
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case for Mental Imagery written by Stephen M. Kosslyn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we try to remember whether we left a window open or closed, do we actually see the window in our mind? If we do, does this mental image play a role in how we think? For almost a century, scientists have debated whether mental images play a functional role in cognition. In The Case for Mental Imagery, Stephen Kosslyn, William Thompson, and Giorgio Ganis present a complete and unified argument that mental images do depict information, and that these depictions do play a functional role in human cognition. They outline a specific theory of how depictive representations are used in information processing, and show how these representations arise from neural processes. To support this theory, they seamlessly weave together conceptual analyses and the many varied empirical findings from cognitive psychology and neuroscience. In doing so, they present the conceptual grounds for positing this type of internal representation and summarize and refute arguments to the contrary. Their argument also serves as a historical review of the imagery debate from its earliest inception to its most recent phases, and provides ample evidence that significant progress has been made in our understanding of mental imagery. In illustrating how scientists think about one of the most difficult problems in psychology and neuroscience, this book goes beyond the debate to explore the nature of cognition and to draw out implications for the study of consciousness. Student and professional researchers in vision science, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience will find The Case for Mental Imagery to be an invaluable resource for understanding not only the imagery debate, but also and more broadly, the nature of thought, and how theory and research shape the evolution of scientific debates.

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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Mental Imagery written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity is increasingly attracting attention of scientific community given its role in different aspects of human life. So far we have only began to understand its complexity and how it correlates with other cognitive processes. A further understanding of its key processes is essential to better implement applications of creativity tools to daily life. Therefore, it is the aim of this Research Topics to further elucidate how creativity can be measured, and its components, such as mental imagery, are determined.

Author : Malcolm L. Fleming
Publisher : Educational Technology
ISBN 13 : 9780877781851
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Imagery and Learning written by Malcolm L. Fleming and published by Educational Technology. This book was released on 1983 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Baer
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128002891
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domain Specificity of Creativity written by John Baer and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research findings have challenged the idea that creativity is domain-general. Domain Specificity of Creativity brings together the research information on domain specificity in creativity -- both the research that supports it and answers to research arguments that might seem to challenge it. The implications for domain specificity affect how we move forward with theories of creativity, testing for creativity, and teaching for creativity. The book outlines what these changes are and how creativity research and applications of that research will change in light of these new findings. Summarizes research regarding domain specificity in creativity Outlines implications of these findings for creativity theory, testing, and teaching Identifies unanswered questions and new research opportunities