Imaginative Minds Concepts Controversies and Themes Vol 147 1st Edition by Ilona Roth ISBN 0197264190 9780197264195

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ISBN 10: 0197264190

ISBN 13: 978-0197264195

Author:  Ilona Roth 

Imaginative Minds: Concepts, Controversies and Themes: Vol 147 1st Edition: Imagination is one of the most distinctive characteristics of human thought. The supreme powers of flexibility, supposition and inventiveness that are its hallmarks, whether in science, technology, business or the visual, literary and performing arts, are highly prized in contemporary societies. Yet in the fields of psychology and cognitive science, where we might expect to find the topic ‘centre-stage’, there has been comparatively little work. This volumes addresses this omission by bringing together the theories and methods of these disciplines with other perspectives offering important insights into the imagination.
The 15 chapters address key questions about the imaginative workings of the mind, including how the capacity for imagination evolved, how it is expressed and what roles it plays in children’s thinking, what psychological processes and brain mechanisms are involved, and how imagination operates in universal cultural phenomena such as music, fiction and religion, which are both the fruits of and the ‘fuel’ for imaginative minds.
The exceptional interdisciplinary scope of the volume, and its exploration and juxtaposition of different forms of imaginative cognition, offer an engaging and innovative take on the topic, bringing together approaches from psychology, cognitive science, anthropology and evolutionary studies with philosophy and the humanities. Distinguished contributors demonstrate their own imaginative flair in a fascinating and varied collection of essays about this most elusive and special human capacity.

 

Imaginative Minds: Concepts, Controversies and Themes: Vol 147 1st Edition Table of contents:

Introduction
Imaginative Minds: Concepts, Controversies and Themes, Ilona Roth
Evolution of the imagination
Seven Steps in the Evolution of the Human Imagination, Steven Mithen
Great ape cognition and the evolutionary roots of human imagination, Andrew Whiten & Thomas Suddendorf
Memes, minds and imagination, Susan Blackmore
Development of imagination in children
Autonomy and control in children’s interactions with imaginary companions, Marjorie Taylor, Stephanie M. Carlson and Alison B. Shawber
Imagination and testimony in cognitive development: the cautious disciple?, Paul L. Harris and Melissa Koenig
Mind into Culture: perspectives on musical imagination
Imagining things: mind into music (and back again), Nicholas Cook
Music Science and Culture, Ian Cross
Imagination, cognition and creative thinking
A claim on the reader, Gregory Currie
Mental Imagery and Creative Synthesis, David G. Pearson
The way we imagine, Mark Turner
Cognitive architecture of the imagination
Specialised inference engines as precursors of creative imagination?, Pascal Boyer
A module for metaphor? The site of imagination in the architecture of the mind, Daniel Nettle
Atypical imagination and brain mechanisms
Autism and the imaginative mind, Ilona Roth
Imaging Imagination: Brain Scanning of the Imagined Future, John G. Geake and Morten L. Kringelbach

 

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