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Imaginative Minds
Edited by Ilona Roth
384 pages
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figures and tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-726419-5
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Hardback
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27 December 2007
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- Cutting-edge perspectives of cognitive archaeology, cognitive anthropology, and social neuroscience
- Juxtaposes artistic creativity, the mind and the brain within a common framework
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.
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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.Readership: Scholars and students of psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, philosophy and musicology.
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Edited by Ilona Roth, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Psychology in Science Group, Open University Contributors:
Susan Blackmore, University of the West of England, Bristol; Pascal Boyer, Washington University;Stephanie M. Carlson, University of Oregon; Ian Cross, University of Cambridge; Nicholas Cook, Royal Holloway, University of London, and Fellow of the British Academy; Gregory Currie, University of Nottingham; John G. Geake, Westminster Institute of Education; Paul L. Harris, Harvard University, and Fellow of the British Academy; Melissa Koenig, University of Chicago; Morten L. Kringelbach, University of Oxford; Steven Mithen, University of
Reading; Daniel Nettle, University of Newcastle; David G. Pearson, University of Aberdeen; Alison B. Shawber, University of Oregon Thomas Suddendorf, University of Queensland; Marjorie Taylor, University of Oregon; Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University; Andrew Whiten, University of St Andrews
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"the reviews cover a wide range of standpoints with modesty and caution...In summary this fascinating book provides a comprehensive survey of a neglected and scientifically challenging field. It should help further research." - Alan Kerr Journal of Consciousness Studies
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Introduction
Imaginative Minds: Concepts, Controversies and Themes, Ilona Roth
Evolution of the imagination
Steven Mithen: Seven Steps in the Evolution of the Human Imagination
Andrew Whiten & Thomas Suddendorf: Great ape cognition and the evolutionary roots of human imagination
Susan Blackmore: Memes, minds and imagination
Development of imagination in children
Marjorie Taylor, Stephanie M. Carlson and Alison B. Shawber: Autonomy and control in children's interactions with imaginary companions
Paul L. Harris and Melissa Koenig: Imagination and testimony in cognitive development: the cautious disciple?
Mind into Culture: perspectives on musical imagination
Nicholas Cook: Imagining things: mind into music (and back again)
Ian Cross: Music Science and Culture
Imagination, cognition and creative thinking
Gregory Currie: A claim on the reader
David G. Pearson: Mental Imagery and Creative Synthesis
Mark Turner: The way we imagine
Cognitive architecture of the imagination
Pascal Boyer: Specialised inference engines as precursors of creative imagination?
Daniel Nettle: A module for metaphor? The site of imagination in the architecture of the mind
Atypical imagination and brain mechanisms
Ilona Roth: Autism and the imaginative mind
John G. Geake and Morten L. Kringelbach: Imaging Imagination: Brain Scanning of the Imagined Future
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