Imagery can be used to improve memory, perceptual skills, even creativity. Numerous experiments carried out over the past 20 years have probed the nature of mental imagery and unlocked its powers. Principles of Mental Imagery offers a broad, balanced, and up to date introduction to the major findings of this research and identifies 5 general principles that can account for most of them. It considers the development of experimental techniques that have solved many of the challenging methodological problems inherent in imagery research and includes recent experimental findings not covered in other imagery books.  Principles of Mental Imagery brings together work by all of the key imagery researchers, among them Roger Shepard, Stephen Kosslyn, Allen Paivio, Lynn Cooper, Steven Pinker and the author. Chapters present new research on the role that imagery plays in human memory, new findings on how mental imagery influences perception (one of the dominant issues in modern imagery research), recent studies on "representational momentum" experimental demonstrations of how imagery can be used to make creative, visual discoveries, and recent work on imagery deficits in brain damaged patients. And, a new argument is made for why the study of mental imagery should be motivated by general principles, rather than formal models. Each chapter concludes with convenient summaries and suggestions for further exploration.  Ronald A. Fluke is Associate Professor of Psychology at Texas A & M University. A Bradford Book

Principles of Mental Imagery

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Finke, Ronald A.

Psychology & Counseling

Bradford Books

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. Ronald A. Finke, Thomas B. Ward, and Steven M. Smith are all Associate Professors of Psychology at Texas A &amp; M University.

Creative Cognition: Theory, Research, and Applications

Ward, Thomas B.

Smith, Steven M.

Mental Health

Blending leading scientific research with real life experiences, Creativity and the Mind helps readers unlock their creative potential and embrace alternate ways of thinking about everyday problems.

Creativity And The Mind: Discovering The Genius Within

Reference

Basic Books

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.

Creative Imagery: Discoveries and inventions in Visualization

Psychology Press

Modern society has entered an age of unpredictability, as anticipated by many writers and sociologists. The future is uncertain, job security no longer exists, and marriages are failing at an increasing rate. Having been led to believe that life is supposed to be predictable, most people lack the skills to adapt to these changes. This book describes the principles and applications of chaotic thinking, which thrives on unpredictability and change, and which is ideally suited for adaptation and survival in modern times. Chaotic thinking is not new, but it has been largely forgotten, neglected, and undervalued. Chaotic thinkers have often been regarded as undisciplined, unfocused, and unmotivated, and have usually been dismissed by society, which values order, discipline, and ambition. Yet they are more likely to survive catastrophes, handle sudden emergencies, and adjust to major disruptions in their personal and professional lives. By providing an in-depth analysis of the principles of chaotic thinking, this book will help to promote a more general understanding and acceptance of this neglected cognitive style. By identifying various chaotic thinking techniques that follow from these principles, and explaining how they work, it will provide new and powerful methods for adapting to these changes. By describing specific applications of these techniques, it will help people to deal more effectively with a variety of chaotic situations. These applications include dealing with unexpected emergencies, surviving economic crises and career changes, responding appropriately in dangerous situations, recovering from broken relationships, and improving interpersonal and counseling skills.

Chaotic Cognition: Principles and Applications

Bettle, Jonathan

Chaotic Cognition Principles and Applications: Principles and Applications

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.

Creative Imagery

Routledge

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