Imagery, creativity, and discovery: a cognitive perspective

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 cohesivene...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam New York North-Holland 1993
Series:Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 98
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Online Access:FLA01
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Summary: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
Item Description:Based on papers presented at a conference held at Vanderbilt University in May, 1991
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 345 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9780080867526
0080867529