The Cambridge Handbook of the ImaginationAnna Abraham The human imagination manifests in countless different forms. We imagine the possible and the impossible. How do we do this so effortlessly? Why did the capacity for imagination evolve and manifest with undeniably manifold complexity uniquely in human beings? This handbook reflects on such questions by collecting perspectives on imagination from leading experts. It showcases a rich and detailed analysis on how the imagination is understood across several disciplines of study, including anthropology, archaeology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and the arts. An integrated theoretical-empirical-applied picture of the field is presented, which stands to inform researchers, students, and practitioners about the issues of relevance across the board when considering the imagination. With each chapter, the nature of human imagination is examined - what it entails, how it evolved, and why it singularly defines us as a species. |
Contents
The Evolution of a Human Imagination | 13 |
An Anthropological Perspective | 30 |
The Archaeological Imagination | 47 |
Philosophical Perspectives on Imagination in the Western | 64 |
A Short Introduction | 80 |
From Prediction to Imagination | 94 |
Perspectives on Constructive | 111 |
Capturing the Imagination | 132 |
How Imagination Supports Narrative Experiences for Textual | 466 |
Development of the FantasyReality Distinction | 479 |
Buddhist Paths to Wholeness in Tibet | 500 |
Hypothetical Thinking | 514 |
The Impact of Alternatives | 529 |
A Look Back at Pioneering Theories of the Creative Brain | 548 |
Imagination in the Philosophy of Art | 565 |
Imagination in Aesthetic Experience | 578 |
Artificial Intelligence and Imagination | 162 |
The Visual Imagination | 175 |
Neurophysiological Foundations and Practical Applications | 207 |
Temporal Mental Imagery | 227 |
Emotional Mental Imagery | 241 |
Multisensory Perception and Mental Imagery | 258 |
How Mental Imagery Spans Across the Senses | 276 |
Continuities and Discontinuities Between Imagination | 293 |
Imagining and Experiencing the Self on Cognitive Maps | 311 |
An Integrative | 332 |
Imagination and SelfReferential Thinking | 354 |
How Imaginary Minds Mimic Real Life | 373 |
Imagination and Moral Cognition | 390 |
A Network Neuroscience Perspective | 406 |
On the Interaction Between Episodic and Semantic | 447 |
Art is for Social | 593 |
Lessons from Art History | 608 |
Be a Butterfly | 620 |
Imagination Intersubjectivity and a Musical Therapeutic | 635 |
Beyond Imagination and Perception | 659 |
Dreaming is Imagination Roaming Freely Based | 676 |
Aphantasia | 692 |
Hypnosis and Imagination | 711 |
Hallucinations and Imagination | 728 |
The Psychiatry of Imagination | 760 |
Meditation and Imagination | 783 |
Flow in Performance and Creative Cognition An Optimal | 796 |
The Force of the Imagination | 811 |
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