Imagination involves episodic memory retrieval, visualization, mental simulation, spatial navigation, and future thinking, making it a complex cognitive cons...| Frontiers
Belief in absolute truths is overrated. This study argues that inspiring tales imaginatively woven can serve as a playful and creative frame of orientation, inspiration, and action: a life path of meaning and magic not to believe, but to believe in. “Loreologizing” refers to how we can use compelling fiction (broadly defined) as lore for weaving stories, personal or collective, around an ideal, vision, or dream without recourse to massive systematizing, creedal absolutism, or hardened dog...| search.library.wisc.edu
Over the decades, creativity and imagination research developed in parallel, but they surprisingly rarely intersected. This paper introduces a new theoretical model of creative visual imagination, which bridges creativity and imagination research, as well as presents a new psychometric instrument, c …| PubMed
It has recently been observed that the brain network supporting recall of episodic memories shares much in common with other cognitive functions such as episodic future thinking, navigation and theory of mind. It has been speculated that 'self-projection' is the key common process. However, in this …| PubMed
When thinking about the future or the upcoming actions of another person, we mentally project ourselves into that alternative situation. Accumulating data suggest that envisioning the future (prospection), remembering the past, conceiving the viewpoint of others (theory of mind) and possibly some fo …| PubMed
