Rethinking Thought - Inside the Minds of Creative Scientists and Artists

Zusatztext It is clear that the author makes a substantial contribution to the cognitive psychology of thought. The narratives indicate the incredible richness of human mental imagery in real-world contexts. Informationen zum Autor Laura Otis is a Professor of English at Emory University and a former MacArthur Fellow. With an MA in Neuroscience and a PhD in Comparative Literature, she compares the creative thinking of scientists and literary writers. Otis is the author of Organic Memory, Membranes, Networking, and Müller's Lab; the translator of Santiago Ramón y Cajal's Vacation Stories; and the editor of Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century. Klappentext Rethinking Thought compares the insights of creative thinkers with neuroscientific findings to show how people vary in their uses of visual mental imagery and verbal language. Written by a neuroscientist-turned literary scholar, it conjoins science and art to explore innovative thinking. Zusammenfassung Rethinking Thought compares the insights of creative thinkers with neuroscientific findings to show how people vary in their uses of visual mental imagery and verbal language. Written by a neuroscientist-turned literary scholar, it conjoins science and art to explore innovative thinking.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Otis, Laura (Professor of English Otis, Otis Laura
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2015
• EAN: 9780190213466
• ISBN: 978-0-19-021346-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Explorations in Narrative Psychology; Explorations in Narrative Psyc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Neurosciences, Psycholinguistics, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics