It showcases a rich and detailed analysis on how the imagination is under- stood across several disciplines of study, including anthropology, archae- ology, medicine, neuroscience, …

Imagination is the basis for cultivating creative thinking, and thus the driving force of innovation. Creativity-related research has progressed for many years, but the understandings of …

An imagination that clutters up the mind with a bewildering plethora of wildly unlikely scenarios is almost as bad as no imagination at all. It is better to have an imagination that concentrates on …

While imagination helps us understand the mechanism by which we are able to be creative, creativity is a chief reason why imaginative thinking is important and valuable.

They demonstrate a fundamental relationship between cognition, metacognition and imagination. A major conclusion is that to nurture thinking, we should perceive and develop imagination as …

1 To give just a couple of examples, see Neil Van Leeuwen’s distinction between constructive, attitudinal, and imagistic imagination (2013) or Gregory Currie and Ian Ravenscroft’s …

So what is imagination? Perhaps the most basic form of it is simply envisioning alternative courses of action: which food to choose in the supermarket, which person to ask on a date.