Handbook of imagination and mental simulation

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Label

Handbook of imagination and mental simulation

Statement of responsibility

edited by Keith D. Markman, William M.P. Klein, Julie A. Suhr

Contributor

• Klein, William Martin, 1966-
• Markman, Keith D., (Keith Douglas), 1967-
• Suhr, Julie A

Subject

• Imagination
• Imagination
• Imagination
• Voorstellingsvermogen
• Voorstellingsvermogen

Language

eng

Summary

"Over the past thirty years, and particularly within the last ten years, researchers in the areas of social psychology, cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and neuroscience have been examining fascinating questions regarding the nature of imagination and mental simulation - the imagination and generation of alternative realities. Some of these researchers have focused on the specific processes that occur in the brain when an individual is mentally simulating an action or forming a mental image, whereas others have focused on the consequences of mental simulation processes for affect, cognition, motivation, and behavior." "This Handbook provides a novel and stimulating integration of work on imagination and mental simulation from a variety of perspectives. It is the first broad-based volume to integrate specific sub-areas such as mental imagery, imagination, thought flow, narrative transportation, fantasizing, and counterfactual thinking, which have, until now, been treated by researchers as disparate and orthogonal lines of inquiry. As such, the volume enlightens psychologists to the notion that a wide-range of mental simulation phenomena may actually share a commonality of underlying processes."--Book Cover

Cataloging source

DNLM/DLC

Dewey number

153.3

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BF408

LC item number

.H286 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

BF 408

NLM item number

H236 2009