Semantic memory as the root of imagination

Frontiers in Psychology

Anna Abraham¹ 

关键词: creativity;    prospection;    neurocognition;    cognitive neuroscience;    mental time travel;    episodic memory;    theory of mind;    moral reasoning;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00325

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

“Imagination is what makes our sensory experience meaningful, enabling us to interpret and make sense of it, whether from a conventional perspective or from a fresh, original, individual one. It is what makes perception more than the mere physical stimulation of sense organs. It also produces mental imagery, visual and otherwise, which is what makes it possible for us to think outside the confines of our present perceptual reality, to consider memories of the past and possibilities for the future, and to weigh alternatives against one another. Thus, imagination makes possible all our thinking about what is, what has been, and, perhaps most important, what might be.”—Nigel J. T. Thomas (2004, as cited in Manu, 2006, p. 47)1.

【 授权许可】

CC BY