Broschiertes Buch

Creativity and the Wandering Mind

Spontaneous and Controlled Cognition

Herausgegeben: Preiss, David D.; Cosmelli, Diego; Kaufman, James C.

Beschreibung

Creativity and the Wandering Mind: Spontaneous and Controlled Cognition summarizes research on the impact of mind wandering and cognitive control on creativity, including imagination, fantasy and play. Most coverage in this area has either focused on the negative consequences of mind wandering on focused problem solving or the positive effect of mindfulness, but not on the positive consequences of mind wandering. This volume bridges that gap. Research indicates that most people experience mind wandering during a large percentage of their waking time, and that it is a baseline default mode of brain function during the awake but resting state. This volume explores the different kinds of mind wandering and its positive impact on imagination, play, problem-solving, and creative production.

Autor

David D. Preiss, PhD, is Director and Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Psychology. He is co-editor of 3 books on educational psychology and related topics, author of more than 40 papers and book chapters on writing, creativity, and instructional processes and recipient of several grants from diverse Chilean research agencies to investigate instructional processes as well as individual differences in creativity and writing. As a poet he has published 5 books of poetry.

Diego Cosmelli is a Biochemist and holds a PhD in Cognitive Sciences from the École Polytechnique, France. He is Associate Professor at the School of Psychology of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he is the Vice-director for Research and Graduate Studies and head of the Psychophysiology Lab. His research interests focus on the mechanisms of attentional and perceptual processes in human beings. He has published over 30 articles in peer reviewed journals including Psychophysiology, NeuroImage, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience and PLoS ONE, among others.

Produktdetails

• Explorations in Creativity Research
• Verlag: Academic Press / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2017-0-04080-6
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780128164006
• ISBN-10: 012816400X
• Artikelnr.: 57827619