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Imagination and the meaningful brain
"A Bradford book."The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works--how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of…
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- 9780262280044
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages)
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- Philosophical Psychopathology
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- 150 MOD i
Mindvaults : sociocultural grounds for pretending and imagining
An argument that the uniquely human capacities of pretending and imagining develop in response to sociocultural and sociopolitical pressures in childhood.The human mind has the capacity to vault over the realm of current perception, motivation, emotion, and action, to leap--consciously and deliberately--to past or future, possible or impossible, abstract or concrete scenarios and situations. In…
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- 9780262314336
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 236 pages)
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Infinite playground :a player's guide to imagination
A play-centered invitation to experience the power and delight unlocked by imagination.Bernard De Koven (1941-2018) was a pioneering designer of games and theorist of fun. He studied games long before the field of game studies existed. For De Koven, games could not be reduced to artifacts and rules; they were about a sense of transcendent fun. This book, his last, is about the imagination: the …
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- 9780262358804
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