Research Catalog

Title

Creative thought : an investigation of conceptual structures and processes / edited by Thomas B. Ward, Steven M. Smith, Jyotsna Vaid.

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

• Ward, Thomas B.
• Smith, Steven M.
• Vaid, Jyotsna.

Description

xv, 567 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Creative ability > Congresses
• Creative thinking > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Conceptual Structures and Processes in Creative Thought / Thomas B. Ward, Steven W. Smith and Jyotsna Vaid -- 2. Thematic Relations and the Creation of Combined Concepts / Edward J. Shoben and Christina L. Gagne -- 3. Conceptual Combination: Possibilities and Esthetics / Edward J. Wisniewski -- 4. Emergent Attributes in Combined Concepts / James A. Hampton -- 5. The Developmental Emergence of Multiplicative Combinations / Friedrich Wilkening, Gudrun Schwarzer and Annette Rummele -- 6. Coherent and Creative Conceptual Combinations / Paul Thagard -- 7. Imagination at Work: Conceptual and Linguistic Creativity in Children / Cristina Cacciari, Maria Chiara Levorato and Piercarla Cicogna -- 8. The Creation of New Concepts: A Multifaceted Approach to Category Learning / Arthur B. Markman, Takashi Yamauchi and Valerie S. Makin -- 9. Creativity: Shifting Across Ontological Categories Flexibly / Michelene T. H. Chi --
• 10. Polysemy and the Creation of Novel Word Meanings / Gregory L. Murphy -- 11. Mundane Creativity in Perceptual Symbol Systems / Lawrence W. Barsalou and Jesse J. Prinz -- 12. Creativity in Personality, Developmental, and Social Psychology: Any Links With Cognitive Psychology? / Dean Keith Simonton -- 13. Metaphor Comprehension: How Metaphors Create New Categories / Sam Glucksberg, Deanna Ann Manfredi and Matthew S. McGlone -- 14. How Language Reflects the Embodied Nature of Creative Cognition / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. -- 15. Of "Men" and Metaphors: Shakespeare, Embodiment, and Filing Cabinets / Eva Feder Kittay -- 16. Analogy and Creativity in the Works of Johannes Kepler / Dedre Gentner, Sarah Brem and Ron Ferguson [et al.] -- 17. How Scientists Think: On-Line Creativity and Conceptual Change in Science / Kevin Dunbar -- 18. Mental Models, Space, and Embodied Cognition / Arthur M. Glenberg -- 19. Creativity's Camel: The Role of Analogy in Invention / David N. Perkins.

ISBN

1557984042 (casebinding)

LCCN

97000892

OCLC

• 36379676
• ocm36379676

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries