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Scenario visualization : an evolutionary account of creative problem solving
- Title
- Scenario visualization : an evolutionary account of creative problem solving / Robert Arp.
- Author
- Arp, Robert.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 209 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In Scenario Visualization, Robert Arp offers an evolutionary account of the unique human ability to solve nonroutine vision-related problems. He argues that by the close of the Pleistocene epoch, humans evolved a conscious creative problem-solving capacity, which he terms scenario visualization, that enabled them to outlive other hominid species and populate the planet. Arp shows that the evidence for scenario visualization - by which images are selected, integrated, and then transformed and projected into visual scenarios - can be found in the kinds of complex tools our hominid ancestors invented in order to survive in the ever-changing environments of the Pleistocene world." "Arp also argues that this conscious capacity shares an analogous affinity with neurobiological processes of selectivity and integration in the visual system, and that similar processes can be found in the activities of organisms in general. The evolution of these processes, he writes, helps account for the modern-day conscious ability of humans to use visual information to solve nonroutine problems creatively in their environments."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Visualization
- Problem solving > Methodology
- Creative thinking
- Problem solving
- Creative ability
- Imagination
- Problem Solving
- Creativity
- Imagination
- creativity
- imagination
- 77.31 cognition
- Problem solving
- Creative ability
- Creative thinking
- Problem solving > Methodology
- Visualization
- Kreatives Denken
- Problemlösen
- Visuelle Vorstellung
- Visualisation
- Problem resolving
- Kognitive Psychologie > Visualisierung
- Visualisierung > Kognitive Psychologie
- Evolutionspsychologie > Problemlösen
- Problemlösen > Evolutionspsychologie
- Problemlösen
- Visualisierung
- Kreativität
- animal > créativité > homme (être humain) > problème > résolution
- évolution (biologie) > problème > résolution > vision (physiologie) > visualisation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-206) and index.
- Contents
- Routine problem solving versus nonroutine creative problem solving -- Organisms and hierarchical organization -- Emergence and function -- The visual system -- The evolution of the visual system and scenario visualization -- Scenario visualization, creative problem solving, and evolutionary psychology.
- ISBN
- 9780262012447
- 0262012448
- LCCN
- 2007032256
- OCLC
- ocn164802542
- 164802542
- SCSB-9580748
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library