Imagination and the generation of new ideas
Cognitive Development, 2015. [All Versions]. A variety of theories have been put forth to explain the function of imagination, most notably that imagination engages and develops children's theory of mind and counterfactual reasoning. This work proposes that a primary role for…
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How We Know What Not To Think sciencedirect.com
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2019. [All Versions]. Humans often represent and reason about unrealized possible actions---the vast infinity of things that were not (or have not yet been) chosen. This capacity is central to the most impressive of human abilities: causal…
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Why Imaginary Worlds? The psychological foundations and cultural evolution of fictions with imaginary worlds cambridge.org
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2021. [All Versions]. Imaginary worlds are extremely successful. The most popular fictions produced in the last few decades contain such a fictional world. They can be found in all fictional media, from novels (e.g., Lord of The Rings and Harry…
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Heuristics for Scientific Experimentation: A Developmental Study sciencedirect.com
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The nature of creativity: Contemporary psychological perspectives, 1988. [All Versions]. A computational account on insights for scientific discovery.
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Abductive Cognition: The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning link.springer.com
Springer, 2009. [All Versions]. Most philosophers of science in the twentieth century have concluded that no logic of creative processes exists and, moreover, that a rational model of discovery is impossible. In short, scientific creative inferences are irrational and there is…
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Words, thoughts, and theories library.lol
MIT Press, 1997. [All Versions]. Alison Gopnik's book that articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development, the idea that infants and young children, like scientists, learn about the world by forming and revising theories-a view of the origins…
AGI & CoCoSci › Papers > Abduction > Rationalization: “Cognitive Development, 2015. [All Versions]. A variety of theories have been put forth to explain the function of imagination, most notably that imagination engages and develops children's theory of mind and counterfactual reasoning. This work proposes that a primary role for…”