The agile mind / Wilma Koutstaal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koutstaal, Wilma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thought and thinking.

Creative thinking.

Divergent thinking.

Adaptability (Psychology).

Physical Description:

xix, 763 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Contents:

1 Agility of Mind and the Integrated Controlled-Automatic, Specific-Abstract (iCASA) Framework 3

Part 1 Memory, Categorization, and Concepts

2 Flexibly Using Memory and Categorical Knowledge, Part 1: Levels of Representational Specificity and Thinking 53

3 Flexibly Using Memory and Categorical Knowledge, Part 2: Levels of Control, Representational Specificity, and Thinking 90

4 Thinking with Our Senses 125

Part 2 Motivation and Emotion

5 Action and Motivation: The Impetus for, and Enactment of, Agile Thinking 179

6 Emotion, Self, Personality: Thought Personified 238

7 Thoughts about Thoughts: The Control versus Noncontrol of Thinking 282

Part 3 Brain and Environment

8 Brain Bases of Levels of Specificity and Levels of Control, Part 1: The Frontal Cortex, and Beyond 337

9 Brain Bases of Levels of Specificity and Levels of Control, Part 2: Concepts and Intuition, Resilience, Novelty, and Exploration 387

10 Making Brain Paths to Agile Thinking, Part 1: Correlational and Longitudinal Evidence 462

11 Making Brain Paths to Agile Thinking, Part 2: Direct Experimental Evidence 526

12 Implications and Applications of the iCASA Framework for Fostering Agile Thinking 573.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-738) and index.

ISBN:

9780195367188

0195367189

OCLC:

756278771