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Author Koutstaal, Wilma.

Title The agile mind / Wilma Koutstaal
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 763 pages) : illustrations
Contents Agility of mind and the integrated controlled-automatic, specific-abstract (iCASA) framework -- Flexibly using memory and categorical knowledge, part 1: levels of representational specificity and thinking -- Flexibly using memory and categorical knowledge, part 2: levels of control, representational specificity, and thinking -- Thinking with our senses -- Action and motivation: the impetus for, and enactment of, agile thinking -- Emotion, self, personality: thought personified -- Thoughts about thoughts: the control versus noncontrol of thinking -- Brain bases of levels of specificity and levels of control, part 1: the frontal cortex, and beyond -- Brain bases of levels of specificity and levels of control, part 2: concepts and intuition, resilience, novelty, and exploration -- Making brain paths to agile thinking, part 1: correlational and longitudinal evidence -- Making brain paths to agile thinking, part 2: direct experimental evidence -- Implications and applications of the iCASA framework for fostering agile thinking
Summary In this book, Wilma Koutstaal covers all aspects of agile thought, and how it emerges from and interacts with memory perception, emotion, executive control, motivation, and action as well as how it is related to creativity, mediated by learning and environmental input, enhanced by plasticity, and destroyed by rigidity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Thought and thinking.
Creative thinking.
Divergent thinking.
Adaptability (Psychology)
Thinking
Adaptation, Psychological
thinking.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development.
PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
Adaptability (Psychology)
Creative thinking
Divergent thinking
Thought and thinking
Form Electronic book
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