| Scenario Visualization: An Evolutionary Account of Creative Problem Solving Contributor(s): Arp, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0262012448 ISBN-13: 9780262012447 Publisher: Bradford Book
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2008 * Out of Print * Annotation: In order to solve problems, humans are able to synthesize apparently unrelated concepts, take advantage of serendipitous opportunities, hypothesize, invent, and engage in other similarly abstract and creative activities, primarily through the use of their visual systems. 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. Arp's account of scenario visualization and its emergence in evolutionary history suggests an answer to two basic questions asked by philosophers and biologists concerning human nature: why we are unique; and how we got that way. Click for more in this series: Bradford Books |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition - Philosophy | Mind & Body |
| Dewey: 155.937 |
| LCCN: 2007032256 |
| Age Level: 18-UP |
| Grade Level: 13-UP |
| Series: Bradford Books |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.31" W x 9.3" L (0.96 lbs) 209 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents |
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Contributor Bio(s): Arp, Robert: - Robert Arp is a researcher and analyst for the U.S. Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, who has worked on ontologies for the U.S. Air Force and the National Institutes of Health. He is the author of Scenario Visualization: An Evolutionary Account of Creative Problem Solving. |
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