Evolutionary Constraints on Creativity in the Visual and Plastic Arts
The visual and plastic arts represent a fundamental arena for human creativity and aesthetics, lying at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In this chapter, I examine the extent to which evolutionary pressures—taking the form of canalized
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olutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture
Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture
Joseph Carroll • Mathias Clasen Emelie Jonsson Editors
Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture
Editors Joseph Carroll Department of English University of Missouri–St. Louis Saint Louis, MO, USA
Mathias Clasen Department of English Aarhus University Aarhus C, Denmark
Emelie Jonsson Department of Language and Culture University of TromsØ, TromsØ, Norway
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Contents
Introduction������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 1 Joseph Carroll, Mathias Clasen, and Emelie Jonsson Part I Imagination: Evolution, Mechanisms, and Functions Imagination, the Brain’s Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal Artifacts�������������������������������������������������������������������� 31 Joseph Carroll The Evolution of Imagination and Fiction Through Generativity and Narrative��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 53
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