News tagged with imagination

Planetary professor shows what alien sunset really looks like

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the great things about science is how so many people are able to use their imagination to conjure ideas, concepts or in some cases actual images of things in their mind, and then to ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Myths about psychopaths busted

(Medical Xpress) -- New research challenges the belief that psychopaths are born not made, and suggests psychopaths may even be able to change their spots.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

NASA launching twin moon probes to measure gravity

Four decades after landing men on the moon, NASA is returning to Earth's orbiting companion, this time with a set of robotic twins that will measure lunar gravity while chasing one another in circles.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Imagination can influence perception

Imagining something with our mind's eye is a task we engage in frequently, whether we're daydreaming, conjuring up the face of a childhood friend, or trying to figure out exactly where we might have parked the car. But how ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Thought for food: New research shows imagining food consumption reduces actual consumption

If you're looking to lose weight, it's okay to think about eating your favorite candy bar. In fact, go ahead and imagine devouring every last bite — all in the name of your diet.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Imagination Station to offer NASA's New Views of the Universe exhibition

NASA’s traveling museum exhibition, New Views of the Universe, featuring the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, opens at Imagination Station museum in Toledo this Friday, Sept. 24.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

False memories of self-performance result from watching others' actions

Did I turn off the stove, or did I just imagine it? Memory isn't always reliable. Psychological scientists have discovered all sorts of ways that false memories get created, and now there's another one for the list: watching ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Child Development Expert Says The Magic Of Santa Claus Is No Lie

(PhysOrg.com) -- Should parents let their children believe in Santa Claus?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scary music is scarier with your eyes shut

The power of the imagination is well-known: it's no surprise that scary music is scarier with your eyes closed. But now neuroscientist and psychiatrist Prof. Talma Hendler of Tel Aviv University's Functional Brain Center ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Taking up music so you can hear

Anyone with an MP3 device -- just about every man, woman and child on the planet today, it seems -- has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Imagine this: Study suggests power of imagination is more than just a metaphor

We've heard it before: "Imagine yourself passing the exam or scoring a goal and it will happen." We may roll our eyes and think that's easier said than done, but in a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the As ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Stranger knows best: Other people know more about what will make us happy than we do

(PhysOrg.com) -- Want to know what will make you happy? Then ask a total stranger -- or so says a new study from Harvard University, which shows that another person's experience is often more informative than ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

People are more suggestible under laughing gas

The pain-relieving effects of nitrous oxide - laughing gas - may be enhanced by suggestion or hypnosis, according to a new study by UCL (University College London). The study's findings - that people are more suggestible ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Imagination

Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability of forming mental images, sensations and concepts, in a moment when they are not perceived through sight, hearing or other senses. Imagination helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world, and it also plays a key role in the learning process. A basic training for imagination is listening to storytelling (narrative), in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to "evoke worlds."

It is accepted as the innate ability and process of inventing partial or complete personal realms within the mind from elements derived from sense perceptions of the shared world.[citation needed] The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind, percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as "imaging" or "imagery" or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination. Imagined images are seen with the "mind's eye."

Imagination can also be expressed through stories such as fairy tales or fantasies. Most famous inventions or entertainment products were developed from the inspiration of someone's imagination.

Children often use narratives or pretend play in order to exercise their imagination. When children develop fantasy they play at two levels: first, they use role playing to act out what they have developed with their imagination, and at the second level they play again with their make-believe situation by acting as if what they have developed is an actual reality that already exists in narrative myth.

For more information about Imagination, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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