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The productive mind: Creativity as a source of abstract mental representations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2020

Mark Fedyk Open the ORCID record for Mark Fedyk [Opens in a new window]  and
Fei Xu
Mark Fedyk
Affiliation:
Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing & School of Medicine (Bioethics), University of California, Davis, Betty Irene Moore Hall, Sacramento, CA95817 mfedyk@ucdavis.edu markfedyk.net
Fei Xu
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 3rd Floor, Berkeley Way West Building, Berkeley, CA94720. fei_xu@berkeley.eduhttps://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/fei-xu
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Abstract

Explanations of how the brain makes successful predictions should refer to abstracta. But, the mind/brain system is for more than prediction alone. Creativity also plays an important role in supply the mind/brain system with abstracta that serve a number of valuable ends over and above prediction.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e131
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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