However, it is much easier to get children to 'produce' outcomes in the name of creativity than it is to promote those quiet reflective capacities of mind which drive imaginative thought and action in the development of personal ideas. For if the imagination is to do its work, it must be calibrated to a nuanced set of understandings about the materials of art through which inner ideas can be shaped and externally expressed. In Art Education. Volume 45, No. 4. Images may involve different senses.
Most people use images to think and to solve problems.
Images cross normal sensory barriers. Individual listening to music may experience a burst of colors or tastes as well as sound sensations. Mentally rotate . Mental images are not necessarily flat, and they can be moved about as needed. Stored images .