Mindvaults
Subtitle: Sociocultural Grounds for Pretending and Imagining
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780262019118
Subjects: Imagination; Social psychology; Social perception
Description: The human mind has the capacity to vault over the realm of current perception, motivation, emotion, and action, to leap--consciously and deliberately--to past or future, possible or impossible, abstract or concrete scenarios and situations. In this book, Radu Bogdan examines the roots of this uniquely human ability, which he terms "mindvaulting." He focuses particularly on the capacities of pretending and imaging, which he identifies as the first forms of mindvaulting to develop in childhood. Pretending and imagining, Bogdan argues, are crucial steps on the ontogenetic staircase to the intellect.