Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Who's the "You"?
Chapter Two: Words Enable and Disable Thought: Michael Holquist,
David Krakauer, Lynn Margulis, and Jeff Martin
Chapter Three: The Vast Range of Visual Worlds: Barry Shur, Temple
Grandin, Mary Welty, Hugh Wilson, and Natasha Trethewey
Chapter Four: The Space of Language: Kate Thorpe, Jonathan Culler,
and N. Katherine Hayles
Chapter Five: Beyond Visual and Verbal Thinking: Linda Richardson,
Nicholas Gessler, David Finkelstein, and Barbara Zettel
Chapter Six: Thinking between Minds: Gerd Gigerenzer, Elizabeth
Blackburn, and Venkat Narayan
Chapter Seven: Creative Conversions: Salman Rushdie, Jason Rohrer,
Edward G. Jones, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Rigoberto A Gonzalez,
and Harriet Goren
Chapter Eight: Learning to Think: Mark Bauerlein, Diana Richmond,
Jay Hosler, and Scott Gilbert
Chapter Nine: Fluid Individuals, Evolving Minds
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Laura Otis is a Professor of English at Emory University and a
former MacArthur Fellow. With an MA in Neuroscience and a PhD in
Comparative Literature, she compares the creative thinking of
scientists and literary writers. Otis is the author of Organic
Memory, Membranes, Networking, and Müller's Lab; the translator of
Santiago Ramón y Cajal's Vacation Stories; and the editor of
Literature and Science in the Nineteenth
Century.
"It is clear that the author makes a substantial contribution to
the cognitive psychology of thought. The narratives indicate the
incredible richness of human mental imagery in real-world
contexts.... I think that Francis Galton would have loved this
thoughtful book."
--Dean Keith Simonton, PsycCRITIQUES
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