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| Imaginative Minds: An Interdisciplinary Symposium30 April-1 May 2004The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AHAbstracts- The anthropology of the textual imagination
Professor Karin Barber, FBA, Professor of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham - Memes, minds and imagination
Dr Susan Blackmore, Psychologist - The products of imagination: by-products or adaptations?
Professor Pascal Boyer, Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory, Washington University, St Louis - Imagining things: mind into music (and back again)
Professor Nicholas Cook, FBA, Professor of Music, Royal Holloway University of London - Music, science and culture
Dr Ian Cross, Reader in Music and Science, University of Cambridge - Imagination and point of view
Professor Greg Currie, Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham - Imagination and testimony in cognitive development: the cautious disciple?
Professor Paul Harris, FBA, Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education - The decadent imagination: synaesthesia or the influence of the Green Fairy?
Dr John Harrison, Russell Cairns Unit, Oxford - Evolution of the human imagination
Professor Steve Mithen, Professor of Early Prehistory, University of Reading - Myelin or module? The place of imagination in the architecture of the mind
Dr Daniel Nettle, Division of Psychology, Brain and Behaviour, University of Newcastle upon Tyne - Mental imagery and imagination
Professor Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin - Conceptualising the imaginative mind: insights from Autism Spectrum Disorders
Dr Ilona Roth, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Open University - The origin of human creativity
Professor Mark Turner, Institute Professor and Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Case Western Reserve University - Great ape cognition and the evolutionary roots of human imagination
Professor Andrew Whiten, FBA, Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology, University of St Andrews, and Thomas Suddendorf, School of Psychology, University of Queensland
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