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| Imaginative Minds: An Interdisciplinary Symposium30 April-1 May 2004The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AHMyelin or module? The place of imagination in the architecture of the mindDaniel Nettle1 Contemporary psychology sees the mind as composed of an array of specialised, domain-specific processes, possibly integrated by some kind of meta-representational or domain-general system. I consider the possible sites for the imagination in such a model of the mind. The key to the imagination seems to be the mapping of meaningful representations between dissimilar domains. I thus argue, partly through the link between imagination and schizotypy, that rather than seeing imagination as a meta-representational or domain-general capacity, we should view it as a consequence of increased cross-talk or reduced insulation between parallel domain-specific processes.
1. Division of Psychology, Brain and Behaviour, University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
