Homospatial Thinking in Creativity
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 33 (1) , 17-26
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1976.01770010005001
Abstract
• "Homospatial thinking" consists of actively conceiving two or more discrete entities occupying the same space, a conception leading to the articulation of new identities. Homospatial thinking has a salient role in the creative process in the following wide variety of fields: literature, the visual arts, music, science, and mathematics. This cognitive factor, along with "Janusian thinking," clarifies the nature of creative thinking as a highly adaptive and primarily nonregressive form of functioning.Keywords
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