CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Imagi Animation Studios, Sensory Deprivation, Impact Bias
2 Apr 2016
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What is imagination: creativity in general, sensory-like experiences based on internal rather than external information. Frequency: on average, people think about the future once every 16 minutes. We use memory to make imaginations: people who have trouble remembering (e. g. , the elderly, alzheimer"s patients) also have trouble imagining the future, many of the same brain areas are active for both tasks (the default network. ) Imagining the future: future imaginings have less detail, and are more prototypical, impact bias: we think that future emotional reactions will be stronger than they really will be. This is true even for imagined past events: imagine the steps to achieve a goal, not the achievement of it. Kinds of sensory imagination: visual, auditory, olfactory/gustatory, haptic, emotional, enteric/sexual/hunger, etc, motor/kinaesthetic. Mental imagery: aphantasics have no conscious experience of sensory imagination. How about 1280: dreaming about somebody who looks like someone else but you know is your mother. Mental imagery is the final, optional stage of imagination.
