The Agile Mind |
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| Author:
| Koutstaal, Wilma |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-935581-5 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $83.00 |
Book Description:
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Mental agility entails a readiness and capacity to change our manner of thinking, or of approaching a mental challenge without losing our "balance" in terms of our broader goals and aims. In this book, Wilma Koutstaal covers all aspects of agile thought, and how it emerges from and interacts with memory, perception, emotion, executive control, motivation, and action, as well as how it is related to creativity, mediated by learning and environmental input, enhanced by plasticity, and...
More DescriptionMental agility entails a readiness and capacity to change our manner of thinking, or of approaching a mental challenge without losing our "balance" in terms of our broader goals and aims. In this book, Wilma Koutstaal covers all aspects of agile thought, and how it emerges from and interacts with memory, perception, emotion, executive control, motivation, and action, as well as how it is related to creativity, mediated by learning and environmental input, enhanced by plasticity, and destroyed by rigidity. The Agile Mind brings together much theory and work in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology, so will be a valuable resource for researchers in those fields.