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. 2020 Jun 19:43:e131.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X19003029.

The productive mind: Creativity as a source of abstract mental representations

Mark Fedyk  1 , Fei Xu  2
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The productive mind: Creativity as a source of abstract mental representations

Mark Fedyk et al. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

Explanations of how the brain makes successful predictions should refer to abstracta. But, the mind/brain system is for more than prediction alone. Creativity also plays an important role in supply the mind/brain system with abstracta that serve a number of valuable ends over and above prediction.

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