1976/01/01 by Albert Rothenberg · 4 citations
Psychology · Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · #Creativity in Education and Neuroscience #Art Education and Development #Creativity #Articulation (sociology) #Variety (cybernetics) #The arts #Divergent thinking #Cognitive science #Salient #Psychology #Lateral thinking #Space (punctuation) #Cognition #Thinking processes #Creative thinking #Convergent thinking #Process (computing) #Cognitive psychology #Epistemology #Mathematics education #Social psychology #Computer science #Visual arts #Art #Artificial intelligence #Statistical thinking #Philosophy #Neuroscience
paper · doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1976.01770010005001
openalex publication_date 1976/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14
"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.