1981/12/01 by Albert Rothenberg, Robert Sobel · 2 citations
Psychology · Neuroscience · #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Creativity in Education and Neuroscience #Representation (politics) #Duration (music) #Mental image #Psychology #Cognitive psychology #Mental representation #Art #Literature #Cognition #Neuroscience
paper · doi:10.2466/pms.1981.53.3.1007
openalex publication_date 1981/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
In a previous experiment on the creative homospatial process, writers exposed to superimposed images created literary metaphors which were rated higher than those of subjects exposed to the same images projected separately. Shortening the duration of exposure to images produces significantly greater variability in ratings of metaphors for those exposed to the superimposed condition, as predicted from the mental representation in homospatial thinking.