I propose a new concept of the evolutionary psychological imagination, t o replace C. Wright Mills’ half-century-old notion of the sociological imagination, as a way to link personal experiences with wider social phenomena. To illustrate, I discuss how one’s difficulty in dating might be connected to the current world war, and how the evolutionary psychological imagination sometimes allows us t...

J HENRY NEWMAN was one of the greatest English prose writers whose works spanned the nineteenth century. His penchant for figurative language revealed a literary talent that was rhetorically exciting and highly imaginative. In the wake of Romanticism he used the imagination in his theological method to portray the intellectual depth of religious belief. He understood the imagination as a mental...

Children engage with their imaginative faculties in a variety of ways as they grow and develop. Th ey play simple pretend games starting at about the age of two (Fein, 1981; Nicolich, 1977; Singer & Singer, 1990), which are then elaborated into longer pretend sequences and sometimes into ongoing relationships with imaginary companions (Taylor, 1999) and paracosms (see chapter 27). Children also...

This paper presents a system for the exploration of projected interfaces. We describe our Visible Imagination (VI) platform combining a camera, projector and torch (flashlight) allowing interaction with the torchlight and shape capture. We describe six application sketches that demonstrate different interaction styles using the platform, reflecting on their success and how they may be applied t...

Rival and apparently exclusive views have been canvassed about the instrumental use of the humanities in medical education. The novel is seen as offering exemplifications of moral principles on the one hand, whilst on the other such an approach is said to miss the essence of reading a novel by misrepresenting the engagment of the reader. The use of the humanities in medicine as a stimulus to re...

Cognitive science is moving toward a conception of cognition as a biological phenomenon rather than a logical process. In distributed cognition, this shift draws attention to the fine details of interactions between whole persons and their cultural constructed environments for thinking. Recent work in embodied and enacted cognition, suggests new ways to think about fundamental constructs such a...

Formal real-time imagination is a term that may curiously describe the activities of a commonsense agent in a real-time setting in general, and in a tight deadline situation in particular. We brieey describe anàctive-logic' mechanism that ts this description. Temporal projection is an essential component of real-time planning. We draw a parallel between imagination as we understand it in human ...

Multimodal machine translation is the task of translating sentences in a visual context. We decompose this problem into two sub-tasks: learning to translate and learning visually grounded representations. In a multitask learning framework, translations are learned in an attention-based encoderdecoder, and grounded representations are learned through image representation prediction. Our approach...

This chapter surveys and assesses from an ecocentric perspective some representative literary portrayals of the Australian deserts. Generally, it contrasts works that portray the desert as an alien, hostile, and undifferentiated void with works that recognise and value the biological particularities of specific desert places. It explores the literature of three dominant cultural orientations to...