The agile mind

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 researchersin those fields.

Chapter 1 -- Agility of Mind and the Integrated Controlled-Automatic, Specific-Abstract (iCASA) Framework PART I: Memory, Categorization, and Concepts Chapter 2 -- Levels of Representational Specificity and Thinking Chapter 3 -- Levels of Control, Representational Specificity, and Thinking Flexibly Using Memory and Categorical Knowledge Chapter 4 -- Thinking with Our Senses PART II: Motivation and Emotion Chapter 5 -- Action and Motivation: The Impetus for, and Enactment of, Agile Thinking Chapter 6 -- Emotion, Self, Personality: Thought Personified Chapter 7 -- Thoughts about Thoughts: The Control versus Non-control of Thinking Part III: Brain and Environment Chapter 8 -- The Frontal Cortex, and Beyond:Brain Bases of Levels of Specificity and Levels of Control, Part I Chapter 9 -- Concepts and Intuition, Resilience, Novelty and Exploration: Brain Bases of Levels of Specificity and Levels of Control, Part 2 Chapter 10 -- Making Brain Paths to Agile Thinking, Part 1: Correlational and Longitudinal Evidence Chapter 11 -- Making Brain Paths to Agile Thinking, Part 2: Direct Experimental Evidence Chapter 12 -- Implications and Applications of the iCASA Framework for Fostering Agile Th…