Imagination, the Brain’s Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal Artifacts
Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture 2020 Joseph Carroll
AbstractThe purpose of this chapter is to explain how imaginative verbal artifacts are produced by the imagination and in turn influence the imagination. Assimilating recent neuroscientific research on the evolution of modern brain shape and on the brain’s default mode network, we can now say with confidence that the imagination is a neurological reality, that it is lodged in specific parts of...