Ronald A. Finke Quotes

1950–2015 United States

Ronald A. Finke (1950- November 4, 2015) was an American cognitive scientist, and Professor of Psychology at the Texas State University, particularly known from his 1992 book Creative cognition: Theory, research, and applications.

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The image discoveries which then ’emerge’ resemble the way perceptual discoveries can follow the active exploration and manipulation of physical objects.

Surrogate percept, allowing people to detect some pattern or property in a remembered scene that they did not encode explicitly when they saw the scene initially.

S. Pinker and R.A. Finke (1980)

Perceptual interpretive processes are applied to mental images in much the same way that they are applied to actual physical objects. In this sense, imagined objects can be "interpreted" much like physical objects.

Restricting the ways in which creative cognition are interpreted encourages creative exploration and discovery and further reduces the likelihood that a person will fall back on conventional lines of thought.

p. 32; as cited in: Mark A. Runco (2014)

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