Your brain can learn from imagined experiences almost like real ones, shaping how you feel about people and future ...

Imagination is a powerful force—it can transport you to the most wondrous places or lead you into the depths of the unknown. The ability to see beyond the present separates great leaders from the rest ...

SFI Research Fellow Anthony Eagan reflects on SFI's new multi-day event, Synthetic Imagination, which launched in September.

A new study led by cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences shows that merely imagining a positive encounter ...

The industrial revolution brought about a shift of work from the farm to the factory. Only a few were managers making decisions. Most workers used their hands. Henry Ford even once lamented, “Why is ...

Human minds evolved to accomplish incredible feats of cognition and computation — but they also evolved to wander. The imagination is often held up as a totem of our species’ uniqueness, a thing that ...

One of the more frustrating classes I took in college in the 1980s was a computer science course on data structures and algorithms. In that class, we learned about a variety of approaches to solving ...

The most popular TED talk of all time is a talk by Ken Robinson on whether schools kill creativity. Robinson does not provide any evidence they do; he simply laments the decline of arts education. But ...

Creativity and imagination are not the same thing. Everything I've learned about imagination over the last very many posts is based on this simple observation. Though they frequently call on each ...