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(1984) Imagery in scientific thought, Basel, Birkhäuser.
MENTAL IMAGERY IN auditory, sensual, and visual modes has played a central role in creative thought. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's auditory imagery permitted him to hear a new symphony "tout ensemble." The great French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré's 'sensual imagery" led him to sense a mathematical proof in its entirety "at a glance." Albert Einstein's creative thinking occurred in visual imagery, and words were 'sought after laboriously only in a secondary stage" (Hadamard, 1954).
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-0545-3_7
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Miller, A. I. (1984). On the limits of the imagination, in Imagery in scientific thought, Basel, Birkhäuser, pp. 219-276.
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