In this article we do two things: in the first half, we trace the emergence and development of
ecological linguistics, or ecolinguistics, from the early 1970s. Having contrasted the …

This best-selling textbook, written by award-winning educator and past president of the
American Psychological Association, Diane F. Halpern, applies theory and research from …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

As a cognitive state that impedes idea generation, fixation has been well studied across
various domains in relation to the cultivation of creativity. With the aim of contributing to the …

This chapter presents an interactivity-based approach to human problem-solving in the wild.
It introduces the notion of 'interactivity', here defined as sense-saturated coordination that …

Outside the cognitive psychologist's laboratory, problem-solving is an activity that takes
place in a rich web of interactions involving people and artefacts. This interactivity is …

Language plays a central role in human life. However, the term 'language'as defined in the
language sciences of the 20th century and the traditions these have drawn on, have …

This article challenges the traditional view of progress as a linear trajectory from ignorance
to knowledge, arguing that creative cognition involves an extended and dynamic system of …

Abstract Models of creative problem solving are predicated upon mental states to explain
everything from the outcome of problem‐solving experiments to the emergence of artistic …

Research on insight problem solving sets itself a challenging goal: How to explain the origin
of a new idea. It compounds the difficulty of this challenge by traditionally seeking to explain …