Imaginative Processes Research Articles

The interplay of motifs and instruments in RADWIMPS’ “Sparkle”: A compositional analysis

The relationship between film and music is a deep and intricate phenomenon that significantly shapes the viewer's experience by blending visuals and audio to create a beautifully captivating ambiance. This synthesis is especially crucial in genres such as drama, supernatural, and fantasy when music serves as a channel to the imaginary worlds depicted on television. The 2016 Japanese fantasy animation film *Kimi no Na wa* (Your Name) demonstrates the connection between well-crafted music and a film's narrative and emotional depth. It showcases character design by Masayoshi Tanaka and a remarkable score by the Japanese rock band RADWIMPS. The tale centers around a schoolgirl hailing from rural Japan and a student residing in Tokyo who inexplicably swap bodies, creating the backdrop for a very emotional story. This research underscores the importance of the soundtrack, namely RADWIMPS's utilization of piano, in evoking emotional and imaginative reactions. The study highlights the intricate influence of music in films, impacting psychological, visual, emotional, and imaginative processes. Music enhances the cinematic experience by setting the mood, intensifying feelings, and providing a captivating background, transporting the viewer to different worlds. This study aims to explore the optimal utilization of music in fantasy and supernatural films to enhance storytelling and engage spectators in response to the growing output of such films. This study employs a qualitative research approach to examine the recurring utilization of piano motifs in the music of *Kimi no Na Wa* and its influence on the cinematic experience. The findings illustrate that particular musical components substantially impact how the audience perceives and emotionally responds, offering vital insights for filmmakers and researchers. This study emphasizes the multifaceted function of music in improving storytelling and its significant influence on viewers' emotional and psychological involvement

Features of Representations and Subjective Experience of the Images of Hallucinations, Fantasies, Dreams, and Imagination in Patients with Mental Disorders

Background : imagination, fantasies, dreams and hallucinations are relatively independent mental processes associated with the operation of images reflecting realistic or non-existent objects and situations. Researchers note the diagnostic potential of the features of experiencing these processes in patients with mental disorders, especially at the early stages. The aim of the study is to examine cognitive representations of the processes of imagination, fantasy, dreams and hallucinations, and the subjective experience of their perception in patients with psychotic and non-psychotic mental disorders. Patients and methods: the study involved respondents aged 16 to 29 years: patients with psychotic disorders ( n = 54), non-psychotic mental disorders ( n = 50) and conditionally healthy individuals ( n = 63). A structured clinical interview and a drawing technique (an example of an image of imagination, fantasy, dreams and hallucinations) were used. Results: it was revealed that 90% of healthy respondents were able to distinguish between the studied mental processes, compared with 77% of patients with non-psychotic and 35% of patients with psychotic disorders. In addition, the respondents’ concepts corresponded to highlighted scientific criteria in 85% of healthy individuals, 34% of patients with non-psychotic and 11% with psychotic disorders. Patients with psychotic disorders, in comparison with other groups, were significantly less able to control their imagination ( p = 0.001) and fantasies ( p = 0.001) and more often reported negative emotional experiences of imagination ( p = 0.001). Patients of both clinical groups were significantly more likely than healthy respondents to report having a negative dream experience ( p < 0.005). They used significantly fewer colors when depicting images of imagination and fantasy, compared with the control group ( p = 0.001). Conclusions: mentally healthy people distinguish between images of imagination, fantasy, dreams and hallucinations; in patients with non-psychotic mental disorders, the boundaries between these processes are less rigid, and in patients with psychotic disorders they are practically blurred. Patients with non-psychotic disorders associate predominantly positive emotions with imagination, whereas patients with psychotic disorders — predominantly negative emotions. There are no statistically significant differences in emotional response to fantasies, dreams and hallucinations between these groups.

‘Innovation in the Arts in Therapy’: A Special Issue

The editorial overview provides the background and rationale for this Special Issue. Collaboration, innovation and integration are themes that are introduced and developed to provide the context in which the contributors to this collection of articles have worked together to bring a shared vision to fruition. This Special Issue is a collaboration between practitioners and researchers, supervisors and peers, who describe how the processes of creativity, imagination and healing can galvanize individual ideas and take our collective creative vision forward.

Pathology of imagination in an adolescent at clinical high-risk for psychosis.

We report a pathological imagination process in an adolescent at clinical high-risk for psychosis, associated with the presence of self-disorders. The subjective experience associated with pathological imagination helped in distinguishing such mental activity from intrusive thoughts of obsessive-compulsive patients; moreover, such anomalous imagination focused on other people may be an adaptive process triggered by negative emotionality against others that appear difficult or impossible to relationally grasp and attune with. In conclusion, anomalies of imaginations may occur within the schizophrenic spectrum since adolescent prodromal stages, associated with self-disorders.

Creating meeting grounds for transdisciplinary climate research: the role of humanities and social sciences in grand challenges

ABSTRACT In this position paper, we use the example of The University of Texas at Austin’s Planet Texas 2050 (PT2050) to argue that the Grand Challenge (GC) framework for ambitious research initiatives must create meeting grounds for transdisciplinary integration of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), arts, and humanities, along with community perspectives. We trace the historical trajectory of GCs, and reframe GC initiatives within the literature of inter- and transdisciplinarity. We present PT2050 as a case study of the infrastructural supports and imaginative process for creating level meeting grounds for transdisciplinarity. We demonstrate the benefits of these meeting grounds through projects, products, and funding generated. We contend that engaging arts, humanities, and community in co-design from the beginning is critical because complex, urgent challenges such as the climate crisis are embedded in human societies and demand solutions based in understanding of social, cultural, and historical contexts as well as STEM applications.

Investigation of Afterthoughts through Art, Natural and Social Science My Self “After Thoughts”

Introduction: This article explores afterthoughts on a canvas by depicting portraits of self and natural scenes. The portraits on the canvas are comprised of the reflection of clouds, the reflection of the inner self in water and landscape in the water, and the portrayal of clouds, sky, and trees. The objective of this study is to analyze the results of works of art that are related to the natural sciences and social self of a painter. Method: The nature of this research is analytical, as the discussion and analysis are purely interpreted according to social points of view. The portraits have been analyzed within the paradigms of the concept of afterthoughts. Some articles, books, and opinions related to my research have been used as secondary data to get a deep understanding of the topic. Result: The study further investigates how the portraits on the canvas reflect one's inner self, life story, and thoughts by getting influenced by natural scenes and sceneries, as these paintings are the amalgamation of a careful process of imagination and thinking about a particular scene. The portrayals on the canvas are depicted after an organized discerning and contemplation. Conclusion: the study concludes that the process of afterthoughts has immense significance in terms of the expressions of feelings, thoughts, and emotions of people because art is such a great and effective tool that can be used to paint someone's inner reality, mindset, and overall story of life.

The “eye” in imagination: The role of eye movements in a reciprocal aiming task

Humans not only perform a variety of actions, but they also simulate or imagine themselves performing those actions. When individuals physically execute goal-directed hand movements, eye movements typically precede the hand movements to the target to enhance movement accuracy. Studies have also revealed that eye movements emerge during motor imagery. Although eye-hand coordination is clearly important for the execution of a goal-directed movement, less is known about the role or expression of eye movements in an imagined movement. The present experiments were designed to investigate the role of eye movements during an executed and imagined reciprocal aiming task. Participants executed and imagined reciprocal aiming movements under conditions in which they were allowed to freely move their eyes or were told to fixate at a fixation point. Speed-accuracy trade-offs consistent with Fitts’ Law were observed across all conditions suggesting that eye movements were not necessary to execute or imagine movements. Movement times were longest, however, in the imagination task when the eye movements were restricted to the central fixation point, suggesting that eye movements might assist with the accuracy or calibration of the imagination process. Analysis of eye movements during the no fixation imagination task revealed that the eye movements during imagination mimicked the executed hand movements when gaze was not restricted. Overall, these results suggest that although the ability to make eye movements was not necessary for action execution or motor imagery, the use of eye movements likely enhancing the accuracy of motor imagery for this task.

Destination imagination: Development of the octomodal mental imagery (OMI) scale

This article introduces and develops a comprehensive scale named Octomodal Mental Imagery (OMI) to measure various aspects of imagination and prospection. OMI is developed and validated by conducting three rigorous studies and six data collections. In the first study, using the phenomenology approach, a detailed internal experience of the imagination process was carefully recorded. In the second study, the potential manifest variables to measure imagination/prospection were developed and a general configuration of the questionnaire was determined. In the third study, through three data collections, two versions of long (original) and short OMI were thoroughly screened, refined, and validated. Furthermore, from the measurement and structural perspectives, the conceptualization of imagination was compared to prospection. Our results substantiate OMI as a reliable and valid scale to be used in and out of hedonic consumption contexts.

SUBSTANTIATION OF MECHANISMS OF SIGNIFICANT POSITIVE INFLUENCE OF CHECKERS/DRAUGHTS TRAINING ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR'S METHODOLOGY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADOLESCENTS' IMAGINATION AND THINKING

The article is prepared against the background of actualizing the problem of modern scientific and methodological support of youth sports schools specializing in the training of sportsmen in intellectual games. This article is devoted to the issues of reviewing checkers/draughts as a possible means of developing cognitive psychic processes of adolescents, which can be of great importance in the context of planning and organizing the process of psychological training of young checkers/draughts players. The author analyzed in detail the mechanisms of checkers/draughts' influence on the development of cognitive processes of adolescents' imagination and thinking, given that imagination and thinking are among the basic cognitive psychic processes that have their own patterns of development in adolescence. The significant influence of checkers/draughts training on the development of cognitive process of imagination, its complexity and flexibility, on strengthening the creative component of adolescents' imagination, as well as on the development of their thinking, including the analytical nature of inductive thinking and increasing the speed of its process has been experimentally identified and confirmed. Regular checkers/draughts training has a significant positive influence on the development of adolescents' imagination and thinking, which is manifesting through the action of various psychic mechanisms. The statements, results of experimental research and conclusions presented in the article are an integral part of the development of a new curriculum for training of checkers/draughts players for youth sports schools. They can be used in the planning and organization of educational work, the development of new models and technologies of teaching and education in secondary and youth sports schools, in the practice of individual educational work of practical psychologists and teachers with adolescents.

Synchronous analyses between electroencephalogram and surface electromyogram based on motor imagery and motor execution.

The functional coupling of the cerebral cortex and muscle contraction indicates that electroencephalogram (EEG) and surface electromyogram (sEMG) signals are coherent. The objective of this study is to clearly describe the coupling relationship between EEG and sEMG through a variety of analysis methods. We collected the EEG and sEMG data of left- or right-hand motor imagery and motor execution from six healthy subjects and six stroke patients. To enhance the coherence coefficient between EEG and sEMG signals, the algorithm of EEG modification based on the peak position of sEMG signals is proposed. Through analyzing a variety of signal synchronization analysis methods, the most suitable coherence analysis algorithm is selected. In addition, the wavelet coherence analysis method based on time spectrum estimation was used to study the linear correlation characteristics of the frequency domain components of EEG and sEMG signals, which verified that wavelet coherence analysis can effectively describe the temporal variation characteristics of EEG-sEMG coherence. In the task of motor imagery, the significant EEG-sEMG coherence is mainly in the imagination process with the frequency distribution of the alpha and beta frequency bands; in the task of motor execution, the significant EEG-sEMG coherence mainly concentrates before and during the task with the frequency distribution of the alpha, beta, and gamma frequency bands. The results of this study may provide a theoretical basis for the cooperative working mode of neurorehabilitation training and introduce a new method for evaluating the functional state of neural rehabilitation movement.

Picture Series in Teaching Writing Skills: A Literature Review

This library research investigates how picture series implementation effectively improves students' writing skills on different text types. Data were collected from journals published in the last ten years, from 2012-2022, and analyzed using content analysis. The results indicated that picture series effectively improve students' writing skills in descriptive, narrative, recount, procedure, explanation, and spoof texts. Even the picture series is helpful when applied to teach writing skills to deaf and hard-of-hearing students. A visual representation of events arranged in chronological order naturally provides the students with clues that can help them arrange and develop ideas in writing. Besides, the picture series stimulate the students' process of thinking and imagination to write the assigned text. Picture series also promote students' engagement and participation. In other words, picture series enables students to improve their writing skills and change their behavior toward learning.

GAMBARAN BIMBINGAN KELOMPOK DENGAN TEKNIK ROLE PLAYING UNTUK SISWA YANG MEMILIKI MOTIVASI BELAJAR RENDAH DI SMP NURUL HIDAYAH PASUNDAN CIANJUR PADA MASA COVID-19

The learning process will run well if students have good motivation. This study aims to determine the illustration of student motivation in class VIII at Nurul Hidayah Middle School, Pasundan, Cianjur. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative case study. The data collection is using interview, observation and documentation techniques. From the results of the data analysis, group guidance services have been provided with role playing techniques through several stages and are going well. In this problem the counseling guidance service used is group guidance service. The description of group guidance service activities with role playing procedures or role games is a learning strategy as part of a coordinated recreation in creating various opportunities for social-social change, creating real events or events that may arise in the future. By using the process of imagination, all students can be involved in the execution, besides the strong developments made by students will make it easier for students to understand the core of the material given.Keywords:Â Group Guidance, Role Playing Techniques, Learning Motivation

Beyond Needle and Thread

Beyond Needle and Thread

Examining the Learning Progression of Undergraduate Students’ Scientific Imagination: A Measurement Perspective

This study aimed to examine the learning progression (LP) model of scientific imagination among undergraduate students using the Scientific Imagination Test-Verbal (SIT-Verbal) and investigated the influence of students’ demographic characteristics including gender, age, and discipline on their scientific imagination. Six hundred and sixteen undergraduates from a university in southern Taiwan participated in this study. The SIT-Verbal covered four key components of the scientific imagination process: brainstorming, association, transformation/elaboration, and conceptualization/organization/formation. The multiple validities of SIT-Verbal were assessed via a Rasch partial credit model. The results indicated that the SIT-Verbal had good model–data fit, supporting that undergraduate students’ scientific imagination in four stages from brainstorming, association and transformation/elaboration to conceptualization/organization/formation. Additionally, the results showed that the SIT-Verbal was suitable for measuring students’ scientific imagination at the university level. The study also provided abundant evidence verifying the SIT-Verbal and supported the learning progression for undergraduate students’ scientific imagination.

PROSES PENCIPTAAN TARI RAJO MEDDAL DI KABUPATEN LAMPUNG UTARA

This study revealed several problems including about dance forms Rajo Meddal and the creative process of the creation of Rajo Meddal dance. The method used is qualitative with the stage of collecting data through observation, interview and literature study. Data analysis techniques include data reduction, data presentation and data verification/conclusion. This study uses a theory of shape by Suzanne K. Langer and to outline the aspects of the shape using the theory of Y. Sumandiyo Hadi, then the theory of creation by F.X. Widaryanto as well as theory about the factors that affect the process of creation by Alma Hawkins. The results showed that dance Rajo Meddal is a dance creations manifold groups that were created in 2019, and is inspired from the legend of rato nago. The form of Rajo Meddal dance consist of dance structure, and elements dance composer. The process of the creation of Rajo Meddal dance includes the exploration stage is the process of thinking and imagination as well as search motion based motion traditional dance, stage improvisation is the process of finding the motion or search for new motions, and phase composition is the process of merging the motion be the motion of the dance intact. The factors that affect the process of creation includes internal factors and external factors.

Hope and Despair in the Therapeutic Relationship: The Paradoxical Power of Letting Go

ABSTRACT Christian Sell describes a therapeutic process with a patient who struggled with feelings of hopelessness and despair. He reveals how unbearable he initially found the passivity of the patient to be and how tormented he felt by the sessions at that time. He suggests that helping the patient to find hope depended upon the therapist’s resistance to the patient’s despair and maintenance of a therapeutic posture intermediate between activity and passivity. It is proposed here that empathic immersion in despair, rather than resistance to it, may be an essential therapeutic factor in this circumstance. This view is consistent with Sell’s experience that “letting go” of his position was paradoxically necessary in order for him to overcome his feelings of powerlessness. Hope then seemed to emerge from the deep sense of connection in a shared experience, rather than from resistance to it. This may have been what allowed the patient to reveal vivid and terrifying childhood memories, to join with the therapist in a fluid process of creative imagination, and for the shared task of reclaiming a life to begin. Relationality, rather than resistance, is sometimes what is needed in order for the light to come in.

“Computer metaphor”, interhemispheral asymmetry and species (spontaneous) knowledge of Homo sapiens

The purpose of this article is to supplement the discussion in the field of research and modeling of the process of cognition first with data from neuropsychology and interhemispheric asymmetry, and second with reflections on species’ (spontaneous) knowledge of Homo sapiens. I. The data of neuropsychology and interhemispheric asymmetry signify two differently directed and complementary ways of processing information and regulating the functions inherent in the brain. One of these methods is analytical computer-like information processing, which is necessary for voluntary learning, the other method provides holistic-simultaneous, imaginative, unconscious, and involuntary processing. The duality of cognitive strategies is clearly manifested in the psychological analysis of syndromes in the case of brain lesions, as well as various conditions in healthy people (for example, in the case of bilingualism). II. Biological existence, which is the basis for all other layers of life, is provided by species-specific behavior and knowledge. Presumably species knowledge manifests itself as 1 — Constant involuntary assessment of the surrounding world and adequate reactions to changes in the world: from ordinary reactions (step aside, add a step, etc.) to the ability to react without hesitation in dangerous situations. 2 — The ability to understand connections between phenomena without scientific calculations. The entire history of mankind speaks of the existence of such an ability. People survived without science and created science along the way. 3 — Deep knowledge (often without the ability to logically explain) of what is natural and useful for us as representatives of the Homo Sapiens species, and of what is unnatural and harmful. There are reasons to assume that species knowledge is the basis that determines the common behavior of people of different eras and cultures in everything related to the continuation of the family and the cultivation of a new generation. Species knowledge merges together in the process of development with the knowledge gained during training.

The creative "lifeworld" in Geriana Kauh Village; Intertwining of culture and nature during the pandemics in Bali

This research is an attempt to delve into understanding the process of creative imagination of the sacred which is revealed in the intertwining of culture and nature in Geriana Kauh, Karangasem, Bali. This study aims to investigate the relationship between the individual, the social and ecology, as well as the transformation of individual consciousness into a collective awareness sharing a communal reality. This qualitative research is developed by incorporating theoretical analysis and formulating field data collected in the traditional Village of Geriana Kauh, as the villagers resort to their cultural resources to deal with the cosmological imbalances caused by pandemics. By means of a phenomenological examination, this investigation underlines the dynamic interlocking of the cultural and the natural worlds.

Empathy and power

Emotions have been perceived as an object of philosophical and ethical inquiry since Greco-Roman times, but the outburst of “affect theory” transformed their theoreticalvision by identifying them as cultural practices subjected to dynamics of power. Even if the critique has pointed at the political dangers that affects like compassion may imply, empathy, which is having a moment of popularity in multiple disciplines, is still being analyzed as a highly democratizing emotion. In addition, its imaginative process isgenerally simplified and the narrow focus that limits its occurrence is overlooked. This article aims to identify the power dictates that determine empathy theoretically as well as in its practice, putting the focus on the moral barriers that dictate who is worthy of being understood, and proposing literature as a way to expand our empathic capacity.
 Keywords: politics, affect theory, empathy, morality, extreme empathy.

A sense of direction: spatial boundaries in a cognitive, cultural, and deep time perspective

ABSTRACT This brief note points toward new potentials that lie at the interface between research on landscape archaeology and cognitive science. Recent advances in the cognitive and neural sciences have sharpened our understanding of spatial cognition, by providing new explanations for how the brain reduces the dimensionality of complex topography and geography for effective navigation. This research suggests that space is represented in grid-like structures in the brain, and that grid-like forms are a basic ingredient of spatial processing. At the same time, recent archaeological research shows that the organization of larger-scale space into linear forms, and in particular grid-like landscapes, is a relatively recent social invention, which suggests that these forms are historically and culturally contingent. Taken together, this research raises the question of how the dimensionality-reducing function of grid-like processing in the brain is related to higher-level conceptual and imaginative processing of space needed to plan and negotiate large-scale landscape structures. This brief note motivates this question and argues for further exploration of the relationships between biological, cognitive, and cultural processes related to space and its conceptualization between these fields of research.