title: Homospatial thinking in creativity.
abstract: "Homospatial thinking" consists of actively conceiving two or more discrete entities occupying the same space, a conception leading to the articulation of new identities. Homospatial thinking has a salient role in the creative process in the following wide variety of fields: literature, the visual arts, music, science, and mathematics. This cognitive factor, along with "Janusian thinking," clarifies the nature of creative thinking as a highly adaptive and primarily nonregressive form of functioning.
mesh_terms: D001154:Art; D003071:Cognition; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D008091:Literature; D008433:Mathematics; D009146:Music; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012586:Science; D012660:Semantics; D013028:Space Perception; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology