"[This volume] excellently fulfils the intention of Peter Abelard, who established the fundamentals of the scholastic method. Moreover, it thereby follows the initial intention of the Counterpoints series to provide an opportunity for controversial scientific debates on topics of current concern regarding cognition, memory, and language." -The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2004

This book explores the fascinating connections and tensions among creativity research and developmental psychology, two field that have largely progressed independently of each other--until now. Scholars influential in both fields explore the emergence of new ideas, and the development of the people in situations that bring them to fruition.

Recent studies have pointed to the existence of a strong relationship between memory and mental representation, while others have shown that images are open to reinterpretation and manipulation; this volume offers a historical overview of the problem as well as a review of the research in psychology and related fields.