Psychogeneza wyobraźni

Abstract

The following article is an attempt to answer a question of psycho-evolutionary mechanisms of the origins of imagination. It is assumed that the imagination is a representation of ideas coded in semantic memory - this assumption is justified by an idea of lingua mentalis and the imagination model of Z. Pylyshyn. The starting point of the analysis is a long-term memory model covering three areas: species memory, episodic memory and semantic memory. This model is used to analyse hypothetical psycho-evolutionary mechanisms which led to the emergence of imagination such as: learning processes, emotions and prototypical categorising of the world. This paper also points out to the role of working memory in the formation of visual representations. It presents a thesis that operating memory has a dynamical character - it allows to realise either recollections or images - mind representations with different time requirements.