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The Forum: Imagination

Imagination

29/08/2015

BBC Radio 4 - The Forum, Imagination

The marvellous ability to create almost anything we want in our minds.

Imagination in poetry and prose, in tourism and migration, and in our brains. With Peter Tse, Arundhathi Subramaniam and Noel Salazar.

What happens in our brains when we are using our imagination? What role does imagination play in our decisions to visit foreign countries or even to migrate there? And is there something that makes people from a particular place, say India, use their imagination in a unique way? Bridget Kendall talks to neuroscientist Peter Tse, poet Arundhathi Subramaniam and anthropologist Noel Salazar.(Photo: The human brain. Credit: AFP/Getty Images).

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