ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
Leaving space for imagination: mental imagery-informed teaching framework for enhancing imagery vividness in creative writing.
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Currently, many multimodal materials, such as pictures, videos, and audio, are used in undergraduate creative writing classes. However, students still commonly feel a "lack of visual imagery" during the ideation process and difficulty in arousing emotions. Psychological research indicates that mental imagery is a crucial internal simulation mechanism supporting creative output. Nevertheless, higher education rarely sets "vividness of mental imagery" as an explicit teaching objective. Based on this, this study proposes a mental imagery-oriented teaching framework, "leaving space for imagination," which systematically guides students to generate and refine multisensory mental imagery by controlling the cue modality and the level of explanatory explicitness. A single-group pre-test and post-test design was adopted with 100 undergraduates majoring in media- and film-related fields at a Chinese university. The core of the class was the "four-stage lesson structure": introduction and goal-focusing, single-modality cueing, mental imagery generation and initial writing, and work sharing and imagery-focused refinement. The Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire and Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire were measured before and after the teaching unit. Pre-post changes were analysed using paired-samples
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