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OCANTO SILVA, Isabel. The creation of mental images and its implication in the understanding, the learning and the transference. SAPIENS [online]. 2009, vol.10, n.2, pp.243-254. ISSN 1317-5815.

This article searches to explain the process offormation ofmental images as a creative phenomenon that helps the understanding and therefore the learning. The study is based on a reading experience, using attitudinal contents, components that are called here integrated contents. The stimulation is reported in the formation of images that such contents produce, when propitiating the conditions needed to activate radiant energy latent in the brain. This study was carried under a constructivist, interpretative, dialogic and systemic perspective, which gave a base for presenting the information as a scientific dialogue.

Palavras-chave : mental images; creativity; attitudinal contents; learning; radiant energy.