Section I Spontaneous and controlled processes in creativity

1. Mind wandering: framework of a lexicon and musings on creativity
Paul Joseph Barnett and James C. Kaufman

2. Autonomy and control across cognition: insights from creativity, memory, mind wandering, and reasoning research
Nathaniel Barr, Roger Beaty and Paul Seli

3. Capturing the dynamics of creative daydreaming
Claire M. Zedelius and Jonathan W. Schooler

4. The relationships between abstraction and creativity
Massimiliano Palmiero

Section II Mind wandering, consciousness, and imagination

5. Imagination and mind wandering: two sides of the same coin? A brain dynamics perspective
Mario Villena-Gonzälez and Diego Cosmelli

6. Altered states of consciousness and creativity
Luisa Prochazkova and Bernhard Hommel

7. Creating the "stuff of experience?: spontaneous thoughts, memory, and hypnosis in clinical and forensic contexts
Steven Jay Lynn, Craig Polizzi, Vladimir Miskovic and Damla Aksen

Section II Imagination, play, and learning

8. Relations between imagination and creativity
Jacqueline D. Woolley, Louise Bunce and Elizabeth A. Boerger

9. Pretend play in young children and the emergence of creativity
David Whitebread and Lisha O'Sullivan

10. Mind wandering, fantasy, and pretend play: a natural combination
Sandra W. Russ

11. Exploring the connection between imagination and creativity in academic learning
Ronald A. Beghetto and Kathy L. Schuh

12. Productive mind wandering in design practice
Charles Dobson and Kalina Christoff

13. Poetry, meaning making, and mind wandering
David D. Preiss

Section V Conclusion

14. Fragments from a notebook on novelty and constraint
Patrick Colm Hogan