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-Gonza´lez 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