# The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities

- **Authors**: Gilles Fauconnier, Mark Turner
- **Year**: 2002
- **Summary**: This book introduces Conceptual Blending Theory. It argues that a basic mental operation called conceptual blending, or integration, is central to human thought and imagination. The theory posits that we construct meaning by selectively combining elements from different 'mental spaces' into a 'blended space' which has emergent structure not found in the inputs. This process is fundamental to analogy, metaphor, and creativity.
- **Link**: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-way-we-think-9780465087860
