Mind in Motion How Action Shapes Thought by Barbara Tversky
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Mind in Motion How Action Shapes Thought by Barbara Tversky | 25.85 MB
English | 384 Pages
Title: Mind in Motion
Author: Barbara Tversky
Year: 2019
Description:
An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought
When we try to think about how we think, we can't help but think of words. Indeed, some have called language the stuff of thought. But pictures are remembered far better than words, and describing faces, scenes, and events defies words. Anytime you take a shortcut or play chess or basketball or rearrange your furniture in your mind, you've done something remarkable: abstract thinking without words.
In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising...
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An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought
When we try to think about how we think, we can't help but think of words. Indeed, some have called language the stuff of thought. But pictures are remembered far better than words, and describing faces, scenes, and events defies words. Anytime you take a shortcut or play chess or basketball or rearrange your furniture in your mind, you've done something remarkable: abstract thinking without words.
In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising...
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/d54f11db0ad76dd96178cc3daca2e45d/Mind_in_Motion__How_Action_Shapes_Thought_by_Barbara_Tversky_.rar
https://k2s.cc/file/c3faf08381c7a/Mind_in_Motion__How_Action_Shapes_Thought_by_Barbara_Tversky_.rar
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