Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465093069ISBN-10:046509306XUPC:9780465093069Book Category:PsychologyBook Subcategory:Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, Creative AbilitySize:9.30 x 6.10 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCMZ4ABJ7P
Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought
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...
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465093069ISBN-10:046509306XUPC:9780465093069Book Category:PsychologyBook Subcategory:Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, Creative AbilitySize:9.30 x 6.10 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCMZ4ABJ7P
Barbara Tversky is an emerita professor of psychology at Stanford University and a professor of psychology at Teachers College at Columbia University. She is also the President of the Association for Psychological Science. Tversky has published over 200 scholarly articles about memory, spatial thinking, design, and creativity, and regularly speaks about embodied cognition at interdisciplinary...
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