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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 football strategies,
designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic,
water, and ideas. Spatial thinking even underlies the structure and
meaning of language: why we say we push ideas forward or tear them
apart, why we're feeling up or have grown far apart. Like Thinking,
Fast and Slow before it, Mind in Motion gives us a new way to think
about how--and where--thinking takes place.
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