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    Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought
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    Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought

    Written by Barbara Tversky

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 3, 2019
    ISBN9781978683174
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    • 5/5
      Well researched book with amazing points to actually use when going about combating issues with addictions and so on and forth. I love how well this book has been written, each law by itself. I might search for this book in hard copy. Maybe.

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    • 5/5
      Great book, really enjoyed the perspective of observation and the mind. Action precedes thoughts and feelings come first

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    • 3/5
      Interesting read but I didn’t find a whole lot that was new. The book lost focus in some places, wandering too far from the fascinating main track into well trodden territory. That watered it down, but I still found it ok.