Mind in Motion How Action Shapes Thought 1st Edition by Barbara Tversky ISBN 978-0465093069 046509306X
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ISBN 10: 046509306X
ISBN 13: 978-0465093069
Author: Barbara Tversky
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.
Table of contents:
PROLOGUE
Moving in Space: The Foundation of Thought
PART I: THE WORLD IN THE MIND
CHAPTER ONE
The Space of the Body: Space Is for Action
CHAPTER TWO
The Bubble Around the Body: People, Places, and Things
CHAPTER THREE
Here and Now and There and Then: The Spaces Around Us
CHAPTER FOUR
Transforming Thought
PART II: THE MIND IN THE WORLD
CHAPTER FIVE
The Body Speaks a Different Language
CHAPTER SIX
Points, Lines, and Perspective: Space in Talk and Thought
CHAPTER SEVEN
Boxes, Lines, and Trees: Talk and Thought About Almost Everything Else
CHAPTER EIGHT
Spaces We Create: Maps, Diagrams, Sketches. Explanations. Comics
CHAPTER NINE
Conversations with a Page: Design, Science, and Art
CHAPTER TEN
The World Is a Diagram
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