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Mind in Motion How Action Shapes Thought

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 w...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra described it as a book about how bodily movement influences the mind and called it a great primer on embodied cognition.

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The second is Mind in Motion by Barbara Tversky. ... that's about how the body affects the way the mind operates. And it's just a great primer on embodied cognition.

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Ezra described it as a book about how bodily movement influences the mind and called it a great primer on embodied cognition.

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The second is Mind in Motion by Barbara Tversky. ... that's about how the body affects the way the mind operates. And it's just a great primer on embodied cognition.

Episode: Our Workplaces Think We’re Computers. We’re Not.

Ezra Klein recommended the book as a great primer on embodied cognition, noting Barbara Tversky's expertise on how the body influences the mind.

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The second is Mind in Motion by Barbara Tversky. She's a professor at Teachers College in New York, and it's about how the body affects the way the mind operates.

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