Mind in motion : how action shapes thought
(Playaway)

Title from container.

"HD."

"Light."

"Brilliance Audio."

Previously released by Brilliance Publishing, 2019.

Release date supplied by publisher.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

Performed by Cassandra Campbell.

"How do we think? The natural answer is: with words. Everything from ancient philosophy to the theory of evolution is assembled and transmitted through language. But our ancestors did not speak. Neither do infants. Yet they still think. So if we can think before we have language, then what are our thoughts really made of? In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky makes the groundbreaking case that movement and our interactions in space, not language, are the true foundation of thought. Spatial thinking enables us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world; from shape, size, and relation; from transformation, trajectory, and speed. Actions on thought are like actions on objects. Spatial thinking underlies our ability to create and use maps; assemble furniture; devise football strategies; design buildings; create art; understand 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 distant. Science, art, literature, the great ideas of world history: these originated not just in our brains, but in our entire bodies."--,Provided by publisher.