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Barbara Tversky

    Barbara Tversky je emeritná profesorka psychológie na Stanforde a profesorka psychológie a pedagogiky na Teachers College na Kolumbijskej univerzite. Jej práca sa zameriava na kognitívnu psychológiu, najmä na to, ako ľudia myslia, rozhodujú sa a ako vnímajú priestor a pohyb. Tversky skúma, ako metaforické konštrukcie formujú naše myslenie a ako môžeme využiť tieto poznatky na zlepšenie komunikácie a učenia. Jej výskum prináša hlboký vhľad do ľudského poznania a jeho praktických aplikácií.

    Mind in Motion
    • Mind in Motion

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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.

      Mind in Motion