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Mind in Motion

How Action Shapes Thought

by Barbara Tversky

Last tended to August 15, 2021

Why I'm Reading This
Book info on Library Thing

A recommendation from my very wise and well-read mother. Tversky's research touches on many of my obsessions – the primacy of embodied knowledge in everything we do, why visual explanations and diagrams feel so intuitive, and how we construct abstract ideas from using spatial and physical reasoning.

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