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Mind in Motion
- How Action Shapes Thought
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Art
Non-member price: $41.78
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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- Jason Heritage
- 23-11-2019
Jumbled set of anecdotes
The author does not present a convincing argument for how motion influences the mind. Don’t expect this book to help you develop a more fluid mind. I found this to be a jumbled set of anecdotes with no practical use.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-11-2019
A Bit Repetitive
There is a lot of redundancy throughout the chapters. Several points are beaten to death, rather than re-mentioned as a quick reminder here and there. Could have easily been 4 hours long, not 11.
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- Claire Hay
- 08-11-2019
Physically difficult to listen to
I was so excited for this book, but I couldn’t even make it through the prologue due to the narrator doing an extremely loud and distracting sharp intake of breath before every phrase. I’m giving 3 stars to the story, only because audible requires me to rate the story before I post this review, but I truly couldn’t listen to any of it.
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- RQ
- 01-03-2020
too many obvious examples of obvious things.
Not well written. Too many sports analogies and WAY too many examples of obvious things. There are interesting things though.
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-02-2020
Interesting ideas, unnecessarily protracted
There are some interesting insights in this book, but they are mixed with excessive detail and obvious points. The result is that this is not enjoyable to listen to.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-12-2020
good as asource of adittional information
good as asource of adittional information for study of the mind but will not be enoth as a main source of information . found some interesting topics that did not incounter in other sources of mind resarch.
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- Oliver Nielsen
- 02-05-2020
All over the place...
Interesting content, yet I agree with other reviewers that it's a tedious, tiresome listen. The narrator is fine, but the author writes in a style I've never liked: 3 sentences about the main topic. Then 2 sentences about something related. Then 4 sentences with an example re: the main topic. Then yet another example, but from a totally different arena. The numbers above are not specific – just to illustrate how an author's writing in that style constantly confuses the brain of the listener. It's difficult to constantly have to reorient as to what the author is now talking about. If you skip forward 2 minutes, you'll be scratching your head as to why the heck the author is now talking about kids, when the example is about trees, and was talking about pizza 4 minutes ago. All the examples and anecdotes feel like being the bounced-around ball in a pinball machine.
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- Frank
- 24-09-2019
Verbose
The ideas contained in this book could be expressed in a 1/10th the space, if not less. Why are writers driven to be so verbose? Also, the author really likes the word gestalt. Typical white tower academic blatherskite.
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- Edward C.
- 31-08-2020
Interesting book - shame no PDF
The ideas in this book are fascinating but really would have been enhanced if I’d had access to the promised PDF which I couldn’t find anywhere. This was particularly disappointing given so much of what the book is about is diagrammatic.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-09-2019
Terrible audio
Wasn't able to focus on the narration due to an audio glitch. What a shame, such an interesting subject
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