Mind in Motion

That same distortion, finer discrimination for things that are close to us than for things that are far, occurs for judgments of people on social dimensions. People judge members of their own social group, a close group, to be more different from each other than members of other social groups,

extensive practice using tools enlarges both our conscious body image and our largely unconscious body schema.

create millions of synapses, connections between neurons, per second.

What fruit and vehicles and tools share are not specific shape or action but something more general, function or use.

cognitive reference points are larger than themselves; they serve as genres or prototypes.

we keep track of the world that was once in view and no longer

Second Law of Cognition: Action molds perception.

Faces and bodies carry identity, emotion, intention, action, communication. Things carry affordances: what they can do for us and what we can do with them. Places tell us what they are and what we can do in them.

The default and neutral way of referring to things, the level first used by children, the level of apple and car, has been called the basic level. The more general level, the level of vehicle, fruit, and animal, has been called the superordinate level, and the more specific level, Tesla, Gala apple, and cocker spaniel, has been called the subordina