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Barbara Tversky • Mind in Motion
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Barbara Tversky • Mind in Motion
Second General Fact Worth Remembering: Representations created by hands and by words are wildly different.
Barbara Tversky • Mind in Motion
Categories are efficient for another reason. They allow broad inferences.
Barbara Tversky • Mind in Motion
Barbara Tversky, a professor of psychology and education at Teachers College in New York, observes that “We are far better and more experienced at spatial thinking than at abstract thinking.” By offloading our ideas onto our environment, “…spatial thinking can substitute for and scaffold abstract thought.”
Gideon Rubin,
Barbara Tversky • Mind in Motion
But their brains also prune synapses.
Barbara Tversky • Mind in Motion
First General Fact Worth Remembering: Associations to names are more abstract than associations to pictures.