How Things Shape the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Things Shape the Mind write by Lambros Malafouris. This book was released on 2016-02-12. How Things Shape the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present. An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or “all in the head.” This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and material culture, posing major challenges for philosophy, cognitive science, archaeology, and anthropology. In How Things Shape the Mind, Lambros Malafouris proposes a cross-disciplinary analytical framework for investigating the ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body. Using a variety of examples and case studies, he considers how those ways might have changed from earliest prehistory to the present. Malafouris's Material Engagement Theory definitively adds materiality—the world of things, artifacts, and material signs—into the cognitive equation. His account not only questions conventional intuitions about the boundaries and location of the human mind but also suggests that we rethink classical archaeological assumptions about human cognitive evolution.
Objects of Time
Objects of Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Objects of Time write by K. Birth. This book was released on 2012-10-10. Objects of Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization.
Mind in Motion
Mind in Motion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mind in Motion write by Barbara Tversky. This book was released on 2019-05-21. Mind in Motion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How the Mind Works write by Steven Pinker. This book was released on 2009-06-02. How the Mind Works available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life.
The Universal Sense
The Universal Sense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Universal Sense write by Seth S. Horowitz. This book was released on 2012-09-04. The Universal Sense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reveals how the human sense of hearing manipulates how people think, consume, sleep and feel, explaining the hearing science behind such phenomena as why people fall asleep while traveling, the reason fingernails on a chalkboard causes cringing and why songs get stuck in one's head.
