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I like the word plasticity, the idea that something would be capable of being shaped or formed. It’s an optimistic word, pointing to the promise of change, or transformation (another word I like). Today I happened upon some of the work of Nancy Nersessian, Professor of Cognitive Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She’s […]
My attention was brought again today to cognitive scientists working in what has come to be called embodied cognition. My initiation into these ideas happened when I read the book Where Mathematics Comes From by George Lakoff and Rafael Núñez. The book explores mathematical ideas from the perspective that our bodies, living in their world, […]
It has been understood for some time that metaphor provides a sensory anchor to abstract ideas. But, more recently, cognitive psychologists have looked at how active the role of metaphor may be in thinking. In a recent article on Boston.com, experiments are cited which explore the extent to which metaphor shapes thought.
The article cites […]
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