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Mind in Motion
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By necessity as well as desire, people move and act in space. Our feet carry us from place to place along paths, just as our minds carry us from idea to idea along paths. The same brain structures that underlie places and paths underlie ideas and relations. We talk that way, too; I just did. Our hands place, raise, lower, put together, take apart, turn over push, pull, and throw objects. Our minds and our talk do the same with thoughts. Our minds allow us to take different perspectives on the paths in space, on the relations among ideas, on actions on objects. That turns out to be the key to creativity.
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- Authors
- Tversky, B.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Tversky, Barbara
- ORCID
- Tversky, Barbara
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2019 on Creativity and Cognition
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2019-06-13
- Pages
- 107-107
- OpenAlex
- W2952783013
- Cited by
- 119
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 5
- Type
- conference abstract
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Creativity and Cognition (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Keywords
- creativity, mental representation, spatial metaphor, conceptual metaphor, perspective taking
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