Thinking Without Words

Thinking Without Words
Title Thinking Without Words PDF eBook
Author José Luis Bermúdez
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 242
Release 2007
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0195341600

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First Oxford University Press pbk edition.

Investigating Pristine Inner Experience

Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
Title Investigating Pristine Inner Experience PDF eBook
Author Russell T. Hurlburt
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 473
Release 2011-06-27
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1139499602

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You live your entire waking life immersed in your inner experiences (thoughts, feelings, sensations and so on) – private phenomena created by you, just for you, your own way. Despite their intimacy and ubiquity, you probably do not know the characteristics of your own inner phenomena; neither does psychology or consciousness science. Investigating Pristine Inner Experience explores how to apprehend inner experience in high fidelity. This book will transform your view of your own inner experience, awaken you to experiential differences between people and thereby reframe your thinking about psychology and consciousness science, which banned the study of inner experience for most of a century and yet continued to recognize its fundamental importance. The author, a pioneer in using beepers to explore inner experience, draws on his 35 years of studies to provide fascinating and provocative views of everyday inner experience and experience in bulimia, adolescence, the elderly, schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome, virtuosity and more.

Proofs Without Words

Proofs Without Words
Title Proofs Without Words PDF eBook
Author Roger B. Nelsen
Publisher MAA
Pages 166
Release 1993
Genre Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
ISBN 9780883857007

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Proofs Without Words II

Proofs Without Words II
Title Proofs Without Words II PDF eBook
Author Roger B. Nelsen
Publisher American Mathematical Soc.
Pages 144
Release 2020-02-22
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 1470451883

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Like its predecessor, Proofs without Words, this book is a collection of pictures or diagrams that help the reader see why a particular mathematical statement may be true and how one could begin to go about proving it. While in some proofs without words an equation or two may appear to help guide that process, the emphasis is clearly on providing visual clues to stimulate mathematical thought. The proofs in this collection are arranged by topic into five chapters: geometry and algebra; trigonometry, calculus and analytic geometry; inequalities; integer sums; and sequences and series. Teachers will find that many of the proofs in this collection are well suited for classroom discussion and for helping students to think visually in mathematics.

Mind in Motion

Mind in Motion
Title Mind in Motion PDF eBook
Author Barbara Tversky
Publisher Basic Books
Pages 389
Release 2019-05-21
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0465093078

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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.

Language and Thought

Language and Thought
Title Language and Thought PDF eBook
Author Noam Chomsky
Publisher
Pages 104
Release 1993
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN

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A fascinating analysis of human language and its influence on other disciplines by one of the nation's most respected linguists. Chomsky is also the author of What Uncle Sam Really Wants and The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (15,000 copies sold).

Thinking and Speaking in Two Languages

Thinking and Speaking in Two Languages
Title Thinking and Speaking in Two Languages PDF eBook
Author Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher Multilingual Matters
Pages 269
Release 2011-01-19
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1847694934

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Until recently, the history of debates about language and thought has been a history of thinking of language in the singular. The purpose of this volume is to reverse this trend and to begin unlocking the mysteries surrounding thinking and speaking in bi- and multilingual speakers. If languages influence the way we think, what happens to those who speak more than one language? And if they do not, how can we explain the difficulties second language learners experience in mapping new words and structures onto real-world referents? The contributors to this volume put forth a novel approach to second language learning, presenting it as a process that involves conceptual development and restructuring, and not simply the mapping of new forms onto pre-existing meanings.