The Roles of Body and Mind in Abstract Thought:
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- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 13 (2) , 185-189
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00434
Abstract
How are people able to think about things they have never seen or touched? We demonstrate that abstract knowledge can be built analogically from more experience-based knowledge. People's understanding of the abstract domain of time, for example, is so intimately dependent on the more experience-based domain of space that when people make an air journey or wait in a lunch line, they also unwittingly (and dramatically) change their thinking about time. Further, our results suggest that it is not sensorimotor spatial experience per se that influences people's thinking about time, but rather people's representations of and thinking about their spatial experience.Keywords
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