From embodied thinking to embodied metaphor?

Embodied Thinking Psychology researchers in Singapore have found that acting out metaphors or imagining them, helps people become more creative. These ideas of using metaphors to gain creative insight, are closely related to the ideas we have covered in this blog: “How to think like Einstein“. Metaphors and thought experiments Einstein is known to have […]

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Mirror neurons and our non-verbal communication system

Quoting from Wikipedia’s entry on “Mirror neurons”: “A mirror neuron is a neuron which fires both when an animal performs an action and when the animal observes the same action performed by another animal. Thus, the neuron “mirrors” the behavior of another animal, as though the observer were itself performing the action.” Go to the […]

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