Talk kindly contributed by Barbara Tversky in SEMF's 2022 Spacious Spatiality
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TALK ABSTRACT
All creatures must move and act in space to survive. The elementary act is to approach or to avoid, an inherently emotional act. In mammals, place cells in hippocampus cull multi-sensory information to represent places; they are spatially arrayed one synapse away in grid cells in entorhinal cortex. In people, place cells also represent events, people, and ideas and grid cells array them in temporal, social, and conceptual spaces. The spatial foundation of thought is evident in expression of thought, in gesture, diagrams, and language, with implications for design, creativity, and cooperation.
TALK MATERIALS
· Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought (Basic Books, 2019): [ Ссылка ]
BARBARA TVERSKY
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MUSIC
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00:00:00 INTRODUCTION
00:02:13 Neural coding of space: place cells and grid cells
00:04:54 Thought comes from abstracting actions in space
00:07:03 Overview of the talk
00:07:33 World in mind: thinking physical spatiality
00:08:26 Mind in world: aplying spatial thinking
00:11:00 Space and meaning
00:12:42 Unique features of space
00:14:20 THINKING PHYSICAL SPATIALITY
00:14:23 The own body
00:16:39 The space nearby
00:18:20 Big spaces: orientation, distances, maps
00:27:11 Perspective (reference frame)
00:29:10 APLYING SPATIAL THINKING
00:29:56 Learning through own spatial gestures
00:36:13 Teaching through spatial gestures
00:39:44 Learning through visual explanations
00:42:00 Graphics
00:43:39 Ancient maps across cultures
00:47:22 Ancient representations of time
00:49:52 Ancient representations of numbers
00:52:02 Applications of maps and graphics
00:57:24 Orderings, categories and patterns
01:00:14 Diagramming the world
