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Tversky: Hippocampal grid cells map conceptual and social spaces, not just locations
“And later work, work that came quite a bit later, beautiful work, showed that place, the single cells in hippocampus, also in cold people, Events in time, conceptual relations, and that grid cells map them in temporal space, conceptual space, social spaces.”
Tversky: Visual-spatial processing precedes language and occupies more of the cortex
“The visual spatial world precedes language evolutionarily. It takes up far more of the cortex than language, and it has to have its own logic, not logic based, not a logic or a structural Based on language.”
Tversky: Sitting on your hands during study significantly impairs test performance
“And when they did it, they remembered better. And when we took a new group of people, we've run this now four or five times, a new group of people had them sit on their hands, and that group did worse on the memory test, and some of them even said, I can't thi…”
Tversky: Creating visual explanations yields much higher knowledge retention than verbal ones
“The group that had made visual explanations did far better than Then the group that had done verbal explanations”
Tversky: Da Vinci Invented Visual Sketching Techniques Centuries Ahead of Others
“He invented uses of sketches that weren't reinvented until many years later because his sketches were unavailable.”
Tversky: Adopting different social roles generates far more creative ideas than brainstorming
“And the most effective strategy was roles by far. In fact, the mind wandering didn't differ from the no instruction group. And when we ask people, how did you do it? The no instruction group said, well, I just let my mind go. But the roles group came up with f…”
Tversky: Mental and spatial timelines follow cultural reading direction
“We put time going in reading order, which is left to right in most Western languages, right to left in some other languages, top to bottom in, in more traditional versions of Chinese and Japanese.”
Tversky: Dancers' motor cortices light up when watching styles they can perform
“And you can take experienced dancers, either say ballet or caporea, this very acrobatic South American dance, and have them watch
Videos of ballet or caporea, and in both cases, the motor areas of the brain will be active, but they'll be far more active for t…”
Tversky: Cognitive mapping errors make people think Philadelphia is north of Rome
“People think that Philadelphia is, is north of Rome. When it's actually south of Rome, and it seems to be because people line up Europe and North America, and Europe is actually farther north than North America, and anyone who goes to Europe at this time of ye…”