Outside the cliché
2012-03-01 23:30:59.636833+01 by
Dan Lyke
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NPR: Thinking Outside The Box, With Our Bodies And Our Brains. No, really, it's literal, thinking "inside the box" is stifling:
As described in Sunday's New York Times, and soon to be published in the journal Psychological Science, this research by Suntae Kim, Evan Polman, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks and their colleagues falls within the field of embodied cognition. Previous studies suggest that how we think is influenced by everything from the objects in our hands to how we move our bodies.
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