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#146 Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
The Foundation for All Thought
In the hippocampus of rats, single cells that respond when the rat is in particular places. A single cell brings together information about vision, smell, touch and movement into a single cell to encode a place. The Moshears found grid cells which arrayed the place cells relative to one another - essentially a spatial array. And later work also showed that the single cells in hippocampus also encode people, events in time, conceptual relations. So, language does affect in humans, does affect the way we conceive of space.
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