The Foundation for All Thought

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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.

My guest today is acclaimed psychologist and longtime Stanford University professor Barbara Tversky who calls on her nearly 50 years in the field of cognitive psychology for an in-depth discussion about how our minds work.

We discuss the Nine Laws of Cognition, why action shapes thought, how the language we use changes what we think, tactics to communicate better on Zoom, why she dove into the work of Leonardo da Vinci, when to use charts and when to avoid them, the importance of perspective taking, learned knowledge vs. earned knowledge, and so much more.

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