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#146 Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Why Visual Explanations of Ideas Are Better Than Verbal Representations

The group that created visual explanations outperformed the group that created verbal explanations/nVisual explanations included more structural, functional, and causal information/nMaking a diagram allows for inference and provides a check for completeness and coherence/nVisual explanations encourage abstraction and identifying essential information

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