Psychology Quote by David DiSalvo

“psychologists call embodied cognition—the hypothesis that bodily perceptions, like touch, strongly influence how we think.”

— David DiSalvo

“As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Psychologists and neuroscientists have coined the phrase, “embodied cognition.” When your brain directs your body to do something, your body, in a sense, directs…

— Bill Nye

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

— George Lakoff

“Perhaps if we were consciously able to use our bodies as fluently and expressively as we use language, we would find the physical reaction…

— Frank Gohlke

When we bring our mind into our body, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied

— Donna Farhi

“What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Felt pressure, sensed texture and perceived space can work upon the body and so too upon the mind, altering the textures and inclinations of…

— Robert Macfarlane

Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which…

— Leonard Mlodinow

“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

— George Lakoff

“Imagination just wasn't up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it already…

— Hugh Howey

“The integrative powers of the brain for the sensations that come from handling objects spills out into all other domains of intelligence.”

— Edward O. Wilson