Psychology Quote by David DiSalvo

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

— David DiSalvo

“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

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

— Daniel Kahneman

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

We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning…

— James J. Gibson

For a long time humans probably were in touch on a deeper level with the depths of their being, unconsciously so, the same way…

— Eckhart Tolle

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

— Swami Vivekananda

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