Autores: Gilles Fauconnier, Mark Turner
Título: The way we think: conceptual blending and the mind’s hidden complexities
Localização: 16H.473
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“Fifty thousand years ago, more or less, during the Upper Paleolithic Age, our ancestors began the most spectacular advance in human history. Before that age, human beings were a negligible group of large mammals. After, the human mind was able to take over the world. What happened?” (p. v)
Este livro mostra como as ciências cognitivas abordam hoje os modelos cognitivos tais como a memória, a criatividade, a aprendizagem ou o pensamento simbólico por via da integração conceptual: “Almost invisibly to consciousness, conceptual blending choreographs vast networks of conceptual meaning (…). The way we think is not the way we think we think.”

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