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Priming the Pumpers

Embodied Cognition Embodied Cognition describes the interrelationship between mind affecting body and body affecting the mind. It has a lot to do with our tendency to think in metaphors, best illustrated by priming.

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Priming

Priming the Pumpers (the weight lifters) When I was around twenty years old I lifted weights at the downtown Newark, N.J. YMCA. Occasionally my friend and I would ask one of the big body builders whether he was ill or had … Continue reading

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