How does the brain process information about the space around us? How do we coordinate movements, say, when playing sports? Why do gestures help us think? How do language and speech relate to space? How did drawing, cartography and design develop? The book of the famous cognitive psychologist Barbara Tversky is devoted to spatial thinking. This thinking includes constructing "in the head" and working with images in relation not only to physical space, but also to other types of it - spaces of social interaction and communication, gestures, speech, drawings, diagrams and maps, abstract constructions and an endless field of creativity. The key idea of the book is precisely that spatial thinking is basic, it underlies all areas of our activity and all situations in which we are involved. An accessible and humorous presentation of serious, for many absolutely new material, as well as beautiful illustrations will attract the attention of the most demanding readers. They will find in the book both fascinating concrete information about the work and development of spatial thinking, as well as important high-level generalizations embodied in the nine laws of cognition.
