By Natalie Angier (at NYTimes.com)
The new study, published in January in the journal Psychological Science, is part of the immensely popular field called embodied cognition, the idea that the brain is not the only part of us with a mind of its own. "How we process information is related not just to our brains but to our entire body," said Nils B. Jostmann of the University of Amsterdam. "We use every system available to us to come to a conclusion and make sense of what's going on." Research in embodied cognition has revealed that the body takes language to heart and can be awfully literal-minded.
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