This may seem an obvious point, but when we’re walking our brains are in motion too. In fact, as we shall see, we evolved as a mobile species: we walk about, we move, we seek new sources of information from the world. In other words, we are not just brains locked in a skull, we are minds in motion – we are ‘cognitively mobile’. The study of how we think, how we reason, how we remember, how we read, how we write, is known as the study of cognition. Typically, the scientific investigation of cognition occurs in a laboratory, using carefully controlled experiments and a range of methods and tests
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