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Professor of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1963â84. Author of The Psychology of Thinking.AllBritannica Editors
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Sensitive instruments can indeed detect faint activity in various parts of the body other than the organs of speechâe.g., in a personâs limbs when movement is thought of or imagined without actually taking place. Recent studies show the existence of a gastric âbrain,â a set of neural networks in the stomach. Such findings have prompted theories to the effect that people think with the whole body and not only with the brain, or that, in the words of the American psychologist B.F. SkinnerClark L. Hullproprioceptiveequilibriumcentral nervous systemKarl S. LashleyperipheralsymbolsconceptionsemioticsCharles Sanders PeirceC.K. OgdenIvor A. RichardslearningNeal E. MillerstimuluscognitivistinferencesLeon FestingerJacob MoleschottOswald KülpeKarl Bühlercritical thinkingassociationcontemplationrealistic thinkingimageCollege of DuPage Digital Press - Introduction to Psychology - Thinking, Reasoning, and Problem-SolvingSee all related contentGestalt psychologyconstituentsnervous systemanalogiescomputer
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- Thought, covert symbolic responses to stimuli that are either intrinsic (arising from within) or extrinsic (arising from the environment). Thought, or thinking, is considered to mediate between inner activity and external stimuli. In everyday language, the word thinking covers several distinct