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Want to solve a problem? Don't just use your brain, but your body, too

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When we've got a problem to solve, we don't just use our brains but the rest of our bodies, too. The connection, as neurologists know, is not unidirectional. Now there's evidence from cognitive psychology of the same fact.

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