Professional Background
Professor of Psychology and Education
Educational Background
BA, MA, PhD Cognitive Psychology, University of Michigan
Scholarly Interests
Spatial Language and Thinking, Event Perception and Cognition, Diagram Production and Comprehension, Gesture, Diagram, and Language in Communication, Diagrams for Discovery and Design
Selected Publications
Tversky, B. (2005). Visualspatial reasoning. In K. Holyoak and R. Morrison, (Editors). Handbook of Reasoniong Pp. 209-249..
Tversky, B. (2005). Functional significance of visuospatial representations. In P. Shah & A. Miyake (Editors.), Handbook of higher-level visuospatial thinking. Pp. 1-34.
Tversky, B., Heiser, J., Lozano, S., MacKenzie, R., and Morrison, J. (In press). Enriching animations. In R. Lowe and W. Schnotz (Editors). Learning with animation.
Tversky, B., Agrawala, M., Heiser, J., Lee, P. U., Hanrahan, P., Phan, D., Stolte, C., Daniele, M.-P. (In press). Cognitive design principles for generating visualizations. In G. Allen (Editor). Applied spatial cognition: From research to cognitive technology.
Tversky, B. and Lozano, S. C. (In press). Gestures aid both communicators and recipients. In K. Coventry, J. Bateman, and T. Tenbrink (Editors), Spatial language and dialogue.
Tversky, B., Zacks, J. M., and Martin, B. (In press). The structure of experience. In T. Shipley and J. M. Zacks (Editors), Understanding events.
Barbara Tversky
Professor of Psychology and Education
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