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74
Citations
27685
World Ranking
1844
National Ranking
1085

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Barbara Tversky is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of psychology and computer science, with a focus on subfields including automotive engineering, experimental and cognitive psychology, human-computer interaction, developmental and educational psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics of their work cover spatial cognition and navigation, virtual reality applications and impacts, language, metaphor, and cognition, creativity in education and neuroscience, augmented reality applications, child and animal learning development, and hearing impairment and communication.

Frequent coauthors in their collaborations include Jen-Shuo Liu, Steven Feiner, Azadeh Jamalian, Gaetano Cascini, and Yukari Nagai. Their work is often published in venues such as IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Cognitive Science, American Psychologist, Topics in Cognitive Science, and the International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation.

  • Thinking Tools: Gestures Change Thought About Time (2021), Topics in Cognitive Science
  • Perspectives on design creativity and innovation research: 10 years later (2022), International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation
  • Using Multi-Level Precueing to Improve Performance in Path-Following Tasks in Virtual Reality (2021), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • Changing Perspective: Building Creative Mindsets (2020), Cognitive Science
  • Precueing Object Placement and Orientation for Manual Tasks in Augmented Reality (2022), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Barbara Tversky has contributed to book publications, including "Mind in motion: " published by eBooks in 2020.

In recognition of their work, they were awarded the title of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Animation: can it facilitate?

    Barbara Tversky;Julie Bauer Morrison;Mireille Betrancourt

  • Event structure in perception and conception.

    Jeffrey M. Zacks;Barbara Tversky

  • Objects, parts, and categories.

    Barbara Tversky;Kathleen Hemenway

  • What do architects and students perceive in their design sketches? A protocol analysis

    Masaki Suwa;Masaki Suwa;Barbara Tversky;Barbara Tversky

  • Cognitive maps, cognitive collages, and spatial mental models

    Barbara Tversky

  • Distortions in memory for maps

    Barbara Tversky

  • Perceiving, remembering, and communicating structure in events

    Jeffrey M. Zacks;Barbara Tversky;Gowri Iyer

  • Spatial mental models derived from survey and route descriptions

    Holly A Taylor;Barbara Tversky

  • Cross-cultural and developmental trends in graphic productions ☆

    Barbara Tversky;Sol Kugelmass;Atalia Winter

  • Searching imagined environments.

    Nancy Franklin;Barbara Tversky

  • Perspective in Spatial Descriptions

    Holly A. Taylor;Barbara Tversky

  • Embodied and disembodied cognition: spatial perspective-taking.

    Barbara Tversky;Bridgette Martin Hard

  • Categories of environmental scenes

    Barbara Tversky;Kathleen Hemenway

  • Distortions in cognitive maps

    Barbara Tversky

  • Structures Of Mental Spaces: How People Think About Space

    Barbara Tversky

  • Bars and lines: a study of graphic communication.

    Jeff Zacks;Barbara Tversky

  • Internal and external spatial frameworks for representing described scenes

    David J Bryant;Barbara Tversky;Nancy Franklin

  • Cognitive models of geographical space

    David M. Mark;Christian Freksa;Stephen C. Hirtle;Robert Lloyd

  • Descriptions and depictions of environments.

    Holly A. Taylor;Barbara Tversky

  • Biased retellings of events yield biased memories.

    Barbara Tversky;Elizabeth J. Marsh

  • Visualizing Thought: Topics in Cognitive Science(2010)

    Barbara Tversky

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey M. Zacks
Jeffrey M. Zacks Washington University in St. Louis
Holly A. Taylor
Holly A. Taylor Tufts University
Cristina Becchio
Cristina Becchio Italian Institute of Technology
Elizabeth J. Marsh
Elizabeth J. Marsh Duke University
Dare A. Baldwin
Dare A. Baldwin University of Oregon
Karen Emmorey
Karen Emmorey San Diego State University
Margaret A. Sheridan
Margaret A. Sheridan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven M. Smith
Steven M. Smith Texas A&M University
Jennifer J. Freyd
Jennifer J. Freyd University of Oregon
Ronald A. Rensink
Ronald A. Rensink University of British Columbia

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