Barbara Gans Tversky
Curriculum Vitae

Department of Psychology
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2130

Contact Information:
Tel.: (650) 725-2440
Fax: (650) 725-5699
Email: bt@psych.stanford.edu

Education:

1963 B.A. in Psychology, University of Michigan
1965 M.A. in Psychology, University of Michigan
1969 Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Michigan

Professional Positions:

1968-1970 Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Hebrew University
1970-1971 NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Psychology, Stanford University
1971-1972 Postdoctoral Research, Psychology, University of Oregon
1972-1977 Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Hebrew University
1974 Visiting Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Michigan
1977-1978 Visiting Scholar, Psychology, Stanford University
1978-1986 Senior Lecturer, Psychology, Stanford University
1986-1991 Associate Professor, Psychology, Stanford University
1991- Professor, Psychology, Stanford University

Awards:

Distinguished Software Award, EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL, 1990
APS Fellow, 1995
Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award, 1999

National Committees:

Governing Board, Psychonomic Society, 2001-2006
U. S. National Committee of the International Union of Psychological Sciences.
Board, Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences
Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee, "Support for Thinking Spatially."

Editorial Boards:

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology (2001- ). Associate Editor
Diagrams (2002- )
Cognitive Processing (1999- )
Spatial Cognition and Computation (1997- )
Cognitive Psychology (1995-2002), Associate Editor
Memory and Cognition (1989-2001)
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (1982-1988)
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition (1976-1982)

Psychological Research (1976-1984)

Organizing Committees

ECAI Workshop on Time and Space, Amsterdam, 1994.

Workshop on the Semantics of Time, Space, and Movement, sponsored by the Group on Language, Reasoning and Computation at Université Paul Sabatier and Université Toulouse-Mireil, Toulouse, France, June, 1995.

Third International Conference on Spatial Information Processing, Vienna, September, 1995.

AAAI Workshop on Cognitive and Computational Models of Space, Stanford, California, March, 1996.

NCGIA Conference on Naive Geography, San Marcos, Texas, November, 1996.

AAAI Workshop on Language and Space, Providence, RI, July, 1997.

Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome, September, 1997.

Co-organizer. Fourth International Conference on Spatial Information Processing, Pennsylvania, October, 1997.

Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland. Dublin, August, 1998.

Varenius Initiative on Multiple Modalities and Multiple Reference Frames, Santa Barbara, February, 1999.

International Roundtable Conference on Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design: Computation and Cognitive Approaches. Co-organizer. Cambridge, MA, June, 1999.

Fifth International Conference on Spatial Information Processing, Hamburg, Germany, August, 1999.

AAAI Spring Symposium on Smart Graphics. Stanford, March, 2000.

GIS Science ’00, Savanna, GA, March, 2000.

Diagrams 2000: An International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, University of Edinburgh, September 1-3, 2000.

First International Conference on Smart Graphics, New York, March, 2001.

Second International Roundtable Conference on Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design. Bellagio, Italy July, 2001.

Sixth International Conference on Spatial Information Processing, Morro Bay, CA, September, 2001.

Cognitive Aspects of Visualizations, Stanford, October, 2001.

Diagrams 2002: Second International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Atlanta, GA, April 18-20, 2002.

GIS Science ’02, Boulder, Colorado, September, 2002.

Seventh International Conference on Spatial Information Processing, Switzerland, August, 2003.

Publications:

1969 Tversky, B. (1969). Pictorial and verbal encoding in a short-term memory task. Perception & Psychophysics, 5, 225-233.

1973 Tversky, B.(1973a). Encoding processes in recognition and recall. Cognitive Psychology, 5, 275-287.

1973 Tversky, B.(1973b). Pictorial and verbal encoding in pre-school children. Developmental Psychology, 8, 149-153.

1974 Tversky, B. (1974a). Breadth of pictorial and verbal codes in memory. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Science Society, 4, 65-68.

1974 Tversky, B. (1974b). Eye fixations in prediction of recognition and recall. Memory and Cognition, 2, 275-278

1974 Tversky, B. (1974c). Retrieval of pictorial and verbal stimulus codes. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Science Society, 4 (6), 580-581.

1975 Tversky, B. (1975). Pictorial encoding in sentence-picture comparison. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 27, 405-410.

1975 Tversky, B., & Sherman, T. (1975). Picture-memory improves with longer on-time and off-time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 104, (2), 114-118.

1976 Tversky, B., & Teiffer, E. (1976). Development of strategies for recall and recognition. Developmental Psychology, 12, 406-410.

1979 Tversky, B. (1979). Pictorial representations in adults and children. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 31, 397-408.

1979 Tversky, B., Havousha, S., & Poller, A. (1979). Noun-modifier order in a semantic verification task. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 13, 31-34.

1981 Melkman, R., Tversky, B., & Baratz, D. (1981). Developmental trends in the use of perceptual and conceptual attributes in grouping, clustering and retrieval. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 31, 470-486.

1981 Tversky, B. (1981). Distortions in memory for maps. Cognitive Psychology, 13, 407- 433.

1982 Tversky, B. (1982). Rebirth of Learning. Review of J. R. Anderson (Ed.), Cognitive skills and their acquisition. Contemporary Psychology, 27, 679-80.

1983 Freyd, J., & Tversky, B. (1984). The force of symmetry in form perception. American Journal of Psychology, 97, 109-126.

1983 Tversky, B., & Hemenway, K. (1983). Categories of scenes. Cognitive Psychology, 15, 121-149.

1984 Tversky, B. (1984). Citation classic. Current Contents, 16, 13, 18.

1984 Tversky, B., & Hemenway, K. (1984). Objects, parts, and categories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 113, 169-193.

1985 Tversky, B. (1985a). Categories and parts. In C. Craig & T. Givon (Eds.), Noun classes and categorization (pp. 63-75). Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co.

1985 Tversky, B. (1985b). The development of taxonomic organization in named and pictured categories. Developmental Psychology, 21, 1111-1119.

1985 Tversky, B., & Baratz, D. (1985). Memory for faces: Are caricatures better than photographs? Memory and Cognition, 13, 45-49.

1987 Novick, L. R., & Tversky, B. (1987). Cognitive constraints on ordering operations: The case of geometric analogies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 116, 50-67.

1989 Tversky, B. (1989). Parts, partonomies, and taxonomies. Developmental Psychology, 25, 983-995.

1989 Tversky, B., & Schiano, D. (1989). Perceptual and conceptual factors in distortions in memory for maps and graphs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 118, 387-398.

1989 Tversky, B., & Tuchin, M. (1989). A reconciliation of evidence on eyewitness testimony: Comments on McCloskey & Zaragoza (1985). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 118, 86-91.

1990 Franklin, N., & Tversky, B. (1990). Searching imagined environments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 119, 63-76.

1990 Tversky, B. (1990a). Experiments in cognitive psychology (A Macintosh Laboratory). Stanford University: Office of Technology Licensing. Distinguished Software Award, EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL, 1990.

1990 Tversky, B. (1990b). Where partonomies and taxonomies meet. In S. L. Tsohatzidis (Ed.), Meanings and prototypes: Studies on linguistic categorization (pp. 334-344). London: Routledge.

1991 Tversky, B. (1991a). Distortions in memory for visual displays. In S. R. Ellis (Ed.) & M. K. Kaiser & A. Grunwald (Assoc. Eds.), Pictorial communication in virtual and real environments (pp. 61-75). London: Taylor and Francis.

1991 Tversky, B. (1991b).Spatial mental models. In G. H. Bower (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory. Vol. 27 (pp. 109-145). N. Y.: Academic Press.

1991 Tversky, B., & Hemenway, K. (1991). Parts and the basic level in natural categories and artificial stimuli: Comments on Murphy (1991). Memory and Cognition, 19, 439-442.

1991 Tversky, B., Kugelmass, S., & Winter, A. (1991).Cross-cultural and developmental trends in graphic productions. Cognitive Psychology, 23, 515-557.

1992 Bryant, D. J., & Tversky, B. (1992). Assessing spatial frameworks with object and direction probes. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 30, 29-32.

1992 Bryant, D. J., Tversky, B., & Franklin, N. (1992). Internal and external spatial frameworks for representing described scenes. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 74-98.

1992 Franklin, N., Tversky, B., & Coon, V. (1992). Switching points of view in spatial mental models acquired from text. Memory and Cognition, 20, 507-518.

1992 Schiano, D., & Tversky, B. (1992). Structure and strategy in viewing simple graphs. Memory and Cognition, 20, 12-20.

1992 Taylor, H. A., & Tversky, B. (1992a). Descriptions and depictions of environments. Memory and Cognition, 20, 483-496.

1992 Taylor, H. A., & Tversky, B. (1992b). Spatial mental models derived from survey and route descriptions. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 261-282.

1992 Tversky, B. (1992a). Distortions in cognitive maps. Geoforum, 23, 131-138.

1992 Tversky, B. (1992b). Images before and behind the eye. Review of Images and Understanding, edited by H. Barlow, C. Blakemore & M. Weston-Smith. Contemporary Psychology, 37, 931-932.

1992 Tversky, B. (1992c). Spatial mental representations. In N. H. Narayanan, B. Chandrasekaran, Y. Iwasaki, & H. Simon (Eds.), Reasoning with diagrammatic representations. Proceedings of the 1992 AAAI Spring Conference. AAAI Technical Report. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI.

1993 Tversky, B. (1993a). Cognitive maps, cognitive collages, and spatial mental models. In A. U. Frank & I. Campari (Eds.), Spatial information theory: A theoretical basis for GIS. (pp. 14-24). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

1993 Tversky, B. (1993b). Some challenges for a computational account of imagery. Computational Intelligence, 9, 362-365. 1993 Tversky, B., & Clark, H. H. (1993). Prepositions aren't places. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 16:2, 252-253.

1994 Tversky, B. (1994). Experiments in cognitive psychology: Version 2. (A Macintosh Laboratory). Stanford: Office of Technology Licensing.

1994 Tversky, B., Franklin, N., Taylor, H. A., & Bryant, D. J. (1994).Spatial mental models from descriptions. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45(9), 656-668.

1995 Bryant, D. J., Lanca, M., & Tversky, B. (1995). Spatial concepts and perception of physical and diagrammed scenes. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 81, 531-546.

1995 Taylor, H. A., & Tversky, B. (1995). Assessing spatial representation using text. Geographical Systems, 2, 235-254.

1995 Tversky, B. (1995a). Cognitive origins of graphic conventions. In F. T. Marchese (Ed.). Understanding images. (pp. 29-53). New York: Springer-Verlag.

1995 Tversky, B. (1995b). Perception and cognition of 2D and 3D graphics. Human Factors in Computing Systems. (p. 175). New York: ACM.

1995 Tversky, B. (1995c). Some memory issues for the 90's. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 9, 451-452.

1995 Tversky, B. (1995d). Speculations on cognitive origins of graphic conventions. In G. Ben Shakhar & A. Lieblich (Eds.), Studies in psychology: In honor of S. Kugelmass. (pp. 300-321). Jerusalem: Magnes Press.

1996 Levy, E., Zacks, J., Tversky, B., & Schiano, D. (1996). Gratuitous graphics: Putting preferences in perspective. Human factors in computing systems: Conference proceedings (pp. 42-49). NY: ACM.

1996 Suwa, M., & Tversky, B. (1996). What architects see in their sketches: Implications for design tools. Human factors in computing systems: Conference companion (pp. 191-192). NY: ACM.

1996 Taylor, H. A., & Tversky, B. (1996). Perspective in spatial descriptions. Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 371-391.

1996 Tversky, B. (1996). Spatial perspective in descriptions. In P. Bloom, M. A. Peterson, L. Nadel, & M. Garrett (Eds.), Language and space. (pp. 463-491). Cambridge: MIT Press.

1997 McBeath, M. K., Schiano, D. J., & Tversky, B. (1997). Three-dimensional bilateral symmetry bias in judgments of figural identity and orientation. Psychological Science, 8, 217-223.

1997 Morrison, J. B., & Tversky, B. (1997). Body schemas. In M. G. Shafto & P. Langley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 525-529). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

1997 Stein, N., Ornstein, P., Tversky, B., & Brainerd, C. (Eds.) (1997). Memory for emotion and everyday events. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

1997 Suwa, M., & Tversky, B. (1997). What architects and students perceive in their sketches: A protocol analysis. Design Studies, 18, 385-403.

1997 Taylor, H. A., & Tversky, B. (1997). Indexing events in memory: Evidence for index preferences. Memory, 5, 509-542.

1997 Tversky, B. (1997a). Memory for pictures, environments, maps, and graphs. In D. Payne & F. Conrad (Eds.), Intersections in basic and applied memory research. (pp. 257-277). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

1997 Tversky, B. (1997b). Spatial constructions. In N. Stein, P. Ornstein, B. Tversky, & C. Brainerd (Eds.) Memory for emotion and everyday events. (pp. 181-208). Mahwah, N. J.: Erlbaum.

1997 Tversky, B., & Schiano, D. (1997). Distortions in visual memory: A Reply to Engebretson and Huttenlocher's Comments on Tversky and Schiano. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 126, 212-214.

1997 Tversky, B., Taylor, H. A., & Mainwaring, S. (1997). Langage et perspective spatial (Spatial perspectives in language). In M. Denis (Ed.), Langage et cognition spatiale. (pp. 25-49). Paris: Masson.

1997 Zacks, J., & Tversky, B. (1997). What's happening? The structure of event perception. Proceedings of the Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum

1998 Tversky, B. (1998). Three dimensions of spatial cognition. In M. A. Conway, S. E. Gathercole, & C. Cornoldi (Eds.). Theories of memory II. (pp. 259-275). Hove, East Sussex: Psychological Press.

1998 Tversky, B., & Lee, P. U. (1998). How space structures language. In C. Freksa, C. Habel, & K. F. Wender (Eds.), Spatial Cognition: An interdisciplinary approach to representation and processing of spatial knowledge. (pp. 157-175). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

1998 Tversky, B., & Taylor, H. A. (1998). Acquiring spatial and temporal knowledge from language. In M. J. Egenhofer & R. G. Golledge (Eds.), Spatial and temporal reasoning. (pp. 155-166). N. Y.: Oxford.

1998 Zacks, J., Levy, E., Tversky, B., & Schiano, D. J. (1998). Reading bar graphs: Effects of depth cues and graphical context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 4, 119-138.

1999 Bryant, D. J., & Tversky, B. (1999). Mental representations of spatial relations from diagrams and models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 25, 137-156.

1999 Gero, J. S., & Tversky, B. (Editors). (1999). Visual and spatial reasoning in design. Sydney, Australia: Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition.

1999 Mark, D. M., Freksa, C., Hirtle, S.C., Lloyd, R., and Tversky, B., (1999). Cognitive models of geographic space. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 13(8), 747-774.

1999 Mark, D. M., Smith, B., & Tversky, B. (1999). Ontology and geographic objects: An empirical study of cognitive categorization. In Freksa, C., & Mark, D. M. (Eds.). Spatial information theory: cognitive and computational foundations of geographic information science. (pp. 283-298). Berlin: Springer.

1999 Tversky, B. (1999a). Talking about space. Contemporary Psychology, 44, 39-40.

1999 Tversky, B. (1999b). What does drawing reveal about thinking? In J. S. Gero & B. Tversky (Eds.), Visual and spatial reasoning in design. (pp. 93-101). Sydney, Australia: Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition.

1999 Tversky, B., Kim, J., & Cohen, A. (1999). Mental models of spatial relations and transformations from language. In C. Habel & G. Rickheit (Eds.), Mental models in discourse processing and reasoning. Pp. 239-258. Amsterdam: North-Holland.

1999 Tversky, B., & Lee, P. U. (1999). Pictorial and verbal tools for conveying routes. In Freksa, C., & Mark, D. M. (Eds.). Spatial information theory: cognitive and computational foundations of geographic information science. (pp. 51 64.).Berlin: Springer.

1999 Tversky, B., Morrison, J. B., Franklin, N., & Bryant, D.J. (1999). Three spaces of spatial cognition. Professional Geographer, 51, 516-524.

1999 Tversky, B. Lee, P. U., and Mainwaring, S. (1999). Why speakers mix perspectives. Journal of Spatial Cognition and Computation, 1, 399-412.

1999 Zacks, J., Rypma, B., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Tversky, B., & Glover, G. H., (1999). Imagined transformations of the body: An fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 37(9), 1029-1040.

1999 Zacks, J., & Tversky, B. (1999). Bars and lines: A study of graphic communication. Memory and Cognition, 27, 1073-1079.

2000 Betrancourt, M., & Tversky, B. (2000). Effects of computer animation on users’ performance: A review. Le travail humain, 63, 311-329.

2000 Tversky, B. (2000a). Levels and structure of cognitive mapping. In R. Kitchin & S. M. Freundschuh (Eds.). Cognitive mapping: Past, present and future. Pp. London: Routledge.

2000 Tversky, B. (2000b). Remembering space. In E. Tulving & F. I. M. Craik (Eds.), Handbook of Memory. Pp. 363-378. New York: Oxford University Press.

2000 Tversky, B. (2000c) Some ways that maps and graphs communicate. In Freksa, C., Brauer, W., Habel, C and Wender, K. F.. (Eds.), Spatial cognitiion II: Integrating abstract theories, empirical studies, formal methods, and practical applications. Pp. 72-79. N. Y.: Springer.

2000 Tversky, B. (2000d). What maps reveal about spatial thinking. Developmental Science, 3, 281- 282.

2000 Tversky, B., & Marsh, E. (2000). Biased retellings of events yield biased memories. Cognitive Psychology, 40, 1-38.

2000 Tversky, B, Zacks, J., Lee, P. U., & Heiser, J. (2000). Lines, blobs, crosses, and arrows: Diagrammatic communication with schematic figures. In M. Anderson, P. Cheng, and V. Haarslev (Editors). Theory and application of diagrams. Pp. 221-230. Berlin: Springer.

2000 Emmorey, K., Tversky, B., & Taylor, H. A. (2000) Using space to describe space: Perspective in speech, sign, and gesture. Journal of Spatial Cognition and Computation, 2, 157-180.

2000 Zacks, J. M., Mires, J., Tversky, B., and Hazeltine, E. (2000). Mental spatial transformations of objects and perspective. Journal of Spatial Cognition and Computation, 2, 315-332.

2001 Byrant, D. J., Tversky, B., and Lanca, M. (2001). Retrieving spatial relations from observation and memory. In E. van der Zee & U. Nikanne (Eds.), Conceptual structure and its interfaces with other modules of representation. Pp. 116-139. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2001 Tversky, B. (2001). Spatial schemas in depictions. In M. Gattis (Ed.), Spatial schemas and abstract thought.. Pp. 79-111. Cambridge: MIT Press.

2001 Zacks, J., Tversky, B., & Iyer, G. (2001). Perceiving, remembering and communicating structure in events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 29-58.

2001 Zacks, J., & Tversky, B. (2001). Event structure in perception and conception. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 3-21.

2001 Zacks, J., Levy, E., Tversky, B., & Schiano, D. (2001). Graphs in use. In Anderson, M., Meyer, B., & Olivier, P. (Eds.), Diagrammatic Reasoning and Representation.. Pp. 187-206. Berlin: Springer.

2001 Suwa, M., & Tversky, B. (2001). How do designers shift their focus of attention in their own sketches? In Anderson, M., Meyer, B., & Olivier, P. (Eds.), Diagrammatic Reasoning and Representation.. Pp. 241-260. Berlin: Springer.

2001 Morrison, J. B., and Tversky, B. (2001). The (In) effectiveness of animation in instruction. In Jacko, J. and Sears, A. (Editors), Chi 001: Extended Abstracts. Pp. 377-378. Danvers, MA: ACM.

2001 Tversky, B. (2001). Multiple mental spaces. . In J. S. Gero, B. Tversky, and T. Purcell (Editors). Visual and spatial reasoning in design. Pp. 3-13. Sydney, Australia: Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition.

2001 Suwa, M., Tversky, B. , Gero, J., and Purcell, T. (2001). Seeing into sketches: Regrouping parts encourages new interpretations. In J. S. Gero, B. Tversky, and T. Purcell (Editors). Visual and spatial reasoning in design. Pp. 207-219. Sydney, Australia: Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition.

2001 Gero, J., Tversky, B., and Purcell, T. Editors. (2001). Visual and spatial reasoning in design. Sydney, Australia: Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition.

2001 Betrancourt, M. Morrison, J. B., and Tversky, B. (2001). Les animations sont-elles vraiment plus efficaces? Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle, 14, 149-166.

2002 Tversky, B. (2002). What do sketches say about thinking? In T. Stahovic, J. Landay, and R. Davis (Editors), Proceedings of AAAI spring symposium on sketch understanding. Pp. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

2002 Suwa, M. and Tversky, B. (2002). External representations contribute to the dynamic construction of ideas. In M. Hegarty, B. Meyer, and N. H. Narayanan (Editors), Diagrams 2002. Pp. 341-343. N. Y.: Springer-Verlag.

2002 Tversky, B., Morrison, J. B., & Zacks, J. (2002), On bodies and events. In A. Meltzoff & W. Prinz (Eds.) The imitative mind: Development, evolution and brain bases. Pp 221-232 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2002 Tversky, B. (2002). Some ways that graphics communicate. In N. Allen (Editor), Words and images: New steps in an old dance. Pp. 57-74. Westport, CT: Ablex.

In Press:

Tversky, B. (In press, a). Functional significance of visuospatial representations. In P. Shah & A. Miyake (Eds.), Handbook of higher-level visuospatial thinking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tversky, B. (In press, b). Mental models. In A. E. Kazdin, (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington, DC: APA Press.

Tversky, B. (In press, d). Spatial cognition in psychology. In R. Goldstone, Editor, Encyclopedia of cognitive sciences. London: MacMillan.

Betrancourt, M., & Tversky, B. Simple animations for organizing diagrams. International Journal of Human Computer Studies.

Suwa, M.and Tversky, B. Constructive perception in design. In J. S. Gero and M. L. Maher (eds), Computational Models of Creative Design V, Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Tversky, B. Places: Points, planes, paths, and portions. In E. van der Zee (Editor), Representing direction in language and space. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Tversky, B., Morrison, J. B. & Betrancourt, M Animation: Can it facilitate? International Journal of Human Computer Studies.

Emmorey, K. and Tversky, B. Spatial perspective choice in ASL. Sign Language and Linguistics. Tversky, B. Form and function. In L. A. Carlson & E. van der Zee (Eds.), Functional features in language and space: Insights from perception, categorization and development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mainwaring, S. D., Tversky, B., Ogishi, M., & Schiano, D. J. Descriptions of simple spatial scenes in English and Japanese. Journal of Spatial Cognition and Computation.

Zacks, J. M., Ollinger, J. M, Sheridan, M., and Tversky, B. A parametric study of mental spatial transformations of bodies. Neuroimage.

Tversky, B. Navigating by mind and by body. In C. Freksa (Editor), Spatial cognition III. Berlin, Springer.

Tversky, B. Some ways graphics communicate. In K. Nyiri, Editor, Allzeit zuhanden Gemeinschaft und Erkenntnis im Mobilzeitalter. Wien: Passagen Verlag, 2002.

Under Review:

Marsh, E. and Tversky, B. Spinning the stories of our lives.

Dudokovic, N., Marsh, E., and Tversky, B. Telling a story or telling it straight: The effects of entertaining versus accurate retellings on memory.

Heiser, J. and Tversky, B. Mental models of complex systems: Structure and function.

Morrison, J. B. and Tversky, B. Are bodies special?

Tversky, B., Zacks, J., & Morrison, J. B. Some of the things naming can do. Manuscript submitted for publication. Journal of Semantics.

In Preparation:

Lee, P. U. and Tversky, B. (In preparation). Switching perspectives in acquiring spatial information.

Lam, K., Tversky, B., Mandelbaum, E., Pelli, D., and Martelli, M.-L. (In preparation). Portrayal of events: Does language make a difference?

Recent Addresses:

"Cognitive Origins of Graphic Displays." Invited colloquium, Cognitive Science Department, University of California-San Diego, February, 1997.

"Three Dimensions of Spatial Cognition." Invited colloquium, University of Oregon, March, 1997. "Three Dimensions of Spatial Cognition." Invited talk at American Association of Geography meetings, Ft. Worth, TX, April, 1997.

"Spatial Cognition," invited talk at NSF Workshop on Visual Cognition and Decision Making in the Spatial Domain, May, 1997.

"Spatial Language," invited talk at NSF Workshop of Visual Cognition and Decision Making in the Spatial Domain, May, 1997.

"How Space Structures Language," invited talk at AAAI Workshop on Space and Language, Providence, July, 1997.

"The Effects of Affective and Factual Retellings on Memory for a Violent Film Scene," with Elizabeth Marsh. Paper presented at Society for Applied Research on Memory and Cognition, Toronto, July, 1997.

"Cognitive Principles of the Use of Space to Convey Meaning," invited address at Cognitive Science Society meetings, August, 1997.

"Body Schemas" with Julie Morrison. Paper presented at Cognitive Science Society meetings, August, 1997.

"Three Spaces of Spatial Cognition." Invited keynote, Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome, September, 1997.

"How Space Structures Language." Invited keynote, Conference on Spatial Thinking, Trier, Germany, September, 1997.

"Imagined transformations of the body: An fMRI study," with J. Zacks, B. Rypma, J. D. E. Gabrieli, & G. H. Glover. Paper presented at Society for Neuroscience, November, 1997.

"Cognitive Principles of Graphic Displays." Paper presented at AAAI Workshop on Diagrammatic Reasoning. Cambridge, MA, November, 1997.

"Cognitive Science Approaches to Diagrammatic Reasoning." Invited address and paper presented at AAAI Workshop on Diagrammatic Reasoning. Cambridge, MA, November, 1997.

"Bars and Lines in Graphs: A Study of Graphic Communication" with Jeff Zacks. Paper presented at AAAI Workshop on Diagrammatic Reasoning. Cambridge, MA, November, 1997.

"Spatial Representations of Diagrams and Models" with David J. Bryant. Paper presented at meetings of the Psychonomics Society, Philadelphia, PA, November, 1997.

"Some of the Things Naming can Do." Invited talk at Conference on Ontology and Cognition. Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany, February, 1998.

"The Future of Cognitive Psychology." Invited talk at joint meetings of the Western Psychological Association and the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Albuquerque, NM, April, 1998.

"Good Graphics and How They Communicate." Invited talk at CSLI-IAP meeting, Tokyo, Japan, May, 1998.

"Some of the Things Naming can Do." Invited talk at Conference on Whither Whorf?" Northwestern University, May, 1998.

"Spatial Schemas in Depictions." Spatial Schemas & Abstract Thought, July 12-15, 1998, Munich, Germany.

"Spatial Analogs in Depictions." Advances in Analogy Research, Sophia, Bulgaria, July 17-20, 1998

"Spatial Cognition." Invited talk at American Psychological Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, August, 1998.

"Good Graphics and How They Communicate." Invited talk at Intel Corporation, September, 1998.

"Some of the Things Naming can Do," with Jeff Zacks and Julie B. Morrison, paper presented at Psychonomic Society meetings, Dallas, November, 1998.

"Some Thoughts on Language and Thought," invited colloquium, University of California, Santa Cruz, December, 1998

"Intersections of Multi-modes and Multi-frames in Spatial Knowledge." Invited talk, Conference on Multiple Modalities and Multiple Frames of Reference for Spatial Knowledge, Santa Barbara, CA, February, 1999.

"On Bodies and Events," with Julie Morrison and Jeff Zacks. Invited talk at Conference on Imitation, Munich, Germany, March, 1999.

"Integrating Minds, Cognitive Tools, and Information," invited talk at Microsoft, March, 1999.

"How do Graphics Represent?" Invited discussant at SRCD, April, 1999.

"Why do speakers mix perspectives?" with Paul Lee and Scott Mainwaring. Invited talk at Conference on Spatial Reference Frames, Hamburg, Germany, April, 1999.

"Cognitive Origins of Graphic Displays," invited talk at Max Planck Research Institute, Berlin, April, 1999.

"Models of Situations" with Jeff Zacks and Paul Lee. Invited talk at Midwestern Psychological Association, April, 1999.

"What Does Drawing Reveal about Thinking?" Invited talk at First International Workshop on Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design, Cambridge, MA, June, 1999.

"Cognitive Origins of Graphic Productions." Invited talk at ONR-NSF Workshop on Data Visualization, Memphis, June, 1999.

"Graphical communication: Interpreting and producing bar and line graphs," with Jeff Zacks. Invited talk at meetings of the Society for Applied Research on Memory and Cognition, Boulder, CO, July, 1999.

"Graphical Communication: Depictions and descriptions of routes," with Paul Lee. Invited talk at meetings of the Society for Applied Research on Memory and Cognition, Boulder, CO, July, 1999.

"Pictorial and Verbal Tools for Conveying Routes," with Paul Lee. Invited talk at Conference on Spatial Information Theory. Stade, Germany, August, 1999.

"Ontology and geographic objects: An empirical study of cognitive categorization," with David M. Mark and Barry Smith. Invited talk at Conference on Spatial Information Theory. Stade, Germany, August, 1999.

"How do Maps and Graphics Represent?" Invited talk at Conference on Maps and Graphic Representations, Hamburg, Germany, August, 1999.

"Talking About Your Life: How to Distort Your Own Memory" with Elizabeth Marsh. Invited talk at European Conference on Cognitive Psychology, Ghent, Belgium, September, 1999.

"How do Graphics Represent?" Invited discussant at European Conference on Cognitive Psychology, September, 1999.

"Some of the Things that Naming can do." Invited colloquium to Cognitive Science Program, State University of New York, Buffalo, September, 1999.

"How Map and Graphics Communicate." Invited colloquium to Geography Department, State University of New York, Buffalo, September, 1999.

"Some of the things that naming can do," invited talk, NYU, October, 1999.

"Cognitive Principles of Graphic Displays," invited capstone address to InfoVis'99, October, 1999, San Francisco.

"Some of the things that naming can do," invited talk at Columbia University, November, 1999.

"Three Spaces of Spatial Cognition." Invited lecture at College de France, Paris, December, 1999.

"On bodies and events." Invited talk at Workshop on Events, Nijmegen, Netherlands, December, 1999.

"Some of the things that naming can do," invited colloquium at Princeton University, February, 2000.

"Some of the things that naming can do," invited colloquium at New School for Social Research, February, 2000.

"Three Spaces of Spatial Cognition." Invited colloquium at Graduate Center, City University of New York, February, 2000.

"Animation: Does it facilitate learning?" with Julie Bauer Morrison and Mireille Betrancourt. Invited talk at AAAI Workshop on Smart Graphics, Stanford, March, 2000.

"How graphics communicate." Invited talk at University of Maryland, April, 2000.

"Some of the things that naming can do." Invited colloquium, State University of New York, Stony Brook, May, 2000.

"Line, crosses, T's, blobs, and arrows: Semantics of diagrams" with Paul Lee, Jeff Zacks, and Julie Heiser, Invited talk at conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language, Santa Barbara, CA, May, 2000.

"Characterizing Spatial Cognition," invited talk at joint meeting of the International Union of Psychological Science and the International Geographical Union, Stockholm, July, 2000.

"Two modes of spatial cognition," invited talk at Workshop on Axes and Vectors in Language and Space, Lincoln, England, July, 2000.

"Multiple Mental Spaces," invited plenary talk at international conference on Rationality and Irrationality, Austria, August, 2000.

"Blobs, lines, crosses, and arrows: Diagrammatic communication with schematic figures." Invited talk at First International Conference on Diagrammatic Reasoning, Edinburgh, Scotland, September, 2000. With Jeff Zacks, Paul Lee, and Julie Heiser.

"Some of the things that naming can do." Invited colloquium, Northwestern University, October, 2000.

"Cognitive origins of graphic productions." Invited colloquium, Northwestern University, October, 2000.

"Some of the things that naming can do." Invited colloquium, Rutgers University, November, 2000.

"Blobs, lines, crosses, and arrows: Diagrammatic communication with schematic figures." With Jeff Zacks, Paul Lee, and Julie Heiser. Talk at Psychonomic Society Meetings, November, 2000.

"Reconciling precise and erroneous spatial behaviors" Invited address at International Conference on Spatial Cognition, December 14-16, 2000 Rome.

"Effects of route and survey perspectives on brain activation during scene recognition," with A.L. Shelton, J. J. Burrows and J. D. E. Gabrieli. Poster presented at Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Society for Neurosciences. New Orleans, LA, November, 2001.

"Structural and Functional Perspectives on Complex Systems," with Julie Heiser. Invited address at Winter Text Meetings, Jackson Hole, January, 2001.

"Switching between route and survey perspectives in spatial memory," with A. Shelton and J. D. E. Gabrieli. Poster presented at meetings of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, March, 2001.

"Flipping objects or flipping self: Two kinds of mental transformations in brain, behavior, and ability" Invited keynote at European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition, St. Malo, France, April, 2001.

"Spatial Thinking," Invited talk at Third International Symposium on Space Syntax, Atlanta, GA, May, 2001.

"Form and function in spatial language" invited keynote address to Workshop on Language and Space, Notre Dame, June, 2001.

"Events by hands and feet." Invited address to Workshop on SpatioTemporal Language, July, 2001, Toulouse, France.

"Multiple mental spaces." Invited address at Second International Workshop on Visual Spatial Reasoning in Design, Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy, July, 2001.

"Seeing into sketches: Regrouping parts encourages new interpretations," with M. Suwa, J. Gero, and T. Purcell. Invited address at Second International Workshop on Visual Spatial Reasoning in Design, Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy, July 2001.

"Regrouping parts of an external representation as a source of insight," with M. Suwa, J. Gero, and T. Purcell. Invited talk at Third International Conference on Cognitive Science, Beijing, August, 2001.

"'Semantics' and 'Syntax' of Diagrams" invited keynote address at Conference on Language and Visualization, Stockholm, November, 2001.

"Multple Mental Spaces." Invited talk, Cognitive Science program, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, November, 2001.

"Switching between route and survey perspectives," with Paul Lee. Talk presented at Object Perception and Memory Meeting, November, 2001, Orlando, FL.

"Portraying events: Does language matter?" with K. Lam, D. Pelli, E. Mandelbaum, and M-L Martelli. Talk presented at meetings of Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL, November, 2001.

"Events by hands and feet." Invited talk, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, November, 2001.

"Multple Mental Spaces." Invited talk, Cognitive Science program, University of Arizona, November, 2001.

"Constructive perception in design," with M. Suwa. Invited address at Conference on Creative Design, Heron Island, Australia, December, 2001.

"Graphics for and from Collaboration," invited talk at Workshop on Collaboration, San Diego, 2002.

"Multiple Mental Spaces." Invited colloquium, Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University, January, 2002.

"Multiple Mental Spaces." Invited colloquium, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA. March, 2002.

"What do sketches say about thinking?" with Masaki Suwa, Paul Lee, Julie Heiser, and Jeff Zacks, Invited talk at AAAI Spring Symposium on Sketching, March, 2002, Stanford, CA.

"External representations contribute to the dynamic construction of ideas" with Masaki Suwa. Poster presented at Second International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams, Calloway Gardens, GA. April, 2002.

"Navigating by Mind and by Body," invited talk at Conference on Spatial Cognition, Starnberger Sea, Germany, May, 2002.

"Some ways Diagrams Communicate" invited keynote at Conference on Mobile Communication, Budapest, Hungary, May, 2002.

"Form and function." Invited talk at Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, May, 2002.

"Switching perspectives in spatial mental models," with Paul Lee.Invited talk at Workshop on Spatial Cognition, College de France, Paris, May, 2002.

"Multiple Mental Spaces." Invited address at International Congress of Applied Psychology, Singapore, July, 2002.

"Navigating by Mind and by Body." Invited talk at Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning, Hood River, Oregon, August, 2002.

"Diagrams to augment cognition," with Heiser, Zacks, Lee, and Suwa; talk for meetings of Cognitive Science Society Meetings, Augsut, 2002.

"Diagrams and Descriptions in Acquiring Complex Systems," with Julie Heiser, talk for meetings of Cognitive Science Society Meetings, August, 2002.

"Some ways graphics communicate" Invited talk at Conference on Visual Representations and Interpretations, Liverpool, England, September, 2002.

"Navigating by Mind and by Body," Invited talk at Conference on Cognition, Evolution and Rationality, Oporto, Portugal, September, 2002.

"How people think about space: Implications for GIS." Invited talk, Hokkaido, Japan, October, 2002.

"Perceiving and comprehending events," invited talk at workshop on Action-oriented Approaches in Geographic Information Science, Holden, Maine, November, 2002.

"How to put things together," with Julie Heiser. Poster at meetings of Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, November, 2002.