Ph.D. Psychology, University of Michigan, 1969. General interests: spatial cognition and language, event perception and cognition, diagrammatic reasoning, applications, memory, categorization. Current projects include: perception, representations, and description of events; gesture in thought and communication; perspective in spatial and action descriptions; how we retell the events of our lives and how that distorts memory for them; mental representations of space and complex systems and how they are communicated in language and depiction; production of and inferences from diagrams, including functional inferences, creation of new ideas, and establishing common ground for collaboration; cognitive principles for design. |
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