Barbara Gans Tversky
Curriculum Vitae
Box 165, 525 W. 120th St, Columbia Teachers College
New York, N. Y. 10027
Contact Information:
Tel.: (212) 678-6669
Fax: (212) 678-3837
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
1991-2006 Professor, Psychology, Stanford University
2006- Professor Emerita of Psychology, Stanford University
2005- Professor of Psychology and Education, Columbia Teachers College
Awards
Distinguished Software Award, EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL, 1990
Fellow, American Psychological Society, 1995
Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award, 1999
Fellow, Cognitive Science Society, 2002
Society of Experimental Psychology 2004
Fellow, Russell-Sage Foundation, 2004-2005
U. S. National Committee of the International Union of Psychological Sciences 2001-2007
U. S. Head Delegate to the International Union of Psychological Sciences, 2004
U. S Delegate to the International Union of Psychological Sciences, 2002
Board of Trustees, WonderFest
Board, Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences
Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee, ÒSupport for Thinking Spatially.Ó
Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee, ÒVisualization of Uncertain Data.Ó
Editorial Boards
European Journal of Cognitive Psychology (2001-2005). Associate Editor
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 UniversitŽ Paul Sabatier and UniversitŽ 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: Computational 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 Õ00, 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. Organizer
Diagrams 2002: Second International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Atlanta, GA, April, 2002.
GIS Science Õ02, Boulder, Colorado, September, 2002.
Spatial Thinking in the Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, October, 2002. Organizer.
Seventh International Conference on Spatial Information Processing, Switzerland, August, 2003
Diagrams Õ04, March, Cambridge, England.
Vice-Chair, Conference on Intelligence in Design and Design Cognition, MIT, July, 2004.
Co-Chair, Visualspatial Reasoning in Design, MIT, July, 2004
Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, July 2006.
GIS Science Õ04, College Park, Maryland, October, 2004.
Spatial Cognition Õ04, Lake Chiemsee, Germany, October, 2004.
National Academy of Sciences Conference on Visualizing Uncertainty, Washington, DC, March, 2005.
Workshop on Image and Meaning 2, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June, 2005.
Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, July, 2005.
Eighth International Conference on Spatial Information Processing, Buffalo, October, 2005.
Workshop on Spatial Language and Dialogue, Delmenhorst, Germany, October, 2005.
Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design, Heron Island, December, 2005
Diagrams 2006, Stanford, California, June 2006
Model Based Reasoning, Guangzhou, China, July, 2006
Design Computation and Cognition, Eindhoven, July, 2006
Workshop on Constructing and Understainding Visuo-spatial Representations in Design Thinking, Eindhoven, July, 2006
Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, August, 2006.
GIS Science Ô06, Muenster, Germany, September, 2006
International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome, September, 2006
Spatial Cognition 2006, Bremen, September, 2006
Workshop on Space Syntax and Spatial Cognition, Bremen, September, 2006
Design Research Symposium, Seoul, Korea, November, 2006
Gordon Conference on Scientific Visualization, Providence, July, 2007
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.
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.
Tversky, B. (1974b). Eye fixations in prediction of recognition and recall. Memory and Cognition, 2, 275-278.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tversky, B., & Hemenway, K. (1983). Categories of scenes. Cognitive Psychology, 15, 121-149.
1984 Tversky, B. (1984). Citation classic. Current Contents, 16, 13, 18.
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.
Tversky, B. (1985b). The development of taxonomic organization in named and pictured categories. Developmental Psychology, 21, 1111-1119.
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.
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.
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.
Tversky, B. (1990a). Experiments in cognitive psychology (A Macintosh Laboratory). Stanford University: Office of Technology Licensing. Distinguished Software Award, EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Franklin, N., Tversky, B., & Coon, V. (1992). Switching points of view in spatial mental models acquired from text. Memory and Cognition, 20, 507-518.
Schiano, D., & Tversky, B. (1992). Structure and strategy in viewing simple graphs. Memory and Cognition, 20, 12-20.
Taylor, H. A., & Tversky, B. (1992a). Descriptions and depictions of environments. Memory and Cognition, 20, 483-496.
Taylor, H. A., & Tversky, B. (1992b). Spatial mental models derived from survey and route descriptions. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 261-282.
Tversky, B. (1992a). Distortions in cognitive maps. Geoforum, 23, 131-138.
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.
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.
Tversky, B. (1993b). Some challenges for a computational account of imagery. Computational Intelligence, 9, 362-365.
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.
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.
Taylor, H. A., & Tversky, B. (1995). Assessing spatial representation using text. Geographical Systems, 2, 235-254.
Tversky, B. (1995a). Cognitive origins of graphic conventions. In F. T. Marchese (Ed.). Understanding images. (pp. 29-53). New York: Springer-Verlag.
Tversky, B. (1995b). Perception and cognition of 2D and 3D graphics. Human Factors in Computing Systems. (p. 175). New York: ACM.
Tversky, B. (1995c). Some memory issues for the 90's. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 9, 451-452.
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.
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.
Taylor, H. A., & Tversky, B. (1996). Perspective in spatial descriptions. Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 371-391.
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.
symmetry bias in judgments of figural identity and orientation. Psychological Science, 8, 217-223.
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.
Stein, N., Ornstein, P., Tversky, B., & Brainerd, C. (Eds.) (1997). Memory for emotion and everyday events. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Suwa, M., & Tversky, B. (1997). What architects and students perceive in their sketches: A protocol analysis. Design Studies, 18, 385-403.
Taylor, H. A., & Tversky, B. (1997). Indexing events in memory: Evidence for index preferences. Memory, 5, 509-542.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gero, J. S., & Tversky, B. (Editors). (1999). Visual and spatial reasoning in design. Sydney, Australia: Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition.
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.
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.
Tversky, B. (1999a). Talking about space. Contemporary Psychology, 44, 39-40.
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.
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.
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.
Tversky, B., Morrison, J. B., Franklin, N., & Bryant, D.J. (1999). Three spaces of spatial cognition. Professional Geographer, 51, 516-524.
Tversky, B. Lee, P. U., and Mainwaring, S. (1999). Why speakers mix perspectives.
Journal of Spatial Cognition and Computation, 1, 399-412.
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.
Zacks, J., & Tversky, B. (1999). Bars and lines: A study of graphic communication. Memory and Cognition, 27, 1073-1079.
usersÕ performance: A review. Le travail humain, 63, 311-329.
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.
Tversky, B. (2000b). Remembering space. In E. Tulving & F. I. M. Craik (Eds.), Handbook of Memory. Pp. 363-378. New York: Oxford University Press.
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.
Tversky, B. (2000d). What maps reveal about spatial thinking. Developmental Science, 3, 281- 282.
Tversky, B., & Marsh, E. (2000). Biased retellings of events yield biased memories.
Cognitive Psychology, 40, 1-38.
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.
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.
Tversky, B. (2000). Mental models. In A. E. Kazdin, (Editor.), Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington, DC: APA Press.
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.
Tversky, B. (2000). Spatial cognition in psychology. In R. Goldstone, Editor, Encyclopedia of cognitive sciences. London: MacMillan.
Tversky, B. (2000). Mental models. In A. E. Kazdin, (Editor.), Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington, DC: APA Press.
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.
Tversky, B. (2001). Spatial schemas in depictions. In M. Gattis (Ed.), Spatial schemas and abstract thought. Pp. 79-111. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Zacks, J., Tversky, B., & Iyer, G. (2001). Perceiving, remembering and communicating structure in events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 29-58.
Zacks, J., & Tversky, B. (2001). Event structure in perception and conception. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 3-21.
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.
Suwa, M., & Tversky, B. (2001a). 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.
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.