Spatial Thinking
from Yale University: Humanities Hosted by Whitney Humanities Center
In her 2009 Franke Lecture, Prof. Barbara Tversky will speak on space and how it is accessed by many modalities. Prof. Tversky demonstrates how spatial knowledge is essential for survival and primary among the things in spaces is our body.
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Tversky taught at Hebrew University and at Stanford University, where she is emerita professor of psychology. Much of her work involves human perception of space and explores topics such as memory, categorization and language; the metaphorically spatial, especially time and event perception and cognition; and applications, notably diagrams, interfaces, design and visual communication. Her recent articles include "Visualspatial Reasoning," "Some Ways that Graphics Communicate," "What Do Sketches Say About Thinking?" and "Multiple Mental Spaces."
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