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  1. Embodied and disembodied cognition: Spatial perspective-taking.Barbara Tversky & Bridgette Martin Hard - 2009 - Cognition 110 (1):124-129.
    Although people can take spatial perspectives different from their own, it is widely assumed that egocentric perspectives are natural and have primacy. Two studies asked respondents to describe the spatial relations between two objects on a table in photographed scenes; in some versions, a person sitting behind the objects was either looking at or reaching for one of the objects. The mere presence of another person in a position to act on the objects induced a good proportion of respondents to (...)
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    Perceiving, remembering, and communicating structure in events.Jeffrey M. Zacks, Barbara Tversky & Gowri Iyer - 2001 - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 130 (1):29.
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  3. Visualizing Thought.Barbara Tversky - 2011 - Topics in Cognitive Science 3 (3):499-535.
    Depictive expressions of thought predate written language by thousands of years. They have evolved in communities through a kind of informal user testing that has refined them. Analyzing common visual communications reveals consistencies that illuminate how people think as well as guide design; the process can be brought into the laboratory and accelerated. Like language, visual communications abstract and schematize; unlike language, they use properties of the page (e.g., proximity and place: center, horizontal/up–down, vertical/left–right) and the marks on it (e.g., (...)
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  4. Ontology and geographic objects: An empirical study of cognitive categorization.David M. Mark, Barry Smith & Barbara Tversky - 1999 - In Freksa C. & Mark David M. (eds.), Spatial Information Theory. Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1661). pp. 283-298.
    Cognitive categories in the geographic realm appear to manifest certain special features as contrasted with categories for objects at surveyable scales. We have argued that these features reflect specific ontological characteristics of geographic objects. This paper presents hypotheses as to the nature of the features mentioned, reviews previous empirical work on geographic categories, and presents the results of pilot experiments that used English-speaking subjects to test our hypotheses. Our experiments show geographic categories to be similar to their non-geographic counterparts in (...)
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    The kinematics that you do not expect: Integrating prior information and kinematics to understand intentions.Atesh Koul, Marco Soriano, Barbara Tversky, Cristina Becchio & Andrea Cavallo - 2019 - Cognition 182 (C):213-219.
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    Thinking in action.Barbara Tversky & Angela Kessell - 2014 - Pragmatics and Cognition 22 (2):206-223.
    When thought overwhelms the mind, the mind uses the body and the world. Several studies reveal ways that people alone or together use gesture and marks on paper to structure and augment their thought for comprehension, inference, and discovery. The studies show that the mapping of thought to gesture or the page is more direct than the arbitrary mapping to language and suggest that these forms of visual/spatial/action representation are used to “translate” language into mental representations. It is argued that (...)
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    Thinking in action.Barbara Tversky & Angela Kessell - 2014 - Pragmatics and Cognition 22 (2):206-223.
    When thought overwhelms the mind, the mind uses the body and the world. Several studies reveal ways that people alone or together use gesture and marks on paper to structure and augment their thought for comprehension, inference, and discovery. The studies show that the mapping of thought to gesture or the page is more direct than the arbitrary mapping to language and suggest that these forms of visual/spatial/action representation are used to “translate” language into mental representations. It is argued that (...)
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    Thinking Tools: Gestures Change Thought About Time.Barbara Tversky & Azadeh Jamalian - 2021 - Topics in Cognitive Science 13 (4):750-776.
    Our earliest tools are our bodies. Our hands raise and turn and toss and carry and push and pull, our legs walk and climb and kick allowing us to move and act in the world and to create the multitude of artifacts that improve our lives. The list of actions made by our hands and feet and other parts of our bodies is long. What is more remarkable is we turn those actions in the world into actions on thought through (...)
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    Visuospatial reasoning.Barbara Tversky - 2005 - In K. Holyoak & B. Morrison (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of thinking and reasoning. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. pp. 209--240.
  10. Spatial cognition: Embodied and situated.Barbara Tversky - 2008 - In Murat Aydede & P. Robbins (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 201--217.
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    Arrows in Comprehending and Producing Mechanical Diagrams.Julie Heiser & Barbara Tversky - 2006 - Cognitive Science 30 (3):581-592.
    Mechanical systems have structural organizations—parts, and their relations—and functional organizations—temporal, dynamic, and causal processes—which can be explained using text or diagrams. Two experiments illustrate the role of arrows in diagrams of mechanical systems. In Experiment 1, people described diagrams with or without arrows, interpreting diagrams without arrows as conveying structural information and diagrams with arrows as conveying functional information. In Experiment 2, people produced sketches of mechanical systems from structural or functional descriptions. People spontaneously used arrows to indicate functional processes (...)
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    Through your eyes: incongruence of gaze and action increases spontaneous perspective taking.Tiziano Furlanetto, Andrea Cavallo, Valeria Manera, Barbara Tversky & Cristina Becchio - 2013 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7.
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    The Cognitive Design of Tools of Thought.Barbara Tversky - 2015 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 6 (1):99-116.
    When thought overwhelms the mind, the mind puts it into the world, notably in diagrams and gestures.Both use space and arrays of elements, depictive and non-depictive, to convey ideas, concrete and abstract,clear and sketchy. The arrays and the non-depictive elements like boxes and arrows serve to showrelationships and organizations, thematic, categorical, and more. on paper, in the air, in the diagrammedworld. Human actions organize space to convey abstractions: spraction.
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    Narratives of space, time, and life.Barbara Tversky - 2004 - Mind and Language 19 (4):380–392.
    The mind constructs narratives from what would otherwise be chaos. Narratives viewed minimally—at least two temporally ordered events—are revealed in the way people talk about space and time. Narratives replete with a voice, causality, and emotion are reflected in the stories people tell about their own lives, stories that, as acknowledged by their tellers, distort the details around 60% of the time, but, according to their tellers, distort the 'truth' far less often.
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    Changing Perspective: Building Creative Mindsets.Yung-Yi Juliet Chou & Barbara Tversky - 2020 - Cognitive Science 44 (4):e12820.
    The search for new ideas often frustratingly cycles back to old ones, a phenomenon known as fixation. Recent research has shown ways to kick‐start finding new uses for familiar objects, a prototypical creativity task: wandering in the mind or the world or working on a messy desk. Those techniques seem to succeed by helping break fixation, but do not guide the search for new ideas. The perspective‐taking or human‐centric or empathic mindset championed by many in HCI and in design firms (...)
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    Assessing spatial frameworks with object and direction probes.David J. Bryant & Barbara Tversky - 1992 - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 30 (1):29-32.
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    Structuring information interfaces for procedural learning.Jeffrey M. Zacks & Barbara Tversky - 2003 - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 9 (2):88.
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    Putting it Together, Together.Chen Zheng & Barbara Tversky - 2024 - Cognitive Science 48 (2):e13405.
    People are not as fast or as strong as many other creatures that evolved around us. What gives us an evolutionary advantage is working together to achieve common aims. Coordinating joint action begins at a tender age with such cooperative activities as alternating babbling and clapping games. Adult joint activities are far more complex and use multiple means of coordination. Joint action has attracted qualitative analyses by sociolinguists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers as well as empirical analyses and theories by cognitive (...)
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    Communicative Gestures Facilitate Problem Solving for Both Communicators and Recipients.Sandra C. Lozano & Barbara Tversky - 2007 - In L. Magnani & P. Li (eds.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine. Springer. pp. 39--67.
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    Putting action in perspective.Sandra C. Lozano, Bridgette Martin Hard & Barbara Tversky - 2007 - Cognition 103 (3):480-490.
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    Putting motor resonance in perspective.Sandra C. Lozano, Bridgette Martin Hard & Barbara Tversky - 2008 - Cognition 106 (3):1195-1220.
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    Retraction notice.Sandra C. Lozano, Bridgette Martin Hard & Barbara Tversky - 2009 - Cognition 110 (1):123-123.
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  23. Thinking with Networks.Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Barbara Tversky, James E. Corter, Lixiu Yu & D. Mason - 2010 - In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.
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    Breadth of pictorial and verbal codes in memory.Barbara Tversky - 1974 - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 4 (2):65-68.
  25. Cognitive design principles: From cognitive models to computer models.Barbara Tversky, Maneesh Agrawala, Julie Heiser, P. U. Lee, Pat Hanrahan, Doantam Phan, Chris Stolte & M. P. Daniele - 2006 - In L. Magnani (ed.), Model Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering. College Publications.
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    Gestures can create diagrams.Barbara Tversky - 2017 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40.
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  27. How to get around by mind and body : Spatial thought, spatial action.Barbara Tversky - 2005 - In António Zilhão (ed.), Evolution, Rationality and Cognition: A Cognitive Science for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Routledge.
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    Navigating by Mind and by Body Two Research Communities in Psychology.Barbara Tversky & Jordan Hall - 2003 - Cognition:1-10.
    Within psychology, at least two research communities study spatial cognition. One community studies systematic errors in spatial memory and judgement, accounting for them as a consequence of and clue to normal perceptual and cognitive processing. The other community studies navigation in real space, isolating the contributions of various sensory cues and sensori- motor systems to successful navigation. The former group emphasizes error, the latter, selective mechanisms, environmental or evolutionary, that produce fine-tuned correct responses. How can these approaches be reconciled and (...)
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    Noun-modifier order in a semantic verification task.Barbara Tversky, Simha Havousha & Arin Poller - 1979 - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 13 (1):31-34.
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    Prepositions aren't places.Barbara Tversky & Herbert H. Clark - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):252-253.
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    Retrieval of pictorial and verbal stimulus codes.Barbara Tversky - 1974 - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 4 (6):580-582.
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    Spatial Thinking and External Representation: Towards a Historical Epistemology of Space[REVIEW]Barbara Tversky - 2018 - Isis 109 (4):826-827.