Barbara Tversky

22.5k citations
169 papers · 11.9k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 55

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Barbara Tversky

164 papers receiving 10.7k citations

Hit Papers

Animation: can it facilitate? 2002 · 1.1k citations
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Barbara Tversky
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  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 4.5k
  • Automotive Engineering 3.0k
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 3.1k
  • Human-Computer Interaction 1.3k
  • Geography, Planning and Development 1.1k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Barbara Tversky, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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The Geometry of Thought
20181
3 20178
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Finding Creative New Ideas: Human-Centric Mindset Overshadows Mind-Wandering.
20172
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People, Place, and Time: Inferences from Diagrams
20132
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Gestures for Thinking
20139
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Gestures Alter Thinking About Time
201219
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From Hands to Minds: Gestures Promote Action Understanding.
20121
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Identifying causal pathways with and without diagrams
20114
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MATCHING MECHANISMS TO SITUATIONS THROUGH THE WISDOM OF THE CROWD
200910
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Bugs and Biases: Diagnosing Misconceptions in the Understanding of Diagrams
20091
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The Spatial Nature of Thought: Understanding Systems Design Through Diagrams
200813
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Using Diagrams and Gestures to Think and Talk about Insight Problems
20063
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Gestures for Thinking and Explaining
20055
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Segmenting Everyday Actions: an Object Bias?
20041
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Constructive Perception: A Metacognitive Skill for Coordinating Perception and Conception
20039
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Segmenting Ambiguous Events
20037
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Cognitive Design Principles for Visualizations: Revealing and Instantiating
20036
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Familiarity and Categorical Inference
20002
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Structure and strategy in memory for line slope
19891

About Barbara Tversky

Barbara Tversky is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Automotive Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Geography, Planning and Development, having authored 169 papers that have together received 11.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Spatial Cognition and Navigation (65 papers), Categorization, perception, and language (42 papers), Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (33 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (27 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (19 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (18 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (18 papers) and Design Education and Practice (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (4.5k citations), Automotive Engineering (3.0k citations), Developmental and Educational Psychology (3.1k citations), Human-Computer Interaction (1.3k citations) and Geography, Planning and Development (1.1k citations). Barbara Tversky has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Israel and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Jeffrey M. Zacks, Mireille Bétrancourt, Julie Bauer Morrison, Holly A. Taylor, Kathleen Hemenway, Nancy Franklin, Masaki Suwa, Bridgette Martin Hard, Diane J. Schiano and Elizabeth J. Marsh. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Experimental Psychology General, Cognitive Science, Memory & Cognition, Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Psychology.

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