Barbara Tversky

List of John Benjamins publications for which Barbara Tversky plays a role.

Articles

Tversky, Barbara and Angela Kessell 2014 Thinking in actionDiagrammatic Reasoning, Fusaroli, Riccardo and Kristian Tylén (eds.), pp. 206–223 | Article
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… read more
Tversky, Barbara 2006 Gestalts of thoughtVisual Thought: The depictive space of perception, Albertazzi, Liliana (ed.), pp. 155–163 | Article
Emmorey, Karen and Barbara Tversky 2002 Spatial perspective choice in ASLSign Language & Linguistics 5:1, pp. 3–26 | Article
Two studies investigated the ramifications of encoding spatial locations via signing space for perspective choice in American Sign Language. Deaf signers (“speakers”) described the location of one of two identical objects either to a present addressee or to a remote addressee via a video monitor.… read more