Barbara Tversky
List of John Benjamins publications in which Barbara Tversky is involved.
2014 Thinking in action Diagrammatic 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
2006 Gestalts of thought Visual Thought: The depictive space of perception, Albertazzi, Liliana (ed.), pp. 155–163 | Article
2002 Spatial perspective choice in ASL Sign 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
1986 Components and Categorization Noun Classes and Categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983, Craig, Colette G. (ed.), pp. 63–76 | Article