Barbara Tversky

Barbara Tversky

Barbara Tversky is Professor of Psychology at Columbia Teachers
College and Professor Emerita at Stanford University. She received
her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Michigan and
taught at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was primarily based at
Stanford University for more than 25 years. Her research has included
memory, categorization, spatial language and cognition, event
perception and cognition, diagrammatic reasoning, and creativity, with
applications to human-computer interaction, education, eye-witness
testimony, design, and more, through collaborations with computer
scientists, linguists, philosophers, architects, designers,
biologists, chemists, geographers, and more.