Barbara Tversky Lecture “Finding Ideas”

Thursday, May 9, 6:00 pm

White Stag Building Room 15

Renowned cognitive psychologist, Dr. Barbara Tversky has made groundbreaking contributions to the areas of memory, perception, categorization, and spatial cognition. A characteristic of Tversky’s research is a persistent interest in the relations between people’s cognitive systems and the technologies they use to augment and reconstitute them—from cave paintings to scientific diagrams to cartoons to computerized visualization. As a result of making these connections, her work is cited widely by computer scientists, educators, architects, and geographers as well as by her fellow psychologists.   Her lecture, “Finding Ideas” will focus on the relationship between spatial cognition and the technologies we use to visualize information