"When thought overwhelms the mind, the mind uses the world."
Barbara Tversky is an active Emerita Professor of Psychology at Stanford and Professor of Psychology at Columbia Teachers College. Her research has spanned memory, categorization, language, spatial cognition, event perception and cognition, diagrammatic reasoning, sketching, creativity, design, and gesture. The overall goals have been to uncover how people think about the spaces they inhabit and the actions they perform and see and then how people use the world and the things in it.
Her 2019 book, Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought, provides an overview of some of that work. She has collaborated widely, with linguists, philosophers, neuroscientists, computer scientists, chemists, biologists, architects, designers, and artists.
"One of the world's leading researchers on these topics." — Steven Pinker