Barbara Tversky is an emerita professor of psychology at Stanford University and a professor of psychology at Teachers College at Columbia University. She is also the President of the Association for Psychological Science. Tversky has published over 200 scholarly articles about memory, spatial thinking, design, and creativity, and regularly speaks about embodied cognition at interdisciplinary conferences and workshops around the world. She lives in New York.
"In this engrossing new book, Tversky shows how motion, actions,
and bodies are fundamental to the way we think. The mind extends
from the brain and body to the world and environment, building upon
how we perceive and manipulate our bodies and the objects around
us. Truly engaging. Truly important."--Don Norman, director of The
Design Lab at University of California, San Diego and author of
The Design of Everyday Things
"This beautifully written book engages you in a one-on-one
conversation with a rich and fascinating mind. It will guide you on
a tour of your own experience and show you a new way to think about
thinking."--Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow
"Nimbly maneuvering between data, scientific theory, and
extraordinary personal insight, Tversky elegantly establishes
spatial thinking as core to our very existence as humans. Ranging
from physics to linguistics to design, this sophisticated new book
distills the author's expertise into a compelling geometry of
facts: a delight for experts and accidental readers alike."--Paola
Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture & Design at the Museum of
Modern Art
"An intriguing exploration of the spatial thinking that is embedded
in our reasoning, our language, and our culture, from one of the
world's leading researchers on these topics."--Steven Pinker,
Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and author
of How the Mind Works
"An earnest effort to describe how our physical movements and the
movements of those around us shape our consciousness...A
well-informed book that will appeal to psychology buffs willing to
pay close attention."--Kirkus
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