Dr. Barbara Tversky: Visual Communication Lecture October 1, 2008

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On Seeing and Being: ALOUD Science Series Part III
Dr. Barbara Tversky: Visual Communication Lecture, followed by conversation with Margaret Wertheim, Institute for Figuring

Tversky, a Stanford psychologist, illuminates the cognitive principles underlying visual communication using examples from the preliterate (maps, visual letters, Egyptian tomb paintings) to the contemporary (graphs, diagrams, instructions, comics, and graphic novels).

Barbara Tversky is Professor of Psychology at Columbia Teachers College and Professor Emerita of Psychology at Stanford University. A fascination with the human mind brought her to the study human cognition. The conviction that the mind is embedded in a body and the body in the world has infused her research and thinking. Her work has explored the mind in action in space and in time. She finds inspiration in technology, science, and the arts, and is indebted to collaborators in computer science, linguistics, philosophy, physical and life science, neuroscience, art, poetry, comics, architecture, and design.

Margaret Wertheim is a science writer and the author of books on the cultural history of physics, including Pythagoras' Trousers, a history of the relationship between physics and religion in Western culture, and The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet. From 2001-2005 Wertheim wrote the "Quark Soup" column for the LA Weekly and is currently a contributor to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. In 2003, she and her twin sister Christine Wertheim founded the Institute for Figuring, an organization based in Los Angeles that promotes the public understanding of the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science and mathematics.

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