Barbara Tversky

A- and notice that I'm constantly doing this kind of thing, it's called gesture, uh, in which I'm constantly triggering sensorimotor stuff so that you and I can go back to that and then re-exapt it together and reboot and re-engage the more cognitive stuff.

Uh, Barbara Tversky's book, Mind in Motion, everything we do when we talk about mind are motion metaphors.

And so that being said, again, I'm gonna keep repeating my caveat.

I'm not a reductionist.

That is what, and you're doing that all the time.

And, uh, Barbara Tversky's book, mind in motion.

What we do is we take our sensory motor abilities in the world.

And that's a between ability, by the way.

Welcome back to The Cognition Project, a series exploring the stories of the researchers who created the field of cognitive science and helped to shape it, resulting in a new science of the mind.

Today's interview is with Barbara Tversky, who carried out groundbreaking work studying how we perceive and reason about space.

Tversky intertwines her story with that of her husband Amos, who died in 1996 and is known for his work with Daniel Kahneman on decision-making, some of which we explored in the last episode.

I came to the University of Michigan From growing up outside of Chicago, and I got there because I didn't want to go to a girls' school and there were financial considerations, and I ended up in Honors College there.