Representations in Mind and World ─ Essays Inspired by Barbara Tversky

This volume pulls together interdisciplinary research on structured representations of information as they exist in the mind and in the world. It explores how mental and physical representations affect cognition more generally, including memory accuracy and distortion, spatial cognition, the understanding and creation of vizualizations, and understanding events and gestures. The contributors are all internationally recognized researchers whose work is at the cutting-edge of the field. Its coverage will appeal to graduate-level cognitive scientists, technologists, philosophers, linguists, and educators.

Jeffrey M. Zacks is Professor and Associate Chair of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Professor of Radiology, at Washington University in St. Louis.He received his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Stanford University in 1999.He is the recipient of scientific awards from the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Foundation, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, the Midwest Psychological Association, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Zacks is the author of two books, Flicker: Your Brain on Movies and Event Cognition (with G.A. Radvansky). He has published more than 75 journal articles and also has written for Salon, Aeon, and The New York Times.

Holly A. Taylor is Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Tufts University. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at Stanford University in 1992. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and received an award from the Northeastern Association for Graduate Schools for Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. She has published over 100 articles in prestigious scholarly journals. Her research interests focus on spatial cognition, perception. and memory.