Barbara Tversky
9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 6, 2022 by Barbara Tversky · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Sep 6, 2022
Tversky: Visual perception only adapts to distorting lenses through active physical movement
“We don't accommodate lenses that distort unless we're action, doing the actions, and the actions actually mold perception, mold our perception that in, in that sense, they do shift the world if we're acting in a shifted world.”
Sep 6, 2022 neutral
Tversky: Visual, verbal, and mathematical abilities operate mostly independently
“You can be good or bad at any of them more or less independently, so that's discouraging in, in some way. You think if you're a visual person, if you're not very good at visual, maybe you're better at verbal, and maybe you are, because we do tend to compensate…”
Sep 6, 2022
Tversky: Spatial Gestures Represent Meaning More Directly Than Language
“But the models were spatial motor. So they're a separate channel from language, and they're a redundant channel. They're another way of representing the same information, and the gestures are representing, and they're representing in a more direct way than lan…”
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Sep 6, 2022 positive
Tversky: Observers automatically adopt an actor's perspective over their own
“We found that even in situations that are non-communicative, Or where you and I have the same perspective, and we're looking at somebody else acting, we take the perspective of the actor instead of our own perspective, and I think it's a way of understanding t…”
Sep 6, 2022 positive
Tversky: Adopting different social roles generates far more creative ideas than brainstorming
“And the most effective strategy was roles by far. In fact, the mind wandering didn't differ from the no instruction group. And when we ask people, how did you do it? The no instruction group said, well, I just let my mind go. But the roles group came up with f…”
Sep 6, 2022
Tversky: Sitting on your hands during study significantly impairs test performance
“And when they did it, they remembered better. And when we took a new group of people, we've run this now four or five times, a new group of people had them sit on their hands, and that group did worse on the memory test, and some of them even said, I can't thi…”