Using Visuals in Graphic Books Is a Good Idea

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We use the space to draw attention, maybe not to relationships, but to heighten our focus on what's important. Of course, there are analogos, analogies in the way we speak. We use intonation, we raise our voices, lower them, we pause in dramatic places. Those are all omo spatial devices that we use to convey meaning i more effectively. And we make tables, even in text. And the tables, again, are ar diagrammatically displayed, truth tables.

My guest today is acclaimed psychologist and longtime Stanford University professor Barbara Tversky who calls on her nearly 50 years in the field of cognitive psychology for an in-depth discussion about how our minds work.

We discuss the Nine Laws of Cognition, why action shapes thought, how the language we use changes what we think, tactics to communicate better on Zoom, why she dove into the work of Leonardo da Vinci, when to use charts and when to avoid them, the importance of perspective taking, learned knowledge vs. earned knowledge, and so much more.

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