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Research Interests
The study of visual thinking and communication: how it works, and how we can make it work better; how leveraging the visual system - the largest single system in your brain - can help people think, remember, and communicate more efficiently.
Education/Academic qualification
Psychology; Cognition, Brain, & Behavior, PhD, Harvard University
… → 2004
Psychology; Cognition, Brain, & Behavior, MA, Harvard University
… → 2001
Cognitive Science and Computer Science, BA, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
… → 1999
Research interests keywords
- Visual Cognition
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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HCC: Medium: Visual Processing Capacity in Dynamic Data
Franconeri, S. (PD/PI) & Franconeri, S. (PD/PI)
10/1/21 → 9/30/24
Project: Research project
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CHS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Empirically Validated Perceptual Tasks for Data Visualization
Franconeri, S. (PD/PI)
10/1/19 → 9/30/24
Project: Research project
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Collaborative Research: Mechanisms of Visuospatial Thinking in STEM
Franconeri, S. (PD/PI)
4/1/17 → 3/31/22
Project: Research project
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CGV: Medium: Collaborative Research: Visualizing Comparisons
Franconeri, S. (PD/PI)
9/1/12 → 8/31/17
Project: Research project
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Teaching Perceptual and Conceptual Processes in Graph Interpretation
Franconeri, S. (PD/PI) & Uttal, D. H. (Co-PD/PI)
7/15/12 → 7/14/17
Project: Research project
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Language systematizes attention: How relational language enhances relational representation by guiding attention
Yuan, L., Novack, M., Uttal, D. & Franconeri, S., Feb 2024, In: Cognition. 243, 105671.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reading a Graph Is Like Reading a Paragraph
Boger, T. & Franconeri, S., May 23 2024, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 153, 7, p. 1699-1704 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reasoning Affordances with Tables and Bar Charts
Xiong, C., Lee-Robbins, E., Zhang, I., Gaba, A. & Franconeri, S., Jul 1 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 30, 7, p. 3487-3502 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Scopus citations -
Same Data, Diverging Perspectives: The Power of Visualizations to Elicit Competing Interpretations
Bearfield, C. X., Van Weelden, L., Waytz, A. & Franconeri, S., Jun 1 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 30, 6, p. 2995-3007 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Swaying the Public? Impacts of Election Forecast Visualizations on Emotion, Trust, and Intention in the 2022 U.S. Midterms
Yang, F., Cai, M., Mortenson, C., Fakhari, H., Lokmanoglu, A. D., Hullman, J., Franconeri, S., Diakopoulos, N., Nisbet, E. C. & Kay, M., Jan 1 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 30, 1, p. 23-33 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Datasets
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Visual working memory for connected 3D objects: effects of stimulus complexity, dimensionality and connectivity
He, C. (Creator), Gunalp, P. (Creator), Meyerhoff, H. S. (Creator), Rathbun, Z. (Creator), Stieff, M. (Creator), Franconeri, S. L. (Creator) & Hegarty, M. (Creator), figshare, 2022
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5851008, https://springernature.figshare.com/collections/Visual_working_memory_for_connected_3D_objects_effects_of_stimulus_complexity_dimensionality_and_connectivity/5851008
Dataset
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Data from: Are categorical spatial relations encoded by shifting visual attention between objects?
Yuan, L. (Creator), Uttal, D. (Creator) & Franconeri, S. (Creator), Dryad, Sep 13 2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7bc49, https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.7bc49
Dataset
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Similarity Grouping as Feature-Based Selection
Yu, D. (Creator), Xiao, X. (Creator), Bemis, D. K. (Creator) & Franconeri, S. L. (Creator), figshare, 2019
DOI: 10.25384/sage.c.4386680, https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Similarity_Grouping_as_Feature-Based_Selection/4386680
Dataset
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Data from: Are categorical spatial relations encoded by shifting visual attention between objects?
Yuan, L. (Contributor), Uttal, D. (Contributor) & Franconeri, S. (Contributor), ZENODO, Sep 13 2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7bc49, https://zenodo.org/record/4977178
Dataset