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Overview

Mary Hegarty is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering, psychology, and social sciences. The work focuses heavily on subfields such as automotive engineering, geography, planning and development, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and developmental and educational psychology.

The main topics in their research include spatial cognition and navigation, geography education and pedagogy, child and animal learning development, categorization, perception and language, geographic information systems studies, augmented reality applications, and visual perception and processing mechanisms.

Mary Hegarty's recent published papers include the following:

  • Understanding Differences in Wayfinding Strategies (2022) in Topics in Cognitive Science
  • How anxiety and growth mindset are linked to navigation ability: Impacts of exploration and GPS use (2020) in Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • Age-Related Changes in Spatial Navigation Are Evident by Midlife and Differ by Sex (2021) in Psychological Science
  • Building a Cognitive Science of Human Variation: Individual Differences in Spatial Navigation (2022) in Topics in Cognitive Science
  • Visual chunking as a strategy for spatial thinking in STEM (2020) in Cognitive Research Principles and Implications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mary Hegarty include Chuanxiuyue He, Elizabeth R. Chrastil, Antoine Coutrot, Michael Hornberger, and Hugo J. Spiers. These collaborations have contributed to their research outputs across multiple studies focusing on spatial navigation and related cognitive processes.

Mary Hegarty's work has been published regularly in venues such as Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, PsycTESTS Dataset, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Topics in Cognitive Science, and Journal of Environmental Psychology. These publication outlets reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the research, combining elements of cognitive science, psychology, and social science.

Best Publications

  • How are visuospatial working memory, executive functioning, and spatial abilities related? A latent-variable analysis.

    Akira Miyake;Naomi P. Friedman;David A. Rettinger;Priti Shah

  • Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability.

    Mary Hegarty;Anthony E. Richardson;Daniel R. Montello;Kristin Lovelace

  • A dissociation between mental rotation and perspective-taking spatial abilities

    Mary Hegarty;David Waller

  • Spatial abilities at different scales: Individual differences in aptitude-test performance and spatial-layout learning

    Mary Hegarty;Daniel R. Montello;Anthony E. Richardson;Toru Ishikawa

  • Types of visual–spatial representations and mathematical problem solving.

    Mary Hegarty;Maria Kozhevnikov

  • What determines our navigational abilities

    Thomas Wolbers;Mary Hegarty

  • Comprehension of arithmetic word problems: A comparison of successful and unsuccessful problem solvers.

    Mary Hegarty;Richard E. Mayer;Christopher A. Monk

  • Individual Differences in Spatial Abilities

    Mary Hegarty;David A. Waller

  • Constructing mental models of machines from text and diagrams.

    Mary Hegarty;Marcel A. Just

  • Spatial knowledge acquisition from maps and from navigation in real and virtual environments.

    Anthony E. Richardson;Daniel R. Montello;Mary Hegarty

  • A dissociation between object manipulation spatial ability and spatial orientation ability

    Maria Kozhevnikov;Mary Hegarty

  • When static media promote active learning: annotated illustrations versus narrated animations in multimedia instruction.

    Richard E. Mayer;Mary Hegarty;Sarah Mayer;Julie Campbell

  • Mental animation: inferring motion from static displays of mechanical systems.

    Mary Hegarty

  • The Roles of Mental Animations and External Animations in Understanding Mechanical Systems

    Mary Hegarty;Sarah Kriz;Christina Cate

  • Mechanical reasoning by mental simulation.

    Mary Hegarty

  • Revising the visualizer-verbalizer dimension: Evidence for two types of visualizers.

    Maria Kozhevnikov;Mary Hegarty;Richard E. Mayer

  • Elements of Good Route Directions in Familiar and Unfamiliar Environments

    Kristin L. Lovelace;Mary Hegarty;Daniel R. Montello

  • Spatial Visualization in Physics Problem Solving

    Maria Kozhevnikov;Michael A. Motes;Mary Hegarty

  • Dynamic visualizations and learning: getting to the difficult questions

    Mary Hegarty

  • The Cognitive Science of Visual‐Spatial Displays: Implications for Design

    Mary Hegarty

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Mayer
Richard E. Mayer University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas F. Shipley
Thomas F. Shipley Temple University
Marcel Adam Just
Marcel Adam Just Carnegie Mellon University
Priti Shah
Priti Shah University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Akira Miyake
Akira Miyake University of Colorado Boulder
David H. Uttal
David H. Uttal Northwestern University
Nora S. Newcombe
Nora S. Newcombe Temple University
Jeanine K. Stefanucci
Jeanine K. Stefanucci University of Utah
Jack M. Loomis
Jack M. Loomis University of California, Santa Barbara
Francesca Pazzaglia
Francesca Pazzaglia University of Padua

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