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Timothy P. McNamara

Timothy P. McNamara

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Psychology

D-Index
53
Citations
12609
World Ranking
4764
National Ranking
2643

Overview

Timothy P. McNamara is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering and computer science with a specific focus on spatial cognition and navigation.

Their work frequently intersects with subfields such as automotive engineering, experimental and cognitive psychology, electrical and electronic engineering, human-computer interaction, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Key research topics associated with McNamara include:

  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Augmented Reality Applications
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Multisensory perception and integration

McNamara has contributed to several recent publications. These include:

  • "Desktop versus immersive virtual environments: effects on spatial learning," 2020, published in Spatial Cognition and Computation
  • "Bayesian decision theory and navigation," 2021, published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • "Integration of visual landmark cues in spatial memory," 2021, published in Psychological Research
  • "Statistically Optimal Cue Integration During Human Spatial Navigation," 2023, published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • "A comparison of methods of assessing cue combination during navigation," 2020, published in Behavior Research Methods

Their frequent coauthors include Bobby Bodenheimer, Phillip Newman, Lauren Buck, Xiaoli Chen, and Yafei Qi.

Timothy P. McNamara's research is regularly published in venues such as Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Psychological Research, and the 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR). Other notable venues include arXiv (Cornell University) and Spatial Cognition and Computation.

Best Publications

  • Semantic Priming: Perspectives from Memory and Word Recognition

    Timothy P. McNamara

  • Mental representations of spatial relations.

    Timothy P McNamara

  • Systems of spatial reference in human memory.

    Amy L. Shelton;Timothy P. McNamara

  • Intrinsic frames of reference in spatial memory

    Weimin Mou;Timothy P. McNamara

  • Subjective hierarchies in spatial memory.

    Timothy P. McNamara;James K. Hardy;Stephen C. Hirtle

  • Allocentric and Egocentric Updating of Spatial Memories.

    Weimin Mou;Timothy P. McNamara;Christine M. Valiquette;Björn Rump

  • Viewpoint Dependence in Scene Recognition

    Vaibhav A. Diwadkar;Timothy P. McNamara

  • Multiple views of spatial memory

    Amy L. Shelton;Timothy P. Mcnamara

  • Theories of priming: I. Associative distance and lag.

    Timothy P. McNamara

  • Depth of spreading activation revisited: Semantic mediated priming occurs in lexical decisions

    Timothy P McNamara;Jeanette Altarriba

  • Priming and constraints it places on theories of memory and retrieval

    Timothy P. McNamara

  • Exploring large virtual environments with an HMD when physical space is limited

    Betsy Williams;Gayathri Narasimham;Bjoern Rump;Timothy P. McNamara

  • Egocentric and geocentric frames of reference in memory of large-scale space.

    Timothy P. McNamara;Björn Rump;Steffen Werner

  • Orientation and perspective dependence in route and survey learning.

    Amy L. Shelton;Timothy P. McNamara

  • Mental representations of large and small spatial layouts are orientation dependent

    Beverly Roskos-Ewoldsen;Timothy P. McNamara;Amy L. Shelton;Walter Carr

  • The mental representation of knowledge acquired from maps.

    Timothy P. McNamara;Roger Ratcliff;Gail McKoon

  • Visual search and reading of rapid serial presentations of letter strings, words, and text.

    James F. Juola;Nicklas J. Ward;Timothy McNamara

  • Mental Models and Reading Comprehension

    Timothy P. McNamara;Diana L. Miller;John D. Bransford

  • Mental Models and Narrative Comprehension: Some Qualifications

    Stephanie Gray Wilson;Mike Rinck;Timothy P. McNamara;Gordon H. Bower

  • Do we need to walk for effective virtual reality navigation? physical rotations alone may suffice

    Bernhard E. Riecke;Bobby Bodenheimer;Timothy P. McNamara;Betsy Williams

  • Mental models of word meaning

    Timothy P. McNamara;Robert J. Sternberg

Frequent Co-Authors

John J. Rieser
John J. Rieser Vanderbilt University
Thomas H. Carr
Thomas H. Carr Michigan State University
Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University
Nora S. Newcombe
Nora S. Newcombe Temple University
Jeanette Altarriba
Jeanette Altarriba University at Albany, State University of New York
James F. Juola
James F. Juola University of Kansas
Alice F. Healy
Alice F. Healy University of Colorado Boulder
Marjorie Rhodes
Marjorie Rhodes New York University
Daniel G. Morrow
Daniel G. Morrow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
June Gruber
June Gruber University of Colorado Boulder

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