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Kozhevnikov, M., Motes, M., Hegarty, M. (in press) Spatial visualization in physics problem solving. Cognitive Science.
Hegarty, M., Keehner, M., Cohen, C., Montello, D. R., & Lippa, Y. (2007). The role of spatial cognition in medicine: Applications for selecting and training professionals. In G. Allen (Ed.) Applied Spatial Cognition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Hegarty, M., Montello, D. R., Richardson, A. E., Ishikawa, T. and Lovelace, K. (2006) Spatial Abilities at Different Scales: Individual Differences in Aptitude-Test Performance and Spatial-Layout Learning. Intelligence, 34, 151-176. [PDF]
Keehner, M., Lippa, Y., Montello, D. R., Tendick, F., & Hegarty, M (2006). Learning a spatial skill for surgery: How the contributions of abilities change with practice. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 487-503. [PDF]
Hegarty, M. & Waller, D. (2006). Individual differences in spatial abilities. In P. Shah & A. Miyake (Eds.). Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking. Cambridge University Press.
Keehner, M. M., Tendick, F. Meng, M.V. Anwar, H.P. Hegarty, M. Stoller, M.L. and Duh. Q. Y. (2004). Spatial ability, experience, and skill in laparoscopic surgery, American Journal of Surgery, 188, 71-75.[PDF]
Hegarty. M. & Waller, D. (2004). A dissociation between mental rotation and perspective-taking spatial abilities. Intelligence, 32, 175-191. [PDF]
Hegarty, M. Richardson, A. E., Montello, D. R., Lovelace, K & Subbiah, I. (2002). Development of a Self-Report Measure of Environmental Spatial Ability. Intelligence, 30, 425-447. [PDF]
Kozhevnikov, M., Hegarty, M. & Mayer, R. E. (2002). Revising the visualizer/verbalizer dimension: Evidence for two types of visualizers. Cognition and Instruction, 20, 47-77.
Kozhevnikov, M., Hegarty, M. & Mayer, R. E. (2002). Spatial abilities in kinematics problem solving. In M. Anderson, B. Meyer & P. Olivier (Eds). Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning (pp.155 – 171). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Miyake, A., Rettinger, D. A., Friedman, N. P., Shah, P & Hegarty, M. (2001). Visuospatial working memory, executive functioning and spatial abilities. How are they related? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 621-640.
Kozhevnikov, M. & Hegarty, M. (2001). A dissociation between object-manipulation and perspective-taking spatial abilities. Memory & Cognition, 29, 745-756. [PDF]
Hegarty, M., Shah, P & Miyake, A. (2000). Constraints on using the dual-task methodology to specify the degree of central executive involvement in cognitive tasks. Memory & Cognition, 28, 376-385.
Hegarty, M. & Kozhevnikov, M. (1999). Types of visual-spatial representations and mathematical problem solving. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91, 684-689.
Wolbers, T.; Wiener, J.M.; Mallot, H.A. & Büchel, C. (2007). Differential Recruitment of the Hippocampus, Medial
Prefrontal Cortex, and the Human Motion Complex during Path Integration in Humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 9408-9416. [PDF]
Keehner, M. Guerin, S. Miller, M. Turk, D, & Hegarty, M. (2006). Modulation of neural activity by angle of rotation during imagined spatial transformations. NeuroImage, 33, 391-398. [PDF]
Wolbers, T.; Schoell, E. & Büchel, C. (2006). The predictive value of white matter organization in posterior parietal cortex for spatial visualization ability. NeuroImage, 32(3), 1450-1455.[PDF]
Wolbers, T.; Schoell, E.; Verleger, R.; Kraft, S.; McNamara, A.; Jaskowski, P. & Büchel, C. (2006). Changes in connectivity profiles as a mechanism for strategic control over interfering subliminal information. Cerebral Cortex, 16, 857-864. [PDF]
van Eimeren, T.; Wolbers, T.; Münchau, A.; Büchel, C.; Weiller, C. & Siebner, H. (2006). Implementation of spatial cues into the volitional selection of action. NeuroImage, 29, 286-294.
Wolbers, T. & Büchel, C. (2005). Dissociable retrosplenial and hippocampal contributions to successful formation of survey representations. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 3333-3340. [PDF]
Sommer, T.; Rose, M., Gläscher, J.; Wolbers, T. & Büchel, C. (2005). Dissociable contributions within the medial temporal lobe to encoding of object-location associations. Learning and Memory, 12, 343-351.
Wolbers, T.; Weiller, C. & Büchel, C. (2004). Neural foundations of emerging route knowledge in complex spatial environments. Cognitive Brain Research, 21, 401-411. [PDF]
Wolbers, T.; Weiller, C. & Büchel, C. (2003). Contralateral coding of imagined body parts in the superior parietal lobe. Cerebral Cortex, 13, 392-399. [PDF]
Cohen, C. A. & Hegarty, M. (in press). Individual differences in use of an external visualization while performing an internal visualization task. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Hegarty, M. & Kriz, S. (in press). Effects of knowledge and spatial ability on learning from animation. In R. Lowe & W. Schnotz. Learning from Animation. Cambridge University Press.
Hegarty, M. (2005). Multimedia learning about physical systems. In R. E. Mayer (Ed). Handbook of Multimedia. Cambridge University Press.
Mayer, R.E., Hegarty, M., Mayer, S. Y Campbell, J. (2005). When passive media promote active learning: Static diagrams versus animation in multimedia instruction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 11, 256-265.
Hegarty, M. (2004). Dynamic visualizations and learning: Getting to the difficult questions. Learning and Instruction, 343-351.
Kriz, S. & Hegarty, M. (2004). Constructing and revising mental models of a mechanical system: The role of domain knowledge in understanding external visualizations. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner & T Regier (Eds.) Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Hegarty M. (2004). Diagrams in the mind and in the world: Relations between internal and external visualizations. In A. Blackwell, K. Mariott and A. Shimojima (Eds.). Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2980 (pp. 1-13). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Hegarty, M., Kriz, S. & Cate, C. (2003). The roles of mental animations and external animations in understanding mechanical systems. Cognition & Instruction, 21, 325-360. [PDF]
Narayanan, N. H. & Hegarty, M. (2002). Multimedia design for communication of dynamic information. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 57, 279-315.
Hegarty, M. Narayanan, N. H. & Freitas, P. (2002). Understanding Machines from Multimedia and Hypermedia Presentations. In J. Otero, A. C. Graesser & J. Leon (Eds.). The Psychology of Science Text Comprehension. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Narayanan, N. H. & Hegarty, M. (2000). Communicating dynamic behaviors: Are interactive multimedia presentations better than static mixed-mode presentations? In M. Anderson, P. Cheng & V. Harslev (Eds.) Theory and application of diagrams. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1889. Berlin: Springer.
Tendick, F., Downes, M., Gogtekin, T. Cavusoglu, M.C., Feygin, D. Wu, X., Eyal, R., Hegarty, M. & Way, L.W. (2000). A virtual testbed for training laparoscopic surgical skills. Presence, 9, 236-255.
Shah, P., Mayer, R. E. & Hegarty, M. (1999). Graphs as aids to knowledge construction. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91, 690-702.
Hegarty, M., Quillici, J., Narayanan, N. H., Holmquist, S., & Moreno, R. (1999). Multimedia Instruction: Lessons from Evaluation of a Theory-based Design. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 8, 119-150.
Narayanan, N. H. & Hegarty, M. (1998). On designing comprehensible hypermedia manuals. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 48, 267-301.
Hegarty, M. & Just, M.A. (1993). Constructing mental models of machines from text and diagrams. Journal of Memory and Language, 32, 717-742.
Hegarty, M., Carpenter, P. A. & Just, M. A. (1990). Diagrams in the comprehension of scientific text. In R. Barr, M. L. Kamil, P. Mosenthal, & P. D. Pearson (Eds.) Handbook of reading research. New York: Longman.
Hegarty, M. & Just, M. A. (1989). Understanding machines from text and diagrams. In H. Mandl & J. Levin (Eds.). Knowledge acquisition from text and picture. Amsterdam: North Holland (Elsevier Science Publishers).
Hegarty, M., Montello, D. R., Richardson, A. E., Ishikawa, T. and Lovelace, K. (2006) Spatial Abilities at Different Scales: Individual Differences in Aptitude-Test Performance and Spatial-Layout Learning. Intelligence, 34, 151-176. [PDF]
Montello, D. R., Waller, D., Hegarty, M & Richardson, A. E. (2004). Spatial memory of real environments, virtual environments, and maps. In G. Allen (Ed.). Human Spatial Memory: Remembering Where (pp. 251-285). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Waller, D., Montello, D. R., Richardson, A. E. & Hegarty, M. (2002). Orientation specificity and spatial updating of memories for layouts. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Learning, Memory & Cognition, 28, 1051-1063.
Montello, D. R., Richardson, A. E., Hegarty, M & Provenza, M. (1999). A comparison of methods for estimating directions in egocentric space. Perception, 28, 981-1000.
Richardson, A. E., Montello, D. & Hegarty, M. (1999). Spatial knowledge acquisition from maps, and from navigation in real and virtual environments. Memory & Cognition, 27, 741-750.
Lovelace, K.L., Hegarty, M., & Montello, D. R. (1999) Elements of good route directions in familiar and unfamiliar environments. In Freksa, C., & Mark, D. M. (eds.). Spatial information theory: Cognitive and computational foundations of geographic information science. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1661). Berlin: Springer.
Ferguson, E. L. & Hegarty, M. (1994). Properties of cognitive maps constructed from text. Memory & Cognition, 22, 455-473.
Hegarty, M., Mayer, S., Kriz, S. & Keehner, M. (2005). The role of gestures in mental animation. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 5, 333-356. [PDF]
Barkowsky, T., Freksa, C., Hegarty, M. & Lowe, R. (Eds.) (2005). Reasoning with mental and external diagrams: Computational modeling and spatial assistance. Papers from the AAAI Sping symposium. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
Hegarty, M. (2004). Mechanical reasoning as mental simulation. TRENDS in Cognitive Science, 8, 280-285. [PDF]
Hegarty, M., Meyer, B. & Narayanan, N. H. (Eds.) (2002). Diagrammatic representation and inference. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Kozhevnikov. M. & Hegarty, M. A. (2001). Impetus Beliefs as Default Heuristics: Dissociation between Explicit and Implicit Knowledge about Motion. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8, 439-453.
Hegarty, M. (2000). Capacity limits in diagrammatic reasoning. In M. Anderson, P. Cheng & V. Harslev (Eds.) Theory and application of diagrams. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1889. Berlin: Springer.
Hegarty, M. & Steinhoff, K. (1997). Use of diagrams as external memory in a mechanical reasoning task. Learning and Individual Differences, 9, 19-42.
Sims, V. K. & Hegarty, M. (1997). Mental animation in the visual-spatial sketchpad: Evidence from dual-task studies. Memory & Cognition, 25, 321-332.
Schwartz, D. L. & Hegarty, M. (1996). Coordinating multiple representations for reasoning about mechanical devices. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Cognitive and Computational Models of Spatial Representation. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
Ferguson, E. L. & Hegarty, M. (1995). Learning with real machines or diagrams: Application of knowledge to real-world problems. Cognition and Instruction, 13(1), 129-160.
Hegarty, M. & Narayanan, N. H. (1994). Visual reasoning in problem solving. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 982-984). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Hegarty, M. & Sims, V. K. (1994). Individual differences in mental animation during mechanical reasoning. Memory & Cognition, 22, 411-430.
Hegarty, M. (1992). Mental animation: Inferring motion from static diagrams of mechanical systems. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 18(5) 1084-1102.
Hegarty, M. (1992). The mechanics of comprehension and comprehension of mechanics. In K. Rayner (Ed.) Eye movements and visual cognition: Scene perception and reading. New York: Springer Verlag.
Hegarty, M. (1991). Knowledge and processes in mechanical problem solving. In R. J.Sternberg & P. A. Frensch (Eds.) Complex problem solving: Principles and mechanisms. Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Hegarty, M., Just, M. A., & Morrison, I. R. (1988). Mental models of mechanical systems: Individual differences in qualitative and quantitative reasoning. Cognitive Psychology, 20, 191
Kintsch, W., Healy, A., Hegarty, M., Pennington, B.,& Salthouse, T. (1999). Models of working memory: Eight questions and some general answers. In A. Miyake & P. Shah, (Eds.). Models of Working Memory. Cambridge University Press.
Revlin, R. & Hegarty, M. (1999). Resolving signals to cohesion: Two models of bridging inferences. Discourse Processes, 27, 77-102.
Mayer, R. E. & Hegarty, M. (1996). The process of understanding mathematical problems. In R.J. Sternberg & T. Ben-Zeev (Eds.) The nature of mathematical thinking. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Hegarty, M., Mayer, R. E. & Monk, C. (1995). Comprehension of arithmetic word problems: A comparison of successful and unsuccessful problem solvers. Journal of Educational Psychology, 87, 18-32.
Hegarty, M., Mayer, R. E & Green, C. E. (1992). Comprehension of arithmetic word problems: Evidence from students' eye fixations. Journal of Educational Psychology, 84, 76-84.
Mayer, R., Lewis, A. B., & Hegarty, M. (1992). Mathematical misunderstandings: Qualitative reasoning about quantitative problems. In Campbell, J. I. D. (Ed.) The Nature and Origins of Mathematical Skills. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers.
Greaney, V. & Hegarty, M. (1987). Correlates of leisure time reading. Journal of Research in Reading, 10(1), 3- 20.
Kellaghan, T. & Hegarty, M. (1984). Participation in the Leaving Certificate Examination 1961 - 1980. The Irish Journal of Education, 18 (2), 71-106.
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