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Mary Hegarty received her BA and MA from University College Dublin, Ireland. She worked as a research assistant for three years at the Irish national educational research centre before attending Carnegie Mellon, where she received her Ph.D. in Psychology in 1988. She has been on the faculty of the Department of Psychology, UCSB since then. The author of over 75 articles and chapters on spatial cognition, diagrammatic reasoning, and individual differences, she is co-editor of an edited book on diagrammatic reasoning and inference. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Society, a former Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, and is the chair elect of the Cognitive Science Society. She is Associate Editor of TopiCS in Cognitive Science and is on the editorial board of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition and Spatial Cognition and Computation. Her current research is funded by the National Science Foundation.

Contact Information

Phone: (805) 893-3750
Fax: (805) 893-4303
E-Mail: hegarty@psych.ucsb.edu
Office: Psychology East (Building 251), Room 3812

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Department of Psychology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660

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