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Selected Publications: Mary Hegarty

Hegarty, M., Canham, M. & Fabrikant, S. I. (in press). Thinking about the weather: How display salience and knowledge affect performance in a graphic inference task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.

Wolbers, T., Hegarty, M. Büchel, C., & Loomis, J. (2008). How the brain keeps track of changing object locations during observer motion. Nature Neuroscience, 11, 1223-1230.

Keehner, M. Hegarty, M., Cohen, C. A., Khooshabeh, P. & Montello, D. R. (2008). Spatial reasoning with external visualizations: What matters is what you see, not whether you interact. Cognitive Science, 32, 1099-1132.

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.

Hegarty, M. & Waller, D. (2005). Individual differences in spatial abilities. In P. Shah & A. Miyake (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking. Cambridge University Press (pp. 121 – 169).

Hegarty, M. (2004). Mechanical reasoning as mental simulation. TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 280-285.

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.

Hegarty, M. and Just, M.A. (1993). Constructing mental models of machines from text and diagrams. Journal of Memory and Language, 32, 717-742.

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

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