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PhD Psychology Stanford University
Masters Cognitive Psychology Stanford University
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Mary Hegarty is an Irish–American psychologist who is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research considers spatial thinking in complex processes. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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How are visuospatial working memory, executive functioning, and spatial abilities related? A latent-variable analysis. (2001) (1076)
Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability. (2002) (809)
Spatial abilities at different scales: Individual differences in aptitude-test performance and spatial-layout learning (2006) (702)
A dissociation between mental rotation and perspective-taking spatial abilities (2004) (700)
What determines our navigational abilities? (2010) (622)
Types of visual–spatial representations and mathematical problem solving. (1999) (609)
Constructing mental models of machines from text and diagrams. (1993) (599)
Spatial knowledge acquisition from maps and from navigation in real and virtual environments (1999) (558)
Individual Differences in Spatial Abilities (2005) (521)
A dissociation between object manipulation spatial ability and spatial orientation ability (2001) (481)
Mental animation: inferring motion from static displays of mechanical systems. (1992) (481)
When static media promote active learning: annotated illustrations versus narrated animations in multimedia instruction. (2005) (455)
Comprehension of arithmetic word problems: A comparison of successful and unsuccessful problem solvers. (1995) (445)
The Roles of Mental Animations and External Animations in Understanding Mechanical Systems (2003) (418)
Elements of Good Route Directions in Familiar and Unfamiliar Environments (1999) (398)
Mechanical reasoning by mental simulation (2004) (386)
Dynamic visualizations and learning: getting to the difficult questions (2004) (335)
Revising the Visualizer-Verbalizer Dimension: Evidence for Two Types of Visualizers (2002) (324)
Spatial Visualization in Physics Problem Solving (2007) (315)
The Cognitive Science of Visual-Spatial Displays: Implications for Design (2011) (292)
Effects of knowledge and display design on comprehension of complex graphics (2010) (253)
Graphs as aids to knowledge construction: Signaling techniques for guiding the process of graph comprehension. (1999) (245)
Top-down and bottom-up influences on learning from animations (2007) (235)
Individual differences in mental animation during mechanical reasoning (1994) (212)
A Virtual Environment Testbed for Training Laparoscopic Surgical Skills (2000) (201)
Comprehension of Arithmetic Word Problems: Evidence from Students' Eye Fixations. (1992) (192)
Thinking about the weather: How display salience and knowledge affect performance in a graphic inference task. (2010) (189)
Multimedia design for communication of dynamic information (2002) (180)
Orientation specificity and spatial updating of memories for layouts. (2002) (177)
How spatial abilities enhance, and are enhanced by, dental education (2009) (170)
Spatial Memory of Real Environments, Virtual Environments, and Maps (2004) (167)
Spatial Reasoning With External Visualizations: What Matters Is What You See, Not Whether You Interact (2008) (167)
Spatial ability, experience, and skill in laparoscopic surgery. (2004) (161)
The process of understanding mathematical problems. (1996) (158)
Spatial updating: how the brain keeps track of changing object locations during observer motion (2008) (157)
Components of Spatial Intelligence (2010) (155)
Impetus beliefs as default heuristics: Dissociation between explicit and implicit knowledge about motion (2001) (155)
Cognitively Inspired and Perceptually Salient Graphic Displays for Efficient Spatial Inference Making (2010) (142)
On designing comprehensible interactive hypermedia manuals (1998) (136)
The Role of Spatial Cognition in Medicine: Applications for Selecting and Training Professionals. (2007) (125)
Mental animation in the visuospatial sketchpad: Evidence from dual-task studies (1997) (123)
Identifying Representational Competence With Multi-Representational Displays (2011) (121)
Decision making with visualizations: a cognitive framework across disciplines (2018) (118)
Representational Translation With Concrete Models in Organic Chemistry (2012) (115)
The Human Retrosplenial Cortex and Thalamus Code Head Direction in a Global Reference Frame (2016) (113)
A Tale of Two Types of Perspective Taking (2016) (109)
Naïve Cartography: How Intuitions about Display Configuration Can Hurt Performance (2009) (107)
Individual differences in use of external visualisations to perform an internal visualisation task. (2007) (107)
Constraints on using the dual-task methodology to specify the degree of central executive involvement in cognitive tasks (2000) (105)
Learning a Spatial Skill for Surgery: How the Contributions of Abilities Change With Practice (2006) (99)
Properties of cognitive maps constructed from texts (1994) (97)
Diagrams in the Mind and in the World: Relations between Internal and External Visualizations (2004) (95)
Individual differences in use of diagrams as external memory in mechanical reasoning (1997) (91)
Inferring cross sections of 3D objects: A new spatial thinking test (2012) (89)
Modulation of neural activity by angle of rotation during imagined spatial transformations (2006) (87)
Non-expert interpretations of hurricane forecast uncertainty visualizations (2016) (87)
Learning With Real Machines or Diagrams: Application of Knowledge to Real-World Problems (1995) (82)
Getting a Handle on Learning Anatomy with Interactive Three-Dimensional Graphics (2009) (81)
Understanding Machines from Text and Diagrams. (1989) (81)
Designing Educationally Effective Algorithm Visualizations (2002) (76)
Spatial Thinking in Undergraduate Science Education (2014) (74)
Effects of Knowledge and Spatial Ability on Learning from Animation (2007) (73)
The Role of Gestures in Mental Animation (2005) (73)
Diagrams in the Comprehension of Scientific Texts (2016) (72)
Mental models of mechanical systems: Individual differences in qualitative and quantitative reasoning (1988) (71)
The role of spatial ability and strategy preference for spatial problem solving in organic chemistry (2012) (70)
The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning: Multimedia Learning About Physical Systems (2005) (66)
A Comparison of Methods for Estimating Directions in Egocentric Space (1999) (65)
Strategy training eliminates sex differences in spatial problem solving in a stem domain. (2014) (64)
Do All Science Disciplines Rely on Spatial Abilities? Preliminary Evidence from Self-report Questionnaires (2010) (64)
Usability of concrete and virtual models in chemistry instruction (2013) (62)
Models of Working Memory: Models of Working Memory: Eight Questions and Some General Issues (1999) (58)
What working memory subcomponents are needed in the acquisition of survey knowledge? Evidences from direction estimation and shortcut tasks (2014) (55)
15. Understanding machines from multimedia and hypermedia presentations (2002) (55)
Ability and sex differences in spatial thinking: What does the mental rotation test really measure? (2018) (54)
The Mechanics of Comprehension and Comprehension of Mechanics (1992) (53)
Sex Differences in Mental Rotation Tasks: Not Just in the Mental Rotation Process! (2017) (53)
Multimedia instruction: lessons from evaluation of a theory-based design (1999) (53)
Model Manipulation and Learning: Fostering Representational Competence With Virtual and Concrete Models. (2016) (51)
Constrained interactivity for relating multiple representations in science: When virtual is better than real (2015) (49)
Uncertainty Visualization by Representative Sampling from Prediction Ensembles (2017) (49)
Sex differences in navigation strategy and efficiency (2018) (48)
Choosing and using geospatial displays: effects of design on performance and metacognition. (2012) (46)
The Influence of Spatial Visualization Training on Students’ Spatial Reasoning and Mathematics Performance (2019) (46)
The impact of an intervention program on students’ spatial reasoning: student engagement through mathematics-enhanced learning activities (2018) (43)
Sources of Difficulty in Imagining Cross Sections of 3D Objects (2007) (40)
Mathematical misunderstandings : qualitative reasoning about quantitative problems (1992) (40)
Alternative Strategies for Spatial Reasoning with Diagrams (2010) (40)
Promoting Representational Competence with Molecular Models in Organic Chemistry (2016) (39)
Individual differences in mental rotation: piecemeal versus holistic processing. (2013) (38)
Models as Feedback: Developing Representational Competence in Chemistry. (2015) (36)
Communicating Dynamic Behaviors: Are Interactive Multimedia Presentations Better than Static Mixed-Mode Presentations? (2000) (36)
Inferring Cross-Sections: When Internal Visualizations Are More Important Than Properties of External Visualizations (2010) (35)
Assessing the effectiveness of different visualizations for judgments of positional uncertainty (2016) (35)
Spatial Abilities in Problem Solving in Kinematics (2002) (34)
Identifying Student Use of Ball-and-Stick Images versus Electrostatic Potential Map Images via Eye Tracking (2013) (32)
Cognitive change in mental models with experience in the domain of organic chemistry (2013) (32)
Representations of Shape during Mental Rotation (2010) (31)
Cognition, Metacognition, and the Design of Maps (2013) (30)
Students' Use of Imagery in Solving Qualitative Problems in Kinematics. (1999) (30)
Learning by enacting: The role of embodiment in chemistry education (2017) (27)
Sense of direction: General factor saturation and associations with the Big-Five traits (2015) (27)
Effects of Mental and Manual Rotation Training on Mental and Manual Rotation Performance (2014) (26)
Comparing Graphical and Verbal Representations of Measurement Error In Test Score Reports (2014) (26)
Explicit Versus Actionable Knowledge: The Influence of Explaining Graphical Conventions on Interpretation of Hurricane Forecast Visualizations (2018) (25)
Capacity Limits in Diagrammatic Reasoning (2000) (24)
How anxiety and growth mindset are linked to navigation ability: Impacts of exploration and GPS use (2020) (22)
Preface: Reasoning with Mental and External Diagrams: Computational Modeling and Spatial Assistance (2005) (21)
The Impact of a Spatial Intervention Program on Students’ Spatial Reasoning and Mathematics Performance (2019) (21)
Instructions matter: Individual differences in navigation strategy and ability (2019) (20)
Spatial perspective taking: Effects of social, directional, and interactive cues (2019) (20)
The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning: Multimedia Learning and the Development of Mental Models (2014) (20)
Effects of interface and spatial ability on manipulation of virtual models in a STEM domain (2016) (19)
Individual Differences Among Users: Implications for the Design of 3D Medical Visualizations (2008) (17)
Expertise, Spatial Ability and Intuition in the Use of Complex Visual Displays (2007) (17)
Spatial Ability in the Representation of Cross Sections (2003) (17)
COORDINATING MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONS FOR REASONING ABOUT MECHANICAL DEVICES (1996) (16)
Effects of Interactivity and Spatial Ability on the Comprehension of Spatial Relations in a 3D Computer Visualization (2004) (16)
Decoupling of Intuitions and Performance in the Use of Complex Visual Displays (2008) (15)
A computerized spatial orientation test (2020) (15)
Individual differences in large-scale spatial abilities and strategies (2018) (15)
Spatial Thinking Across the College Curriculum: A Report on a Specialist Meeting (2014) (15)
Revisiting the Relationship between Allocentric-Heading Recall and Self-Reported Sense of Direction (2012) (15)
Toward Empirically Verified Cartographic Displays (2015) (14)
Age-Related Changes in Spatial Navigation Are Evident by Midlife and Differ by Sex (2020) (13)
Advances in Cognitive Science and Information Visualization (2018) (13)
The Neural Basis of Individual Differences in Directional Sense (2018) (12)
Resolving signals to cohesion: Two models of bridging inference (1999) (12)
The Role of Spatial Thinking in Undergraduate Science Education (2011) (12)
How Visual Information Affects a Spatial Task (2008) (11)
Visual chunking as a strategy for spatial thinking in STEM (2020) (10)
Anatomy Learning with Virtual Objects (2010) (9)
Constructing and Revising Mental Models of a Mechanical System: The role of domain knowledge in understanding external visualizations (2004) (9)
Spatial reasoning, mathematics, and gender: Do spatial constructs differ in their contribution to performance? (2020) (9)
Correction to: Decision making with visualizations: a cognitive framework across disciplines (2018) (9)
Interaction Design and the Role of Spatial Ability in Moderating Virtual Molecule Manipulation Performance (2014) (9)
Understanding Differences in Wayfinding Strategies (2022) (8)
Alignment Effects and Allocentric-Headings within a Relative Heading Task (2014) (8)
Mental Visualizations and External Visualizations (2019) (7)
Special issue introduction: Spatial approaches to information search (2016) (7)
Where are you? The Effect of Uncertainty and its Visual Representation on Location Judgments in GPS-like Displays (2016) (7)
Diagrammatic representation and inference: second international conference, Diagrams 2002 : Callaway Gardens, GA, USA, april 18-20, 2002 : proceedings (2002) (7)
Empirical Studies of Animation-embedded Hypermedia Algorithm Visualizations (1998) (7)
Spatial Cognition IX (2014) (7)
Visuospatial working memory, central executive functioning, and psychometric visuospatial abilities: How are they related (2001) (7)
Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (2002) (7)
Building a Cognitive Science of Human Variation: Individual Differences in Spatial Navigation (2022) (6)
Spatial Search, Final Report (2015) (6)
Telling right from right: the influence of handedness in the mental rotation of hands (2020) (5)
Model-based design of hypermedia presentations (1997) (5)
Designing Hypermedia Manuals to Explain how Machines Work: Lessons from Evaluation of a Theory-based Design 1 (1998) (5)
Meta-Representational Competence as an Aspect of Spatial Intelligence (2012) (5)
Visual ZIP files: Viewers beat capacity limits by compressing redundant features across objects. (2020) (5)
Individual Differences in Mental Rotation : Piecemeal vs Holistic Processes (2011) (5)
Benefits of Constrained Interactivity in Using a Three-Dimensional Diagram (2008) (4)
Does Manipulating Molecular Models Promote Representation Translation of Diagrams in Chemistry? (2010) (4)
Design of a Virtual Reality System for the Study of Diagram Use in Organic Chemistry (2012) (4)
Improving Representational Competence in Chemistry with Model-Based Feedback (2012) (4)
Individual and Strategy Differences in an Allocentric-Heading Recall Task (2013) (4)
Directionality eclipses agency: How both directional and social cues improve spatial perspective taking (2021) (4)
Influences of Knowledge on Eye Fixations While Interpreting Weather Maps (2004) (3)
Chapter 5: Spatial Skills in Expert Structural Geologists (2016) (3)
Santa Barbara Sense of Direction Scale (2018) (3)
Decision making with visualizations: a cognitive framework across disciplines (2018) (3)
Educating Spatial Thinking for STEM Success (2017) (3)
Spatial Perspective in Spoken Descriptions of Real World Environments at Different Scales (2005) (3)
Spatial perspective taking: Effects of social, directional, and interactive cues (2019) (3)
Spatial approaches to information search (2016) (3)
What Diagrams Reveal about Representations in Linear Reasoning, and How They Help (2008) (3)
Spatial updating of map-acquired representation (2015) (3)
Effects of Using Mental and Manual Rotation Training on Mental and Manual Rotation Performance (2011) (3)
Workshop on Quantification, Communication, and Interpretation of Uncertainty in Simulation and Data Science (2020) (2)
Report on the Center for Spatial Studies (2013) (2)
Interface Design and Spatial Cognition: A Case of Virtual Molecule Manipulation (2013) (2)
Visual working memory for connected 3D objects: effects of stimulus complexity, dimensionality and connectivity (2022) (2)
Eye Fixations and Diagrammatic Reasoning (2006) (2)
Capacity Limits in Mechanical Reasoning (2002) (2)
Spatial Cognition IX: International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2014, Bremen, Germany, September 15-19, 2014. Proceedings (2014) (2)
The Changing Landscape of Doctoral Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: PhD Students, Faculty Advisors, and Preferences for Varied Career Options (2021) (2)
Quantification, Communication, and Interpretation of Uncertainty in Simulation and Data Science (2015) (1)
Effects of Visual Salience and Knowledge on Inferences from Weather Maps (2006) (1)
Reports on the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium Series (2005) (1)
Teaching Spatial Thinking: Perspectives from Cognitive Psychology (2015) (1)
Spatial Thinking across the College Curriculum, Final Report (2013) (1)
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (2002) (1)
A comparison of methods for estimating directions in egocentric space Perception, 1999, volume 28, pages 981^1000 (1999) (1)
-1935mental Models of Mechanical Systems: Indiviuln "a9 M5 (1)
Directional Bias Induced Error Patterns when Translating Structural Representations (2011) (1)
Strategy differences do not account for gender difference in mental rotation (2015) (1)
The relationship between object-based spatial ability and virtual navigation performance (2023) (1)
Instructions matter: Individual differences in navigation strategy and ability (2019) (1)
Diagrammatic Reasoning (2002) (1)
The Role of Spatial Abilities in Medicine: Implications for Selection and Training (2020) (1)
Anisotropic Temporal Integration in the Perception of Stereoscopic Corrugations (1997) (1)
Age-Related Changes in Spatial Navigation Are Evident by Midlife and Differ by Sex. (2021) (1)
The Role of Spatial Cognition inMedicine (2020) (1)
Inferences from Weather Maps: Do you need a Weatherman to know which way the Wind Blows? (2003) (1)
Research at the Interface of Cognition, Education, and Disciplinary Science (2016) (0)
Visual Reasoning in Modeling and Design (2009) (0)
Facilitating Interdisciplinary Dialog in Research and Teaching: A roadmap for providing timely, needs-based project support (2021) (0)
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ( Taylor & Francis Group ) Learning with Real Machines or Diagrams : Application of Knowledge to Real-World Problems (2007) (0)
Spatial Ability and Physics Majors: Female Students and Overall Graduation Rates (2013) (0)
Individual Differences in Interacting With Hypermedia Manuals (2003) (0)
Visual working memory for connected 3D objects: effects of stimulus complexity, dimensionality and connectivity (2022) (0)
Intelligible Multimedia (2000) (0)
Two Types of Visualizers (2016) (0)
Symmetry and spatial ability enhance change detection in visuospatial structures (2022) (0)
VisWeek Keynote Address (2010) (0)
Social Influences on the Spatial Perspective-Taking Abilities of Males and Females (2015) (0)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara Cognitive Consequences of Short and Long Term Training with Lumosity Games A Thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in Psychological and Brain Sciences by (2019) (0)
Reasoning with mental and external diagrams: computational modeling and spatial assistence : papers from the 2005 AAAI Symposium, March 21-23, Stanford, California (2005) (0)
Organizing committee (2013) (0)
A computerized spatial orientation test (2019) (0)
Teaching Spatial Thinking from Interdisciplinary Perspective Workshop (2015) (0)
Correction to: Decision making with visualizations: a cognitive framework across disciplines (2018) (0)
The impact of an intervention program on students’ spatial reasoning: student engagement through mathematics-enhanced learning activities (2018) (0)
Visual chunking as a strategy for spatial thinking in STEM (2020) (0)
Spatial updating of map-acquired representation (2015) (0)
The Effect of Depth Information on Inferring Cross-sections (2006) (0)
Strategy shifting in navigation: Insights from trial-level effects in a virtual navigation task (2019) (0)
Individual Differences in the Use of an External Visualization during an Internal Visualization Task (2005) (0)
Ability and sex differences in spatial thinking: What does the mental rotation test really measure? (2017) (0)
Learning with Concrete and Virtual Manipulative Models: Are Models Scaffolds or Crutches? (2015) (0)
Evaluating Visualizations of Geospatial Uncertainty (2014) (0)
Representational Translation with Concrete and Virtual Models in Organic Chemistry (2012) (0)
Visual ZIP files: Mental rotation overcomes capacity limits by compressing objects (2019) (0)
A new psychometric task measuring spatial perspective taking in ambulatory virtual reality (2022) (0)
Measuring configural spatial knowledge: Individual differences in correlations between pointing and shortcutting. (2023) (0)
Interpreting Visualizations of Uncertainty on Smartphone Displays: (528942014-751) (2014) (0)
Analysis and Synthesis of Hypermedia Visualizations (2002) (0)
TEDR PROGRAMME 09:00-09:15 Registration 09:15-09:30 Opening session (2012) (0)
Interpreting Visualizations of Uncertainty on Smartphone Displays (2015) (0)
Spatial Reasoning and 3D Graphics: A Study of GeoWall-Enhanced Astronomy Instruction (2006) (0)
Teaching Spatial Thinking from Interdisciplinary Perspective Workshop (introduction) (2016) (0)
Path Integration and Spatial Updating in Humans: Behavioral Principles and Underlying Neural Mechanisms: (527342012-673) (2007) (0)
Who believes they are good navigators? A machine learning pipeline highlights the impact of gender, commuting time, and education (2022) (0)
Telling right from right: the influence of handedness in the mental rotation of hands (2020) (0)
2007 Reviewers (2007) (0)
The inter-relationship between spatial cognition and gestures (2004) (0)
Visual Reasoning in Discovery, Instruction and Problem Solving (2019) (0)
The Familiarity Trap: Collaborative Research and Teaching Lessons from 6 Interdisciplinary Projects (2021) (0)
Sex differences in navigation strategy and efficiency (2018) (0)
Santa Barbara Solids Test--Version 3 (2016) (0)
Selected abstracts (2000) (0)
Title : Spatial approaches to information search (2017) (0)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara Sex Differences in Mental Rotation Tasks A Thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in Psychology by (2015) (0)
Of Course Our Program is Error-Free—Not! (2020) (0)

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