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Mary Hegarty
Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara
Publications - 193
Citations - 18307
Mary Hegarty is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Barbara. The author has contributed to research in topics: Spatial ability & Mental rotation. The author has an hindex of 64, co-authored 183 publications receiving 16579 citations. Previous affiliations of Mary Hegarty include Carnegie Mellon University & St Patrick's College, Dublin.
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How are visuospatial working memory, executive functioning, and spatial abilities related? A latent-variable analysis.
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship among visuospatial working memory (WM) executive functioning and spatial abilities and found that WM tasks equally implicate executive functioning, and are not clearly distinguishable.
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Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a standardized self-report scale of environmental spatial ability, the Santa Barbara Sense of Direction Scale (SBSOD), which is used for everyday tasks such as finding one's way in the environment and learning the layout of a new environment.
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Spatial abilities at different scales: Individual differences in aptitude-test performance and spatial-layout learning
TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that small-scale spatial abilities predicted performance on the environmental-learning tasks, but were more predictive of learning from media than from direct experience, while large-scale abilities at different scales of space are partially but not totally dissociated.
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A dissociation between mental rotation and perspective-taking spatial abilities
Mary Hegarty,David Waller +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that the separability of mental rotation and perspective taking is not dependent on the method by which people are tested and that measures of perspective taking and mental rotation are quite highly correlated.
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What determines our navigational abilities
Thomas Wolbers,Mary Hegarty +1 more
TL;DR: Three interdependent domains that have been related to navigational abilities are considered: cognitive and perceptual factors, neural information processing and variability in brain microstructure, which converge into an emerging model of how different factors interact to produce individual patterns of navigational performance.