Mary Hegarty

Distinguished Professor

Psychological & Brain Sciences

UC Santa Barbara

805-893-3750

mary.hegarty@psych.ucsb.edu

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Research Focus Areas

Research Interests

Spatial thinking in complex activities such as comprehension, reasoning, problem solving and navigation. The role of internal and external spatial visualizations in reasoning about such diverse topics as mechanical systems, weather patterns, and molecular structure.

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ICB Supported Publications

Stress Affects Navigation Strategies in Immersive Virtual Reality

Apurv Varshney, Mitchell Munns, Justin Kasowski, Mantong (mable) zhou, Chuanxiuyue He, Scott Grafton, Barry Giesbrecht, Mary Hegarty, and Michael Beyeler

Scientific Reports, 2024

10.1038/s41598-024-56048-8

Resilience of navigation strategy and efficiency to the impact of acute stress

Alexander P. Boone, Tom Bullock, Mary H. MacLean, Tyler Santander, Jamie Raymer, Alexander Stuber, Liann Jimmons, Gold N. Okafor, Scott T. Grafton, Michael B. Miller, Barry Giesbrecht and Mary Hegarty

Spatial Cognition & Computation, 2024

10.1080/13875868.2024.2321920

Visual Navigation Under High-Stress Conditions

Apurv Varshney; Mitch Munns; Justin Kasowski; Mantong Zhou; Chuanxiuyue He; Scott Grafton; Barry Giesbrecht; Mary Hegarty; Michael Beyeler

Journal of Vision, 2023

10.1167/jov.23.9.5184