Spatial Memory and Navigation Lab

Recent Publications

Book:

McNamara, T. P. (2005). Semantic priming: Perspectives from memory and word recognition. New York: Psychology Press (200 pp).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

McNamara, T. P. (2007).  Commentary: The nature and development of spatial reference systems.  In J. M. Plumert & J. Spencer (Eds.), The emerging spatial mind (pp. 104-113).  London: Oxford University Press.

Mou, W., Zhao, M., & McNamara, T. P. (2007). Layout geometry in the selection of intrinsic frames of reference from multiple viewpoints.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 145-154.

Rump, B., & McNamara, T. P. (2007).  Updating in models of spatial memory.  In T. Barkowsky, M. Knauff, G. Ligozat, & D. R. Montello (Eds.), Spatial cognition V: Reasoning, action, interaction, LNAI 4387 (pp. 249-269).  Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

Valiquette, C. M. & McNamara, T. P. (2007). Different mental representations for place recognition and goal localization.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 676-680.

Valiquette, C. M., McNamara, T. P., & Labrecque, J. S. (2007). Biased representations of the spatial structure of navigable environments. Psychological Research, 71, 288-297.

Kelly, J. W., & McNamara, T. P. (2008). Spatial memory and spatial orientation. In C. Freksa, N. S. Newcombe, P. Gärdenfors, & S. Wölfl (Eds.), Spatial cognition VI: Learning, reasoning, and talking about space, LNAI 5248 (pp. 22-38).  Berlin Heidelberg:  Springer-Verlag.

Kelly, J. W.,  & McNamara, T. P. (2008). Response mode differences in perspective taking: Differences in representation or differences in retrieval? Memory & Cognition, 36, 863-872.

Kelly,  J. W., & McNamara, T. P. (2008). Spatial memories of virtual environments: How egocentric experience, intrinsic structure, and extrinsic structure interact.  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15, 322-327.

McNamara, T. P., Sluzenski, J., & Rump, B. (2008). Human spatial memory and navigation. In H. L. Roediger, III (Ed.), Cognitive psychology of memory. Volume 2 in J. Byrne (Editor-in-chief), Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference (pp. 157-178).  Oxford: Elsevier.

Mou, W., Fan, Y., McNamara, T. P., & Owen, C. B. (2008). Intrinsic frames of reference and egocentric viewpoints in scene recognition. Cognition, 106, 750-769.

Mou, W., Li, X., & McNamara, T. P. (2008). Body- and environment-stabilized processing of spatial knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 415-421.

Mou, W., Xiao, C., & McNamara, T. P. (2008). Reference directions and reference objects in spatial memory of a briefly-viewed layout.  Cognition, 108, 136-154.

Kelly, J. W., McNamara, T. P., Bodenheimer, B., Carr, T. H., & Rieser, J. J. (2008).  The shape of human navigation: How environmental geometry is used in the maintenance of spatial orientation.  Cognition, 109, 281-286.

Mou, W., Liu, X., & McNamara, T. P. (2009). Layout geometry in encoding and retrieval of spatial memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 83-93.

Kelly, J. W., & McNamara, T. P. (2009). Facilitated pointing to remembered objects in front: Evidence for egocentric retrieval or spatial priming? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 295-300.

Kelly, J. W., McNamara, T. P., Bodenheimer, B., Carr, T. H., & Rieser, J. J. (2009).  Individual differences in using geometric and featural cues to maintain spatial orientation: Cue quantity and cue ambiguity are more important than cue type.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 176-181.

Li, X., Mou, W., & McNamara, T. P. (2009). Intrinsic orientation and study viewpoint in recognizing spatial structure of a shape. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 518-523.

Mou, W., Zhang, H., & McNamara, T. P.  (2009).  Novel-view scene recognition relies on identifying spatial reference directions.  Cognition, 111, 175-186.

Xiao, C., Mou, W., & McNamara, T. P. (2009). Use of self-to-object and object-to-object spatial relations in locomotion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 1137-1147.




For more information, please contact Timothy P. McNamara.