Recent Publications

Newman P.M., Qi Y., Mou W., & McNamara T.P. (2023). Statistically optimal cue integration during

human spatial navigation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Lei X., Mou W., & McNamara T.P. (2023). The influence of environmental geometry and spatial symmetry

on spatial updating during locomotion. Journal of Experimental Psychology:

Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 49(5), 714-727.

McNamara, T. P., & Chen, X. (2022). Bayesian decision theory and navigation.

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 721-752.

Newman, P. M., & McNamara, T. P. (2021). Integration of visual landmark cues in spatial

memory. Psychological Research.

Biju, K., Wei, E. X., Rebello, E., Matthews, J., He, Q., McNamara, T. P., & Agrawal, Y.

(2021). Performance in real world- and virtual reality-based spatial navigation tasks in

patients with vestibular dysfunction. Otology & Neurology. 10/3/2022.

Newman, P. M., Cox, G. E., & McNamara, T. P. (2021). A computational cognitive model

of judgments of relative direction. Cognition, 209, 104559.

Newman, P. M., & McNamara, T. P. (2021). A comparison of methods of assessing cue

combination during navigation. Behavior Research Methods, 53, 390-398.

Wang, Y., Yu, X., Dou, Y., McNamara, T. P., & Li, J. (2020). Mental representations of

recently learned nested environments. Psychological Research.

Zhao, J., Sensibaugh, T., Bodenheimer, B., McNamara, T. P., Nazareth, A., Newcombe, N.,

Minear, M., & Klippel, A. (2020). Desktop versus immersive virtual environments: Effects

on spatial learning. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 20 (4), 328-363.

He, Q., McNamara, T. P., & Brown, T. I. (2019). Manipulating the visibility of barriers to

improve spatial navigation efficiency and cognitive mapping. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1–12.

He, Q., McNamara, T. P., Bodenheimer, B., & Klippel, A. (2019). Acquisition and transfer

of spatial knowledge during wayfinding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,

Memory, and Cognition, 45(8), 1364-1386.

He, Q., & McNamara, T. P. (2018). Virtual orientation overrides physical orientation to

define a reference frame in spatial updating. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12:269.

He, Q., & McNamara, T. P. (2018). Spatial updating strategy affects the reference frame in

path integration. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 1073-1079.

Sjolund, L. A., Kelly, J. W., & McNamara, T. P. (2018). Optimal combination of

environmental cues and path integration during navigation. Memory & Cognition, 46(1),

89-99.

He, Q., McNamara, T. P., & Kelly, J. W. (2018). Reference frames in spatial updating when

body-based cues are absent. Memory & Cognition, 46(1), 32-42.