Timothy P Mcnamara
Biographic Data
| ID | 1660340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy P Mcnamara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcnamara |
| SIGNATURE | MCNAMARA T P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0441-7263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mental Representations of Impossible Non-Euclidean Environments
Esher's Relativity (1953), videogames like the Portal series (2007 & 2011), and the long-running television series Dr. Who (1963-present) all exemplify some form of manipulation that violates Euclidean geometry.However, research on how humans represent navigational spaces containing these manipulations is in its early stages (e.g., Warren et al., 2017).We use the term "non-Euclidean" to refer to spaces that produce inconsistencies with the local …
Processing spatial cue conflict in navigation
Statistically Optimal Cue Integration During Human Spatial Navigation
Bayesian decision theory and navigation
Integration of visual landmark cues in spatial memory
Over the past two decades, much research has been conducted to investigate whether humans are optimal when integrating sensory cues during spatial memory and navigational tasks. Although this work has consistently demonstrated optimal integration of visual cues (e.g., landmarks) with body-based cues (e.g., path integration) during human navigation, little work has investigated how cues of the same sensory type are integrated in spatial memory. A …
Mental representations of recently learned nested environments
A computational cognitive model of judgments of relative direction
Semantic Memory and PrimingI am grateful to David Balota, Derek Besner, Dorothee Chwilla, Alice Healy, Jon Holbrook, Steve Joordens, Margery Lucas, Ken McRae, James Neely, David Plaut, Robert Proctor,…
This chapter reviews theoretical and empirical developments in the scientific understanding of semantic memory and semantic priming. The chapter begins with an historical review of models of semantic memory and the major empirical findings that were used to test those models. I also summarize two contemporary models of semantic memory, distributed network models and high-dimensional spatial models. In the second section of the chapter, I examine …
Semantic Priming
Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and cognition, such as word recognition, language comprehension, and knowledge representations. Semantic Priming: Perspectives from Memory and Word Recognition examines empirical and theoretical advancements in the understanding of semantic priming, providing a succinct, in…
Spatial representation
Attributes of theories of meaning
Etude critique de quatre theories psychologiques de la representation semantique. Proposition et evaluation d'un modele de l'acquisition semantique
Spatial representation
Attributes of theories of meaning
Etude critique de quatre theories psychologiques de la representation semantique. Proposition et evaluation d'un modele de l'acquisition semantique
Attributes of theories of meaning
Etude critique de quatre theories psychologiques de la representation semantique. Proposition et evaluation d'un modele de l'acquisition semantique
Spatial representation
Semantic Priming
Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and cognition, such as word recognition, language comprehension, and knowledge representations. Semantic Priming: Perspectives from Memory and Word Recognition examines empirical and theoretical advancements in the understanding of semantic priming, providing a succinct, in…
Semantic Memory and PrimingI am grateful to David Balota, Derek Besner, Dorothee Chwilla, Alice Healy, Jon Holbrook, Steve Joordens, Margery Lucas, Ken McRae, James Neely, David Plaut, Robert Proctor,…
This chapter reviews theoretical and empirical developments in the scientific understanding of semantic memory and semantic priming. The chapter begins with an historical review of models of semantic memory and the major empirical findings that were used to test those models. I also summarize two contemporary models of semantic memory, distributed network models and high-dimensional spatial models. In the second section of the chapter, I examine …
Mental representations of recently learned nested environments
A computational cognitive model of judgments of relative direction
Bayesian decision theory and navigation
Integration of visual landmark cues in spatial memory
Over the past two decades, much research has been conducted to investigate whether humans are optimal when integrating sensory cues during spatial memory and navigational tasks. Although this work has consistently demonstrated optimal integration of visual cues (e.g., landmarks) with body-based cues (e.g., path integration) during human navigation, little work has investigated how cues of the same sensory type are integrated in spatial memory. A …
Statistically Optimal Cue Integration During Human Spatial Navigation
Processing spatial cue conflict in navigation
Mental Representations of Impossible Non-Euclidean Environments
Esher's Relativity (1953), videogames like the Portal series (2007 & 2011), and the long-running television series Dr. Who (1963-present) all exemplify some form of manipulation that violates Euclidean geometry.However, research on how humans represent navigational spaces containing these manipulations is in its early stages (e.g., Warren et al., 2017).We use the term "non-Euclidean" to refer to spaces that produce inconsistencies with the local …
Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Spatial Cognition and Navigation (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (5 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Bayesian probability (2 works)