Mary Hegarty Elected to American Association For the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Dr. Mary Hegarty, Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences has named a fellow to the AAAS
March 1, 2022
"Mary Hegarty’s research focuses on spatial thinking in complex activities such as comprehension, reasoning, problem solving and navigation. She studies the role of internal and external spatial visualizations in reasoning about such diverse topics as mechanical systems, weather patterns and molecular structure. Much of her work is concerned with the use of mental simulation/visualization in conjunction with analytic strategies in scientific problem solving."
Read the full press release in The Current.
