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Publications

Weisberg, S.M., Barnas, A.J., Abid, H., Kumar, S., Sahoo, A.K., & Yuksel, E. (under review). Drawing down: The structure of spatial direction representations in drawing and categorization.

Yuksel, E., Boogaart, Z., & Weisberg, S.M. (under review). This is not the way: Global directional cues do not improve spatial navigation in an immersive virtual environment. Preprint

Barnas, A.J., Kunath, J.T., Perez, E., Boogaart, Z., Bowers, D., Ebner, N.C., & Weisberg, S.M. (in revision). Spatial navigation strategy in older adults: Preference or ability?  Preprint

Perez, E., Kvam, P.D., & Weisberg, S.M. (Stage 2 Registered Report in revision). The role of risk tolerance in navigation strategy decisions.

Lin, T., Rana, M., Liu, P., Polk, R., Heemskerk, A., Weisberg, S.M., Bowers, D., Sitaram, R., & Ebner, N.C. (2024). Real-time fMRI neurofeedback training of selective attention in older adults. Brain Sciences. PDF

Krause, A.N., Meagher, B.R., & Weisberg, S.M. (2024). Unlocking Coherence: The Lock-and-Key Metaphor in the Psychology of Place. Ecological Psychology. Journal

Weisberg, S.M., Ebner, N.C., & Seidler, R.D. (2024). Getting LOST: A conceptual framework for supporting and enhancing navigation in aging. WIRES Cognitive Science. Preprint PDF Journal

Barnas, A.J., Ebner, N.C., Weisberg, S.M. (2024). Allocation of Space-Based Attention is Guided by Efficient Comprehension of Spatial Direction. Journal of Cognition. Preprint Journal

Jaeger, A.J., Weisberg, S.M., Nazareth, A., & Newcombe, N.S. (2023). A picture or a thousand words: Neither improve spatial knowledge of a complex virtual environment. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. Preprint Pre-reg Code and Data

Perez, E., & Weisberg, S.M. (2023). Individual differences in spatial navigation. Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, 2nd edition.

Weisberg, S.M., Schinazi, V.R., Ferrario, A., & Newcombe, N.S. (2022). Evaluating the effects of a programming error on a virtual environment measure of spatial navigation behavior. Preprint Pre-reg Code and Data

Weisberg, S.M., & Ekstrom, A.D. (2021). Hippocampal volume and navigation ability: The map(ping) is not to scale. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 126, 102-112. PDF Journal

Weisberg, S.M., & Chatterjee, A. (2021). Spatial direction comprehension in images, arrows, and words in two patients with posterior cortical atrophy. Neuropsychologia, 151.  PDF Data Pre-reg Journal

Weisberg, S.M., & Chatterjee, A. (2020). Reference frames in spatial communication for navigation and sports: An empirical study in ultimate frisbee players. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5, 53. PDF Data and Pre-reg Journal

Weisberg, S.M., Newcombe, N.S., & Chatterjee, A. (2019). Everyday taxi drivers: Do better navigators have larger hippocampi. Cortex, 115, 280-293. PDF Data and Pre-reg Journal

Nazareth, A., Newcombe, N.S., Shipley T.F., Velazquez, M., & Weisberg, S.M.. (2019). Beyond small-scale spatial skills: Navigation skills and geoscience education. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4, 17. PDF Journal

Weisberg, S.M., Marchette, S.A., & Chatterjee, A. (2018). Behavioral and neural representations of spatial directions across words, schemas, and images. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(21), 4996-5007. PDF Behavioral Data and Code Journal

Weisberg, S.M., & Newcombe, N.S. (2018). Cognitive maps: Some people make them, some people struggle. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(4), 220-226. PDF Journal

Weisberg, S.M., Badgio, D., & Chatterjee, A. (2018). Feel the way with a vibrotactile compass: Does a navigational aid aid navigation? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(5), 667-679). PDF Data and Code Journal

Nazareth, A., Weisberg, S.M., Margulis, K., & Newcombe, N.S. (2018). Charting the development of cognitive mapping. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 170, 86-106. PDF Journal 

Galati, A., Weisberg, S.M., Newcombe, N.S., & Avraamides, M.N. (2018). When gestures show us the way: Self-generated gestures selectively facilitate navigation and spatial memory. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 18(1-30). Journal

Blacker, K.J., Weisberg, S.M., Newcombe, N.S., & Courtney, S.M. (2017). Navigation ability, relational and location working memory. Visual Cognition, 25(7-8), 691-702. PDF Journal

Weisberg, S.M., Badgio, D., & Chatterjee, A. (2017). A CRISPR new world: Public attitudes towards innovations in genetic modification. Frontiers in Public Health: Public Health PolicyPDF Journal

Atit, K., Weisberg, S.M., Newcombe, N.S., & Shipley, T.F. (2016). Learning to interpret topographic maps: Understanding layered spatial information. Cognitive Research: Principles & ImplicationsJournal

Cromley, J.G., Weisberg, S.M., Dai, T., Newcombe, N.S., Schunn, C.D., Massey, C., & Merlino, F.J. (2016). Improving middle school science learning using diagrammatic reasoning. Science Education, 100 (6), 1184-1213. Journal

Weisberg, S.M., & Newcombe, N.S. (2016). How do (some) people make a cognitive map? Routes, places, and working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(5), 768-785. Journal

Ngo, C., Weisberg, S.M., Newcombe, N.S., & Olson, I.R. (2016). The relation between navigation strategy and associative memory: An individual differences approach. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(4), 663-670. Journal.

Holmes, C.A., Nardi, D.N., Newcombe, N.S., & Weisberg, S.M. (2015). Children’s use of slope to guide navigation: Sex differences relate to spontaneous slope perception. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 15(3), 170-185. Journal

Weisberg, S.M., & Newcombe, N.S. (2014). A slippery directional slope: Individual differences in using slope as a directional cue. Memory & Cognition, 42, 648-661. Journal PDF

Weisberg, S.M., Nardi, D.N., Newcombe, N.S., & Shipley, T.F. (2014). Up by upwest: Is slope like north? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(10), 1959-1976. Journal PDF

Weisberg, S.M., Schinazi, V.R., Newcombe, N.S., Shipley, T.F., & Epstein, R.A. (2014). Variations in cognitive maps: Understanding individual differences in navigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(3), 669-682. Journal PDF

Chapters, Proceedings, Commentaries, reports, etc.

Perez, E., & Weisberg, S.M. (2023). Individual differences in spatial navigation. Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, 2nd edition.

Weisberg, S.M. & Newcombe, N.S. (2017). Embodied cognition and STEM learning: Overview of a topical collection in CR:PI. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2(38). Journal

Weisberg, S.M. Newcombe, N.S., Atit, K., Jacovina, M.E., Ormand, C.J., & Shipley, T.F. (2015). The lay of the land: Sensing and representing topography. Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication: Vol. 10. Journal

Nardi, D.N., Holmes, C.A., Newcombe, N.S., & Weisberg, S.M.(2015). Sex differences and errors in the use of terrain slope for navigation. Cognitive Processing, 16(1), 323-326. Journal

Weisberg, S.M., & Newcombe, N.S. (2013). Are all types of vertical information created equal? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 568-569. Journal PDF

Weisberg, S.M.(2012). Embodied cognition approaches in integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (iSTEM) education. Commissioned report for the National Academy of Engineering Committee on Integrated STEM Education. Published in Toward Integrated STEM Education: Developing A Research Agenda (2014).