[4eyes] Fwd: Explore Spatial Intelligence with Mary Hegarty, 21 Jan.

[Tobias Hollerer]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Explore Spatial Intelligence with Mary Hegarty, 21 Jan.
Date: 	Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:27:32 -0800
From: 	Donald Janelle <janelle at spatial.ucsb.edu>
To: 	undisclosed-recipients:;



*T h i n k S p a t i a l*

*The UCSB brown-bag forum on spatial thinking*

/Presents/

*Mary Hegarty***

Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UCSB

*/Broadening the Study of Spatial Intelligence/*

Phelps Hall 3512

12:00 p.m. Tuesday, 21 January 2014

*Abstract:*In recent years there has been new recognition of the 
importance of spatial intelligence in society and the need to foster 
this type of intelligence in our educational system. But what is spatial 
intelligence and what are the best ways to study it? I will review ways 
in which psychologists have traditionally studied spatial intelligence 
in the laboratory. I will also consider ways in which we need to broaden 
the study of spatial intelligence when we examine spatial cognition and 
thinking in everyday life and in the sciences and professions. These 
include distinguishing between spatial thinking at the scale of objects 
and environments, understanding the interplay between mental simulation 
and analytic thinking, and examining how spatial cognition can depend on 
both internal and external representations.


*Mary Hegarty*is a Professor in the Department of Pyschological and 
Brain Sciences at UCSB. She received her B.A. and M.A. from University 
College Dublin, Ireland. She worked as a research assistant for three 
years at the Irish National Educational Research Centre before attending 
Carnegie Mellon University, where she received her Ph.D. in Psychology 
in 1988. She has been on the faculty at UCSB since then. She is the 
author of more than 100 articles and chapters on spatial cognition, 
diagrammatic reasoning, and individual differences. She is a fellow of 
the American Psychological Society, a former Spencer Postdoctoral 
Fellow, and a former chair of the Cognitive Science Society. She is 
Associate Editor of /Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied/ and 
/TopiCS in Cognitive Science/ and is on the editorial boards of/Learning 
and Individual Differences/;and /Spatial Cognition and Computation./ Her 
current research is funded by the National Science Foundation. Hegarty 
served two years as director of the Center for Spatial Studies and is 
the Center's current associate-director. Web: 
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/hegarty/#contact

------------------------------------------------------------------------

The objectives of the *ThinkSpatial* brown-bag presentations are to 
exchange ideas about spatial perspectives in research and teaching, to 
broaden communication and cooperation across disciplines among faculty 
and graduate students, and to encourage the sharing of tools and concepts.

Please contact Don Janelle (893-5267, janelle at spatial.ucsb.edu 
<mailto:janelle at spatial.ucsb.edu>) to review and schedule possible 
discussion topics or presentations that share your disciplinary interest 
in spatial thinking.

*Coming Next in ThinkSpatial:*

11 Feb *Ambuj Singh*, Computer Science, UCSB
*/Modeling the Dynamics of Social (and other) Networks/*

8 April *Margaret Tarampi*, Sage Center for the Study of the Mind, UCSB

*/The Interdisciplinarity of Spatial Thinking in Psychology and the Arts/*

TBA *Markus Knauff, *Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science, 
University of Giessen

*/Space to Reason/*

**

*Get ready for Spatial Lightning! *

**

*At noon on Tuesday, February 25 spatial at ucsb will host a session of 
3-minute Spatial  Lightning Talks at Mosher Alumni House. The talks will 
follow a modified Ignite style <http://igniteshow.com/> with 10 slides 
auto-advanced every 18 seconds (suggested, though anything within the 
time limit is fair game).*

**

*Do you have an intriguing idea, unusual side research, crazy travel 
story, or anything else you'd like to share in a bite-sized 
presentation? We're looking for intrepid presenters--students, faculty, 
staff, friends--to give inspirational, educational, or just plain 
entertaining talks related to geography or space (i.e., just about 
anything). The talks can be serious or funny, as long as you follow the 
mantra, "enlighten us, but make it quick."*

**

*For inspiration, see examples from past years:*

*2013 Spatial Lightning Talks 
<http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcOUYrOdbwYi_acz-J6fm9_NlcO-NvMYs>*

*2010 Spatial Lightning Talks 
<http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB505CF893FF5E53E> (courtesy of 
Alan Glennon)*

**

*If you would like to present in the 2014 Spatial Lightning Talks please 
contact Kitty Currier:*

*kcurrier at spatial.ucsb.edu <mailto:kcurrier at spatial.ucsb.edu>*