Curriculum Vita

Timothy P. McNamara

Education

University of Kansas, B.G.S. 1979, Computer Science, Mathematics,
& Psychology (triple major).
Yale University, M.S., 1981, Psychology.
Yale University, M.Phil., 1982, Psychology.
Yale University, Ph.D., 1984, Psychology.

Professional Experience and Honors

1977 Phi Kappa Phi
1977 Undergraduate Research Participation Awards (Spring & Summer), University of Kansas
1978 Beulah Morrison Award for Excellence in Psychology, University of Kansas
1978 Department of Psychology Chairman's Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, University of Kansas
1979 Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society in Computer Science
1979 Pi Mu Epsilon Honor Society in Mathematics
1979 Bachelor of General Studies awarded summa cum laude, Honors in Psychology
1983-1989 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
1986-1988 National Academy of Education Spencer Fellow
1989-1995 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
1992-1996 Director, Cognitive Training Program, Department of Psychology
1994 Elected Fellow of American Psychological Association, Division 3
1995 Professor, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
1996-pres. Chair, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
1999 Elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science

Major Grants

The Representation and Integration of Spatial and Propositional Knowledge in Memory (PI), National Science Foundation, BNS-8417741, $71,000, 1985-1988.

Contextual Constraints on Comprehension (PI), Spencer Fellowship, National Academy of Education, $25,000 (direct costs only), 1986-1988.

Designing Invitations to Thinking (Co-PI), James S. McDonnell Foundation, $461,453, 1988-1990.

Mental Representations of Spatial and Nonspatial Relations (PI), National Science Foundation, BNS-8820224, $165,973, 1989-1993.

Mental Representations of Spatial and Nonspatial Relations (PI), National Science Foundation, SBR-9222002, $233,633, 1993-1997.

Mental Representations of Spatial Relations (PI), National Institute of Mental Health, R01-MH57868, $464,138, 1998-2002.

Professional Activities

Program Reviewer, Basic Research Program in Cognition, AFOSR (November, 1989)

Steering Committee, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) Project Varenius, "Scale and Detail in the Cognition of Geographic Information" (1998)

Steering Committee, NCGIA Project Varenius, "Multiple Input Modes and Multiple Reference Frames for Spatial Knowledge" (1999)

Scientific Committee, Fourth International Conference on Spatial Information Theory
(1999)

Associate Editor: Memory & Cognition (1998-2001), Psychological Bulletin (1990).

Consulting Editor: Memory & Cognition (1988-1991), Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (1989, 1991-1997).

Consulting Reviewer (selected journals and agencies): Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Journal of Memory and Language, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, Science, National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Professional Affiliations

American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
American Psychological Association (Fellow of Div. 3)
American Psychological Society
Gesellschaft fur Unendliche Versuche (GUV; retired)
Psychonomic Society

Research Interests

Human memory; spatial cognition; the psychology of language; mathematical and computational modeling of cognitive processes; applications of research on cognition to education.

Publications

McNamara, T. P., Ward, N. J., & Juola, J. F. (1978). Visual search for letters in intact and mixed-case words and nonwords. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 12, 297-300.

Juola, J. F., Ward, N. J., & McNamara, T. P. (1982). Visual search and reading of rapid, serial presentations of letter strings, words, and text. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 111, 208-227.

McNamara, T. P., & Sternberg, R. J. (1983). Mental models of word meaning. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 22, 449-474.

McNamara, T. P. (1984). Introducing cognition. Review of M. Matlin, Cognition. Contemporary Psychology, 29, 309-310.

McNamara, T. P., Ratcliff, R., & McKoon, G. (1984). The mental representation of knowledge acquired from maps. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 10, 723-732.

Sternberg, R. J., & McNamara, T. P. (1985). The representation and processing of information in real-time verbal comprehension. In S. E. Whitely (Ed.), Test design: Developments in psychology and psychometrics. New York: Academic Press.

McNamara, T. P. (1986). Mental representations of spatial relations. Cognitive Psychology, 18, 87-121.

Healy, A. F., Oliver, W. L., & McNamara, T. P. (1987). Detecting letters in continuous text: Effects of display size. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 13, 279-290.

Morey, L. C., & McNamara, T. P. (1987). On definitions, diagnosis, and DSM-III. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 96, 283-285.

McNamara, T. P., & Altarriba, J. (1988). Depth of spreading activation revisited: Semantic mediated priming occurs in lexical decisions. Journal of Memory and Language, 27, 545-559.

McNamara, T. P., & Healy, A. F. (1988). Semantic, phonological, and mediated priming in reading and lexical decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 14, 398-409.

McNamara, T. P., Altarriba, J., Bendele, M., Johnson, S. C., & Clayton, K. N. (1989). Constraints on priming in spatial memory: Naturally learned versus experimentally learned environments. Memory & Cognition, 17, 444-453.

McNamara, T. P., Hardy, J. K., & Hirtle, S. C. (1989). Subjective hierarchies in spatial memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 211-227.

McNamara, T. P., & LeSueur, L. L. (1989). Mental representations of spatial and nonspatial relations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 41A, 215-233.

McNamara, T. P., & Miller, D. L. (1989). Attributes of theories of meaning. Psychological Bulletin, 106, 355-376.

McNamara, T. P. (1989). Memory's view of space. Working Notes, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Spring Symposium Series.

McNamara, T. P., & Gray, S. A. (1990). More evidence that mediated priming does not occur between semantic-phonological associates. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 28, 199-200.

McNamara, T. P. (1991). Memory's view of space. In G. H. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory (Vol. 27, pp. 147-186). New York: Academic Press.

McNamara, T. P., Miller, D. L., & Bransford, J. D. (1991). Mental models and reading comprehension. In R. Barr, M. L. Kamil, P. Mosenthal, & P. D. Pearson (Eds.), Handbook of reading research: Vol. II (pp. 490-511). White Plains, NY: Longman.

McNamara, T. P., Sternberg, R. J., & Hardy, J. K. (1991). Processing verbal relations. Intelligence, 15, 193-221.

McNamara, T. P. (1992). Priming and constraints it places on theories of memory and retrieval. Psychological Review, 99, 650-662.

McNamara, T. P. (1992). Theories of priming: I. Associative distance and lag. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 1173-1190.

McNamara, T. P. (1992). Spatial representation. Geoforum, 23, 139-150.

McNamara, T. P. & The Cognition and Technology Group (1992). Anchored instruction in science and mathematics: Theoretical basis, developmental projects, and initial research findings. In R. A. Duschl and R. J. Hamilton (Eds.), Philosophy of science, cognitive psychology, and educational theory and practice. State University of New York Press.

McNamara, T. P., Halpin, J. A., & Hardy, J. K. (1992). Spatial and temporal contributions to the structure of spatial memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 555-564.

McNamara, T. P., Halpin, J. A., & Hardy, J. K. (1992). The representation and integration in memory of spatial and nonspatial information. Memory & Cognition, 20, 519-532.

Wilson, S. G., Rinck, M., McNamara, T. P., Bower, G. H., & Morrow, D. G. (1993). Mental models and narrative comprehension: Some qualifications. Journal of Memory and Language, 32, 141-154.

McNamara, T. P. (1994). Priming and theories of memory: A reply to Ratcliff and McKoon. Psychological Review, 101, 185-187.

McNamara, T. P. (1994). Theories of priming: II. Types of primes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 507-520.

McNamara, T. P. (1994). Knowledge representation. In E. C. Carterette & M. P. Friedman (Series Eds.), R. J. Sternberg (Volume Ed.), Handbook of perception and cognition: Vol. 12. Thinking (81-117). Orlando: Academic Press.

McNamara, T. P. (1996). False dichotomies and dead metaphors. [Commentary on A. Koriat & M. Goldsmith, "Memory metaphors and the real-life/laboratory controversy: Correspondence versus storehouse conceptions of memory"]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 203.

McNamara, T. P., & Diwadkar, V. A. (1996). Viewpoint dependence in human spatial memory. Cognitive and Computational Models of Spatial Representation, AAAI-96 Spring Symposium Series.

McNamara, T. P., & Diwadkar, V. A. (1996). The context of memory retrieval. Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 877-892.

Diwadkar, V. A., & McNamara, T. P. (1997). Viewpoint dependence in scene recognition. Psychological Science, 8, 302-307.

McNamara, T. P. (1997). Semantic memory. [Commentary on A. Glenberg, "What memory is for"]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20, 30-31.

McNamara, T. P., & Diwadkar, V. A. (1997). Symmetry and asymmetry of human spatial memory. Cognitive Psychology, 34, 160-190.

Shelton, A. L., & McNamara, T. P. (1997a). Multiple views of spatial memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4, 102-106.

Shelton, A. L., & McNamara, T. P. (1997b). Representing space: Reference frames and multiple views. In M. G. Shafto & P. Langley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Convention of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1048). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Cave, C. B., Blake, R., & McNamara, T. P. (1998). Binocular rivalry disrupts visual priming. Psychological Science, 9, 299-302.

Roskos-Ewoldsen, B., McNamara, T. P., Shelton, A. L., & Carr, W. S. (1998). Mental representations of large and small spatial layouts are orientation dependent. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 215-226.

McNamara, T. P. (1999). Single-code versus multiple-code theories in cognition. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), The nature of cognition (pp. 113-135). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

McNamara, T. P. (2000). Data structures for cognitive science. Review of A. B. Markman, Knowledge representation. Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 45, 226-227.

Franks, J. J., Bilbrey, C. W., Lien, K. G., & McNamara, T. P. (2000). Transfer-appropriate processing (TAP) and repetition priming. Memory & Cognition, 7, 1140-1151.

Shelton, A. L., & McNamara, T. P. (in press). Systems of spatial reference in human memory. Cognitive Psychology.

Shelton, A. L., & McNamara, T. P. (in press). Visual memories from nonvisual experiences. Psychological Science.

Recent Colloquia and Invited Addresses:

American Association for Artificial Intelligence (March, 1996), Stanford, CA.
University of Alabama (April, 1997).
American Psychological Association (August, 1997), Chicago, IL.
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) Project Varenius (May, 1998), Santa Barbara, CA.
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (February, 1999).
NCGIA Project Varenius (February, 1999), Santa Barbara, CA.
Hamburg, Germany (April, 1999): Workshop on "Systems of Reference for Spatial Knowledge."
Tuebingen, Germany (April, 1999): Workshop on "Spatial Cognition in Real and Virtual Environments."
American Psychological Society (June, 1999), Denver, CO.