Dr. Madeleine Keehner

Lecturer

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Contact Details:
Telephone: (+44)(1382) 384683
Email: Madeleine Keehner

Postal Address:
School of Psychology
The University of Dundee
Dundee
DD1 4HN
Scotland, UK

Biography

I graduated in August 2002 from the University of Bristol with a PhD in experimental cognitive psychology (advisor: Professor Susan E. Gathercole). From 2000 to 2002, I held a joint research appointment, funded by a grant from the NSF, at the University of California Berkeley (Department of Bioengineering) and the University of California San Francisco (Department of Surgery). From 2002 to 2006, I held a postdoctoral research position, also funded by the NSF, at the University of California Santa Barbara, working with Professor Mary Hegarty. From January 2006 to April 2007, I was a lecturer in psychology at Curtin University, Western Australia. I took up my lectureship at Dundee in May 2007.

Research Grouping

Neuroscience and Development

Research Interests

I study spatial cognition across a variety of domains and tasks. My interests include:

Individual differences in spatial abilities
Neural and behavioural bases of mental spatial transformations
Spatial thinking in medicine, especially surgery and dentistry
Visuospatial working memory processes in sign language
Human-computer interaction, especially interactive 3D visualizations

You can find information on my previous research group, the Hegarty lab, at: http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/~hegarty/

Funding

Research funding received:

R. K. Lowe and M. Keehner: Touching scenes: intelligent haptic guidance for supporting learning with complex graphic displays. Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2008-2011. A$280,000.

M. Keehner, M. H. Fischer, & D. J. Turk: Better clues from useful views: Effects of task and image format on spatial reasoning skills for neuroimaging. 2008-2011, from the Scottish Imaging Network: £24,000 over 3 years.

M. Keehner & T. Wolbers: Elucidating the neural substrates of motor imagery: A new analytical approach to a long-standing question. 2009-2012, from the Scottish Imaging Network: £25,000 over 3 years.

Travel funding received:

Royal Society, August 2008, £990; British Academy, August 2008, £400.

Publications


Links	Publications
	Keehner, M. & Lowe, R. K. (2010, in press). Seeing with the hands and with the eyes: The contributions of haptic cues to anatomical shape recognition in surgery. In Barkowski et al. (Eds.) Cognitive Shape Processing. Menlo Park: AAAI Press.
	Hegarty, M., Keehner, M., Khooshabeh, P., & Montello, D. R. (2009). How spatial abilities enhance, and are enhanced by, dental education. Learning and Individual Differences, 19(1), 61-70.
	Khooshabeh, P., Hegarty, M., Keehner, M., & Cohen, C. (2008). Benefits of Constrained Interactivity in Using a Three-Dimensional Diagram. Diagrams 2008, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5223 (pp. 385-387); Springer.
	Keehner, M. (2008). Conflicting cues from vision and touch can impair spatial task performance: Speculations on the role of spatial ability in reconciling frames of reference. In C. Freksa, N. S. Newcombe, P. Gardenfors, & S. Wofl (Eds.) Spatial Cognition IV - Learning, Reasoning, and Talking about Space. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5248 (pp. 189-201); Springer.
	Keehner, M., Khooshabeh, P., & Hegarty, M. (2008). Interactive visualizations and individual differences among users. In F. Dong, G. Ghinea, & S. Y. Chen (Eds.) User centered design for medical visualization (pp. 1-24). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Inc.
	Keehner, M., Hegarty, M., Cohen, C., Khooshabeh, P., & Montello, D. R. (2008). Spatial reasoning with external visualizations: What matters is what you see, not whether you interact. Cognitive Science, 32 (7), 1099-1132.
	Hegarty, M., Keehner, M., Cohen, C. A., Montello, D. R., & Lippa, Y. (2007). The role of spatial cognition in medicine: Applications for selecting and training professionals. In G. Allen (Ed), Applied spatial cognition: From research to cognitive technology (pp. 285-315). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
	Keehner, M., and Gathercole, S. E. (2007). Cognitive adaptations arising from nonnative experience of sign language in hearing adults. Memory & Cognition, 35(4), 752-761.
	Keehner, M., & Atkinson, J. (2006). Working memory and deafness: Implications for cognitive development and functioning. In S.J. Pickering (Ed.), Working memory and education (pp. 189-219). San Diego: Elsevier Science.
	Keehner, M., Guerin, S. A., Turk, D. J., Miller, M. B., & Hegarty, M. (2006). Modulation of neural activity by angle of rotation during imagined spatial transformations. NeuroImage, 33(1), 391-398.
	Keehner, M., Lippa, Y., Hegarty, M., Montello, D. R., & Tendick, F. (2006). Learning a spatial skill for surgery: How the contributions of abilities change with practice. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20(4), 487-503.
	Hegarty, M., Mayer, S., Kriz, S., & Keehner, M. (2005). The role of gestures in mental animation. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 5(4), 333-356.
	Keehner, M., & Khooshabeh, P. (2005). Computerized representations of 3D structure: How spatial comprehension and patterns of interactivity differ among learners. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Reasoning with Mental and External Diagrams, Stanford University, March 21-23, 2005; AAAI Press.
	Keehner, M., Tendick, F., Meng, M. V., Anwar, H. P., Hegarty, M., Stoller, M. L., & Duh, Q. Y. (2004). Spatial ability, experience, and skill in laparoscopic surgery. American Journal of Surgery, 188(1), 71-75.
	Keehner, M., Wong, D., & Tendick, F. (2004). Effects of viewing angle, spatial ability, and sight of own hand on accuracy of movements performed under simulated laparoscopic conditions. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting, 1695-1699.
	Keehner, M., Montello, D. R., Hegarty, M., & Cohen, C. (2004, Abstract). Effects of interactivity and spatial ability on the comprehension of spatial relations in a 3D computer visualization. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference, 2004.
	Cohen, C. A., Hegarty, M., Keehner, M., & Montello, D. R. (2003, Abstract). Spatial ability in the representation of cross-sections. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference, 2003.
	Keehner, M. M., Tendick, F., Meng, M. V., Anwar, H. P., Duy, Q. Y., Way, L. W., & Stoller, M. L. (2002, Abstract). Assessment of cognitive functions and laparoscopic skills. Journal of Urology, 167 (4): 23-24.
	Feygin, D., Keehner, M., & Tendick, F. (2002). Haptic guidance: Experimental evaluation of a haptic training method for a perceptual motor skill. Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, 40-47.

	Invited talks and symposia
	Keehner, M. Spatial skill and visualization in surgery and medicine. Invited paper, Division 21 symposium: Applied Spatial Cognition. APA Annual Conference, Boston, MA, August 14th – 17th 2008.
	Keehner, M. Spatial skill and visualization in surgery and medicine. Invited paper, Division 21 symposium: “Applied Spatial Cognition”. American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Conference, Boston, MA; Forthcoming, August 14th – 17th 2008.
	University of Leeds, Institute of Psychology, 31th October 2007: Imagined spatial movements of objects and the self: Behavioural and neuroimaging evidence for different underlying processes.
	University College London, Deafness Cognition & Language Unit, 19th October 2007: Effects of nonnative signing experience on cognitive processes in hearing adults.
	Keehner, M., & Hegarty, M. Reasoning with interactive visualizations: The importance of individual differences among learners. Invited symposium paper: Building Dynamic Mental Models from Visualizations (I). European Association of Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Budapest, Hungary; August 28th – Sept 1st 2007.
	Keehner, M. Effects of Congruent and Conflicting Kinesthetic and Visual Cues on Skilled Performance in Indirect Viewing Conditions. 8th Motor Control and Human Skill Conference, Jan 31 - Feb 3, 2007, Fremantle, Western Australia.
	Keehner, M. Evidence for a Possible Motor Representation of Spatial Movements among Hearing Non-Native Signers. HCSNet Workshop on Perception and Action, November 30, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
	Keehner, M., & Hegarty, M. Viewer Rotation is Not Always Easier Than Object Rotation. 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, November 10-13, 2005, Toronto.
	Keehner, M., & Cohen, C. A., Montello, D. R., Khooshabeh, P., & Hegarty, M. Is Active Control Better Than Passive Viewing? It Depends On What You See. 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, November 10-13, 2005, Toronto.
	Stanford University Medical Media & IT (SUMMIT): Simulation in Medical Education (SiME) invited seminar series, March 2005. The role of spatial cognition in medical education: Implications for selection and training.
	Loma Linda University School of Dentistry, Annual Faculty Advanced Seminar, March 2005. Spatial abilities in dentistry and other medical specialties
	Keehner, M., & Kooshabeh, P. Computerized representations of 3D structure: How patterns of interactivity differ among learners. AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University, March 21-23, 2005.
	Keehner, M., Lippa, Y., Hegarty, M., Montello, D. R., & Tendick, F. Learning to use a simulated angled laparoscope: How practice moderates individual differences. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference, (MMVR 13) January 26-29, 2005, Long Beach, CA.
	Keehner, M., Wong, D., & Tendick, F. Effects of viewing angle, spatial ability, and sight of own hand on accuracy of movements performed under simulated laparoscopic conditions. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 48th Annual Meeting, Sept 20-24, 2004, New Orleans, Louisiana.
	Cohen, C.A., Hegarty, M., Montello, D. R., & Keehner, M. The effects of spatial abilities and animated instruction on representing cross-sections. American Education Research Association Annual Meeting, April 12-16, 2004, San Diego, CA.
	Keehner, M., Cohen, C., Hegarty, M., & Montello, D. R. Cognitive Factors and Interactivity: Implications for the Design and Implementation of 3D Computer Visualizations for Medical Education. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR 12), January 14-17, 2004, Newport Beach, CA.
	Stanford University Medical Media & IT (SUMMIT): Simulation in Medical Education (SiME) invited seminar series, July 2003. Spatial cognition and the acquisition of surgical skill.
	Keehner, M., Tendick, F., Meng, M. V., Stoller, M. L. Assessment of Cognitive Functions and Laparoscopic Skills. 97th Annual Meeting of the American Urologic Association, May 25-30, 2002; Orlando, FL.
	Wu, S. L., Keehner, M., Hwang, J., Wong, D., and Tendick, F. Spatial Ability and Laparoscopic Pointing Movements. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR 10), Jan. 2002.
	Keehner, M. Benefits to spatial-motor working memory from sign language experience in hearing adults. Conference on Spatial Information Theory (CoSIT), 2001, Morro Bay, CA.
	Keehner, M., & Gathercole, S. E. Evidence for enhanced motor mapping in hearing signers. British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Sept. 2000: Colchester, UK.
	Keehner, M., & Gathercole, S. E. Benefits to spatial cognition from sign language experience. Applied Cognitive Psychology annual conference, June 2000, Miami, FL.
	Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, September 1999. Working memory paradigms and hearing signers: Some differences in cognitive functioning.

Teaching

Visuospatial Thinking (Level 4).

Individual Differences (Level 1 and Level 3)

Additional Information

Professional affiliations

American Psychological Society
Cognitive Science Society
Women in Cognitive Science
Psychonomic Society (Assoc. Member)

Awards and Honours

Best Paper of Conference, runner-up: Spatial Cognition, Germany, Sept 2008.
Divisional Excellence in Teaching Award, Oct 2006. High commendation.
Best Poster of Conference: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality, USA, Jan 2004.
International Travel Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service, Aug 2003.
University of Bristol Post-Graduate Scholarship, 1998–2000.