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Cognitive Psychology, Learning Science, Educational Technology, Spatial Cognition

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Employment (4)

Carnegie Mellon University: Pittsburgh, US

2024-01-15 to present | TEEL Lab Director (Computer Science)
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Heather Burte

Texas A&M University: College Station, Texas, US

2019-08-26 to 2024-01-02 | Research Assistant Professor (Psychological & Brain Sciences)
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Heather Burte

University of Texas at Arlington: Arlington, TX, US

2018-06-05 to 2019-08-23 | Research Scientist (LINK Research Lab)
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Heather Burte

Tufts University: Medford, MA, US

2015-01-05 to 2018-06-04 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Psychology)
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Heather Burte

Education and qualifications (3)

University of California Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara, CA, US

2011 to 2014 | Ph.D. (Psychology)
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Heather Burte

University of California Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara, CA, US

2008 to 2011 | Master of Arts (Geography)
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Heather Burte

University of Alberta: Edmonton, AB, CA

2000 to 2004 | Bachelor of Arts (Psychology)
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Heather Burte

Works (18)

AR-Classroom: Investigating User-App-Interactions to Enhance Usability of AR Technology for Learning Two and Three Dimensional Rotations

2024 | Book chapter
Contributors: Samantha D. Aguilar; Heather Burte; Philip Yasskin; Jeffrey Liew; Shu-Hao Yeh; Chengyuan Qian; Dezhen Song; Uttamasha Monjoree; Coby Scrudder; Wei Yan
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An augmented reality application and experiment for understanding and learning spatial transformation matrices

Virtual Reality
2024-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Zohreh Shaghaghian; Heather Burte; Dezhen Song; Wei Yan
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Enhancing Usability in AR and Non-AR Educational Technology: An Embodied Approach to Geometric Transformations

2023 | Book chapter
Contributors: Samantha D. Aguilar; Heather Burte; Zohreh Shaghaghian; Philip Yasskin; Jeffrey Liew; Wei Yan
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Connecting spatial thinking to STEM learning through visualizations

Nature Reviews Psychology
2023-08-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Holly A. Taylor; Heather Burte; Kai T. Renshaw
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Learning Geometric Transformations for Parametric Design: An Augmented Reality (AR)-Powered Approach

2022 | Book chapter
Contributors: Zohreh Shaghaghian; Heather Burte; Dezhen Song; Wei Yan
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Learning Spatial Transformations and their Math Representations through Embodied Learning in Augmented Reality

2022 | Book chapter
Contributors: Zohreh Shaghaghian; Heather Burte; Dezhen Song; Wei Yan
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Elementary teachers' attitudes and beliefs about spatial thinking and mathematics

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
2020-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2365-7464
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Heather Burte

Knowing when to fold 'em: Problem attributes and strategy differences in the Paper Folding test

Personality and Individual Differences
2019-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Heather Burte; Aaron L. Gardony; Allyson Hutton; Holly A. Taylor
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Make-A-Dice Test: Assessing the intersection of mathematical and spatial thinking

Behavior Research Methods
2019-04-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Heather Burte; Aaron L. Gardony; Allyson Hutton; Holly A. Taylor
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Self-reported navigation ability is associated with optic flow-sensitive regions' functional connectivity patterns during visual path integration

Brain and Behavior
2019-04-18 | Journal article
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Heather Burte
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The Neural Basis of Individual Differences in Directional Sense

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2018-10-25 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1662-5161
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Heather Burte

How sense-of-direction and learning intentionality relate to spatial knowledge acquisition in the environment.

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
2017-02 | Journal article
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Heather Burte
grade
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Think3d!: Improving mathematics learning through embodied spatial training

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
2017-02 | Journal article
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Heather Burte
grade
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The map in our head is not oriented north: Evidence from a real-world environment.

PLoS One
2015 | Journal article
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Heather Burte

Alignment effects and allocentric-headings within a relative heading task.

Spatial Cognition IX
2014 | Conference paper
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Heather Burte

Individual and strategy differences in an allocentric-heading recall task.

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
2013 | Conference paper
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Heather Burte

Location memory for dots in polygons versus cities in regions: Evaluating the category adjustment model

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
2012 | Journal article
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Heather Burte

Revisiting the relationship between allocentric-heading recall and self-reported sense of direction.

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
2012 | Conference paper
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Heather Burte

Peer review (41 reviews for 20 publications/grants)

Review activity for Asia Pacific Education Review. (1)
Review activity for Asia Pacific education review. (1)
Review activity for British journal of developmental psychology. (1)
Review activity for Cartography and geographic information science. (3)
Review activity for Cognition and instruction. (2)
Review activity for Cognition. (3)
Review activity for Discourse processes. (1)
Review activity for Experimental brain research. (1)
Review activity for Experimental brain research. (1)
Review activity for Intelligence. (1)
Review activity for Journal of cognitive psychology. (1)
Review activity for Journal of engineering education. (5)
Review activity for Journal of environmental psychology. (4)
Review activity for Journal of experimental psychology. (4)
Review activity for Learning and individual differences. (1)
Review activity for Memory & cognition. (1)
Review activity for Psychological research. (3)
Review activity for Research in science & technological education. (1)
Review activity for Spatial cognition and computation. (4)
Review activity for The Journal of geography. (2)