Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
 

Research Interests:

     spatial perception, cognition, and behavior
     cognitive issues in cartography and GIS
     spatial aspects of social behavior
     environmental psychology and behavioral geography
 

Educational Background:

1988-90            Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Child Development (National Institute of
                          Mental Health grant MH15755-10); University of Minnesota.
1988                 Ph.D. in Psychology (Environmental Psychology area); Arizona State University.
1981                 B.A. in Psychology, Cum Laude; The Johns Hopkins University.
 

Membership in Professional Organizations:

     Member, Association of American Geographers
     Charter Member, American Psychological Society
     Member, Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society
 

Recent Publications:

Montello, D. R., Lovelace, K. L., Golledge, R. G., & Self, C. M. (in press). Sex-related differences and similarities in geographic and environmental spatial abilities. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Montello, D. R., Richardson, A. R., Hegarty, M., & Provenza, M. (in press). A comparison of methods for estimating directions in egocentric space. Perception.

Lovelace, K. L., Hegarty, M., & Montello, D. R. (1999). Elements of good route directions in familiar and unfamiliar environments. In C. Freksa & D. M. Mark (Eds.), Spatial information theory:  Cognitive and computational foundations of geographic information science (pp. 65-82). Proceedings of COSIT '99. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1661.

Richardson, A. R., Montello, D. R., & Hegarty, M. (1999). Spatial knowledge acquisition from maps, and from navigation in real and virtual environments. Memory and Cognition, 27, 741-750.

Montello, D. R. (1998). Kartenverstehen:  Die Sicht der Kognitionspsychologie [Understanding maps:  The view from cognitive psychology]. Seitschrift für Semiotik, 20, 91-103.

Montello, D. R. (1998). A new framework for understanding the acquisition of spatial knowledge in large-scale environments. In M. J. Egenhofer & R. G. Golledge (Eds.), Spatial and temporal reasoning in geographic information systems (pp. 143-154).  New York: Oxford University Press.