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Publications

  • Moen, K. C., Beck, M. R., Saltzmann, S. M., Burleigh, L. M., Butler, L. G., Ramanujam, J., Cohen, A. S., & Greening, S. G. (2020). Strengthening spatial reasoning: Elucidating the attentional and neural mechanisms associated with mental rotation skill development. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 20(5). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00211-y​
  • Beck, M.R., Goldstein, R.R., van Lamsweerde, A.E., & Ericson, J.M., (2018). Attending globally or locally: Incidental learning of optimal visual attention allocation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 44(3), 387-398. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000428​

Presentations

  • Khutale, A. Tomshe, D. A. Hanan, R., Kindell, C., Eich, B., Ramzaoui, H., Lucas, H., & Beck. M. R. (2026, April). Eye Movement Strategies in Mental Rotation: Connecting Spatial Reasoning Performance with Neural Mechanisms and Visual Fixations. Poster presented at LSU Discover Day. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

  • Khutale, A. Tomshe, D. A. Hanan, R., Kindell, C., Eich, B., Ramzaoui, H., Lucas, H., & Beck. M. R. (2026, April). Eye Movement Strategies in Mental Rotation: Connecting Spatial Reasoning Performance with Neural Mechanisms and Visual Fixations. Poster presented at the 3rd Annual Society for Neuroscience Baton Rouge Symposium, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2026.

  • Williams, R., Tomshe, D. A., Hanan, R., Eich, B., Kindell, C., Ramazoui, H., Lucas, H., & Beck, M. R. (2026, March). Can prior experience in visual-physical disciplines improve spatial reasoning? [Poster presentation; Travel Award Recipient]. Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM, Atlanta, GA, United States.
  • Eich, B. Tomshe, D.A., Hanan, R. L., Kindell. C, Ramzaoui. H, Lucas, H. & Beck, M. R. (2025, May). Cognitive Strategies in the Mental Rotation Task Revealed by Eye Tracking. Poster presented at The Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
  • Hanan, R. L., Eich, B. Tomshe, D.A., Kindell. C, Ramzaoui. H, Lucas, H. & Beck, M. R. (2025, May). Mental Rotation: Sex and STEM Differences. Poster presented at The Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.
  • Hanan, R. L., Eich, B. Tomshe, D.A., Kindell. C, Ramzaoui. H, Lucas, H. & Beck, M. R. (2025, April). Mental Rotation: Sex and STEM Differences. Poster presented at The Annual Neuroscience Symposium, Baton Rouge, LA. 
  • Beck, M. R., Moen, K. C., Saltzmann, S. M., Burleigh, L. M., Butler, L. G., Ramanujam, J., Cohen, A. S., & Greening, S.G., Lucas H. D., Eich, B.J., Tomshe, D., & Ramzaoui, H. (2024, March). Identifying the Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Reasoning. Poster presented at The Inaugural Neuroscience Symposium, Baton Rouge, LA. 
  • Eich, B., Beck, M.R., Jiang, X., & Fan, G. (2023, May). Sphere stimuli in the mental rotation task: a new set of ecologically valid stimuli with comparative performance to traditional cube stimuli. Poster presented at The Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

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