Alinda Friedman, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Arts - Psychology Dept

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Email: alinda@ualberta.ca

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Arts - Psychology Dept

Email: alinda@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 217-4567
Address: Bio Science - Psychology Wing
11355 - Saskatchewan Drive

Edmonton AB

T6G 2E9

Scholarly Activities

Research - Research Areas

spatial cognition (memory, reasoning, perspective-taking, problem-solving); behavioral geography (location & distance estimation, categorization, navigation, sociocultural biases); spatial statistics (development & implementation); scene & object recognition (learning, memory, context, view combination).

Featured Publications

Beyond the physical divide of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots: Social and political variables shape geographhical estimates.

Galati, A., Plastira, M.N., Avraamides, M.N., & Friedman, A.

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 2022 August; 44

A Computerized Spatial Orientation Test - Software

A. Friedman, B. Kohler, P. Gunalp, A. P. Boone, & M. Hegarty

Behavior Research Methods. 2019 July; 52 (2):799-812

A Computerized Spatial Orientation Test

A. Friedman, B. Kohler, P. Gunalp, A. P. Boone, & M. Hegarty

Behavior Research Methods. 2019 April; 52 (2):799-812

Friedman, A., Ludvig, E., Legge, E., & Vuong, Q.C. (2013).

Bayesian combination of 2D location estimates. Behavioral Research Methods

2013 May; 45 (1):98-107

Pigeons see correspondence between objects and their pictures.

Spetch, M., & Friedman, A

Psychological Science, . 2006 October; 17 (11):966-972

Global-scale location and distance estimates: Common representations and strategies in absolute and relative judgments.

Friedman, A. & Montello, D.

2006 March; 32 (2):333--346

Bidimensional regression: Assessing the configural similarity and accuracy of cognitive maps and other two-dimensional data sets.

Friedman, A. & Kohler, B.

Psychological Methods. 2003 August; 8 (4):468-491

Reasoning about geography.

Friedman, A. & Brown, N.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 2000 February; 130 (2):193-219

Framing pictures: The role of knowledge in automatized encoding and memory for gist.

Alinda Friedman

1979 September; 108 (3):316-355. 10.1037/0096-3445.108.3.316