Contact
Professor, Faculty of Arts - Psychology Dept
- wmou@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-3601
- Address
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P-585 Bio Science - Psychology Wing
11355 - Saskatchewan DriveEdmonton ABT6G 2E9
Overview
About
I am a professor of psychology and the principal investigator at the Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition Lab in the psychology department. I joined U of A in 2007. Prior to it, I worked as a professor at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences between 2003 and 2007. I got my PhD in psychology at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1999. Between 1999 and 2003, I worked as a postdoc at Vanderbilt and Michigan State University respectively. I got my BS in the department of psychology of Hangzhou University (Now Zhejiang University) in 1995.
Research
I am interested in human spatial cognition, especially how people develop their spatial memories and how they use spatial memories to navigate in the complex environment. My primary research facility is an immersive virtual environment. Please check my research on google scholar https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=hgb6IIgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao and ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Weimin_Mou/research.
Teaching
I train high quality postdoc and graduate students. Most of my graduate students landed in a postdoc position at major research universities including Brown, Johns Hopkins, University of Arizona, University of Notre Dame, University of California at Davis, University of York, and Vanderbilt. I regularly teach Psych 258 (cognitive psychology) and Psych 351 (spatial cognition). I also train undergraduate researchers through independent study (Psyco 299, 396/398, 496/498) and honor thesis.
Announcements
I am looking for graduate students who are interested in human spatial cognition in virtual/real environments. My current research projects are concerned with how people determine their position and orientation in multi-scale and 3D spaces. See more about my lab Virtual Environment and Spatial Cognition LAB (VESCLAB)
Courses
PSYCH 258 - Cognitive Psychology
A survey of findings of theoretical issues in the study of cognition, such as perception, attention, knowledge representation, memory, learning, language, reasoning, and problem solving. Prerequisites: PSYCH 104 or SCI 100. [Faculty of Science]
PSYCH 351 - Spatial Cognition
This course will survey research on how people learn and remember spatial information, and navigate their environments. Topics may include neurology, individual differences, cultural and cross-species comparisons. Prerequisites: One of: PSYCH 258, 267 or 275. [Faculty of Science]
Featured Publications
Yafei Qi, Weimin Mou
Cognition. 2024 March; 247 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105772
Yue Chen & Weimin Mou
Cognition. 2024 January;
Lei, X. & Mou, W.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 2023 April; 49 10.1037/xlm0001229
Yafei Qi; Weimin Mou
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 2023 January; 49 10.1037/xhp0001076
Xuehui Lei & Weimin Mou
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 2022 June; 48 10.1037/xlm0001083
Lei Zhang, Weimin Mou, Xuehui Lei, Yu Du
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 2020 December; 46 (12):2314-2339
Du, Y., Mou, W., & Lei, X.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 2020 November; 74 10.1177/1747021820978
Lin Wang, Weimin Mou, Peter Dixon
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 2018 October; 44
Lei Zhang, Weimin Mou
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 2017 March; 43 (3):472-491