Weimin Mou, PhD

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Arts - Psychology Dept

Email: wmou@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-3601
Address: P-585 Bio Science - Psychology Wing
11355 - Saskatchewan Drive

Edmonton AB

T6G 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.

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, and Vanderbilt. I regularly teach Psyco 258 (cognitive psychology) and Psyco 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]

Winter Term 2025

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]

Fall Term 2024 Winter Term 2025

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Featured Publications

Path integration, rather than being suppressed, is used to update spatial views in familiar environments with constantly available landmarks

Yue Chen & Weimin Mou

Cognition. 2024 January;

Cue interaction between buildings and street configurations during reorientation in familiar and unfamiliar outdoor environments.

Lin Wang, Weimin Mou, Peter Dixon

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 2018 October; 44

Piloting systems reset path integration systems during position estimation.

Lei Zhang, Weimin Mou

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 2017 March; 43 (3):472-491

Links

Virtual Environment and Spatial Cognition LAB (VESCLAB)