Publications in UTSA (Faculty era)

• He, Q., Zhang, J., Parkinson, E., Hill, T.D. (2026). Genetic Risk Scores, Perceived Neighborhood Disorder, and Sleep Duration. Sleep. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsag004

• Whitaker, K., Perkins, J., Bowlin, K.R., Fross, B.M., Garcia, K., Jaimes, J., Maknojia, S., Guerrero, D.D., Hunter, D.A., He, Q. (2025). The Influence of Regional Landmarks (Color Zones) on Sex Differences in Spatial Navigation: The Moderating Role of Sense of Direction. Journal of Environmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102688

• Hill, T., He, Q., Zhang, J., Upenieks, L., & Ellison, C. (2025). A Socioecological Model of Neighborhood Disorder, Religious Attendance, and Sleep Efficiency. Sleep Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2024.11.003

Publications in Georgia Tech (Postdoc era)

• He, Q., Liu, J.L., Eschapasse, L., & Brown, T.I. (2024). Neural mechanisms of memory integration in value-based decision-making during spatial navigation. Neuropsychologia, 23.  193, 108758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108758

• Baumann, M.R., Kretz, D. R., He, Q., (2024). A Review of Multiteam Systems with an Eye Toward Applications for Collective Spatial Reasoning. In R. D. Montello & K. M. Curtin (Eds.), Collective Spatial Cognition: A Research Agenda. Routledge (Taylor and Francis)

• He, Q., Beveridge, E.H., Vargas, V., Salen, A.N., & Brown, T.I. (2023). Effects of acute stress on rigid learning, flexible learning and value-based decision-making in spatial navigation. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976231155870

• He, Q., Liu, J.L., Eschapasse, L., Beveridge, E.H., & Brown, T.I. (2022). A comparison of reinforcement learning models of human spatial navigation. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 13923. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18245-1

• He, Q., Starnes, J., & Brown, T.I. (2022). Environmental overlap influences goal-oriented hippocampal coding of spatial sequences. Hippocampus,1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23416

• He, Q., Liu, J.L., Beveridge, E.H., Eschapasse, L., Vargas,V., & Brown, T.I. (2022). Episodic memory integration shapes value-based decision-making in spatial navigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001133

• Biju, K., Wei, E.X., Rebello, E., Matthews, J., He, Q., McNamara, T.P., Agrawal, Y. (2021). Performance in real world- and virtual reality-based spatial navigation tasks in patients with vestibular dysfunction. Otology and Neurotology. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000003289

• Brown, T.I., He, Q., Aselcioglu, I., Stern C.E. (2021). Evidence for a gradient within the medial temporal lobes for flexible retrieval under hierarchical task rules. Hippocampus. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23365 

• He, Q., Colon-Motas, K.M., Pybus. A.F., Piendel, L., Seppa, J.K., Walker, M.L., Manzanares, C.M., Qiu, D., Miocinovic, S., Wood, L.B., Levey, A.I., Lah, J.J. & Singer, A.C. (2021). A feasibility trial of gamma sensory Flicker for patients with prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions.

• He, Q., Han, A.T., Churman, T.A. & Brown, T.I. (2021). The role of working memory capacity in spatial learning depends on difficulty of spatial information integration in the environment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000972

• He, Q., Beveridge, E.H., Starnes, J.M., Goodroe, S.C. & Brown, T.I. (2021). Environmental overlap and individual encoding strategy modulate memory interference in spatial navigation. Cognition.

• He, Q., & Brown, T.I. (2020).  Heterogeneous correlations between hippocampus volume and cognitive map accuracy among healthy young adults. Cortex, 124, 167–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.11.011

•  He, Q., McNamara, T.P. & Brown, T.I. (2019).  Manipulating the visibility of barriers to improve spatial navigation efficiency and cognitive mapping. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48098-0

• He, Q., & Brown, T. I. (2019). Environmental Barriers Disrupt Grid-like Representations in Humans during Navigation. Current Biology, 29(16), 2718-2722.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.072

Publications in Vanderbilt (Ph.D. era)

• He, Q., McNamara, T.P., Bodenheimer, B., & Klippel, A. (2019). Acquisition and transfer of spatial knowledge during wayfinding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(8), 1364–1386. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000654

• He, Q. & McNamara, T.P. (2018). Virtual Orientation Overrides Physical Orientation to Define a Reference Frame in Spatial Updating. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 12:269.

• He, Q., McNamara, T.P. & Kelly, J.W. (2018). Reference frames in spatial updating when body-based cues are absent. Memory & Cognition, 46, 89-99.

• He, Q. & McNamara, T.P. (2018). Spatial Updating Strategy Affects the Reference Frame in Path Integration. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 1073-1079.

• Paris, R., Joshi, M., He, Q., Narasimham, G., McNamara, T.P., & Bodenheimer, B. (2017). Acquisition of Survey Knowledge using Walking in Place and Resetting Methods in Immersive Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (p. 7:1–7:8). New York, NY, USA: ACM.

•  He, Q., McNamara, T.P. & Kelly, J.W. (2016). Environmental and Idiothetic Cues to Reference Frame Selection in Path Integration. In T. Barkowsky et al. (Eds.), Spatial Cognition X. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.

• C. Zancada-Menendez, Q. He, P. Sampedro-Piquero, L. Lopez & T. P. McNamara (2016): Influence of bidirectional perspective on learning routes and spatial layout. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 28(4), 474-485.

• Chen, X., He, Q., Kelly, J. W., Fiete, I. R., & McNamara, T. P. (2015). Bias in human path integration is predicted by properties of grid cells. Current Biology, 25(13), 1771-1776.