Mgr. Lukáš Hejtmánek, Ph.D.
Institute of Psychology
The Czech Academy of Sciences
Pod Vodárenskou věží 1143/4
182 00 Prague 8
Phone: +420 266 053 858
Email: Hejtmanek@praha.psu.cas.cz
Research interests
- Virtual reality
- Spatial navigation
- Eye tracking
- Data science
Education and work experience
- 2022 - now: researcher, Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
- 2021 - now: assistant professor, Department of psychology and life sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
- 2017–2018: visiting scholar, Fulbright scholarship, University of California, Davis: researching spatial navigation transfer between virtual and real environments
- 2015 – now: researcher, National Institute of Mental Health: researching use of virtual reality as a diagnostic and rehabilitation tool for mental disorders
- 2015 – 2021: junior researcher, Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences; researching human spatial navigation
- 2015–2020: PhD. Neurosciences, 3rd Medical faculty, Charles University; dissertation topic: Virtual environments as a tool to study human navigation
- 2014 - exchange visit, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 2009–2015 – Ms. Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University; thesis: Human spatial navigation strategies in virtual environments
Select publications
- Plechatá, A., Hejtmánek, L., Bednářová, M., & Fajnerová, I. (2021). Cognitive Remediation in Virtual Environments for Patients with Schizophrenia and Major Depressive Disorder: A Feasibility Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(17).
- Plechatá, A., Hejtmánek, L., & Fajnerová, I. (2021). Virtual supermarket shopping task for cognitive rehabilitation and assessment of psychiatric patients: Validation in chronic schizophrenia. Ceskoslovenska Psychologie, 65(1), 14–30.
- Hejtmanek, L., Starrett, M., Ferrer, E., & Ekstrom, A. D. (2020). How Much of What We Learn in Virtual Reality Transfers to Real-World Navigation? Multisensory Research, 1–25.
- Harootonian, S. K., Wilson, R. C., Hejtmánek, L., Ziskin, E. M., & Ekstrom, A. D. (2020). Path integration in large-scale space and with novel geometries: Comparing vector addition and encoding-error models. PLoS Computational Biology, 16(5), e1007489.
- Hejtmánek, L., & Fajnerová, I. (2019). Využití virtuální reality v psychiatrii. Psychiatrie , 23(4), 188–196.
- Hejtmánek, L., Oravcová, I., Motýl, J., Horáček, J., & Fajnerová, I. (2018). Spatial knowledge impairment after GPS guided navigation: Eye-tracking study in a virtual town. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 116, 15–24.
