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Coding Locations Relative to One or Many Landmarks in Childhood (2019)
Journal Article
Negen, J., Bou Ali, L., Chere, B., Roome, H., Park, Y., & Nardini, M. (2019). Coding Locations Relative to One or Many Landmarks in Childhood. PLoS Computational Biology, 15(10), Article e1007380. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007380

Cognitive development studies how information processing in the brain changes over the course of development. A key part of this question is how information is represented and stored in memory. This study examined allocentric (world-based) spatial me... Read More about Coding Locations Relative to One or Many Landmarks in Childhood.

Backtracking during navigation is correlated with enhanced anterior cingulate activity and suppression of alpha oscillations and the ‘default-mode’ network (2019)
Journal Article
Javadi, A., Patai, E. Z., Marin-Garcia, E., Margois, A., Tan, H. M., Kumaran, D., …Spiers, H. J. (2019). Backtracking during navigation is correlated with enhanced anterior cingulate activity and suppression of alpha oscillations and the ‘default-mode’ network. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1908), Article 20191016. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1016

Successful navigation can require realizing the current path choice was a mistake and the best strategy is to retreat along the recent path: ‘back-track’. Despite the wealth of studies on the neural correlates of navigation little is known about back... Read More about Backtracking during navigation is correlated with enhanced anterior cingulate activity and suppression of alpha oscillations and the ‘default-mode’ network.

Sensory Cue Combination in Children Under 10 Years of Age (2019)
Journal Article
Negen, J., Chere, B., Bird, L., Taylor, E., Roome, H., Keenaghan, S., …Nardini, M. (2019). Sensory Cue Combination in Children Under 10 Years of Age. Cognition, 193, Article 104014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104014

Cue combination occurs when two independent noisy perceptual estimates are merged together as a weighted average, creating a unified estimate that is more precise than either single estimate alone. Surprisingly, this effect has not been demonstrated... Read More about Sensory Cue Combination in Children Under 10 Years of Age.

Efficient visual information sampling develops late in childhood (2019)
Journal Article
Jones, P., Landin, L., McLean, A., Juni, M., Maloney, L., Nardini, M., & Dekker, T. (2019). Efficient visual information sampling develops late in childhood. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(7), 1138-1152. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000629

It is often unclear which course of action gives the best outcome. We can reduce this uncertainty by gathering more information; but gathering information always comes at a cost. For example, a sports player waiting too long to judge a ball’s traject... Read More about Efficient visual information sampling develops late in childhood.

Population receptive field tuning properties of visual cortex during childhood (2019)
Journal Article
Dekker, T., Schwarzkopf, D., de Haas, B., Nardini, M., & Sereno, M. (2019). Population receptive field tuning properties of visual cortex during childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 37, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.01.001

Visuospatial abilities such as contrast sensitivity and Vernier acuity improve until late in childhood, but the neural mechanisms supporting these changes are poorly understood. We tested to which extent this development might reflect improved spatia... Read More about Population receptive field tuning properties of visual cortex during childhood.

Prefrontal Dynamics Associated with Efficient Detours and Shortcuts: A Combined Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetoencenphalography Study (2019)
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Javadi, A., Patai, E. Z., Marin-Garcia, E., Margolis, A., Tan, H. M., Kumaran, D., …Spiers, H. J. (2019). Prefrontal Dynamics Associated with Efficient Detours and Shortcuts: A Combined Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetoencenphalography Study. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(8), 1227-1247. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01414

Central to the concept of the “cognitive map” is that it confers behavioral flexibility, allowing animals to take efficient detours, exploit shortcuts, and avoid alluring, but unhelpful, paths. The neural underpinnings of such naturalistic and flexib... Read More about Prefrontal Dynamics Associated with Efficient Detours and Shortcuts: A Combined Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetoencenphalography Study.

Observer Models of Perceptual Development (2019)
Journal Article
Nardini, M., & Dekker, T. (2019). Observer Models of Perceptual Development. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, Article e238. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x1800136x

We agree with Rahnev & Denison (R&D) that to understand perception at a process level, we must investigate why performance sometimes deviates from idealised decision models. Recent research reveals that such deviations from optimality are pervasive d... Read More about Observer Models of Perceptual Development.