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Correctly establishing evidence for cue combination via gains in sensory precision: Why the choice of comparator matters (2023)
Journal Article
Scheller, M., & Nardini, M. (2024). Correctly establishing evidence for cue combination via gains in sensory precision: Why the choice of comparator matters. Behavior Research Methods, 56(4), 2842-2858. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02227-w

Studying how sensory signals from different sources (sensory cues) are integrated within or across multiple senses allows us to better understand the perceptual computations that lie at the foundation of adaptive behaviour. As such, determining the p... Read More about Correctly establishing evidence for cue combination via gains in sensory precision: Why the choice of comparator matters.

Different types of uncertainty in multisensory perceptual decision making (2023)
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Aston, S., Nardini, M., & Beierholm, U. (2023). Different types of uncertainty in multisensory perceptual decision making. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378(1886), Article 20220349. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0349

Efficient decision-making requires accounting for sources of uncertainty (noise, or variability). Many studies have shown how the nervous system is able to account for perceptual uncertainty (noise, variability) that arises from limitations in its ow... Read More about Different types of uncertainty in multisensory perceptual decision making.

Sensory Augmentation for a Rapid Motor Task in a Multisensory Environment (2023)
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Negen, J., Slater, H., & Nardini, M. (2023). Sensory Augmentation for a Rapid Motor Task in a Multisensory Environment. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.3233/RNN-221279

Background: Sensory substitution and augmentation systems (SSASy) seek to either replace or enhance existing sensory skills by providing a new route to access information about the world. Tests of such systems have largely been limited to untimed, un... Read More about Sensory Augmentation for a Rapid Motor Task in a Multisensory Environment.

Multisensory perception and decision-making with a new sensory skill (2023)
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Negen, J., Bird, L., Slater, H., Thaler, L., & Nardini, M. (2023). Multisensory perception and decision-making with a new sensory skill. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49(5), 600-622. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001114

It is clear that people can learn a new sensory skill – a new way of mapping sensory inputs onto world states. It remains unclear how flexibly a new sensory skill can become embedded in multisensory perception and decision-making. To address this, we... Read More about Multisensory perception and decision-making with a new sensory skill.

Newly learned shape-colour associations show signatures of reliability-weighted averaging without forced fusion or a memory colour effect (2022)
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Aston, S., Pattie, C., Graham, R., Slater, H., Beierholm, U., & Nardini, M. (2022). Newly learned shape-colour associations show signatures of reliability-weighted averaging without forced fusion or a memory colour effect. Journal of Vision, 22(13), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.13.8

Reliability-weighted averaging of multiple perceptual estimates (or cues) can improve precision. Research suggests that newly-learned statistical associations can be rapidly integrated in this way for efficient decision-making. Yet, it remains unclea... Read More about Newly learned shape-colour associations show signatures of reliability-weighted averaging without forced fusion or a memory colour effect.

Internal Biases Are Linked to Disrupted Cue Combination in Children and Adults" (2022)
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Negen, J., Slater, H., Bird, L., & Nardini, M. (2022). Internal Biases Are Linked to Disrupted Cue Combination in Children and Adults". Journal of Vision, 22(12), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.12.14

Cue combination describes the use of two sensory cues together to increase perceptual precision. Internal relative bias describes a situation in which two cues to the same state of the world are perceived as signalling different states of the world o... Read More about Internal Biases Are Linked to Disrupted Cue Combination in Children and Adults".

Developmental changes in colour constancy in a naturalistic object selection task (2022)
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Wedge-Roberts, R., Aston, S., Beierholm, U., Kentridge, R., Hurlbert, A., Nardini, M., & Olkkonen, M. (2023). Developmental changes in colour constancy in a naturalistic object selection task. Developmental Science, 26(2), Article e13306. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13306

When the illumination falling on a surface changes, so does the reflected light. Despite this, adult observers are good at perceiving surfaces as relatively unchanging – an ability termed colour constancy. Very few studies have investigated colour co... Read More about Developmental changes in colour constancy in a naturalistic object selection task.

Newly learned novel cues to location are combined with familiar cues but not always with each other (2022)
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Aston, S., Beierholm, U., & Nardini, M. (2022). Newly learned novel cues to location are combined with familiar cues but not always with each other. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(6), 639-652. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001014

Mature perceptual systems can learn new arbitrary sensory signals (novel cues) to properties of the environment, but little is known about the extent to which novel cues are integrated into normal perception. In normal perception, multiple uncertain... Read More about Newly learned novel cues to location are combined with familiar cues but not always with each other.

An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation (2021)
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Negen, J., Bird, L., & Nardini, M. (2021). An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(10), 1409-1429. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000950

After becoming disoriented, an organism must use the local environment to reorient and recover vectors to important locations. A new theory, Adaptive Combination, suggests that the information from different spatial cues are combined with Bayesian ef... Read More about An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation.

Merging familiar and new senses to perceive and act in space (2021)
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Nardini, M. (2021). Merging familiar and new senses to perceive and act in space. Cognitive Processing, 22(1), 69-75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-021-01052-3

Our experience of the world seems to unfold seamlessly in a unitary 3D space. For this to be possible, the brain has to merge many disparate cognitive representations and sensory inputs. How does it do so? I discuss work on two key combination proble... Read More about Merging familiar and new senses to perceive and act in space.