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Central tendency biases must be accounted for to consistently capture Bayesian cue combination in continuous response data (2021)
Journal Article
Aston, S., Negen, J., Nardini, M., & Beierholm, U. (2022). Central tendency biases must be accounted for to consistently capture Bayesian cue combination in continuous response data. Behavior Research Methods, 54(1), 508-521. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01633-2

Observers in perceptual tasks are often reported to combine multiple sensory cues in a weighted average that improves precision – in some studies, approaching statistically-optimal (Bayesian) weighting, but in others departing from optimality, or not... Read More about Central tendency biases must be accounted for to consistently capture Bayesian cue combination in continuous response data.

Specular highlights improve colour constancy when other cues are weakened (2020)
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Wedge-Roberts, R., Aston, S., Beierholm, U., Kentridge, R., Hurlbert, A., Nardini, M., & Olkkonen, M. (2020). Specular highlights improve colour constancy when other cues are weakened. Journal of Vision, 20(12), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.12.4

Previous studies suggest that to achieve color constancy, the human visual system makes use of multiple cues, including a priori assumptions about the illumination (“daylight priors”). Specular highlights have been proposed to aid constancy, but the... Read More about Specular highlights improve colour constancy when other cues are weakened.

Combining the senses: the role of experience- and task-dependent mechanisms in the development of audiovisual simultaneity perception (2020)
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Petrini, K., Denis, G., Love, S., & Nardini, M. (2020). Combining the senses: the role of experience- and task-dependent mechanisms in the development of audiovisual simultaneity perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(10), 1105-1117. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000827

The brain’s ability to integrate information from the different senses is essential for decreasing sensory uncertainty and ultimately limiting errors. Temporal correspondence is one of the key processes that determines whether information from differ... Read More about Combining the senses: the role of experience- and task-dependent mechanisms in the development of audiovisual simultaneity perception.

Boundaries in Spatial Cognition: Looking like a Boundary is More Important than Being a Boundary (2020)
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Negen, J., Sandri, A., Lee, S., & Nardini, M. (2020). Boundaries in Spatial Cognition: Looking like a Boundary is More Important than Being a Boundary. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46(6), 1007-1021. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000760

Large walls and other typical boundaries strongly influence neural activity related to navigation and the representations of spatial layouts. They are also major aids to reliable navigation behavior in young children and nonhuman animals. Is this bec... Read More about Boundaries in Spatial Cognition: Looking like a Boundary is More Important than Being a Boundary.

The Difficulty of Effectively Using Allocentric Prior Information in a Spatial Recall Task (2020)
Journal Article
Negen, J., Bird, L., King, E., & Nardini, M. (2020). The Difficulty of Effectively Using Allocentric Prior Information in a Spatial Recall Task. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 7000. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62775-5

Prior information represents the long-term statistical structure of an environment. For example, colds develop more often than throat cancer, making the former a more likely diagnosis for a sore throat. There is ample evidence for effective use of pr... Read More about The Difficulty of Effectively Using Allocentric Prior Information in a Spatial Recall Task.

Bayesian transfer in a complex spatial localization task (2020)
Journal Article
Kiryakova, R., Aston, S., Beierholm, U., & Nardini, M. (2020). Bayesian transfer in a complex spatial localization task. Journal of Vision, 20(6), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.6.17

Prior knowledge can help observers in various situations. Adults can simultaneously learn two location priors and integrate these with sensory information to locate hidden objects. Importantly, observers weight prior and sensory (likelihood) informat... Read More about Bayesian transfer in a complex spatial localization task.

Coding Locations Relative to One or Many Landmarks in Childhood (2019)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.