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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)
Journal Article
Javadi, A.-H., Patai, E. Z., Marin-Garcia, E., Margolis, A., Tan, H.-R. M., Kumaran, D., Nardini, M., Penny, W., Duzel, E., Dayan, P., & 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.

Bayes-Like Integration of a New Sensory Skill with Vision (2018)
Journal Article
Negen, J., Wen, L., Thaler, L., & Nardini, M. (2018). Bayes-Like Integration of a New Sensory Skill with Vision. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 16880. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35046-7

Humans are effective at dealing with noisy, probabilistic information in familiar settings. One hallmark of this is Bayesian Cue Combination: combining multiple noisy estimates to increase precision beyond the best single estimate, taking into accoun... Read More about Bayes-Like Integration of a New Sensory Skill with Vision.

Effects of two-dimensional versus three-dimensional landmark geometry and layout on young children’s recall of locations from new viewpoints (2018)
Journal Article
Negen, J., Roome, H., Keenaghan, S., & Nardini, M. (2018). Effects of two-dimensional versus three-dimensional landmark geometry and layout on young children’s recall of locations from new viewpoints. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 170, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.12.009

Spatial memory is an important aspect of adaptive behavior and experience, providing both content and context to the perceptions and memories that we form in everyday life. Young children’s abilities in this realm shift from mainly egocentric (self-b... Read More about Effects of two-dimensional versus three-dimensional landmark geometry and layout on young children’s recall of locations from new viewpoints.

Vision (2017)
Book Chapter
Nardini, M. (2017). Vision. In B. Hopkins, E. Geangu, & S. Linkenauger (Eds.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of child development, 2nd edition (364-374). (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press

The impact of semantically congruent and incongruent visual information on auditory object recognition across development (2017)
Journal Article
Thomas, R., Nardini, M., & Mareschal, D. (2017). The impact of semantically congruent and incongruent visual information on auditory object recognition across development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 162, 72-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.04.020

The ability to use different sensory signals in conjunction confers numerous advantages on perception. Multisensory perception in adults is influenced by factors beyond low-level stimulus properties such as semantic congruency. Sensitivity to semanti... Read More about The impact of semantically congruent and incongruent visual information on auditory object recognition across development.

Development of allocentric spatial recall from new viewpoints in virtual reality (2017)
Journal Article
Negen, J., Heywood-Everett, E., Roome, H., & Nardini, M. (2018). Development of allocentric spatial recall from new viewpoints in virtual reality. Developmental Science, 21(1), Article e12496. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12496

Using landmarks and other scene features to recall locations from new viewpoints is a critical skill in spatial cognition. In an immersive virtual reality task, we asked children 3.5–4.5 years old to remember the location of a target using various cu... Read More about Development of allocentric spatial recall from new viewpoints in virtual reality.