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Lifelong learning of cognitive styles for physical problem-solving: The effect of embodied experience (2023)
Journal Article
Allen, K. R., Smith, K. A., Bird, L.-A., Tenenbaum, J. B., Makin, T. R., & Cowie, D. (online). Lifelong learning of cognitive styles for physical problem-solving: The effect of embodied experience. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 31, 1364–1375. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02400-4

‘Embodied cognition’ suggests that our bodily experiences broadly shape our cognitive capabilities. We study how embodied experience affects the abstract physical problem-solving styles people use in a virtual task where embodiment does not affect ac... Read More about Lifelong learning of cognitive styles for physical problem-solving: The effect of embodied experience.

Multisensory perception and decision-making with a new sensory skill (2023)
Journal Article
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.

Internal Biases Are Linked to Disrupted Cue Combination in Children and Adults" (2022)
Journal Article
Negen, J., Slater, H., Bird, L.-A., & 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".

The role of hand size in body representation: a developmental investigation (2022)
Journal Article
Cowie, D., Gottwald, J. M., Bird, L.-A., & Bremner, A. J. (2022). The role of hand size in body representation: a developmental investigation. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 19281. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23716-6

Knowledge of one’s own body size is a crucial facet of body representation, both for acting on the environment and perhaps also for constraining body ownership. However, representations of body size may be somewhat plastic, particularly to allow for... Read More about The role of hand size in body representation: a developmental investigation.

An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation (2021)
Journal Article
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.

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.

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., Thaler, L., & 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.

Investigating the relationship between fast mapping, retention, and generalisation of words in children with autism spectrum disorder and typical development (2019)
Journal Article
Hartley, C., Bird, L.-A., & Monaghan, P. (2019). Investigating the relationship between fast mapping, retention, and generalisation of words in children with autism spectrum disorder and typical development. Cognition, 187, 126-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.03.001

While many studies have investigated how autism spectrum disorder (ASD) impacts how children identify the meanings of new words, this task alone does not constitute learning. Here we investigate fast (referent selection) and slow (retention, generali... Read More about Investigating the relationship between fast mapping, retention, and generalisation of words in children with autism spectrum disorder and typical development.