Staff profile

I work on perceptual and cognitive learning and development. See my webpage for more info and current research.

• Visual and multisensory perception
• Perceptual development
• Cognitive development

Chapter in book

• 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
• Nardini, M., & Cowie, D. (2012). The development of multisensory balance, locomotion, orientation and navigation. In A. Bremner, D. Lewkowicz, & C. Spence (Eds.), Multisensory development (137-159). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199586059.003.0006
• Atkinson, J., & Nardini, M. (2008). The Neuropsychology of Visuospatial and Visuomotor Development. In J. Reed, & J. Warner-Rogers (Eds.), Child neuropsychology : concepts, theory and practice (183-217). Wiley

Conference Paper

• Nardini, M., Scheller, M., Ramsay, M., Kristiansen, O., & Allen, C. (2024, September). Towards Human Sensory Augmentation: A Cognitive Neuroscience Framework for Evaluating Integration of New Signals within Perception, Brain Representations, and Subjective Experience. Presented at AH2024: 14th Augmented Human International Conference, Geneva, Switzerland

Journal Article

• Nardini, M., Scheller, M., Ramsay, M., Kristiansen, O., & Allen, C. (2025). Towards Human Sensory Augmentation: A Cognitive Neuroscience Framework for Evaluating Integration of New Signals within Perception, Brain Representations, and Subjective Experience. Augmented Human Research, 10(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41133-024-00075-7
• Patai, E. Z., Javadi, A.-H., Margois, A., Tan, H.-R., Kumaran, D., Nardini, M., Penny, W., Duzel, E., Dayan, P., & Spiers, H. J. (online). Neural signatures of detours, shortcuts and back-tracking during navigation (pre-print). https://doi.org/10.1101/362319
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Javadi, A.-H., Patai, E. Z., Marin-Garcia, E., Margois, A., Tan, H.-R. M., Kumaran, D., Nardini, M., Penny, W., Duzel, E., Dayan, P., & 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
• 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
• 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
• Nardini, M., & Dekker, T. (2019). Observer Models of Perceptual Development. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, Article e238. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x1800136x
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Garcia, S., Jones, P., Reeve, E., Michaelides, M., Rubin, G., & Nardini, M. (2017). Multisensory cue combination after sensory loss: audio-visual localization in patients with progressive retinal disease. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(4), 729-740. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000344
• Garcia, S., Jones, P., Rubin, G., & Nardini, M. (2017). Auditory Localisation Biases Increase with Sensory Uncertainty. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 40567. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep40567
• Jones, P., Garcia, S., & Nardini, M. (2016). Digital LED Pixels: Instructions for use and a characterization of their properties. Behavior Research Methods, 48(4), 1266-1284. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0653-5
• Jones, P., Yasoubi, N., Nardini, M., & Rubin, G. (2016). Feasibility of Macular Integrity Assessment (MAIA) microperimetry in children: Sensitivity, reliability, and fixation stability in healthy observers. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 57(14), 6349-6359. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.16-20037
• Nardini, M., Bales, J., & Mareschal, D. (2016). Integration of audio-visual information for spatial decisions in children and adults. Developmental Science, 19(5), 803-816. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12327
• Petrini, K., Caradonna, A., Foster, C., Burgess, N., & Nardini, M. (2016). How vision and self-motion combine or compete during path reproduction changes with age. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 29163. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep29163
• Dekker, T., & Nardini, M. (2016). Risky visuomotor choices during rapid reaching in childhood. Developmental Science, 19(3), 427-439. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12322
• Burton, E., Wattam-Bell, J., Rubin, G., Aboshiha, J., Michaelides, M., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., & Nardini, M. (2016). Dissociations in coherence sensitivity reveal atypical development of cortical visual processing in congenital achromatopsia. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 57(4), 2251-2259. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.15-18414
• Burton, E., Wattam-Bell, J., Rubin, G., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., & Nardini, M. (2016). Cortical Processing of Global Form, Motion and Biological Motion Under Low Light Levels. Vision Research, 121, 39-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2016.01.008
• Bedford, R., Pellicano, E., Mareschal, D., & Nardini, M. (2016). Flexible integration of visual cues in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 9(2), 272-281. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1509
• Dekker, T., Ban, H., Van der Velde, B., Sereno, M., Welchman, A., & Nardini, M. (2015). Late development of cue integration is linked to sensory fusion in cortex. Current Biology, 25(21), 2856-2861. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.043
• Burton, E., Wattam-Bell, J., Rubin, G., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., & Nardini, M. (2015). The effect of blur on cortical responses to global form and motion. Journal of Vision, 15(15), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1167/15.15.12
• Petrini, K., Jones, P., Smith, L., & Nardini, M. (2015). Hearing where the eyes see: children use an irrelevant visual cue when localising sound. Child Development, 86(5), 1449-1457. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12397
• Jones, P., Kalwarowsky, S., Braddick, O., Atkinson, J., & Nardini, M. (2015). Optimizing the rapid measurement of detection thresholds in infants. Journal of Vision, 15(11), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1167/15.11.2
• Garcia, S., Petrini, K., Rubin, G., Da Cruz, L., & Nardini, M. (2015). Visual and non-visual navigation in blind patients with a retinal prosthesis. PLoS ONE, 10(7), Article e0134369. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134369
• Negen, J., & Nardini, M. (2015). Four-year-olds use a mixture of spatial reference frames. PLoS ONE, 10(7), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131984
• Bainbridge, J., Sundaram, V., Mehat, M., Robbie, S., Barker, S., Ripamonti, C., Georgiadis, A., Mowat, F., Gardner, P., Feathers, K., Luong, V., Beattie, S., Yzer, S., Balaggan, K., Viswanathan, A., de Ravel, T., Casteels, I., Holder, G., Tyler, N., Fitzke, F., …Ali, R. (2015). Long-Term Effect of Gene Therapy on Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis. New England Journal of Medicine, 372(20), 1887-1897. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1414221
• Jones, P., Kalwarowsky, K., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., & Nardini, M. (2014). Automated measurement of resolution acuity in infants using remote eye-tracking. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 55(12), 8102-8110. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.14-15108
• Aboshiha, J., Dubis, A., Cowing, J., Fahy, R., Sundaram, V., Bainbridge, J., Ali, R., Dubra, A., Nardini, M., Webster, A., Moore, A., Rubin, G., Carroll, J., & Michaelides, M. (2014). A prospective longitudinal study of retinal structure and function in achromatopsia. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 55(9), 5733-5743. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.14-14937
• Nardini, M., Dekker, T., & Petrini, K. (2014). Crossmodal Integration: A Glimpse into the Development of Sensory Remapping. Current Biology, 24(11), R532-R534. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.04.034
• Petrini, K., Remark, A., Smith, L., & Nardini, M. (2014). When vision is not an option: children's integration of auditory and haptic information is suboptimal. Developmental Science, 17(3), 376-387. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12127
• Knight, R., Piette, C., Page, H., Walters, D., Marozzi, E., Nardini, M., Stringer, S., & Jeffery, K. (2014). Weighted cue integration in the rodent head direction system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 369(1635), Article 20120512. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0512
• Sundaram, V., Wilde, C., Aboshiha, J., Cowing, J., Han, C., Langlo, C., Chana, R., Davidson, A., Sergouniotis, P., Bainbridge, J., Ali, R., Dubra, A., Rubin, G., Webster, A., Moore, A., Nardini, M., Carroll, J., & Michaelides, M. (2014). Retinal Structure and Function in Achromatopsia : Implications for Gene Therapy. Ophthalmology, 121(1), 234-245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ophtha.2013.08.017
• Nardini, M., Begus, K., & Mareschal, D. (2013). Multisensory Uncertainty Reduction for Hand Localization in Children and Adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39(3), 773-787. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030719
• Nardini, M., Bedford, R., & Mareschal, D. (2010). Fusion of visual cues is not mandatory in children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(39), 17041-17046. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1001699107
• Thomas, R., Nardini, M., & Mareschal, D. (2010). Interactions between "light-from-above" and convexity priors in visual development. Journal of Vision, 10(8), https://doi.org/10.1167/10.8.6
• Bullens, J., Nardini, M., Doeller, C., Braddick, O., Postma, A., & Burgess, N. (2010). The role of landmarks and boundaries in the development of spatial memory. Developmental Science, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00870.x
• Nardini, M., Thomas, R., Knowland, V., Braddick, O., & Atkinson, J. (2009). A viewpoint-independent process for spatial reorientation. Cognition, 112(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2009.05.003
• Nardini, M., Braddick, O., Atkinson, J., Cowie, D., Ahmed, T., & Reidy, H. (2008). Uneven integration for perception and action cues in children’s working memory. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25(7-8), 968-984. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643290701866028
• Nardini, M., Jones, P., Bedford, R., & Braddick, O. (2008). Development of Cue Integration in Human Navigation. Current Biology, 18(9), 689-693. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.04.021
• Nardini, M., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., & Burgess, N. (2008). Developmental trajectories for spatial frames of reference in Williams syndrome. Developmental Science, 11(4), 583-595. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00662.x
• Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., Anker, S., Nardini, M., Birtles, D., Rutherford, M., Mercuri, E., Dyet, L., Edwards, A., & Cowan, F. (2008). Cortical vision, MRI and developmental outcome in preterm infants. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 93(4), F292-F297. https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2007.116988
• Nardini, M., Atkinson, J., & Burgess, N. (2008). Children reorient using the left/right sense of coloured landmarks at 18–24 months. Cognition, 106(1), 519-527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.02.007
• Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., Nardini, M., & Anker, S. (2007). Infant Hyperopia: Detection, Distribution, Changes and Correlates — Outcomes From the Cambridge Infant Screening Programs. Optometry and Vision Science, 84(2), 84-96. https://doi.org/10.1097/opx.0b013e318031b69a
• for egocentric, environmental and intrinsic frames of reference in spatial memory. Cognition, 101(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2005.09.005
• Atkinson, J., Nardini, M., Anker, S., Braddick, O., Hughes, C., & Rae, S. (2005). Refractive errors in infancy predict reduced performance on the Movement Assessment Battery for Children at 3 1⁄2 and 5 1⁄2 years. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 47(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2005.tb01129.x
• Anker, S., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., Nardini, M., & Ehrlich, D. (2004). Non-cycloplegic refractive screening can identify infants whose visual outcome at 4 years is improved by spectacle correction. Strabismus, 12(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/09273970490517935
• Anker, S., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., Ehrlich, D., Hartley, T., Nardini, M., & Wade, J. (2003). Identification of Infants with Significant Refractive Error and Strabismus in a Population Screening Program using Noncycloplegic Videorefraction and Orthoptic Examination. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 44(2), 497-504. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.02-0070
• Atkinson, J., Anker, S., Nardini, M., Braddick, O., Hughes, C., Rae, S., Wattam-Bell, J., & Atkinson, S. (2002). Infant vision screening predicts failures on motor and cognitive tests up to school age. Strabismus, 10(3), 187-198
• Atkinson, J., Anker, S., Bobier, W., Braddick, O., Durden, K., Nardini, M., & Watson, P. (2000). Normal Emmetropization in Infants with Spectacle Correction for Hyperopia. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 41(12), 3726-3731