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

• Developmental Science

• 2019: Perception with New Sensory Signals:NewSense(£1481782.44 from Interreg (ERDF) Europe)
• 2017: Leverhulme Trust - 'Learning to Perceive and Act Under Uncertainty' (£258k), with Marko Nardini
• 2016: Using Echolocation to Study the Development of Cue Combination.(£445916.00 from ESRC)
• 2013: Development of Human Spatial Cognition(£140136.36 from James S. McDonnell Foundation)

• 2016: Action Editor: Multisensory Research
• 2014: Academic Editor: PLOS ONE (to 2021)
• 2014: Editorial Board: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
• 2012: Member of peer review college: ;Economic and Social Research Council, UK ;

Chapter in book

• Nardini, M. (2017). Vision. In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development, 2nd Edition. Hopkins, B., Geangu, E. & Linkenauger, S. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 364-374.
• Nardini, M. & Cowie, D. (2012). The development of multisensory balance, locomotion, orientation and navigation. In Multisensory Development. Bremner, A., Lewkowicz, D. & Spence, C. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 137-159.
• Atkinson, J & Nardini, M (2008). The Neuropsychology of Visuospatial and Visuomotor Development. In Child Neuropsychology: Concepts, Theory and Practice. Reed, J & Warner-Rogers, J Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. 183-217.

Journal Article

• Negen, J., Slater, H. & Nardini, M. (Accepted). Sensory Augmentation for a Rapid Motor Task in a Multisensory Environment. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience
• Negen, J, Bird, L, Slater, H, Thaler, L & Nardini, M (Accepted). Multisensory perception and decision-making with a new sensory skill. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
• 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): e13306.
• 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): 8.
• Negen, James, Slater, Heather, Bird, Laura-Ashleigh & Nardini, Marko (2022). Internal Biases Are Linked to Disrupted Cue Combination in Children and Adults". Journal of Vision 22(12): 14.
• 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.
• 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.
• Nardini, Marko (2021). Merging familiar and new senses to perceive and act in space. Cognitive Processing 22(1): 69-75.
• 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.
• Wedge-Roberts, Rebecca, Aston, Stacey, Beierholm, Ulrik, Kentridge, Robert, Hurlbert, Anya, Nardini, Marko & Olkkonen, Maria (2020). Specular highlights improve colour constancy when other cues are weakened. Journal of Vision 20(12): 1-22.
• Petrini, K, Denis, G, Love, SA & 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.
• Kiryakova,R, Aston,S, Beierholm,U & Nardini,M (2020). Bayesian transfer in a complex spatial localization task. Journal of Vision 20(6): 17.
• Negen, J, Sandri, A, Lee, SA & Nardini, M (2020). Boundaries in Spatial Cognition: Looking like a Boundary is More Important than Being a Boundary. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Language, Memory, and Cognition 46(6): 1007-1021.
• Negen, J., Bird, L.A., King, E. & Nardini, M. (2020). The Difficulty of Effectively Using Allocentric Prior Information in a Spatial Recall Task. Scientific Reports 10: 7000.
• Negen, J, Bou Ali, L, Chere, B, Roome, HE, Park, Y & Nardini, M (2019). Coding Locations Relative to One or Many Landmarks in Childhood. PLOS Computational Biology 15(10): e1007380.
• Javadi, Amir-Homayoun, Patai, Eva Zita, Marin-Garcia, Eugenia, Margois, Aaron, Tan, Heng-Ru M., Kumaran, Dharshan, Nardini, Marko, Penny, Will, Duzel, Emrah, Dayan, Peter & Spiers, Hugo 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): 20191016.
• Negen, James, Chere, Brittney Bird, Laura, Taylor, Ellen, Roome, Hannah, Keenaghan, Samantha, Thaler, Lore & Nardini, Marko (2019). Sensory Cue Combination in Children Under 10 Years of Age. Cognition 193: 104014.
• Jones, P.R., Landin, L., McLean, A., Juni, M.Z., Maloney, L.T., Nardini, M. & Dekker, T.M. (2019). Efficient visual information sampling develops late in childhood. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 148(7): 1138-1152.
• Javadi, Amir-Homayoun, Patai, Eva Zita, Marin-Garcia, Eugenia, Margolis, Aaron, Tan, Heng-Ru M., Kumaran, Dharshan, Nardini, Marko, Penny, Will, Duzel, Emrah, Dayan, Peter & Spiers, Hugo J. (2019). Prefrontal Dynamics Associated with Efficient Detours and Shortcuts: A Combined Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetoencenphalography Study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 31(8): 1227-1247.
• Nardini, M. & Dekker, T.M. (2019). Observer Models of Perceptual Development. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41: e238.
• Dekker, T.M., Schwarzkopf, D.S., de Haas, B., Nardini, M. & Sereno, M.I. (2019). Population receptive field tuning properties of visual cortex during childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 37: 100614.
• Negen, James, Wen, Lisa, Thaler, Lore & Nardini, Marko (2018). Bayes-Like Integration of a New Sensory Skill with Vision. Scientific Reports 8: 16880.
• Patai, Eva Z, Javadi, Amir-Homayoun, Margois, Aaron, Tan, Heng-Ru, Kumaran, Dharshan, Nardini, Marko, Penny, Will, Duzel, Emrah, Dayan, Peter & Spiers, Hugo J (2018). Neural signatures of detours, shortcuts and back-tracking during navigation (pre-print). BioRxiv 362319.
• Negen, J., Roome, H.E., 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.
• Negen, J., Heywood-Everett, E., Roome, H.E. & Nardini, M. (2018). Development of allocentric spatial recall from new viewpoints in virtual reality. Developmental Science 21(1): e12496.
• Thomas, R.L., 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.
• Garcia, S.E., Jones, P.R., Reeve, E.I., Michaelides, M., Rubin, G.S. & 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.
• Garcia, S.E., Jones, P.R., Rubin, G.S. & Nardini, M. (2017). Auditory Localisation Biases Increase with Sensory Uncertainty. Scientific Reports 7: 40567.
• Jones, P.R., Yasoubi, N., Nardini, M. & Rubin, G.S. (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.
• 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: 29163.
• Burton, E., Wattam-Bell, J., Rubin, G.S., 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.
• Burton, E., Wattam-Bell, J., Rubin, G.S., 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.
• 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.
• Jones, P.R., Garcia, S.E. & Nardini, M. (2016). Digital LED Pixels: Instructions for use and a characterization of their properties. Behavior Research Methods 48(4): 1266-1284.
• 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.
• Dekker, T. M. & Nardini, M. (2016). Risky visuomotor choices during rapid reaching in childhood. Developmental Science 19(3): 427-439.
• Dekker, T.M., Ban, H., Van der Velde, B., Sereno, M.I., Welchman, A. & Nardini, M. (2015). Late development of cue integration is linked to sensory fusion in cortex. Current Biology 25(21): 2856-2861.
• Jones, P.R., Kalwarowsky, S., Braddick, O., Atkinson, J. & Nardini, M. (2015). Optimizing the rapid measurement of detection thresholds in infants. Journal of Vision 15(11): 2, 1-17.
• Petrini, K., Jones, P.R., 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.
• Bainbridge, J.W.B., Sundaram, V., Mehat, M.S., Robbie, S.R., Barker, S.E., Ripamonti, C., Georgiadis, A., Mowat, F.M., Gardner, P.J., Feathers, K.L., Luong, V.A., Beattie, S.G., Yzer, S., Balaggan, K., Viswanathan, A., de Ravel, T.J.L., Casteels, I., Holder, G., Tyler, N., Fitzke, F, Weleber, R.G., Nardini, M., Moore, A., Thompson, D.A., Petersen-Jones, S.M., Michaelides, M., van den Born, L.I., Stockman, A., Smith, A.J., Rubin, G. & Ali, R.R. (2015). Long-Term Effect of Gene Therapy on Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis. The New England Journal of Medicine 372(20): 1887-1897.
• 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): e0134369.
• Negen, J. & Nardini, M. (2015). Four-year-olds use a mixture of spatial reference frames. PLOS ONE 10(7): e0131984.
• Burton, E.A., Wattam-Bell, J., Rubin, G.S., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O. & Nardini, M. (2015). The effect of blur on cortical responses to global form and motion. Journal of Vision 15(15): 12, 1-14.
• Nardini, M., Dekker, T. & Petrini, K. (2014). Crossmodal Integration: A Glimpse into the Development of Sensory Remapping. Current Biology 24(11): R532-R534.
• 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.
• Knight, R., Piette, C.E., Page, H., Walters, D., Marozzi, E., Nardini, M., Stringer, S. & Jeffery, K.J. (2014). Weighted cue integration in the rodent head direction system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 369(1635): 20120512.
• Aboshiha, J., Dubis, A.M., Cowing, J., Fahy, R.T.A., Sundaram, V., Bainbridge, J.W., Ali, R.R., Dubra, A., Nardini, M., Webster, A.R., Moore, A.T., Rubin, G.S., Carroll, J. & Michaelides, M. (2014). A prospective longitudinal study of retinal structure and function in achromatopsia. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 55(9): 5733-5743.
• Sundaram, V., Wilde, C., Aboshiha, J., Cowing, J., Han, C., Langlo, C.S., Chana, R., Davidson, A.E., Sergouniotis, P.I., Bainbridge, J.W., Ali, R.R., Dubra, A., Rubin, G., Webster, A.R., Moore, A.T., Nardini, M., Carroll, J. & Michaelides, M. (2014). Retinal Structure and Function in Achromatopsia Implications for Gene Therapy. Ophthalmology 121(1): 234-245.
• Jones, P.R., Kalwarowsky, K., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O.J. & Nardini, M. (2014). Automated measurement of resolution acuity in infants using remote eye-tracking. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 55(12): 8102-8110.
• 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.
• Thomas, R., Nardini, M. & Mareschal, D. (2010). Interactions between "light-from-above" and convexity priors in visual development. Journal of Vision 10(8): 6.
• 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.
• Bullens, J, Nardini, M, Doeller, CF, Braddick, O, Postma, A & Burgess, N (2010). The role of landmarks and boundaries in the development of spatial memory. Developmental Science 13(1): 170.
• Nardini, M, Thomas, RL, Knowland, VCP, Braddick, OJ & Atkinson, J (2009). A viewpoint-independent process for spatial reorientation. Cognition 112(2): 241.
• Atkinson, J, Braddick, O, Anker, S, Nardini, M, Birtles, D, Rutherford, MA, Mercuri, E, Dyet, LE, Edwards, AD & Cowan, FM (2008). Cortical vision, MRI and developmental outcome in preterm infants. Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 93(4): F292-F297.
• 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.
• Nardini, M, Braddick, O, Atkinson, J, Cowie, DA, Ahmed, T & Reidy, H (2008). Uneven integration for perception and action cues in children’s working memory. Cognitive Neuropsychology 25(7-8): 968-984.
• Nardini, M., Jones, P., Bedford, R. & Braddick, O. (2008). Development of Cue Integration in Human Navigation. Current Biology 18(9): 689-693.
• 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.
• 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.
• Nardini, M, Burgess, N, Breckenridge, K & Atkinson, J (2006). Differential developmental trajectories for egocentric, environmental and intrinsic frames of reference in spatial memory. Cognition 101(1): 153.
• 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): 243.
• 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): 227.
• 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.
• 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.