e-mail: m.nardini AT ucl.ac.uk
BA, Philosophy, Psychology & Physiology (Oxford); PhD, Psychology (UCL), supervised by Janette Atkinson and Neil Burgess.
Post-doctoral grants with Oliver Braddick, Oxford, Janette Atkinson, UCL, and Denis Mareschal, Birkbeck.
Lecturer, Dept of Visual Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
I am interested in visual, spatial, and cognitive development.
Recent research
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Humans can integrate spatial cues optimally to navigate, but this ability depends on an extended developmental process (Current Biology, 2008) |
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How does the ability to reduce perceptual uncertainty by integrating multiple visual cues develop? (in preparation) | |
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18-24 month olds reorient using wall colour (Cognition 2008). |  |
Spatial frames of reference develop at different rates (Cognition, 2006) and are differentially impaired in Williams syndrome (Developmental Science, 2008). |
Publications
J Bullens, M Nardini, C F Doeller, O Braddick, A Postma, N Burgess. (2009). The role of landmarks and boundaries in the development of object location memory. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00870.x
M Nardini, R Thomas, V Knowland, O, Braddick, J Atkinson (2009). A viewpoint-independent process for spatial reorientation. Cognition, 112, 241-248. [PDF]
M Nardini, P Jones, R Bedford, O Braddick (2008). Development of cue integration in human navigation. Current Biology, 18, 689-693. [PDF]
M Nardini, J Atkinson, O Braddick, N Burgess (2008). Developmental trajectories for spatial frames of reference in Williams syndrome. Developmental Science, 11, 583-595.[PDF]
M Nardini, J Atkinson, N Burgess (2008). Children reorient using the left/right sense of coloured landmarks at 18-24 months. Cognition, 106, 519-527. [PDF]
M Nardini, O Braddick, J Atkinson, D Cowie, T Ahmed, H Reidy (2008). Uneven integration for perception and action cues in children’s working memory. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25, 968-984. [PDF]
J Atkinson, O Braddick, S Anker, M Nardini, D Birtles, M A Rutherford, E Mercuri, L E Dyet, A D Edwards, F M Cowan. (2008) Cortical vision, MRI, and developmental outcome in preterm infants. Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition. 93, F292-F297.
J Atkinson & M Nardini (2008). The neuropsychology of visuospatial and visuomotor development. In Child Neuropsychology: Concepts, Theory and Practice, J Reed & J Warner Rogers (Eds), Wiley-Blackwell. [Google books] [Publisher]
J Atkinson, O Braddick, M Nardini, S Anker (2007). Infant hyperopia: detection, distribution, changes and correlates - Outcomes from the Cambridge Infant Screening Programmes. Optometry and Vision Science, 84, 84-96.
M Nardini, N Burgess, K Breckenridge, J Atkinson (2006). Differential developmental trajectories for egocentric, environmental and intrinsic frames of reference in spatial memory. Cognition, 101, 153-172. [PDF]
J Atkinson, M Nardini, S Anker, O Braddick, C Hughes, S Rae (2005). Refractive errors in infancy predict reduced performance on the Henderson Movement Assessment Battery for Children at 3.5 and 5.5 years. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 47, 243-251.
S Anker, J Atkinson, O Braddick, M Nardini, D Ehrlich (2004). Non-cycloplegic refractive screening can identify infants whose visual outcome at 4 years is improved by spectacle correction. Strabismus 12(4), 223-241.
S Anker, J Atkinson, O Braddick, D Ehrlich, T Hartley, M Nardini, J Wade (2003). Identification of Infants with Significant Refractive Error and Strabismus in a Population Screening Program using Noncycloplegic Videorefraction and Orthoptic Examination. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 44, 497-504.
J Atkinson, S Anker, M Nardini, O Braddick, C Hughes, S Rae, S Atkinson (2002). Infant vision screening predicts failures on motor and cognitive tests up to school age. Strabismus, 10, 187-198.
J Atkinson, S Anker, W Bobier, O Braddick, K Durden, M Nardini, P Watson (2000). Normal Emmetropization in Infants with Spectacle Correction for Hyperopia. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 41, 3726-3731.