CV

1998 BA, Oxford (Philosophy & Psychology).
1999-05 RA, VDU, UCL, with Janette Atkinson & Oliver Braddick.
2006 PhD, UCL (Psychology), with Janette Atkinson & Neil Burgess.
2006-07 Post-doc, Oxford, with Oliver Braddick.
2008-09 Post-doc, CBCD, with Denis Mareschal.

Current projects

2011-14. Understanding the developmental course of retinal dystrophies: from genes to behaviour. Fight For Sight.

2011-14. Economics of perceptual and motor decisions in childhood. ESRC.

2010-16. Development of human spatial cognition.
James S. McDonnell Foundation.

2010-11. Integration of information for 3D shape perception in the developing visual brain. University of London Central Research Fund.

2010-13. PhD studentship: new infant vision tests. UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences, Special Trustees of Moorfields Eye Hospital, MEH-IoO NIHR BMRC.

2009-14. Evaluating outcomes of gene replacement therapy for inherited retinal disease. Special Trustees of Moorfields Eye Hospital, MEH-IoO NIHR BMRC.

2008-11. Learning to combine sense and experience for optimal perceptual judgments.
ESRC (with Denis Mareschal)

2008-11. PhD studentship: prior knowledge and sensory integration. ESRC (with Denis Mareschal).

Previous projects

2007-08. Young children’s use of visual landmarks: view matching or cognitive mapping?
ESRC (with Janette Atkinson).

2006-07. Perception/action interactions in children's spatial representations. ESRC (with Oliver Braddick).

2006-07. Interactions between landmark and self-motion cues for navigation. John Fell OUP Research Fund (with Oliver Braddick).

Baranowska Lecturer, Dept. Visual Neuroscience

Faculty Investigator, Moorfields/IoO NIHR Biomedical Research Centre

email: m.nardini AT ucl.ac.uk

I am interested in visual, spatial and multisensory development.

Visual development
Normal and abnormal development of retinal and cortical vision

eye

Multisensory development
How do we learn to combine sensory information sources?

table

Spatial development
How do we learn to represent spatial locations in memory?

landmarks

Lab members

* Vacancy: PhD studentship *
closing Jan 31st 2012

Dr Karin Petrini - Research Associate

Tessa Dekker - Research Associate

Sarah Kalwarowsky - Research Assistant

Alicia Remark - Research Assistant

Eliza Burton - PhD student

Rhiannon Thomas - PhD student

Collaborators

Prof Tony Moore, Prof Gary Rubin (UCL IoO)

Prof Denis Mareschal (Birkbeck CBCD)

Dr John Wattam-Bell, Prof Janette Atkinson, Prof Oliver Braddick (Visual Development Unit, UCL / Oxford)

 

Recent publications (full list)

M Nardini & D Cowie (in press). The development of multisensory balance, locomotion, orientation and navigation. To appear in Multisensory Development, A Bremner, D Lewkowicz & C Spence (Eds), Oxford University Press. [PDF]

M Nardini, R Bedford, D Mareschal (2010). Fusion of visual cues is not mandatory in children. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 107 (39), 17041-17046. [PDF]

R Thomas, M Nardini, D Mareschal (2010). Interactions between "light-from-above" and convexity priors in visual development. Journal of Vision, 10(8):6. [PDF]

J Bullens, M Nardini, C F Doeller, O Braddick, A Postma, N Burgess. (2010). The role of landmarks and boundaries in the development of spatial memory. Developmental Science 13, 170-180. [PDF]

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]