Publications of Jonathan D. Nelson

Wu, C. M., Meder, B., Filimon, F., & Nelson, J. D. (2017). Asking better questions: How presentation formats guide information search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(8), 1274–1297. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000374

Nelson, J. D., Divjak, B., Gudmundsdottir, G., Martignon, L., & Meder, B. (2014). Children's sequential information search is sensitive to environmental probabilities. Cognition, 130(1), 74–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.09.007

Filimon, F., Philiastides, M. G., Nelson, J. D., Kloosterman, N. A., & Heekeren, H. R. (2013). How embodied is perceptual decision making? Evidence for separate processing of perceptual and motor decisions. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33(5), 2121–2136. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2334-12.2013

Meder, B., & Nelson, J. D. (2012). Information search with situation-specific reward functions. Judgment and Decision Making, 7(2), 119–148.

Nelson, J. D., McKenzie, C. R. M., Cottrell, G. W., & Sejnowski, T. J. (2010). Experience matters: Information acquisition optimizes probability gain. Psychological Science, 21(7), 960–969. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610372637

Filimon, F., Nelson, J. D., Huang, R.-S., & Sereno, M. I. (2009). Multiple parietal reach regions in humans: Cortical representations for visual and proprioceptive feedback during on-line reaching. The Journal of Neuroscience, 29(9), 2961–2971. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3211-08.2009

Meder, B., Crupi, V., & Nelson, J. D. (2022). What makes a good query? Prospects for a comprehensive theory of human information acquisition. In I. Cogliati Dezza, E. Schulz, & C. M. Wu (Eds.), The drive for knowledge: The science of human information seeking (pp. 101–123). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026949.006

Schulz, E., Bertram, L., Hofer, M., & Nelson, J. D. (2019). Exploring the space of human exploration using Entropy Mastermind. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2762–2768). Cognitive Science Society.

Jarecki, J., Meder, B., & Nelson, J. D. (2013). The assumption of class-conditional independence in category learning. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Cooperative minds: Social interaction and group dynamics. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2650–2655). Cognitive Science Society.

Markant, D., Gureckis, T., Meder, B., Nelson, J. D., Pirolli, P., & Yu, C. (2013). Informavores: Active information foraging and human cognition. In Cooperative minds: Social interaction and group dynamics. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 93–94). Cognitive Science Society.