Publications of Jonathan D. Nelson

Wu, C. M., Schulz, E., Speekenbrink, M., Nelson, J. D., & Meder, B. (2018). Generalization guides human exploration in vast decision spaces. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 915–924. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0467-4

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

Nelson, J. D. (2009). Naive optimality: Subjects' heuristics can be better motivated than experimenters' optimal models. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32(1), 94–95.

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

Nelson, J. D., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2009). Confirmation bias. In M. W. Kattan (Ed.), Encyclopedia of medical decision making (Vol. 1, pp. 167–171). Sage.