Publications

2026

• Jetter, C., He, C., Tu, A. S., Starrett, M. J., Chrastil, E. R., & Hegarty, M. (2026). Map-based navigation: Individual differences in perspective taking and path integration. Neuropsychologia, 229, 109476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2026.109476
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• Chi, L.*, Starrett, M. J.*, Rao, Y., & Chrastil, E. R. (2026). Graph properties drive navigational selection between equidistant routes. Neuropsychologia, 221, 109310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109310
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• Sabharwal-Siddiqi, S., McAvan, A. S., Robinson, E. M., Starrett, M., Garren, J. D., Zheng, J., Grilli, M. D., Isham, E. A., & Ekstrom, A. D. (2026). Naturalistic movements enrich episodic memories but not their spatiotemporal structure. Cognition, 267, 106358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106358
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2025

• Huffman, D. J., Annes, P. J., Yumurtaci, S., Starrett Ambrose, M. J., & Shakya, A. (2025). Another Brick in the wall? A null effect of boundaries on spatial memory judgments in a novel, highly immersive, first-person object-placement task. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6d11q44r
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2023

• Alexander, A. S.*, Place, R.*, Starrett, M. J.*, Chrastil, E. R.†, & Nitz, D. A.† (2023). Rethinking retrosplenial cortex: Perspectives and predictions. Neuron, 111(2), 150–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2022.11.006
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• Doner, S., Zheng, J., McAvan, A. S., Starrett, M. J., Campbell, H., Sanders, D., & Ekstrom, A. D. (2023). Evidence for flexible navigation strategies during spatial learning involving path choices. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 23(3), 233–262. https://doi.org/10.1080/13875868.2022.2158090
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• Starrett, M. J., Huffman, D. J., & Ekstrom, A. D. (2023). Combining egoformative and alloformative cues in a novel tabletop navigation task. Psychological Research, 87, 1644–1664. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01739-y
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2021

• Starrett, M. J., McAvan, A. S., Huffman, D. J., Stokes, J. D., Kyle, C. T., Smuda, D. N., Kolarik, B. S., Laczko, J., & Ekstrom, A. D. (2021). Landmarks: A solution for spatial navigation and memory experiments in virtual reality. Behavior Research Methods, 53(3), 1046–1059. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01481-6
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• Sheldon, A. D., Saad, E., Sahan, M. I., Meyering, E., Starrett, M. J., LaRocque, J. J., Rose, N. S., & Postle, B. R. (2021). Attention biases competition for visual representation via enhancement of targets and inhibition of nontargets. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01672
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2020

• Hejtmanek, L., Starrett, M. J., Ferrer, E., & Ekstrom, A. D. (2020). How much of what we learn in virtual reality transfers to real-world navigation? Multisensory Research, 33(4–5), 479–503. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134808-20201445
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2019

• Starrett, M. J., Stokes, J. D., Huffman, D. J., Ferrer, E., & Ekstrom, A. D. (2019). Learning-dependent evolution of spatial representations in large-scale virtual environments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(3), 497–514. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000597
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2018

• Preciado, C. E., Starrett, M. J., & Ekstrom, A. D. (2018). Assessment of a short, focused training to reduce symptoms of cybersickness. PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality, 27(4), 361–377. https://doi.org/10.1162/pres_a_00335
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• Liang, M., Starrett, M. J., & Ekstrom, A. D. (2018). Dissociation of frontal-midline delta-theta and posterior alpha oscillations: A mobile EEG study. Psychophysiology, 55(9), e13090. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13090
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• Starrett, M. J., & Ekstrom, A. D. (2018). Perspective: Assessing the flexible acquisition, integration, and deployment of human spatial representations and information. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 281. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00281
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• Gosseries, O., Yu, Q., LaRocque, J. J., Starrett, M. J., Rose, N. S., Cowan, N., & Postle, B. R. (2018). Parietal-occipital interactions underlying control- and representation-related processes in working memory for nonspatial visual features. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(18), 4357–4366. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2747-17.2018
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2017

• Ekstrom, A. D., Huffman, D. J., & Starrett, M. (2017). Interacting networks of brain regions underlie human spatial navigation: A review and novel synthesis of the literature. Journal of Neurophysiology, 188(6), 3328–3344. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00531.2017
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2016

• Rose, N. S., LaRocque, J. J., Riggall, A. C., Gosseries, O., Starrett, M. J., Meyering, E. E., & Postle, B. R. (2016). Reactivation of latent working memories with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Science, 354(6316), 1136–1139. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aah7011
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2015

• LaRocque, J. J., Eichenbaum, A. S.*, Starrett, M. J.*, Rose, N. S., Emrich, S. M., & Postle, B. R. (2015). The short- and long-term fates of memory items retained outside the focus of attention [Special issue]. Memory and Cognition, 43(3), 453–468. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-014-0486-y
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