Cohnen, S., Kahler, L., Yun, S.D., Konrad, K, & Nordt, M. Limb-Selective Regions in the Lateral Temporal Lobe Shrink from Childhood to Adulthood. (2026). Brain Structure and Function. doi.org/10.1007/s00429-026-03152-2

Grill-Spector, K. & Nordt, M. Development of the neuroanatomic substrate of face perception. (accepted) Book chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Face Perception and Recognition.

Wang, X., Ciarlo, A., Luhrs, M., Atanasyan, A., Boken, D., Robmann, J., Schluse, M., Jager, M., Nordt, M., Cong, F., Mathiak, K., Linden, D. E. J., Goebel, R., Mehler, D. M. A. & Zweerings, J. (2026). A feasibility study of navigating emotional states using real-time representational similarity analysis fMRI neurofeedback. International Journal of Neural Systems.

Otten, K., Edgar, J. C., Green, H. L., Mol, K., McNamee, M., Kuschner, E. S., Kim, M., Liu, S., Huang, H., Nordt, M., Konrad, K., & Chen, Y. (2025). The maturation of infant and toddler visual cortex neural activity and associations with fine motor performance. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 71, 101501. doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101501

Kubota, E., Grill-Spector, K., Nordt, M. (2024) Rethinking cortical recycling in ventral temporal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Science. doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2023.09.006

Nordt, M., Gomez, J., Natu, V. S., Rezai, A. A., Finzi, D., Kular, H., & Grill-Spector, K. (2023). Longitudinal development of category representations in ventral temporal cortex predicts word and face recognition. Nature Communications. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43146-w

Nordt, M., Gomez, J., Natu, V. S., Rezai, A. A., Finzi, D., Kular, H., & Grill-Spector, K. (2021). Cortical recycling in high-level visual cortex during childhood development. Nature Human Behaviour. doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01141-5

Finzi, D., Gomez, J., Nordt, M., Rezai, A. A., Poltoratski, S., & Grill-Spector, K. (2021). Differential spatial computations in ventral and lateral face-selective regions are scaffolded by structural connections. Nature Communications, 12(1), 2278. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22524-2

Meissner, T. W., Walbrin, J., Nordt, M., Koldewyn, K., & Weigelt, S. (2020). Head motion during fMRI tasks is reduced in children and adults if participants take breaks. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 44, 100803. doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100803

Nordt, M., Gomez, J., Natu, V., Jeska, B., Barnett, M., & Grill-Spector, K. (2019). Learning to read increases the informativeness of distributed ventral temporal responses. Cerebral Cortex. doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy178

Meissner, T.W., Nordt, M., Weigelt, S. (2019). Prolonged functional development of the parahippocampal place area and occipital place area. Neuroimage. 191:104-115. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.02.025

Nordt, M., Semmelmann, K., Genç, E., & Weigelt, S. (2018). Age-related increase of image-invariance in the fusiform face area. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 31, 46–57. doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.04.005

Nordt, M., & Weigelt, S. (2017). Face recognition is similarly affected by viewpoint in school-aged children and adults. PeerJ, 5. doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3253

Nordt, M., Hoehl, S., & Weigelt, S. (2016). The use of repetition suppression paradigms in developmental cognitive neuroscience. Cortex, 80, 61–75. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.04.002

Semmelmann, K., Nordt, M., Sommer, K., Röhnke, R., Mount, L., Prüfer, H., … Weigelt, S. (2016). U Can Touch This: How Tablets Can Be Used to Study Cognitive Development. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01021

Keuper, K., Zwanzger, P., Nordt, M., Eden, A., Laeger, I., Zwitserlood, P., Kissler, J., Junghöfer, M., Dobel, C. (2013). How “love” and “hate” differ from “sleep” – Using combined EEG/MEG data and realistic head-modelling to reveal the sources of early cortical responses to emotional words. Human Brain Mapping, 875–888. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22220