Chi, L.*, Starrett, M. J.*, Rao, Y., & Chrastil, E. R. (2026). Graph properties drive navigational selection between equidistant routes. Neuropsychologia, 221, 109310.
(* denotes equal authorship)

Ward, E. M., Carlson, J. M., & Chrastil, E. R. (2025). Divide (evenly) and conquer (quickly): Spatial exploration behaviors predict navigational learning and differ by sex. Cognition, 261, 106144.

Mohaddesi, S. A., Hegarty, M., Chrastil, E. R., & Krichmar, J. L. (2025). Benefit of varying navigation strategies in robot teams. In O. Brock & J. Krichmar (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 17 (pp. 63–77). Springer Nature Switzerland.

Chrastil, E. R. (2025). Human path integration and the neural underpinnings. In J. H. Grafman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (Second Edition) (pp. 157–170). Elsevier. 

Tu, A. S., Krohn, N. A., Cooper, O. C., Puthusseryppady, V., McIntyre, C., & Chrastil, E. R. (2024). Do total hippocampus and hippocampal subfield volumes relate to navigation ability? A call towards methodological consistency. Cortex, 181, 233–257.

Yoo, J., Chrastil, E. R., & Bornstein, A. M. (2024). Cognitive graphs: Representational substrates for planning. Decision, 11(4), 537–556. 

Pritschet, L., Taylor, C. M., Cossio, D., Faskowitz, J., Santander, T., Handwerker, D. A., Grotzinger, H., Layher, E., Chrastil, E. R.*, & Jacobs, E. G.* (2024). Neuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy. Nature Neuroscience, 27(11), 2253–2260. (* denotes co-senior and corresponding authors)

Puthusseryppady, V., Cossio, D., Yu, S., Rezwana, F., Hegarty, M.*, Jacobs, E. G.*, & Chrastil, E. R.* (2024). Less spatial exploration is associated with poorer spatial memory in midlife adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 16. (* denotes co-senior and corresponding authors)

Cheng, Y., Ling, S., Stern, C. E., Huang, A., & Chrastil, E. R. (2024). (Don’t) look where you are going: Evidence for a travel direction signal in humans that is independent of head direction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(4), 1038–1052.

Puthusseryppady, V., Cossio, D., & Chrastil, E. R. (2024). Spatial memory and hippocampal remapping: Who will age well? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(3), e2319952121.

Chrastil, E. R., & Cheng, Y. (L.). (2024). Central coordination and integration of diverse information to form a single map. In K. M. Curtin & D. R. Montello (Eds.), Collective spatial cognition: A research agenda (pp. 146–163). Routledge.

Montello, D. R., Davis, R. C., Johnson, M., & Chrastil, E. R. (2023). The symmetry and asymmetry of pedestrian route choice. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 87, 102004. 

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. († denotes co-senior and corresponding authors; * denotes equal authorship)

Xing, J., Chrastil, E. R., Nitz, D. A., & Krichmar, J. L. (2022). Linking global top-down views to first-person views in the brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(45), e2202024119.

Cheng, Y.*, He, C.*, Hegarty, M., & Chrastil, E. R. (2022). Who believes they are good navigators? A machine learning pipeline highlights the impact of gender, commuting time, and education. Machine Learning with Applications, 10, 100419. (* denotes equal authorship)

He, C., Chrastil, E. R., & Hegarty, M. (2022). A new psychometric task measuring spatial perspective-taking in ambulatory virtual reality. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 3.

Chrastil, E.R., Rice, C., Goncalves, M., Moore, K.N., Wynn, S.C., Stern, C.E., & Nyhus, E. (2022). Theta oscillations support active exploration in human spatial navigation. NeuroImage, 262, 119581.

Chrastil, E.R., Rice, C., Goncalves, M., Moore, K.N., Wynn, S.C., Stern, C.E., & Nyhus, E. (2022). Theta oscillations support active exploration in human spatial navigation. NeuroImage, 262, 119581.

Munns, M.E, Tranquada-Torres, B., Chrastil, E.R., & Hegarty, M. (2022). Large-scale vs small-scale spatial abilities: Development of a broad spatial activities questionnaire. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44.

Hegarty, M., He, C., Boone, A.P., Yu, S., Jacobs, E.G., & Chrastil, E.R. (2022). Understanding differences in wayfinding strategies. Topics in Cognitive Science.

Yu, S., Boone, A. P., He, C., Davis, R., Hegarty, M.*, Chrastil, E.R.*, & Jacobs, E.* (2021). Age-related changes in spatial navigation are evident by midlife and differ by sex. Psychological Science, 32(5), 692–704.
(* denotes co-senior and corresponding authors)

Gunalp, P., Chrastil, E.R. & Hegarty, M. (2021). Directionality eclipses agency: How both directional and social cues improve spatial perspective taking. Psychonomic Bulletin Review, 28, 1289–1300.

Chrastil, E. R., & Warren, W. H. (2021). Executing the homebound path is a major source of error in homing by path integration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(1), 13–35. 

Cheng, Y., Hegarty, M. & Chrastil, E.R. (2020). Telling right from right: the influence of handedness in the mental rotation of hands. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5,25.

Ericson, J.D., Chrastil, E.R., & Warren, W.H. (2020). Space syntax visibility graph analysis is not robust to changes in spatial and temporal resolution. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

Chrastil, E.R., Nicora, G.L., & Huang, A. (2019). Vision and body-based cues make equal contributions to path integration in a novel homing task. Cognition, 192, 103998.

Brown, T.I., & Chrastil, E.R. (2019). Editorial: Spatial Navigation: Memory mechanisms and executive function interactions. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 202.

Izen, S.*, Chrastil, E.R.*, & Stern, C.E. (2018). Resting state connectivity between medial temporal lobe regions and intrinsic cortical networks predicts performance in a path integration task. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 415.
(*denotes equal authorship)

Chrastil, E. R.*, Tobyne, S. M.*, Nauer, R. K., Chang, A. E., & Stern, C.E. (2018). Converging meta-analytic and connectomic evidence for functional sub-regions within the human retrosplenial region. Behavioral Neuroscience, 132, 339-355.
(*denotes equal authorship)

Chrastil, E.R. (2018). Heterogeneity in human retrosplenial cortex: A review of function and connectivity. Behavioral Neuroscience, 132, 317-338.

Sherrill, K.R., Chrastil, E.R., Aselcioglu, I., Hasselmo, M.E., & Stern, C.E. (2018). Structural differences in hippocampal and entorhinal gray matter volume support individual differences in first-person navigational ability. Neuroscience, 380, 123-131.

Chrastil, E. R., Sherrill, K.R., Aselcioglu, I., Hasselmo, M.E., & Stern, C.E. (2017). Individual differences in human path integration abilities correlate with gray matter volume in retrosplenial cortex, hippocampus, and medial prefrontal cortex. eNeuro, 4(2), e0346-16.2017, 1-14.

Chrastil, E.R., & Warren, W.H. (2017). Rotational error in path integration: Encoding and execution errors in angle reproduction. Experimental Brain Research, 235, 1885-1897.

Chrastil, E.R., & Warren, W.H. (2017). Rotational error in path integration: Encoding and execution errors in angle reproduction. Experimental Brain Research, 235, 1885-1897.

Chrastil, E. R., Sherrill, K.R., Hasselmo, M.E., & Stern, C.E. (2016). Which way and how far? Tracking of translation and rotation information for human path integration. Human Brain Mapping, 37, 3636-3655.

Chrastil, E. R., Sherrill, K.R., Hasselmo, M.E., & Stern, C.E. (2015). There and back again: Hippocampus and retrosplenial cortex track homing distance in human path integration. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(46), 15442-15452.

Chrastil, E.R., & Warren, W.H. (2015). Active and passive spatial learning in human navigation: Acquisition of graph knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 41(4), 1162-1178.

Sherrill, K.R., Chrastil, E.R., Ross, R.S., Erdem, U.M., Hasselmo, M.E., & Stern, C.E. (2015). Functional connections between optic flow areas and navigationally responsive brain regions during goal-directed navigation. NeuroImage, 118, 386-396.

Chrastil, E.R., & Warren, W.H. (2014). From cognitive maps to cognitive graphs. PLOS ONE, 9(11), e112544.

Connors, E.C., Chrastil, E.R., Sanchez, J., & Merebet, L.B. (2014). Virtual environments for the transfer of navigation skills in the blind: A comparison of directed instruction vs. video game-based learning approaches. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, Article 223, 1-13.

Connors, E.C., Chrastil, E.R., Sanchez, J., & Merebet, L.B. (2014). Action video game play and transfer of navigation and spatial cognition skills in early blind adolescents. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, Article 133, 1-8.

Chrastil, E.R., & Warren, W.H. (2014). Does the human odometer use an extrinsic or intrinsic metric? Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 76(1), 230-246.

Chrastil, E.R., & Warren, W.H. (2013). Active and passive spatial learning in human navigation: Acquisition of survey knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(5), 1520-1537.

Chrastil, E.R. (2013). Neural evidence supports a novel framework for spatial navigation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 208-227.

Chrastil, E. R., & Warren, W. H. (2012). Active and passive contributions to spatial learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 1-23.

Chrastil, E.R., Getz, W.M., Euler, H.A., & Starks, P.T. (2006). Paternity uncertainty overrides sex chromosome selection for preferential grandparenting. Evolution and Human Behavior, 27(3), 206-223.

Yarkoni, T., Gray, J.R., Chrastil, E.R., Barch, D.M., Green, L., & Braver, T.S. (2005). Sustained neural activity associated with cognitive control during temporally extended decision making. Cognitive Brain Research, 23, 71-84.