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View article: The effects of socioeconomic status on working memory in childhood are partially mediated by intersensory processing of audiovisual events in infancy
The effects of socioeconomic status on working memory in childhood are partially mediated by intersensory processing of audiovisual events in infancy Open
View article: Effects of English versus Spanish language exposure on basic multisensory attention skills across 3 to 36 months of age.
Effects of English versus Spanish language exposure on basic multisensory attention skills across 3 to 36 months of age. Open
Recent research has demonstrated that individual differences in infant attention to faces and voices of women speaking predict language outcomes in childhood. These findings have been generated using two new audiovisual attention assessmen…
View article: Infant distractibility from social events mediates the relation between maternal responsiveness and infant language outcomes
Infant distractibility from social events mediates the relation between maternal responsiveness and infant language outcomes Open
View article: Visual Short-Term Memory Persists Across Multiple Fixations: An <i>n</i>-Back Approach to Quantifying Capacity in Infants and Adults
Visual Short-Term Memory Persists Across Multiple Fixations: An <i>n</i>-Back Approach to Quantifying Capacity in Infants and Adults Open
Visual short-term memory (STM) is a foundational component of general cognition that develops rapidly during the first year of life. Although previous research has revealed important relations between overt visual fixation and memory forma…
View article: Seeing and looking: Evidence for developmental and stimulus-dependent changes in infant scanning efficiency
Seeing and looking: Evidence for developmental and stimulus-dependent changes in infant scanning efficiency Open
Though previous work has examined infant attention across a variety of tasks, less is known about the individual saccades and fixations that make up each bout of attention, and how individual differences in saccade and fixation patterns (i…
View article: Testing predictions of a neural process model of visual attention in infancy across competitive and non‐competitive contexts
Testing predictions of a neural process model of visual attention in infancy across competitive and non‐competitive contexts Open
A key question in early development is how changes in neural systems give rise to changes in infants' behavior. We examine this question by testing predictions of a dynamic field (DF) model of infant spatial attention. We tested 5‐, 7‐, an…
View article: Remote Data Collection During a Pandemic: A New Approach for Assessing and Coding Multisensory Attention Skills in Infants and Young Children
Remote Data Collection During a Pandemic: A New Approach for Assessing and Coding Multisensory Attention Skills in Infants and Young Children Open
In early 2020, in-person data collection dramatically slowed or was completely halted across the world as many labs were forced to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Developmental researchers who assess looking time (especially those who …
View article: Unsupervised Online Assessment of Visual Working Memory in 4- to 10-Year-Old Children: Array Size Influences Capacity Estimates and Task Performance
Unsupervised Online Assessment of Visual Working Memory in 4- to 10-Year-Old Children: Array Size Influences Capacity Estimates and Task Performance Open
The events of the COVID-19 Pandemic forced many psychologists to abandon lab-based approaches and embrace online experimental techniques. Although lab-based testing will always be the gold standard of experimental precision, several protoc…
View article: Fixation patterns differ as a function of intersensory processing performance during the first three years of life
Fixation patterns differ as a function of intersensory processing performance during the first three years of life Open
Selective attention to intersensory redundancy (stimulation that is temporally synchronized across the senses) guides cognitive, social, and language development (Bahrick and Lickliter, 2012). Recently, Bahrick et al. (2018) developed the …
View article: Evidence for Attentional Phenotypes in Infancy and Their Role in Visual Cognitive Performance
Evidence for Attentional Phenotypes in Infancy and Their Role in Visual Cognitive Performance Open
Infant visual attention rapidly develops during the first year of life, playing a pivotal role in the way infants process, learn, and respond to their visual world. It is possible that individual differences in eye movement patterns shape …
View article: Transsaccadic object updating depends on visual working memory: An fNIRS study
Transsaccadic object updating depends on visual working memory: An fNIRS study Open
A natural consequence of executing a saccade is having two separate representations of the target object: pre-saccadic and post-saccadic. To perceive the world as stable, the visual system must integrate these two representations of the sa…
View article: More than a button response: How saccades and fixations can inform our interpretation of VWM quantification
More than a button response: How saccades and fixations can inform our interpretation of VWM quantification Open
Visual working memory (WM), is a capacity limited system used for the short-term storage and manipulation of visual information (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974). WM capacity is typically assessed using a “change-detection” task, and capacity for e…
View article: What Happens When Trained Graduate Student Instructors Switch to an Open Textbook? A Controlled Study of the Impact on Student Learning Outcomes
What Happens When Trained Graduate Student Instructors Switch to an Open Textbook? A Controlled Study of the Impact on Student Learning Outcomes Open
Open educational resources (OER) are increasingly attractive options for reducing educational costs, yet controlled studies of their efficacy are lacking. The current study addressed many criticisms of past research by accounting for cours…
View article: The origins of visual working memory capacity in infants: Implications for theory building
The origins of visual working memory capacity in infants: Implications for theory building Open