Sackler Institute _{for Developmental Psychobiology}

Publications

• Amso, D. Perceptual development: Attention. To appear in B. Goldstein (ed.) Encyclopedia of Perception.
  
• Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (in press). Development of visual selection in 3- to 9-month-old infants: Evidence from saccades to previously ignored locations. Infancy.
  
• Amso, D., &Johnson, S.P. (in press). Building object knowledge from perceptual input. To appear in B.M. Hood & L. Santos (Eds.). The origins of object knowledge. OUP.
  
• Amso, D., & Casey, B.J. (in press). The development of cognitive control. To appear in L. Squire (ed.), The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Elsevier.
  
• Shapiro, T., & Amso, D., (in press). School age development. To appear in Psychiatry, 3rd Edition. John Wiley & Sons.
  
• Diamond, A., & Amso, D. (2008). Contributions of neuroscience to our understanding of cognitive development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17(2), 136-141.
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• Johnson, S.P., Amso, D., Frank, M.C., & Shuwairi, S.M. (2008). Perceptual development in infancy as the foundation of event perception. To appear in T.F. Shipley & J. Zacks (Eds.), Understanding events: From perception to action. New York: Oxford University Press.
  
• Schlesinger, M., Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (2007). The neural basis for visual selective attention in young infants: A computational account. Adaptive Behvaior, 15, 135-148.
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• Schlesinger, M., Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (2007). Stimulating infants' gaze patterns during the development of perceptual completion. In L. Berthouze, C.G. Prince, M. Littman, H. Kozima, & C. Balkenius (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. Sweden: Lund University Cognitive Studies.
  
• Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (2006). Learning by selection: Visual search and object perception in young infants. Developmental Psychology, 42(6), 1236-1245.
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• Amso, D., & Casey, B.J. (2006). Beyond what develops when: Neuroimaging may inform how cognition changes with development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15(1), 24-29.
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• Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (2006). Visual selection and object perception. Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Development & Learning. IEEE.
  
• Casey, B.J., Amso, D., & Davidson, M.C. (2006). Learning about learning and development with modern imaging technology. In Yuko Munakata & Mark H. Johnson (Eds.), Processes of Change in Brain and Cognitive Development, Attention & Performance XXI. Oxford University Press.
  
• Davidson, M., Amso, D., Cruess, L., & Diamond, A. (2006). Development of cognitive control and executive functions from 4-13 years: Evidence from manipulations of memory, inhibition, and task switching. Neuropsychologia, 44(11), 2037-2078.
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• Amso, D., Davidson, M.C., Johnson, S.P., Glover, G., & Casey, B.J. (2005). The contributions of the hippocampus and the striatum to simple association and frequency-based learning. NeuroImage, 27, 291-198.
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• Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (2005). Selection and inhibition in infancy: Evidence from the spatial negative priming paradigm. Cognition, 95(2), B27-B36.
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• Johnson, S.P., Hannon, E., & Amso, D. (2005). Perceptual development. In B. Hopkins (Ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
  
• Johnson, S.P., Slemmer, J.A., & Amso, D. (2004). Where infants look determines how they see: Eye movements and object perception performance in 3-month-olds. Infancy, 6(2), 185-201.
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• Johnson, S.P., Amso, D., & Slemmer, J.A. (2003). Development of object concepts in infancy: Evidence for early learning in an eye tracking paradigm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 100(18), 10568-10573.
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• Diamond, A., Kirkham, N., & Amso, D. (2002). Conditions under which young children CAN hold two rules in mind and inhibit a prepotent response. Developmental Psychology, 38(3), 352-362.
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