Affiliation: New York University
- Selection and inhibition in infancy: evidence from the spatial negative priming paradigmDima Amso
Department of Psychology, 6 Washington Place, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Cognition 95:B27-36. 2005..The SNP effect obtained for infants only under 550 and 200 ms ISI conditions. These results suggest that important developments in visual selection are rooted in emerging inhibitory mechanisms...
- Contributions of the hippocampus and the striatum to simple association and frequency-based learningDima Amso
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue, Box 140, New York, NY 10021, USA
Neuroimage 27:291-8. 2005..This work provides evidence of different neural mechanisms underlying learning based on simple frequencies versus associations within a single paradigm...
- Learning by selection: visual search and object perception in young infantsDima Amso
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10028, USA
Dev Psychol 42:1236-45. 2006..The authors discuss the implications of the efficiency of attentional mechanisms for information processing and learning...
- Play, attention, and learning: how do play and timing shape the development of attention and influence classroom learning?James H Hedges
Brain Trauma Foundation, New York, New York 10007, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1292:1-20. 2013....
- Variant brain-derived neurotrophic factor (Valine66Methionine) polymorphism contributes to developmental and estrous stage-specific expression of anxiety-like behavior in female miceKevin G Bath
Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA
Biol Psychiatry 72:499-504. 2012..Although BDNF expression can be directly influenced by estrogen and progesterone, the potential impact of the BDNF Val66Met SNP on sensitivity to reproductive hormone changes remains an open question...
- Simulating the role of visual selective attention during the development of perceptual completionMatthew Schlesinger
Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL 62903, USA
Dev Sci 15:739-52. 2012..These findings provide additional support for our hypothesis that the development of perceptual completion in early infancy is promoted by progressive improvements in visual selective attention and oculomotor skill...
- Development of cognitive control and executive functions from 4 to 13 years: evidence from manipulations of memory, inhibition, and task switchingMatthew C Davidson
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:2037-78. 2006..Other effects (e.g., asymmetric switch costs and the interaction of switching rules and switching response-sites) differed fundamentally over age...
- Development of object concepts in infancy: Evidence for early learning in an eye-tracking paradigmScott P Johnson
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:10568-73. 2003....
- A genetic variant BDNF polymorphism alters extinction learning in both mouse and humanFatima Soliman
The Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA
Science 327:863-6. 2010..Thus, this variant BDNF allele may play a role in anxiety disorders showing impaired learning of cues that signal safety versus threat and in the efficacy of treatments that rely on extinction mechanisms, such as exposure therapy...
- Conditions under which young children can hold two rules in mind and inhibit a prepotent responseAdele Diamond
Center for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Waltham 02452, USA
Dev Psychol 38:352-62. 2002..Young children apparently need several seconds to compute the answer on this task. Often they do not take the needed time; when forced to do so, they do well...