Publications
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2024
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Morina, E., Wu, J.L., Harris, D.A., &. Hayes-Skelton, S.A. (under review). Biases in perceiving positive versus negative emotions: The influence of social anxiety and state affect. Cognition and Emotion.
Donenfeld, J., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (accepted). The resolution of proactive interference in a novel visual working memory task: A behavioral and pupillometric study. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/yfajp
Morina, E., Harris, D.A., Hayes-Skelton, S.A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (accepted). Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: Differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces. Cognition and Emotion.
Kosie, J., Zettersten, M. … Kaldy, Z., …Lew-Williams, C. (registered report accepted). ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time. Nature Human Behaviour. https://psyarxiv.com/ck3vd/
Westebbe, L., Liang, Y., & Blaser, E. (2024). The Accuracy and Precision of Memory for Natural Scenes: A Walk in the Park. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, 8, 131–147. doi.org /10.1162/opmi_a_00122
Hamilton, M., Roper, T., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2024). Can’t get it out of my head: Proactive interference in 3- to 8-year-old children’s visual working memory. Developmental Psychology, 60, 3, 582–594. PDF
Conferences
Blesic, M., Koolhaas, C., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z., & Kovács, A.M. (2024). Gist-based scene categorization in infants. Poster to be presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-11, 2024, Glasgow, UK.
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2024). Infants can build panoramic scene representations from different viewpoints. Poster to be presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-11, 2024, Glasgow, UK.
Pham, Q.A. & Blankenship T. L. (2024). Imagining the short-term and long-term future from another’s perspective. Poster to be presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-11, 2024, Glasgow, UK.
Donenfeld, J., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2024). Testing the Interleaving Effect Without Response Bias: A Replication of Kornell & Bjork (2008). Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, May 24-26, 2024, San Francisco, CA.
Donenfeld, J., Kaldy, Z., Blankenship., T., & Bell, M.A. (2024). Schooling improves inhibitory control in 6-year-olds independent of age: A secondary data analysis. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, March 21-23, 2024, Pasadena, CA. PDF
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2024). My tablet’s about to go dead! 6-year-old children adjust their cognitive strategies depending on whether an external source is reliably available. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, March 21-23, 2024, Pasadena, CA.
Pham, Q.A., Trindade, L., Blankenship T. L. (2024). Episodic memory supports episodic future thinking for oneself and another. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, March 21-23, 2024, Pasadena, CA
2023
Papers
Blankenship, T.L. & Kibbe, M. M. (2023). Plan chunking supports memory-guided planning in 3-year-olds. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13929
Cao, S., Kelly, J., Nguyen, C., Chow, H.M, Leonardo, B, Sabov, A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (accepted). Prior visual experience increases children's use of effective haptic exploration strategies in audio-tactile sound-shape correspondences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Chow, HM, Briggs, D, & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). Does task-irrelevant brightness modulation affect auditory contrast processing? Exploring the interplay between temporal synchrony and stimulus salience. Multisensory Research. PDF
Sirois, S., Brisson, J., Blaser, E., Calignano, G., Donenfeld, J., Hepach, R., Hochmann J., Kaldy, Z., Liszkowski, U., Mayer, M., Ross-Sheehy, S., Russo, S., & Valenza, E. (2023). The pupil collaboration: A multi-lab, multi-method analysis of goal attribution in infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 73, 101890, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101890
Conferences
Morina, E., Beshara, M. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). Attention influences neural responses based on crossmodal correspondences: Responses to abstract shapes are enhanced, even when attending irrelevant shape features, depending on audio-visual congruency. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Nov 11, 2023, Washington D.C.
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Morina, E. (2023). Using EEG frequency tagging to probe crossmodal correspondences: the influence of attention and audio-visual congruency on a neural signature for shape processing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Nov 11, 2023, Washington D.C.
Pham Q. A., Broomell A.P.R., & Blankenship T. L. (2023). Using theory of mind in memory guided planning. Poster presented at the 30th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, August 28-31, 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2023). Young children’s cost-dependent tradeoff between looking and remembering. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2023, St. Pete Beach, FL.
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Alvarado, C., Tihamiuddin, S, Cao, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). The feeling of kiki: Do young children associate nonsense sounds and textures? Poster presented at the Undergraduate Research Showcase at the University of Massachusetts Boston, May 9, 2023.
Alvarado, C., Tihamiuddin, S, Cao, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). The feeling of kiki: Do young children associate nonsense sounds and textures? Poster presented at the Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 28, 2023.
Pham, Q. & Blankenship, T. (2023). Inhibitory Control Contributes to Successful Memory-Guided Planning During Early Childhood. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 23-25, 2023, Salt Lake City, UT.
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2023). Young children strategically trade-off between looking and remembering depending on cost. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 23-25, 2023, Salt Lake City, UT.
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2023). The development of proactive interference resolution in visual working memory. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 23-25, 2023, Salt Lake City, UT.
Blesic, M., Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z. & Kovács, A.M. (2023). 18-month-old infants can extract the gist of a scene with labels. Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD23), January 5-7, 2023, Budapest, Hungary.
2022
Papers
Blankenship, T. L., & Kibbe, M. M. (2022). Two-year-olds apply episodic memories to accomplish novel goals. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 214, 105286.
Blankenship, T. L., Calkins, S. D., & Bell., M.A. (2022). The role of executive functions in item recognition and temporal order memory. Journal of Cognition and Development, 23, 135-147.
Freschl, J., Al Azizi, L., Balboa, L., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2022). The development of peak alpha frequency from infancy to adolescence and its role in visual temporal processing: A meta-analysis. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 57: 101146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101146
Sigala, N., Kaldy, Z., & Reynolds, G. (2022). Editorial: The cognitive neuroscience of visual working memory – Volume II. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16:1017754. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2022.1017754
Hamilton, M., Ross, A., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Proactive interference and working memory development. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews – Cognitive Science, e1593. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1593 PDF
Visser, I., Bergmann, C., Byers-Heinlein, K., Dal Ben, R., Duch, W., Forbes, S., ... Kaldy, Z.., … Zettersten, M. (2022). Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E35. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21000455. PDF
Conferences
Blankenship, T. L. (2022). Limitations of memory-guided planning in 2- and 3-year-olds. Poster presented at the International Conference of Infant Studies Biennial meeting, Ottawa, Canada.
Blankenship, T.L., Kibbe, M. M. (2022). “Plan chunking” improves 3-year-olds’ ability to use episodic memories to guide future actions. Symposium paper presented virtually at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.
Blesic, M., Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z. & Kovács, A.M. (2022). 18-month-old infants can extract the gist of a scene. Poster presented at the 7th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Aug 24-26, 2022, Lancaster, UK.
Beshore, J., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Pupillary response indicates the resolution of proactive interference in a visual working memory task. Talk presented at the Annual Working Memory Symposium, June 21-24, 2022. (virtual)
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Morina, E. (2022) Development of the angry-male/ happy-female bias. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Apr 23-26. San Francisco, CA.
Morina, E. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2022) The angry-male/ happy-female bias in individuals high versus low in social anxiety. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Apr 23-26. San Francisco, CA.
Hamilton, M., Roper, T., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Proactive interference from LTM hinders retrieval from visual working memory in 3-year-olds. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Apr 21-22, 2022, Madison, WI.
Morina, E. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2022) Changes in the angry-male / happy-female bias across development. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2022, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Beshore, J., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z. (2022). Pupillary response indicates the resolution of proactive interference in a visual working memory task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2022, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Proactive interference disrupts toddlers’ visual working memory. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-10, 2022, Ottawa, Canada.
Pham Q. & Blankenship T. L. (2022) Inhibitory control contributes to successful memory-guided planning during early childhood. Poster presented at NeuroBoston Society for Neuroscience Boston chapter meeting, Boston, MA.
2021
Papers
Fitch, A., Thaker, N., & Kaldy, Z. (2021). The role of redundant verbal labels in 8- and 10-month-olds’ working memory. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101617. PDF
Chow, H.M., Harris, D.A., Eid, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2021). The feeling of "kiki": Comparing developmental changes in sound-shape correspondence for audio-visual and audio-tactile stimuli. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105167. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2021). Coffee with the executive. Book review of David Badre’s ‘On Task’. Current Biology, 31, R270–R271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.020. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2021). On taking the historian’s stance in a natural science. In: Gervain, J., Kovács, K., & Csibra, G. (Eds.) A Life in Cognition: Studies in Cognitive Science in honor of Csaba Pléh. Language, Cognition, and Mind, vol 11. Springer, Cham. PDF https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66175-5_14
Conferences
Blankenship, T. L., Strong R. W., & Kibbe, M. M. (April, 2021). Development of split foci of attention. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development’s Conference biennial meeting (virtual due to COVID-19).
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2021). Proactive interference disrupts 3-year-old toddlers’ visual working memory. Poster presented at the 6th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Aug 25-27, 2021. (virtual due to COVID-19)
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Kelly, J., & Nguyen, C. (2021). The feeling of “kiki”: select tactile experience or visual imagery can enhance abstract audio-tactile crossmodal correspondences in early childhood. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 21-26, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Freschl, J., Al Alizi, L., Balboa, L., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2021). The development of peak alpha frequency from infancy to adolescence and its role in visual temporal processing: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 21-26, 2021. (virtual due to COVID-19) abstract
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2021). Building 3D scene representations from different viewpoints: A contextual cueing study. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 21-26, 2021. (virtual due to COVID-19) abstract
Freschl, J., Al Alizi, L., Balboa, L., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2021). Development of occipital peak alpha frequency: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 4-9, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Kelly, J., & Nguyen, C. (2021). The feeling of “kiki”: tactile experience and visual imagery can enhance abstract audio-tactile crossmodal correspondences in early childhood, but do they alter haptic exploration strategies? Presentation at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD21), January 3-5, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Kaldy, Z., Cheng, C., & Blaser, E. (2021). Delayed Match Retrieval: A five-year retrospective. Presentation at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD21), January 3-5, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
2020
Papers
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Carter, A. S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Seeing a page of a flipbook: Shorter visual temporal integration windows in 2-year-old toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2430. PDF
Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). A crowd of emotional voices influences the perception of emotional faces: Using adaptation, stimulus salience, and attention to probe audio-visual interactions for emotional stimuli. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02104-0. URL
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Coding of featural information in Visual Working Memory in 2.5-year-old toddlers. Cognitive Development, 55:100892. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Putting effort into infant cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420903015. PDF
Chow HM., Leviyah, X., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). Individual differences in multisensory interactions: The influence of temporal phase coherence and auditory salience on visual contrast sensitivity. Vision, Special Issue on Multisensory Modulation of Vision, 4, 12. PDF
Blankenship, T. L., Strong, R. W., Kibbe, M. M. (2020). Development of multiple object tracking via multifocal attention. Developmental Psychology, 56, 1684. PDF
Conferences
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2020). Proactive interference disrupts toddlers’ visual working memory. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 6-9, 2020. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Multimodal stimuli with sound/shape correspondence help the working memory of 9-month-old infants. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 6-9, 2020. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Kelly, J. Nguyen, K. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). Feeling Bouba or Kiki: the role of select prior exposure in enhancing audio-tactile associations early in development. Sigma Xi Student Scholars Symposium May 14, 2020, [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Visual temporal integration windows are longer in infants. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, June 19-24, 2020, St. Pete Beach, FL. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). Multisensory interactions between emotional faces and voices can be enhanced by attending to face emotion, but not to face gender. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, May 2-5, 2020, [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Kaldy, Z. (2020). Visual attentional mechanisms in 2-year-olds with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Invited talk as part of the Presidential Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, June 17-18, 2020. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
2019
Papers
Guillory, S. B., & Kaldy, Z. (2019). Persistence and accumulation of visual memories for objects in scenes in 12-month-old infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 10: 2454. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02454
Izen, S.C., Lapp, H. E., Harris, D.A., Hunter, R. G., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019). Seeing a face in a crowd of emotional voices: Changes in perception and cortisol in response to emotional information across the senses. Brain Sciences, Special Issue on Perceptual and Affective Mechanisms in Facial Expression, 9, 176. PDF
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). 2-year-olds succeed at MIT: Multiple Identity Tracking in 20- and 25-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 187, 104649. PDF
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). Visual temporal integration windows are adult-like in 5-7-year-old children. Journal of Vision, 19(7):5, 1–12. https://jov.arvojournals.org/Article.aspx?articleid=2738014.
Smith, H., Carter, A. S., Blaser. E., Kaldy. Z. (2019) Successful attentional set-shifting in 2-year- olds with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. PLoS ONE 14(3): e0213903. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0213903.
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). Pupillometry reveals that focused attention predicts visual working memory performance in infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 36:100616. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100616.
Media coverage: ScienceTrends.com
Chow HM. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019). What makes a shape 'baba'? The shape feature prioritized in sound-shape correspondence changes with development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 179, 73-89. PDF
Fitch, A., Valadez, A., Ganea, P., Carter, A. S., & Kaldy, Z. (2019). Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder can use language to update their expectations about the world. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(2):429-440. PDF
Blankenship, T.L. & Kibbe, M. M. (2019). Examining the limits of memory-guided planning in 3 and 4-year-olds. Cognitive Development, 52, 100820. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., Slough, M.A., Calkins, S.D., Deater-Deckard, K., Kim-Spoon, J., & Bell, M.A., (2019). Attention and executive functioning in infancy: links to childhood executive function and reading achievement. Developmental Science, e12824. PDF
Conferences
Izen, S.C., Lapp, H.E., Harris, D.A., Hunter, R.G., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Seeing a face in a crowds of emotional voices: Changes in perception and cortisol in response to emotional information across the senses. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, October 19-23, Chicago, IL.
Raymond, N., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Quantifying perceptual biases in social anxiety: How do different measures compare? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Sciences, May 27-30, Washington, DC.
Kelly, J., Chow, HM, Nguyen, C. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Feeling bouba or kiki: a role for visual exposure in tactile-audio associations. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Sciences, May 27-30, Washington, DC.
Baidak, B. Hughes, D.E., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Does the attractiveness of a face bias how we perceive emotion in a face? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Sciences, May 27-30, Washington, DC.
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H.M., Morina, E. (2019). Crossmodal correspondences between abstract shapes and nonsense words modulate a neuronal signature of visual shape processing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 17-22, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Carter, A. S., Dhungana, S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). Visual temporal integration windows in 2-year-old toddlers with and without ASD. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 17-22, 2019, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Morina, E., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Does sound shape correspondence modulate a neuronal signature of visual shape processing for attended shapes? Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 23-26, 2019, San Francisco, CA.
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z.,& Blaser, E. (2019). Robust Visual Working Memory for object features in 2.5-year-olds. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 21-23, 2019, Baltimore, MD. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2019). Making infants’ working memory work. Invited paper as part of the Symposium The Development of Working Memory at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD19), January 3-5, 2019, Budapest, Hungary.
Cheng, C., Dhungana, S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). The development of visual working memory over the second year of life. Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD19), January 3-5, 2019, Budapest, Hungary. PDF
Choi M., & Shukla, M. (2019). Can infants use multiple cues in phoneme Learning? Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD19), January 3-5, 2019, Budapest, Hungary.
2018
Papers
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Using object history to predict future behavior: Evidence for essentialism at 9 months of age. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Krogh-Jespersen, S., Kaldy, Z., Valadez, A., Carter, A. S., & Woodward, A. (2018). Goal prediction in 2-year-old children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: An eye-tracking study. Autism Research. PDF
Guillory, S. B., Gliga, T., & Kaldy, Z. (2018). Quantifying attentional effects on the fidelity and biases of visual working memory in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 167, 146–161. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., Broomell, A.P.R., & Bell, M.A. (2018). Semantic future thinking and executive funtions at age 4: the moderating role of frontal activity. Developmental Psychobiology, 60, 608-614. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., Keith, K., Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A. (2018). Behavioral performance and neural areas associated with memory processes contribute to math and reading achievement in 6-year-old children. Cognitive Development, 47, 63-70. PDF
Conferences
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z.,& Blaser, E. (2018). Using object history to predict future behavior: Are young infants essentialists? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 25-28, 2018, Madison, WI. PDF
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Pupillometry uncovers the role of focused attention in Visual Working Memory in infants. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., Dhungana, S., & Blaser, E. (2018). Successful updating of spatial information in Visual Working Memory in 20- and 25-month-olds. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Fitch, A., Valadez, A., Carter, A. S., & Kaldy, Z. (2018). Toddlers with ASD can use linguistic information to update their mental representations. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies as part of the Symposium “The Development of Working Memory Updating”, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA.
Fitch, A., Ganea, P., Harris, P., & Kaldy, Z. (2018). 17-month-olds do not revoke trust from unreliable informants providing verbal testimony. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Carter, A. S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Visual Temporal Integration Windows are longer in 2-year-old toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Choi M., Shukla, M. (2018). Using Multiple Cues in Phoneme Learning. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Endogenous attention impairs a neuronal signature of audio-visual sound-shape correspondence. International Multisensory Research Forum, June 14-17, Toronto, Canada. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H.M., & Silva, N. (2018) Musical expertise weakens the cost of dividing attention between vision and audition. International Multisensory Research Forum, June 14-17, Toronto, Canada. PDF
Izen, S.C., Parent, K., Goutama, V., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) How the emotion we see is influenced by the emotion we hear depends on the visibility of a face. International Multisensory Research Forum, June 14-17, Toronto, Canada. PDF
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Visual Temporal Integration Windows are adult-like in typically developing 5-7-year-old children. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 18-23, 2018, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Chow, H.M. Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Musical expertise modulates the cost of crossmodal divided attention between vision and audition in behavior but not in tonic pupil dilation. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 18-23, 2018, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Morina, E., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) The strength of adaptation to negative versus positive emotional information depends on social anxiety status. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 18-23, 2018, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Leviyah, X., Chow, H.M. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Interactions between stimulus salience and timing determine the extent to which a sound alters visual detectability. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Morina, E., Raymond, N., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Maintained negative biases in social anxiety via biased adaptation to happy and angry faces depends on face gender. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Parent, K., Goutama, V., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) How the Emotion We See is Influenced by the Emotion We Hear Depends on the Visibility of a Face. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Sabov, A., Chow, H.M., Leonardo, B., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) A neuronal signature for correspondences between abstract shapes and sounds. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Silva, N., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Does musical training improve crossmodal attention? Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Chow, H.M., Leonardo, B., Sabov, A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. Is a round shape integrated with a /bouba/ sound?
Enhanced neuronal signals at the intermodulation frequencies of congruent audio-visual stimuli. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Izen, S.C., Leviyah, X., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Seen and heard emotions of a crowd alter perception and state affect. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M. Izen, S.C., Lapp, H.E., Harris, D.A., Hunter, R.G. (2018) Seen and heard emotions alter perception and cortisol. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Morina, E., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Weakened adaptation for negative compared to positive emotions in individuals high in social anxiety. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Uysal, E., Choi M., de Villiers, J., Shukla, M. (2018). Some Complex Concepts Require Language: An eye-tracking study with 12- to 24-mo-old infants and adults. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Choi M., Uysal, E., Shukla, M. (2018). Phoneme learning in a musical context. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
2017
Papers
Soto, T.W., Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Carter, A.S. (2017). Sensory Over Responsivity. In C. Zeanah (Ed), Handbook of infant mental health, 4th edition, New York, Guilford Press. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H.M., & Eglington, L.G. (2017). Crossmodal attention influences auditory contrast sensitivity: Decreasing visual load improves auditory thresholds for amplitude and frequency modulated sounds. Journal of Vision, 17(3):20, 1–22. PDF
Kaldy, Z. & Sigala, N. (2017). Editorial: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Working Memory. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 11:1. PDF
Kibbe, M., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2017). Rules infants look by: Testing the assumption of transitivity in visual salience. Infancy. PDF
Király, I., Takács, S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2017). Preschoolers have better long-term memory for rhyming text than adults. Developmental Science, 20, e12398. PDF Supplemental TEXT Supplemental VIDEO
Conferences
Morina, E., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017). Changes in perceiving and reacting to emotional faces in individuals high in social anxiety. New England Psychological Association, October 21, 2017, Boston, MA.
Leviyah, X., Izen, S., Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017) Attention determines how exposure to emotional information effects mood. New England Psychological Association, October 21, 2017, Boston, MA.
Cheng, C., Kaldy Z., & Blaser E. (2017, October). The role of similarity in toddlers’ Visual Working Memory representations. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Portland, OR. PDF
Smith, H., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2017). Recently rewarded task-irrelevant stimuli do not distract 2-year-olds during visual search. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 27-29, 2017, London, UK. PDF
Briggs, D., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017). The interdependence of visual salience and audiovisual synchrony on auditory contrast detection. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, May 19-22, 2017, Nashville, TN. PDF
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., Dhungana, S., & Blaser, E. (2017). Using object history to predict future behavior: Are young infants essentialists? Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 6-8, 2017, Austin, TX. PDF
Chow, H.M. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017). What makes a shape /baba/ to a child versus an adult? Changing contributions from shape contour, protrusion number, and protrusion size in sound-shape correspondence. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, May 19-22, 2017, Nashville, TN. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H.M., & Eglington, L.G. (2017). Crossmodal attention alters contrast sensitivity for amplitude and frequency modulated auditory information via a mechanisms of contrast gain. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, May 19-22, 2017, Nashville, TN. PDF
Fitch, A., Groth, A., Ganea, P., Carter, A. S., & Kaldy, Z. (2017). Minimally verbal two-year-olds with ASD succeed in using linguistic information to generate expectations about the visual world. Paper presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, May 10-13, 2017, San Francisco, CA.
Fitch, A., Groth, A., Ganea, P., Carter, A. S., & Kaldy, Z. (2017). Toddlers with ASD can use language to form expectations about the visual world. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 6-8, 2017, Austin, TX. PDF
Izen, S., Morina, E., Harris, D.A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017). Biases in the perception of negative facial emotions in social anxiety. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Psychological Science, May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MA.
Kaldy, Z., Dhungana, S., & Blaser, E. (2017). A not-so-narrow spotlight: Infants can encode information about objects into VSTM that were not fixated. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 19-24, 2017, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Keegan, L., Smith, H., & Kaldy, Z. (2017). The effect of familiarity on visual search performance of 2-year-old toddlers with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Poster presented at the Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, April 28, 2017, Amherst, MA. PDF
Krogh-Jespersen, S., Kaldy, Z., Carter, A. S., Groth, A., Mordini, N., & Woodward, A. (2017). Goal Prediction in Typically Developing Children and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 6-8, 2017, Austin, TX. PDF
Leonardo, B., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017) Do global or local features make an abstract shape appear more "baba" or "kiki"? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, May 19-22, 2017, Nashville, TN. PDF
Leviyah, X., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017). Mood changes after brief exposure to emotional Information. Poster presented at the Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, April 28, 2017, Amherst, MA. PDF
Morina, E., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017) Investigating the effects of social anxiety on the perception of negative emotions in faces. Poster presented at the Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, April 28, 2017, Amherst, MA. PDF
Portillo, N., Valentin, C., Green, S., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017). How does race bias our perception of emotion? Poster presented at the Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, April 28, 2017, Amherst, MA. PDF
Thaker, N., Fitch, A., & Kaldy, Z. (2017). Do Labels Help? Exploring the Interaction Between Visual Working Memory and Verbal
Labels in Very Young Infants. Poster presented at the Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, April 28, 2017, Amherst, MA. PDF
2016
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Stoner, G.R. (2016) . Editorial: Beyond space-based and feature-based selection: Mechanisms of object-based attention. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. PDF
Fitch, A.*, Smith, H*., Guillory, S. B., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). Off to a Good Start: The Early Development of the Neural Substrates Underlying Visual Working Memory. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 10: 68. *co-first authors PDF
Ganea, P., Fitch, A., Harris, P., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). 16-month-olds use language to generate expectations about the visual world. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 151, 65-76. PDF
Harris, D.A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016) Interdependent mechanisms for processing gender and emotion: The special status of angry male faces. Frontiers in Psychology. PDF
Harris, D.A., Hayes-Skelton, S.A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). What's in a face? How face gender and current affect influence perceived emotion. Frontiers in Psychology. 7: 1468. PDF
Shukla, M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). Cognitive capacities of the infant mind: A neuroimaging perspective. In: M. Farisco & K. Evers (Eds.) Neurotechnology and direct brain communication. Taylor & Francis. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., O'Neill, M., Deater-Deckard, K., Diana, R.A., & Bell, M.A. (2016). Frontotemporal functional connectivity and executive funtions contribute to episodic memory performance. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 107, 72-82. PDF
Special Issue
Sigala, N., & Kaldy, Z. (Eds.) (2016). The cognitive neuroscience of visual working memory. Research Topic in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/3444/the-cognitive-neuroscience-of-visual-working-memory
Conferences
Briggs, D., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). Interactions between visual salience and synchrony on auditory detectability in adults. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, April 22, 2016, Amherst, MA. Poster
Cheng, C. Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2016). Accounting for cognitive effort in a visual working memory task in 13- and 15-month old infants. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2016, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster
Cheng, C. Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2016). Development of Visual Working Memory in 13- to 16-month-olds in an anticipatory looking task. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, May 24-26, 2016, New Orleans, LA. Poster
Chow, H.M., Harris, D.A., Eid, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016) Early experience alters the developmental trajectory of visual, auditory, and tactile sound-shape correspondence. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2016, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Izen, S., Lapp, H.E., Harris, D., Phan, A., & Hunter, R.G.(2016). Does hearing an emotion alter how we see emotion in a face and the corresponding physiological stress response. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2016, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Phan, A., Harris, D., Lapp, H.E., & Hunter, R.G. (2016). Hearing an emotion alters how we see emotion in a face and the corresponding physiological stress response. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 2-5, 2016, New York, NY. Poster
Cook, T., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016) Perceptual biases for negative emotions in social anxiety. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, April 22, 2016, Amherst, MA. Poster
Fitch, A., Ganea, P., Harris, P., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). Infants continue to trust language input even after multiple false testimonies. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, May 24-26, 2016, New Orleans, LA. Poster
Fitch, A., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). Preverbal infants’ use of labels in visual working memory: An eye-tracking study using Delayed Match Retrieval. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, May 24-26, 2016, New Orleans, LA. Poster
Guillory, S., Blaser, E., Ivester, R., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). Expectations can influence cognitive resource allocation in a visual short-term memory task: evidence from behavioral and pupillometric measures. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science 28th Annual Convention, May 26-29, 2016, Chicago, IL. Poster
Guillory, S., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016) Matching a shape and a sound: Does sound-shape correspondence modulate a neuronal signature of visual shape processing? Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 2-5, 2016, New York, NY. Poster
Guillory, S.B., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). Quantifying the effect of a distractor on the fidelity of visual working memory representations in 4-7-year-old children and adults. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2016, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster
Harris, D., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). Are mechanisms for processing the gender and emotion of a face interdependent? Not for angry male faces. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2016, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster
Harris, D., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). Interdependent mechanisms for processing the gender and emotion of a face. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 2-5, 2016, New York, NY. Poster
Mui, B., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). The transfer of emotion across the senses: changes in the magnitude and rate of perceptual changes for emotional faces from auditory emotions. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, April 22, 2016, Amherst, MA.
Phan, A., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). Cross-modal adaptation to emotional information: Influences on the magnitude and rate of perceptual change. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, April 22, 2016, Amherst, MA. Poster
Sanchez, V.E., Chow, H.M., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). Does this feel familiar? Repeated exposure strengthens crossmodal correspondence associations. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, April 22, 2016, Amherst, MA. Poster
Swenson, K., Chow, H.M., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). The development of emotional interactions across the senses:
Interactions between visual and auditory emotional information in children versus adults. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, April 22, 2016, Amherst, MA. Poster
Tam, T., Sabov, A., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). The strength of associations between abstract shapes and sounds, crossmodal correspondences, decreases for older compared to younger adults. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, April 22, 2016, Amherst, MA. Poster
2015
Papers
Aslin, R.N., Shukla, M., & Emberson, K.L. (2015). Hemodynamic Correlates of Cognition in Human Infants. Annual Review of Psychology. 66:349-379. PDF
Chow, H.M., & Tseng, C.H. (2015). Invisible collinear structures impair search. Consciousness & Cognition, 31:46-59. PDF
Fischer, J., Smith, H., Martinez Pedraza, F., Carter, A.S., Kanwisher, N., & Kaldy, Z. (2015). Unimpaired attentional disengagement in toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Developmental Science. PDF
Fitch, A., Fein, D.A., & Eigsti, I.M. (2015). Detail and Gestalt Focus in Individuals with Optimal Outcomes from Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(6), 1887-1896. PDF
Kaldy Z., Guillory, S.B., & Blaser, E. (2015). Delayed Match Retrieval: A novel anticipation-based Visual Working Memory paradigm. Developmental Science. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., & Bell, M.A. (2015). Frontotemporal coherence and executive functions contribute to memory performance in middle childhood. Developmental Psychobiology, 40, 430-444. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., O'Neill, M., Ross, A., & Bell, M.A. (2015). Working memory and recollection contribute to academic achievement. Learning and Individual Differences, 43, 164-169. PDF
Conferences
Chow, H. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015). Salience affects crossmodal interactions (II): Are visual and auditory salience equally effective at switching crossmodal interactions from beneficial to detrimental? Poster presented at International Multisensory Research Conference. Poster
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Chow, H. (2015). In-phase is not always best: Auditory salience reverses crossmodal influences on visual detectability. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society. Request Poster
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Chow, H. (2015). Research and education in parallel: Scientific outreach through in-site experiments at the Museum of Science Boston. Poster presented at UMass Boston 4th Annual Community-Engaged Partnerships Symposium: Teaching, Research and Service. View Slide
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H. (2015). Salience affects crossmodal interactions (I): Auditory salience switches crossmodal interactions from beneficial to detrimental. Poster presented at International Multisensory Research Conference. Poster
Eid, S., Chow, H., Harris, D., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015). Does a 'kiki' sound look spikey or round to you? Crossmodal correspondence across development. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference. PDF
Eid, S., Chow, H., Harris, D., Sanchez, V., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015) Does a baba sound feel spikey or round to you? Crossmodal correspondence across the audio-somatosensory modalities. Poster presented at New England Psychological Association. PDF
Fitch, A., Ganea, P., Harris, P., & Kaldy, Z. (2015). 16-month-olds can use language to generate expectations about the visual world. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015 meeting, Pasadena, CA. PDF
Guillory, S. B., Scipione, N., & Kaldy, Z. (2015). An Eye-Tracking Study of Infants' Accumulation of Visual Memories in Scenes. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 19-21, 2015, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Harris, D., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015). Contingent adaptation: investigating mechanisms for perceiving the emotion and gender of a face. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference Request Poster
Harris, D., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015). What’s in a face? Investigating mechanisms for processing gender and emotion in a face. Talk presented at the New England Psychological Association.
Harris, D., Groth, A., Hayes-Skelton, S. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015). Using face adaptation to reveal mechanisms of social anxiety. Poster presented in April at Anxiety and Depression Association of America. PDF
Harris, D., Luo, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015). Why so angry? Investigating gender bias in the identification of emotion. Poster presented at the New England Psychological Association (NEPA). PDF
O'Grady, S, Guillory, S. B., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2015). 21-Month-Old Toddlers Pass an Anticipatory Version of the Invisible Displacement Task. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 19-21, 2015, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Smith, H., Fischer, J., Kanwisher, N., Carter, A. S., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2015). An Eye-Tracking Study of Attentional Disengagement and Social Orienting in 2-Year-Old Toddlers. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 19-21, 2015, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Smith, H., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2015). Can 2-Year-Old Toddlers Switch Targets During Visual Search? Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 19-21, 2015, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Smith, H., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2015). The Cost of Attentional Engagement: Target Switching during Visual Search in 2-Year-Old Toddlers with ASD. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, May 13-16, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT. PDF
Williams, A., Harris, D., Lapp, H., Hunter, R., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015). Adapting to emotional information: influences on perception and the physiological stress response. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference Request Poster
2014
Special Issue
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Stoner, G. (Eds.) (2014). Beyond Space-based or Feature-based Selection: Mechanisms of Object-based Attention. Research Topic in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/1220/beyond-space-based-or-feature-based-selection-mechanisms-of-object-based-attention
Papers
Blaser, E., Eglington, L., Carter, A.S., & Kaldy, Z. (2014). Pupillometry Reveals a Mechanism for the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Advantage in Visual Tasks. Scientific Reports, 4, 4301; doi:10.1038/srep04301. PDF
Conferences
Chow, D. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). What you hear is what you see: Non-spatial visual information can hinder auditory detection early in development. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster
Chow, D., Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Dobkins, K.R. (2014). A salient auditory stimulus improves visual contrast sensitivity but does not improve detection speed in 3- and 6-month-olds. Poster presented at the International Society for Infant Studies, Berlin, Germany. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). Crossmodal Interactions: Linking behavioral and neuronal changes in development. Talk presented at the Museum of Science. Request Poster
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Dobkins, K.R. (2014). Multisensory interactions and the principle of inverse effectiveness early in development: Why threshold performance matters. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development. Request Poster
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, D., & Boynton, G.M. (2014). Within- and cross-modal attention modulate unattended visual information as revealed by the strength of visual motion aftereffects across visual contrast. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA. PDF
Crowley J.E., Harris, D.A., Groth, A.J., Hayes-Skelton S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). Social Anxiety: Perceptual influences of happy versus angry faces. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference. Request Poster
Groth, A. J., Guillory, S. B., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2014). Visual search performance and IQ in 2-year-olds. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Visual Science Society, May 16-21, 2014, St. Pete's Beach, FL. Request Poster
Guillory, S.B., Kaldy, Z., Shukla, M., & Pomplun, M. (2014). Pupil Dilation Predicts Memory Strength in a Visual Short-term Memory Task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster
Guillory, S. B., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2014). Task-evoked pupillary response predicts performance in a visual working memory task in 7-10-months-olds. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 3-5, 2014, Berlin, Germany. PDF
Harris, D., Crowley J., Groth, A.J., Hayes-Skelton S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). Adaptation to happy faces: quantifying underlying mechanisms of perceptual bias contributing to social anxiety. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference. PDF
Harris, D., Crowley, J., Hayes-Skelton, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014) Reaction time changes accompany perceptual changes after adaptation to happy faces in individuals with high social anxiety. Poster presented at New England Psychological Association. PDF
Harris, D., Crowley, J., Hayes-Skelton, S., Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014) Responses to emotional information in individuals with high versus low social anxiety: Changes in perception without concomitant changes in reaction time after adaptation to angry faces. Poster presented at New England Psychological Association. Request Poster
Harris, D., Groth, A., Hayes-Skelton, S., and Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). Face Adaptation: A window into mechanisms of social anxiety. Poster presented at Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Chicago, IL.
Jane, K., Chow, H., Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). Can what you see help how you hear? Understanding cross-modal interactions early in development.Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference. Request Poster
Larason, A., Chow, H., Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). The development of cross-modal interactions in infants as revealed by eye tracking methodology. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference. Request Poster
Smith, H., Guillory, S.B., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z. (2014). Resistance to distraction in visual search in 2-year-old toddlers with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Williams, A., Chow, H., Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). Auditory stimulus salience can alter visual detectability and the nature of crossmodal interactions.Poster presented at UMass Boston Summer Research Symposium. Request Poster
Williams, A., Chow, H., Ciaramataro, V.M. (2014) Sound influences visual detectability and reaction time: comparing crossmodal interactions for manual versus saccadic responses. Poster presented at New England Psychological Association.
2013
Papers
Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2013). Red to green or fast to slow? Infants' Visual Working Memory for 'Just Salient Differences'. Child Development, 84(6), 1855-1862. PDF
Kaldy, Z., Giserman, I., Carter, A. S., & Blaser, E. (2013). The mechanisms underlying the ASD advantage in visual search. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. PDF
Payne, L., Guillory, S., & Sekuler, R. (2013). Attention-modulated alpha-band osculations protect against intrusion of irrelevant information. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. PDF
Conferences
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Dobkins, K.R. (2013). Cross-modal Attention: when does a sound help visual detectability? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Dobkins, K.R. (2013). The development of cross-modal attention: when can a sound impair visual detection? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Eglington, L. (2013). Crossmodal Attention: Learning to attend across sensory modalities. Poster presented at Learning to Attend, Attending to Learn: Neurological, Behavioral and Computational Perspectives.
Guillory, S., Blaser, E., Eglington, L., & Kaldy, Z. (2013). Task-evoked pupillary responses in iconic memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, May 10-15, 2013, Naples, Fl. PDF
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Guillory, S. (2013). Infants can play the Memory Game: A novel anticipation-based object/location task. Talk presented as part of the Symposium "Knowing 'What' is 'Where': New Findings on Object Individuation and Identification in Infancy" Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, April 18-21, 2013.
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Guillory, S. (2013). Putting memory to work: A novel anticipation-based visual working memory task for infants. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. Aug 29-Sept 1, 2013, Budapest, Hungary.
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., Guillory, S.B., Carter, A.S., Martinez-Pedraza, F., & Groth, A. (2013). Increased task-specific attentional focus in 2-year old toddlers with ASD. Attending to Learning, Learning to Attend: Neurological, Behavioral and Computational Perspectives, Nov 6-7, 2013, San Diego, CA. PDF
Kiraly, I., Takacs, S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2013). Long-term recall of rhyming text: Preschoolers are better than adults. Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Central European University, January 10-12, 2013, Budapest, Hungary.
2012
Papers
Gervain, J., Mehler, J., Werker, J.F., Nelson, C.A., Csibra, G., Lloyd-Fox, S., Shukla, M., & Aslin, R.N. (2012). Near Infrared Spectroscopy: A report from the McDonnell Infant Methodology Consortium. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2010.07.004. PDF
Shukla, M., Gervain, J., Mehler, J., & Nespor, M. (2012). Linguistic constraints on statistical learning in early language acquisition. PDF
Conferences
Blaser, E., Eglington, L., & Kaldy, Z. (2012). Toddlers with ASD are better at visual search without trying harder: a pupillometric study. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 11-16, 2012, Naples, FL. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Jentzen, D. (2012) Crossmodal attention alters auditory contrast sensitivity. Poster presented at International Multisensory Research Forum. Poster
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Jentzen, D. (2012) Crossmodal attention influences auditory contrast sensitivity: Contrast Gain or Response Gain? Poster presented at International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems. PDF
Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2012). Red to green or fast to slow: Infants' use of equally salient static (color) versus dynamic (rotation speed) features in object identification. Poster presented at the 2012 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Jan 12-14, 2012, Budapest, Hungary. PDF
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Biondi, M. (2012). Can infants play the "Memory" game? Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 6-10, 2012, Minneapolis, MN. PDF
2011
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Mitchell, J.F., Stoner, G.R., Reynolds, J.H., & Boynton, G.M. (2011). Object-based attention to one of two superimposed surfaces alters responses in human early visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 105(3): 1258-65. PDF
Kaldy, Z., Kraper, C., Carter, A., & Blaser, E. (2011). Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder are more successful at visual search than typically developing toddlers. Developmental Science, 14, 980-8. PDF
Nespor, M., Shukla, M., & Mehler, J. (2011). Stress-timed vs. syllable-timed languages. In: M. van Oostendorp, C.J. Ewen, E. Hume and K. Rice (Eds.) The Blackwell companion to phonology. 5 vols. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. PDF
Shukla, M., White, K. S., & Aslin, R. N. (2011). Prosody guides the rapid mapping of auditory word-forms onto visual objects in 6-month-old. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. PDF
Shukla, M., Wen, J., White, K. S., & Aslin, R. N. (2011). SMART-T: A system for fully automated anticipatory eye-tracking paradigms. Behavior Research Methods, DOI 10.3758/s13428-010-0056-6. PDF
Conferences
Blaser E. & Kaldy, Z. (2011). Fast development of iconic memory: Infants' capacity matches adults. Poster presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception, August 28-Sept 1, 2011, Toulouse, France. PDF
Ganea, P., Kaldy, Z., Biondi, M., & Harris, P. (2011). What is the time course of verbal updating? Infants' use of language to update mental representations. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society of Research in Child Development, March 30-April 2, 2011, Montreal, CA. PDF
Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2011). The first buffer of visual information: Iconic memory in infants. Talk presented as part of the Symposium: Memory Development in Infancy. 2011 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Jan 14-16, 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Biondi, M. (2011). Iconic memory capacity in 6-month-old infants and adults. Paper presented as part of the Symposium: New and Robust Approaches to the Study of Object Cognition: Integrating Methods Across Age Groups. Biennial Meeting of the Society of Research in Child Development, March 30-April 2, 2011, Montreal, CA.
Shukla, M., & Aslin, R.N. (2011). Stop-N-Speak: A Novel Gaze-Contingent Paradigm for Assessing Auditory Preferences in Infancy. Talk at the SRCD 2011, Montreal, Canada.
Shukla, M., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2011). Prosody guides statistical speech segmentation and word learning in 6-month-olds. Talk at the symposium: The role of prosody in guiding language learning in pre-lexical infants, organized by M. Shukla, 2011 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.
2010
Papers
Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2010). Infants get five stars on iconic memory tests: A partial report test of 6-month-old infants' iconic memory capacity. Psychological Science, 21, 1643-1645. PDF
Shukla, M., & Nespor, M. (2010). Rhythmic patterns cue word order. In: L. Rochman, and N. Erteschik-Shir (Eds.) The Sound Pattern of Syntax. OUP: Oxford (pp 174 - 188). Request Article
Conferences
Aslin, R.N., & Shukla, M. (2010). "Unimodal and multimodal sensory activations in human infant cortex." Talk presented at the Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Aslin, R.N., Shukla, M., White, K.S., & Wen, J. (2010). "Use of a gaze-contingent eye-tracking paradigm to assess visual and auditory categories." International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.
Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z., Lo, H., & Biondi, M. (2010). A salience-mapping method for testing infants' speed vs. luminance visual working memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 7-13, 2010, Sarasota, FL. PDF
Kraper, C., Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Carter, A. M. (2010). 2.5-year-old toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder are more successful at visual search than typically developing toddlers. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, May 20-22, 2010, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Biondi, M. (2010). Measuring iconic memory capacity in 6-month-old infants using partial report. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies, March 11-14, 2010, Baltimore, MD.
Shukla, M. (2010). "The SMART-T system: Anticipatory eye-tracking in infancy." EyeTracKids III: Eyetracking conference for infant and child researchers, Philadelphia, PA.
Shukla, M., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2010). "Exploring Infants' Natural Categorization Biases with a Fully Automated Eye-tracking Methodology." Talk at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.
2009
Papers
Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2009). How to compare apples and oranges: Infants' object identification tested with equally salient shape, luminance and color changes. Infancy, 14, 222-43. PDF
Conferences
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., Kraper, C., Higgins, E., & Carter, A. (2009). Visual search without instructions: An eye-tracking study with toddlers. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 2-4, 2009, Denver, CO. PDF
Kraper, C., Kaldy, Z., Higgins, E., Blaser, E., & Carter, A. (2009). Do toddlers experience the McGurk Illusion? An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 2-4, 2009, Denver, CO. PDF
Shukla, M. (2009). Domain specificity and statistical computations in speech segmentation. Talk at the Interlocution Workshop, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.
Shukla, M., Gebhart, A.L., & Aslin, R. (2009). Optical Imaging of multimodal sensory processing in infants. Talk at the SRCD 2009 Biennial Meeting, Denver, USA.
2008
Papers
Nespor, M., Mehler, J., Shukla, M., & Pena, M. (2008). Perche solo gli esseri humani parlano? Controversie sui meccanismi di acquisizione del linguaggio. In: M. Piccolino (Ed.) Neuroscienze controverse. Bollati Boringhieri (pp 319-356).
Nespor, M., Shukla, M., van de Vijver, R., Avesani, C., Schraudolf, H., & Donati, C. (2008). Different phrasal prominence realizations in VO and OV languages? Lingue e linguaggio, VII.2, 1-28. PDF
Toro, J.M., Shukla, M., Nespor, M., & Endress, A.D. (2008). The quest for generalizations over consonants: Asymmetries between consonants and vowels are not the by-product of acoustic differences. Perception and Psychophysics, 70(8), 1515-1525. PDF
Conferences
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Mitchell, J.F., Reynolds, J.R., Stoner, G.R., & Boynton, G.M. (2008). Beyond spatial and feature-based selection: Exogenous surface-based attention enhances responses in early visual human cortical areas. Soc. Neurosci, Abstr. PDF
Franklin, A., & Kaldy, Z. (2008). How infants use color in understanding the physical world. Symposium co-chaired at the International Conference on Infant Studies, March 27-29, Vancouver, CA.
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Crug, A. (2008). What is the "same amount of change" for infants? Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, March 27-29, Vancouver, CA.
Schlack, A., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Gil-Da-Costa, R.M., & Albright, T.D. (2008). Cued associative recall: novel pairings of visual motion to color or to auditory tones improves motion discrimination in noisy environments. Soc. Neurosci, Abstr. PDF
Shukla, M., & Nespor, M. (2008). "The vowel tier constrains statistical computations over the consonantal tier." Poster presented at AMLaP, September 2008, Cambridge, UK.
2007
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Buracas, G.T., & Boynton, G.M. (2007). Spatial and cross-modal attention alter responses to unattended sensory information in early visual and auditory human cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98(4), 2399-2413. PDF
Leslie, A., & Kaldy, Z. (2007). Things to remember: Limits, codes, and the development of object working memory in the first year. In: Oakes, L. M. and Bower, P. J. (Eds.) Short- and long-term memory in infancy and early childhood: Taking the first steps toward remembering. pp. 103-125. Oxford, Oxford University Press. PDF
Mehler, J., Gervain, J., Endress, A. D., & Shukla, M. (2007). Mechanisms of language acquisition: imaging and behavioral evidence. In: C. A. Nelson and M. Luciana (eds.) Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (2nd Edition). MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass. Request Article
Shukla, M., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2007). An interaction between prosody and statistics in the segmentation of fluent speech. Cognitive Psychology, 54(1), 1-32. PDF
Conferences
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Boynton, G.M. (2007). Crossmodal attention can alter responses in early visual cortex, with perceptual correlates best linked to V1. Annual Spring Retreat for Cognitive Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Buracas, G.T., & Boynton, G.M. (2007). Behavioral measures of cross-modal attention accord with fMRI responses in V1, not MT+. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2007). Infants’ visual working memory for shape, luminance and color tested with equally salient objects. Poster presented at the European Conference of Visual Perception, Aug 25-31, Arezzo, Italy.
Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. & Vazquez, M. D. (2007). Infants’ visual working memory for shape and luminance tested with equally salient objects. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, March 22-25, Philadelphia, PA.
Nespor, M., Shukla, M., & van de Vijver, R. (2007). "Setting the head-complement parameter?" Talk presented at OCP 4, January 2007, Rhodes, Greece.
Schlack, A., Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Albright, T. (2007). Altering motion perception by motion-color pairing. European Conference on Vision and Perception Abstr.
2006
Papers
Arman, A.C., Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Boynton, G.M. (2006). Effects of feature-based attention on the motion aftereffect at remote locations. Vision Research, 46(18), 2968-2976. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2006). Methodological problems in infancy research: What are infants interested in? In: Gervain, J., Kovacs, K., Lukacs, A. and Racsmany, M. (Eds.) A mind with a thousand faces. A Festschrift in honor of Csaba Pleh. Budapest, Akademiai Press. pp. 390-397. (In Hungarian).
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Leslie, A. M. (2006). A new method for calibrating perceptual salience across dimensions in infants: The case of color vs. luminance. Developmental Science, 9, 482-489. PDF
Mehler, J., Nespor, M., Shukla, M., & Pena, M. (2006). Why is language unique to humans? In: R. Romo and M. Diamond (Eds.) Percept, decision, action: bridging the gaps. Novartis Foundation: London, UK. (pp 251-280). PDF
Ng, M., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Anstis, S., Boynton, G.M., & Fine, I. (2006). Selectivity for the configural cues that identify the gender, ethnicity and identity of faces in human cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(51), 19552-7. PDF
2005
Papers
Kaldy, Z., & Leslie, A. (2005). A memory span of one? Object identification in 6.5-month-old infants. Cognition, 57, 153-177. PDF
Shukla, M. (2005). Language from a biological perspective. Journal of Biosciences, 30(1), 119-127. PDF
2004
Papers
Kaldy, Z. (2004). Slow developmental processes of the visual system. In: J. Gervain and C. Pleh (Eds.) Invisible cognition. Gondolat, Budapest. pp. 45-52. (In Hungarian).
Kaldy, Z., & Kovacs, I. (2004). Is there an independent planning system? Suggestions from a developmental perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 41-42. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Sigala, N. (2004). The neural mechanisms of object working memory: What is where in the infant brain? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 28, 113-121. PDF
2003
Papers
Fitzmaurice, M., Ciaramitaro, V., Palmer, L., & Rosenquist, A. (2003). Visual detection deficits following inactivation of the superior colliculus in the cat. Visual Neuroscience, 20(6), 687-701. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Kovacs, I. (2003). Visual context integration is not fully developed in 4-year-old children. Perception, 32, 657-666. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Leslie, A. M. (2003). Identification of objects in 9-month-old infants: Integrating 'what' and 'where' information. Developmental Science, 6, 360-373. PDF
2002
Papers
Shukla, M. (2002). Dichotomies in the perception of speech. Journal of Biosciences, 27(3), 189-190. PDF
2001
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Cameron, E.L., & Glimcher, P.W. (2001). Stimulus probability directs spatial attention: an enhancement of sensitivity in humans and monkeys. Vision Research, 41, 57-75. PDF
Glimcher, P.W., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Platt, M.L., Bayer, H.M., Brown, M.A., & Handel, A. (2001). Application of neurosonography to experimental physiology. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 108, 131-144. PDF
Leslie, A. M., & Kaldy, Z. (2001). Indexing individual objects in infant working memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 78, 61-74. PDF
Shukla, M. (2001). Getting the beat. Journal of Biosciences, 26(1), 6-7. PDF
1994-2000
Papers
Blass, E.M. & Ciaramitaro, V. (1994) A new look at some old mechanisms in human newborns: Taste and tactile determinants of state, affect and action. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 239, 59(1), 1-81. PDF
Blass, E.M., & Ciaramitaro, V. (1994). Tones and states. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 239, 59(1), 97-101. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Glimcher, P.W. (2000). Attending to Contrast. Neuron, 26, 543-550. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Todd, W.E., & Rosenquist, A.C. (1997). Disinhibition of the superior colliculus restores orienting to visual stimuli in the hemianopic field of the cat. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 387, 568-587. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Wallace, S.F., & Rosenquist, A.C. (1997). Ibotenic acid lesions of the substantia nigra pars reticulata ipsilateral to a visual cortical lesion fail to restore visual orienting responses in the cat. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 377, 596-610. PDF
Delfs, J.M., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Parry, T.J., & Chesselet, M.F. (1995). Subthalamic nucleus lesions: Widespread effects on changes in gene expression induced by nigrostriatal dopamine depletion in rats. Journal of Neuroscience, 15(10), 6562-6575. PDF
Delfs, J.M., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Soghomonian J.J., & Chesselet, M.F. (1996). Unilateral nigrostriatal lesions induce a bilateral increase in glutamic acid decarboxylase mRNA in the reticular thalamic nucleus. Neuroscience, 71, 383-395. PDF
Diamond, A., Ciaramitaro, V., Donner, E., Djali, S., & Robinson, M. (1994). An animal model of early-treated PKU. Journal of Neuroscience, 14(5), 3072-3082. PDF
Pleh, C., & Kaldy, Z. (1996). Where does story grammar come from? Commentary on R. Miikkulainen: Subsymbolic Natural Language Processing. Psycholoquy (e-journal), 7(34). Link
Rosenquist, A.C., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Durmer, J.S., Wallace, S.F., & Todd, W.E. (1996). Ibotenic acid lesions of the superior colliculus produce longer lasting deficits in visual orienting behavior than aspiration lesions in the cat. Progress in Brain Research, 112, 117-130.
Shukla, M. (2000). Reprogramming the cortex. Journal of Biosciences, 25(3), 211-212. PDF
Shukla, M. (2000). Transfer of learning across the somatosensory cortex. Journal of Biosciences, 25(1), 5-6. PDF
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Morina, E., Wu, J.L., Harris, D.A., &. Hayes-Skelton, S.A. (under review). Biases in perceiving positive versus negative emotions: The influence of social anxiety and state affect. Cognition and Emotion.
Donenfeld, J., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (accepted). The resolution of proactive interference in a novel visual working memory task: A behavioral and pupillometric study. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/yfajp
Morina, E., Harris, D.A., Hayes-Skelton, S.A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (accepted). Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: Differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces. Cognition and Emotion.
Kosie, J., Zettersten, M. … Kaldy, Z., …Lew-Williams, C. (registered report accepted). ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time. Nature Human Behaviour. https://psyarxiv.com/ck3vd/
Westebbe, L., Liang, Y., & Blaser, E. (2024). The Accuracy and Precision of Memory for Natural Scenes: A Walk in the Park. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, 8, 131–147. doi.org /10.1162/opmi_a_00122
Hamilton, M., Roper, T., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2024). Can’t get it out of my head: Proactive interference in 3- to 8-year-old children’s visual working memory. Developmental Psychology, 60, 3, 582–594. PDF
Conferences
Blesic, M., Koolhaas, C., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z., & Kovács, A.M. (2024). Gist-based scene categorization in infants. Poster to be presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-11, 2024, Glasgow, UK.
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2024). Infants can build panoramic scene representations from different viewpoints. Poster to be presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-11, 2024, Glasgow, UK.
Pham, Q.A. & Blankenship T. L. (2024). Imagining the short-term and long-term future from another’s perspective. Poster to be presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-11, 2024, Glasgow, UK.
Donenfeld, J., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2024). Testing the Interleaving Effect Without Response Bias: A Replication of Kornell & Bjork (2008). Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, May 24-26, 2024, San Francisco, CA.
Donenfeld, J., Kaldy, Z., Blankenship., T., & Bell, M.A. (2024). Schooling improves inhibitory control in 6-year-olds independent of age: A secondary data analysis. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, March 21-23, 2024, Pasadena, CA. PDF
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2024). My tablet’s about to go dead! 6-year-old children adjust their cognitive strategies depending on whether an external source is reliably available. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, March 21-23, 2024, Pasadena, CA.
Pham, Q.A., Trindade, L., Blankenship T. L. (2024). Episodic memory supports episodic future thinking for oneself and another. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, March 21-23, 2024, Pasadena, CA
2023
Papers
Blankenship, T.L. & Kibbe, M. M. (2023). Plan chunking supports memory-guided planning in 3-year-olds. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13929
Cao, S., Kelly, J., Nguyen, C., Chow, H.M, Leonardo, B, Sabov, A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (accepted). Prior visual experience increases children's use of effective haptic exploration strategies in audio-tactile sound-shape correspondences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Chow, HM, Briggs, D, & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). Does task-irrelevant brightness modulation affect auditory contrast processing? Exploring the interplay between temporal synchrony and stimulus salience. Multisensory Research. PDF
Sirois, S., Brisson, J., Blaser, E., Calignano, G., Donenfeld, J., Hepach, R., Hochmann J., Kaldy, Z., Liszkowski, U., Mayer, M., Ross-Sheehy, S., Russo, S., & Valenza, E. (2023). The pupil collaboration: A multi-lab, multi-method analysis of goal attribution in infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 73, 101890, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101890
Conferences
Morina, E., Beshara, M. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). Attention influences neural responses based on crossmodal correspondences: Responses to abstract shapes are enhanced, even when attending irrelevant shape features, depending on audio-visual congruency. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Nov 11, 2023, Washington D.C.
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Morina, E. (2023). Using EEG frequency tagging to probe crossmodal correspondences: the influence of attention and audio-visual congruency on a neural signature for shape processing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Nov 11, 2023, Washington D.C.
Pham Q. A., Broomell A.P.R., & Blankenship T. L. (2023). Using theory of mind in memory guided planning. Poster presented at the 30th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, August 28-31, 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2023). Young children’s cost-dependent tradeoff between looking and remembering. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2023, St. Pete Beach, FL.
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Alvarado, C., Tihamiuddin, S, Cao, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). The feeling of kiki: Do young children associate nonsense sounds and textures? Poster presented at the Undergraduate Research Showcase at the University of Massachusetts Boston, May 9, 2023.
Alvarado, C., Tihamiuddin, S, Cao, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). The feeling of kiki: Do young children associate nonsense sounds and textures? Poster presented at the Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 28, 2023.
Pham, Q. & Blankenship, T. (2023). Inhibitory Control Contributes to Successful Memory-Guided Planning During Early Childhood. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 23-25, 2023, Salt Lake City, UT.
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2023). Young children strategically trade-off between looking and remembering depending on cost. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 23-25, 2023, Salt Lake City, UT.
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2023). The development of proactive interference resolution in visual working memory. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 23-25, 2023, Salt Lake City, UT.
Blesic, M., Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z. & Kovács, A.M. (2023). 18-month-old infants can extract the gist of a scene with labels. Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD23), January 5-7, 2023, Budapest, Hungary.
2022
Papers
Blankenship, T. L., & Kibbe, M. M. (2022). Two-year-olds apply episodic memories to accomplish novel goals. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 214, 105286.
Blankenship, T. L., Calkins, S. D., & Bell., M.A. (2022). The role of executive functions in item recognition and temporal order memory. Journal of Cognition and Development, 23, 135-147.
Freschl, J., Al Azizi, L., Balboa, L., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2022). The development of peak alpha frequency from infancy to adolescence and its role in visual temporal processing: A meta-analysis. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 57: 101146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101146
Sigala, N., Kaldy, Z., & Reynolds, G. (2022). Editorial: The cognitive neuroscience of visual working memory – Volume II. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16:1017754. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2022.1017754
Hamilton, M., Ross, A., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Proactive interference and working memory development. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews – Cognitive Science, e1593. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1593 PDF
Visser, I., Bergmann, C., Byers-Heinlein, K., Dal Ben, R., Duch, W., Forbes, S., ... Kaldy, Z.., … Zettersten, M. (2022). Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E35. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21000455. PDF
Conferences
Blankenship, T. L. (2022). Limitations of memory-guided planning in 2- and 3-year-olds. Poster presented at the International Conference of Infant Studies Biennial meeting, Ottawa, Canada.
Blankenship, T.L., Kibbe, M. M. (2022). “Plan chunking” improves 3-year-olds’ ability to use episodic memories to guide future actions. Symposium paper presented virtually at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.
Blesic, M., Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z. & Kovács, A.M. (2022). 18-month-old infants can extract the gist of a scene. Poster presented at the 7th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Aug 24-26, 2022, Lancaster, UK.
Beshore, J., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Pupillary response indicates the resolution of proactive interference in a visual working memory task. Talk presented at the Annual Working Memory Symposium, June 21-24, 2022. (virtual)
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Morina, E. (2022) Development of the angry-male/ happy-female bias. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Apr 23-26. San Francisco, CA.
Morina, E. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2022) The angry-male/ happy-female bias in individuals high versus low in social anxiety. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Apr 23-26. San Francisco, CA.
Hamilton, M., Roper, T., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Proactive interference from LTM hinders retrieval from visual working memory in 3-year-olds. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Apr 21-22, 2022, Madison, WI.
Morina, E. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2022) Changes in the angry-male / happy-female bias across development. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2022, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Beshore, J., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z. (2022). Pupillary response indicates the resolution of proactive interference in a visual working memory task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2022, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Proactive interference disrupts toddlers’ visual working memory. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-10, 2022, Ottawa, Canada.
Pham Q. & Blankenship T. L. (2022) Inhibitory control contributes to successful memory-guided planning during early childhood. Poster presented at NeuroBoston Society for Neuroscience Boston chapter meeting, Boston, MA.
2021
Papers
Fitch, A., Thaker, N., & Kaldy, Z. (2021). The role of redundant verbal labels in 8- and 10-month-olds’ working memory. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101617. PDF
Chow, H.M., Harris, D.A., Eid, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2021). The feeling of "kiki": Comparing developmental changes in sound-shape correspondence for audio-visual and audio-tactile stimuli. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105167. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2021). Coffee with the executive. Book review of David Badre’s ‘On Task’. Current Biology, 31, R270–R271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.020. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2021). On taking the historian’s stance in a natural science. In: Gervain, J., Kovács, K., & Csibra, G. (Eds.) A Life in Cognition: Studies in Cognitive Science in honor of Csaba Pléh. Language, Cognition, and Mind, vol 11. Springer, Cham. PDF https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66175-5_14
Conferences
Blankenship, T. L., Strong R. W., & Kibbe, M. M. (April, 2021). Development of split foci of attention. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development’s Conference biennial meeting (virtual due to COVID-19).
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2021). Proactive interference disrupts 3-year-old toddlers’ visual working memory. Poster presented at the 6th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Aug 25-27, 2021. (virtual due to COVID-19)
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Kelly, J., & Nguyen, C. (2021). The feeling of “kiki”: select tactile experience or visual imagery can enhance abstract audio-tactile crossmodal correspondences in early childhood. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 21-26, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Freschl, J., Al Alizi, L., Balboa, L., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2021). The development of peak alpha frequency from infancy to adolescence and its role in visual temporal processing: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 21-26, 2021. (virtual due to COVID-19) abstract
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2021). Building 3D scene representations from different viewpoints: A contextual cueing study. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 21-26, 2021. (virtual due to COVID-19) abstract
Freschl, J., Al Alizi, L., Balboa, L., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2021). Development of occipital peak alpha frequency: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 4-9, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Kelly, J., & Nguyen, C. (2021). The feeling of “kiki”: tactile experience and visual imagery can enhance abstract audio-tactile crossmodal correspondences in early childhood, but do they alter haptic exploration strategies? Presentation at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD21), January 3-5, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Kaldy, Z., Cheng, C., & Blaser, E. (2021). Delayed Match Retrieval: A five-year retrospective. Presentation at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD21), January 3-5, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
2020
Papers
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Carter, A. S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Seeing a page of a flipbook: Shorter visual temporal integration windows in 2-year-old toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2430. PDF
Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). A crowd of emotional voices influences the perception of emotional faces: Using adaptation, stimulus salience, and attention to probe audio-visual interactions for emotional stimuli. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02104-0. URL
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Coding of featural information in Visual Working Memory in 2.5-year-old toddlers. Cognitive Development, 55:100892. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Putting effort into infant cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420903015. PDF
Chow HM., Leviyah, X., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). Individual differences in multisensory interactions: The influence of temporal phase coherence and auditory salience on visual contrast sensitivity. Vision, Special Issue on Multisensory Modulation of Vision, 4, 12. PDF
Blankenship, T. L., Strong, R. W., Kibbe, M. M. (2020). Development of multiple object tracking via multifocal attention. Developmental Psychology, 56, 1684. PDF
Conferences
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2020). Proactive interference disrupts toddlers’ visual working memory. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 6-9, 2020. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Multimodal stimuli with sound/shape correspondence help the working memory of 9-month-old infants. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 6-9, 2020. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Kelly, J. Nguyen, K. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). Feeling Bouba or Kiki: the role of select prior exposure in enhancing audio-tactile associations early in development. Sigma Xi Student Scholars Symposium May 14, 2020, [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Visual temporal integration windows are longer in infants. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, June 19-24, 2020, St. Pete Beach, FL. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). Multisensory interactions between emotional faces and voices can be enhanced by attending to face emotion, but not to face gender. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, May 2-5, 2020, [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Kaldy, Z. (2020). Visual attentional mechanisms in 2-year-olds with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Invited talk as part of the Presidential Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, June 17-18, 2020. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
2019
Papers
Guillory, S. B., & Kaldy, Z. (2019). Persistence and accumulation of visual memories for objects in scenes in 12-month-old infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 10: 2454. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02454
Izen, S.C., Lapp, H. E., Harris, D.A., Hunter, R. G., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019). Seeing a face in a crowd of emotional voices: Changes in perception and cortisol in response to emotional information across the senses. Brain Sciences, Special Issue on Perceptual and Affective Mechanisms in Facial Expression, 9, 176. PDF
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). 2-year-olds succeed at MIT: Multiple Identity Tracking in 20- and 25-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 187, 104649. PDF
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). Visual temporal integration windows are adult-like in 5-7-year-old children. Journal of Vision, 19(7):5, 1–12. https://jov.arvojournals.org/Article.aspx?articleid=2738014.
Smith, H., Carter, A. S., Blaser. E., Kaldy. Z. (2019) Successful attentional set-shifting in 2-year- olds with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. PLoS ONE 14(3): e0213903. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0213903.
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). Pupillometry reveals that focused attention predicts visual working memory performance in infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 36:100616. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100616.
Media coverage: ScienceTrends.com
Chow HM. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019). What makes a shape 'baba'? The shape feature prioritized in sound-shape correspondence changes with development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 179, 73-89. PDF
Fitch, A., Valadez, A., Ganea, P., Carter, A. S., & Kaldy, Z. (2019). Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder can use language to update their expectations about the world. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(2):429-440. PDF
Blankenship, T.L. & Kibbe, M. M. (2019). Examining the limits of memory-guided planning in 3 and 4-year-olds. Cognitive Development, 52, 100820. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., Slough, M.A., Calkins, S.D., Deater-Deckard, K., Kim-Spoon, J., & Bell, M.A., (2019). Attention and executive functioning in infancy: links to childhood executive function and reading achievement. Developmental Science, e12824. PDF
Conferences
Izen, S.C., Lapp, H.E., Harris, D.A., Hunter, R.G., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Seeing a face in a crowds of emotional voices: Changes in perception and cortisol in response to emotional information across the senses. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, October 19-23, Chicago, IL.
Raymond, N., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Quantifying perceptual biases in social anxiety: How do different measures compare? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Sciences, May 27-30, Washington, DC.
Kelly, J., Chow, HM, Nguyen, C. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Feeling bouba or kiki: a role for visual exposure in tactile-audio associations. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Sciences, May 27-30, Washington, DC.
Baidak, B. Hughes, D.E., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Does the attractiveness of a face bias how we perceive emotion in a face? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Sciences, May 27-30, Washington, DC.
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H.M., Morina, E. (2019). Crossmodal correspondences between abstract shapes and nonsense words modulate a neuronal signature of visual shape processing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 17-22, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Carter, A. S., Dhungana, S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). Visual temporal integration windows in 2-year-old toddlers with and without ASD. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 17-22, 2019, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Morina, E., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Does sound shape correspondence modulate a neuronal signature of visual shape processing for attended shapes? Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 23-26, 2019, San Francisco, CA.
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z.,& Blaser, E. (2019). Robust Visual Working Memory for object features in 2.5-year-olds. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 21-23, 2019, Baltimore, MD. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2019). Making infants’ working memory work. Invited paper as part of the Symposium The Development of Working Memory at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD19), January 3-5, 2019, Budapest, Hungary.
Cheng, C., Dhungana, S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). The development of visual working memory over the second year of life. Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD19), January 3-5, 2019, Budapest, Hungary. PDF
Choi M., & Shukla, M. (2019). Can infants use multiple cues in phoneme Learning? Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD19), January 3-5, 2019, Budapest, Hungary.
2018
Papers
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Using object history to predict future behavior: Evidence for essentialism at 9 months of age. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Krogh-Jespersen, S., Kaldy, Z., Valadez, A., Carter, A. S., & Woodward, A. (2018). Goal prediction in 2-year-old children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: An eye-tracking study. Autism Research. PDF
Guillory, S. B., Gliga, T., & Kaldy, Z. (2018). Quantifying attentional effects on the fidelity and biases of visual working memory in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 167, 146–161. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., Broomell, A.P.R., & Bell, M.A. (2018). Semantic future thinking and executive funtions at age 4: the moderating role of frontal activity. Developmental Psychobiology, 60, 608-614. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., Keith, K., Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A. (2018). Behavioral performance and neural areas associated with memory processes contribute to math and reading achievement in 6-year-old children. Cognitive Development, 47, 63-70. PDF
Conferences
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z.,& Blaser, E. (2018). Using object history to predict future behavior: Are young infants essentialists? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 25-28, 2018, Madison, WI. PDF
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Pupillometry uncovers the role of focused attention in Visual Working Memory in infants. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., Dhungana, S., & Blaser, E. (2018). Successful updating of spatial information in Visual Working Memory in 20- and 25-month-olds. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Fitch, A., Valadez, A., Carter, A. S., & Kaldy, Z. (2018). Toddlers with ASD can use linguistic information to update their mental representations. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies as part of the Symposium “The Development of Working Memory Updating”, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA.
Fitch, A., Ganea, P., Harris, P., & Kaldy, Z. (2018). 17-month-olds do not revoke trust from unreliable informants providing verbal testimony. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Carter, A. S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Visual Temporal Integration Windows are longer in 2-year-old toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Choi M., Shukla, M. (2018). Using Multiple Cues in Phoneme Learning. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Endogenous attention impairs a neuronal signature of audio-visual sound-shape correspondence. International Multisensory Research Forum, June 14-17, Toronto, Canada. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H.M., & Silva, N. (2018) Musical expertise weakens the cost of dividing attention between vision and audition. International Multisensory Research Forum, June 14-17, Toronto, Canada. PDF
Izen, S.C., Parent, K., Goutama, V., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) How the emotion we see is influenced by the emotion we hear depends on the visibility of a face. International Multisensory Research Forum, June 14-17, Toronto, Canada. PDF
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Visual Temporal Integration Windows are adult-like in typically developing 5-7-year-old children. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 18-23, 2018, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Chow, H.M. Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Musical expertise modulates the cost of crossmodal divided attention between vision and audition in behavior but not in tonic pupil dilation. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 18-23, 2018, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Morina, E., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) The strength of adaptation to negative versus positive emotional information depends on social anxiety status. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 18-23, 2018, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Leviyah, X., Chow, H.M. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Interactions between stimulus salience and timing determine the extent to which a sound alters visual detectability. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Morina, E., Raymond, N., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Maintained negative biases in social anxiety via biased adaptation to happy and angry faces depends on face gender. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Parent, K., Goutama, V., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) How the Emotion We See is Influenced by the Emotion We Hear Depends on the Visibility of a Face. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Sabov, A., Chow, H.M., Leonardo, B., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) A neuronal signature for correspondences between abstract shapes and sounds. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Silva, N., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Does musical training improve crossmodal attention? Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Chow, H.M., Leonardo, B., Sabov, A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. Is a round shape integrated with a /bouba/ sound?
Enhanced neuronal signals at the intermodulation frequencies of congruent audio-visual stimuli. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Izen, S.C., Leviyah, X., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Seen and heard emotions of a crowd alter perception and state affect. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M. Izen, S.C., Lapp, H.E., Harris, D.A., Hunter, R.G. (2018) Seen and heard emotions alter perception and cortisol. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Morina, E., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Weakened adaptation for negative compared to positive emotions in individuals high in social anxiety. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Uysal, E., Choi M., de Villiers, J., Shukla, M. (2018). Some Complex Concepts Require Language: An eye-tracking study with 12- to 24-mo-old infants and adults. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Choi M., Uysal, E., Shukla, M. (2018). Phoneme learning in a musical context. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
2017
Papers
Soto, T.W., Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Carter, A.S. (2017). Sensory Over Responsivity. In C. Zeanah (Ed), Handbook of infant mental health, 4th edition, New York, Guilford Press. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H.M., & Eglington, L.G. (2017). Crossmodal attention influences auditory contrast sensitivity: Decreasing visual load improves auditory thresholds for amplitude and frequency modulated sounds. Journal of Vision, 17(3):20, 1–22. PDF
Kaldy, Z. & Sigala, N. (2017). Editorial: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Working Memory. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 11:1. PDF
Kibbe, M., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2017). Rules infants look by: Testing the assumption of transitivity in visual salience. Infancy. PDF
Király, I., Takács, S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2017). Preschoolers have better long-term memory for rhyming text than adults. Developmental Science, 20, e12398. PDF Supplemental TEXT Supplemental VIDEO
Conferences
Morina, E., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017). Changes in perceiving and reacting to emotional faces in individuals high in social anxiety. New England Psychological Association, October 21, 2017, Boston, MA.
Leviyah, X., Izen, S., Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017) Attention determines how exposure to emotional information effects mood. New England Psychological Association, October 21, 2017, Boston, MA.
Cheng, C., Kaldy Z., & Blaser E. (2017, October). The role of similarity in toddlers’ Visual Working Memory representations. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Portland, OR. PDF
Smith, H., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2017). Recently rewarded task-irrelevant stimuli do not distract 2-year-olds during visual search. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 27-29, 2017, London, UK. PDF
Briggs, D., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017). The interdependence of visual salience and audiovisual synchrony on auditory contrast detection. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, May 19-22, 2017, Nashville, TN. PDF
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., Dhungana, S., & Blaser, E. (2017). Using object history to predict future behavior: Are young infants essentialists? Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 6-8, 2017, Austin, TX. PDF
Chow, H.M. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017). What makes a shape /baba/ to a child versus an adult? Changing contributions from shape contour, protrusion number, and protrusion size in sound-shape correspondence. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, May 19-22, 2017, Nashville, TN. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H.M., & Eglington, L.G. (2017). Crossmodal attention alters contrast sensitivity for amplitude and frequency modulated auditory information via a mechanisms of contrast gain. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, May 19-22, 2017, Nashville, TN. PDF
Fitch, A., Groth, A., Ganea, P., Carter, A. S., & Kaldy, Z. (2017). Minimally verbal two-year-olds with ASD succeed in using linguistic information to generate expectations about the visual world. Paper presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, May 10-13, 2017, San Francisco, CA.
Fitch, A., Groth, A., Ganea, P., Carter, A. S., & Kaldy, Z. (2017). Toddlers with ASD can use language to form expectations about the visual world. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 6-8, 2017, Austin, TX. PDF
Izen, S., Morina, E., Harris, D.A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017). Biases in the perception of negative facial emotions in social anxiety. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Psychological Science, May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MA.
Kaldy, Z., Dhungana, S., & Blaser, E. (2017). A not-so-narrow spotlight: Infants can encode information about objects into VSTM that were not fixated. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 19-24, 2017, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Keegan, L., Smith, H., & Kaldy, Z. (2017). The effect of familiarity on visual search performance of 2-year-old toddlers with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Poster presented at the Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, April 28, 2017, Amherst, MA. PDF
Krogh-Jespersen, S., Kaldy, Z., Carter, A. S., Groth, A., Mordini, N., & Woodward, A. (2017). Goal Prediction in Typically Developing Children and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 6-8, 2017, Austin, TX. PDF
Leonardo, B., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017) Do global or local features make an abstract shape appear more "baba" or "kiki"? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, May 19-22, 2017, Nashville, TN. PDF
Leviyah, X., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017). Mood changes after brief exposure to emotional Information. Poster presented at the Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, April 28, 2017, Amherst, MA. PDF
Morina, E., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017) Investigating the effects of social anxiety on the perception of negative emotions in faces. Poster presented at the Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, April 28, 2017, Amherst, MA. PDF
Portillo, N., Valentin, C., Green, S., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2017). How does race bias our perception of emotion? Poster presented at the Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, April 28, 2017, Amherst, MA. PDF
Thaker, N., Fitch, A., & Kaldy, Z. (2017). Do Labels Help? Exploring the Interaction Between Visual Working Memory and Verbal
Labels in Very Young Infants. Poster presented at the Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, April 28, 2017, Amherst, MA. PDF
2016
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Stoner, G.R. (2016) . Editorial: Beyond space-based and feature-based selection: Mechanisms of object-based attention. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. PDF
Fitch, A.*, Smith, H*., Guillory, S. B., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). Off to a Good Start: The Early Development of the Neural Substrates Underlying Visual Working Memory. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 10: 68. *co-first authors PDF
Ganea, P., Fitch, A., Harris, P., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). 16-month-olds use language to generate expectations about the visual world. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 151, 65-76. PDF
Harris, D.A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016) Interdependent mechanisms for processing gender and emotion: The special status of angry male faces. Frontiers in Psychology. PDF
Harris, D.A., Hayes-Skelton, S.A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). What's in a face? How face gender and current affect influence perceived emotion. Frontiers in Psychology. 7: 1468. PDF
Shukla, M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). Cognitive capacities of the infant mind: A neuroimaging perspective. In: M. Farisco & K. Evers (Eds.) Neurotechnology and direct brain communication. Taylor & Francis. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., O'Neill, M., Deater-Deckard, K., Diana, R.A., & Bell, M.A. (2016). Frontotemporal functional connectivity and executive funtions contribute to episodic memory performance. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 107, 72-82. PDF
Special Issue
Sigala, N., & Kaldy, Z. (Eds.) (2016). The cognitive neuroscience of visual working memory. Research Topic in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/3444/the-cognitive-neuroscience-of-visual-working-memory
Conferences
Briggs, D., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). Interactions between visual salience and synchrony on auditory detectability in adults. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, April 22, 2016, Amherst, MA. Poster
Cheng, C. Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2016). Accounting for cognitive effort in a visual working memory task in 13- and 15-month old infants. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2016, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster
Cheng, C. Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2016). Development of Visual Working Memory in 13- to 16-month-olds in an anticipatory looking task. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, May 24-26, 2016, New Orleans, LA. Poster
Chow, H.M., Harris, D.A., Eid, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016) Early experience alters the developmental trajectory of visual, auditory, and tactile sound-shape correspondence. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2016, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Izen, S., Lapp, H.E., Harris, D., Phan, A., & Hunter, R.G.(2016). Does hearing an emotion alter how we see emotion in a face and the corresponding physiological stress response. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2016, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Phan, A., Harris, D., Lapp, H.E., & Hunter, R.G. (2016). Hearing an emotion alters how we see emotion in a face and the corresponding physiological stress response. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 2-5, 2016, New York, NY. Poster
Cook, T., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016) Perceptual biases for negative emotions in social anxiety. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, April 22, 2016, Amherst, MA. Poster
Fitch, A., Ganea, P., Harris, P., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). Infants continue to trust language input even after multiple false testimonies. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, May 24-26, 2016, New Orleans, LA. Poster
Fitch, A., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). Preverbal infants’ use of labels in visual working memory: An eye-tracking study using Delayed Match Retrieval. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, May 24-26, 2016, New Orleans, LA. Poster
Guillory, S., Blaser, E., Ivester, R., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). Expectations can influence cognitive resource allocation in a visual short-term memory task: evidence from behavioral and pupillometric measures. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science 28th Annual Convention, May 26-29, 2016, Chicago, IL. Poster
Guillory, S., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016) Matching a shape and a sound: Does sound-shape correspondence modulate a neuronal signature of visual shape processing? Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 2-5, 2016, New York, NY. Poster
Guillory, S.B., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). Quantifying the effect of a distractor on the fidelity of visual working memory representations in 4-7-year-old children and adults. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2016, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster
Harris, D., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). Are mechanisms for processing the gender and emotion of a face interdependent? Not for angry male faces. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2016, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster
Harris, D., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). Interdependent mechanisms for processing the gender and emotion of a face. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 2-5, 2016, New York, NY. Poster
Mui, B., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). The transfer of emotion across the senses: changes in the magnitude and rate of perceptual changes for emotional faces from auditory emotions. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, April 22, 2016, Amherst, MA.
Phan, A., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). Cross-modal adaptation to emotional information: Influences on the magnitude and rate of perceptual change. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, April 22, 2016, Amherst, MA. Poster
Sanchez, V.E., Chow, H.M., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). Does this feel familiar? Repeated exposure strengthens crossmodal correspondence associations. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, April 22, 2016, Amherst, MA. Poster
Swenson, K., Chow, H.M., Izen, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). The development of emotional interactions across the senses:
Interactions between visual and auditory emotional information in children versus adults. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, April 22, 2016, Amherst, MA. Poster
Tam, T., Sabov, A., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). The strength of associations between abstract shapes and sounds, crossmodal correspondences, decreases for older compared to younger adults. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference, April 22, 2016, Amherst, MA. Poster
2015
Papers
Aslin, R.N., Shukla, M., & Emberson, K.L. (2015). Hemodynamic Correlates of Cognition in Human Infants. Annual Review of Psychology. 66:349-379. PDF
Chow, H.M., & Tseng, C.H. (2015). Invisible collinear structures impair search. Consciousness & Cognition, 31:46-59. PDF
Fischer, J., Smith, H., Martinez Pedraza, F., Carter, A.S., Kanwisher, N., & Kaldy, Z. (2015). Unimpaired attentional disengagement in toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Developmental Science. PDF
Fitch, A., Fein, D.A., & Eigsti, I.M. (2015). Detail and Gestalt Focus in Individuals with Optimal Outcomes from Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(6), 1887-1896. PDF
Kaldy Z., Guillory, S.B., & Blaser, E. (2015). Delayed Match Retrieval: A novel anticipation-based Visual Working Memory paradigm. Developmental Science. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., & Bell, M.A. (2015). Frontotemporal coherence and executive functions contribute to memory performance in middle childhood. Developmental Psychobiology, 40, 430-444. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., O'Neill, M., Ross, A., & Bell, M.A. (2015). Working memory and recollection contribute to academic achievement. Learning and Individual Differences, 43, 164-169. PDF
Conferences
Chow, H. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015). Salience affects crossmodal interactions (II): Are visual and auditory salience equally effective at switching crossmodal interactions from beneficial to detrimental? Poster presented at International Multisensory Research Conference. Poster
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Chow, H. (2015). In-phase is not always best: Auditory salience reverses crossmodal influences on visual detectability. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society. Request Poster
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Chow, H. (2015). Research and education in parallel: Scientific outreach through in-site experiments at the Museum of Science Boston. Poster presented at UMass Boston 4th Annual Community-Engaged Partnerships Symposium: Teaching, Research and Service. View Slide
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H. (2015). Salience affects crossmodal interactions (I): Auditory salience switches crossmodal interactions from beneficial to detrimental. Poster presented at International Multisensory Research Conference. Poster
Eid, S., Chow, H., Harris, D., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015). Does a 'kiki' sound look spikey or round to you? Crossmodal correspondence across development. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference. PDF
Eid, S., Chow, H., Harris, D., Sanchez, V., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015) Does a baba sound feel spikey or round to you? Crossmodal correspondence across the audio-somatosensory modalities. Poster presented at New England Psychological Association. PDF
Fitch, A., Ganea, P., Harris, P., & Kaldy, Z. (2015). 16-month-olds can use language to generate expectations about the visual world. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015 meeting, Pasadena, CA. PDF
Guillory, S. B., Scipione, N., & Kaldy, Z. (2015). An Eye-Tracking Study of Infants' Accumulation of Visual Memories in Scenes. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 19-21, 2015, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Harris, D., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015). Contingent adaptation: investigating mechanisms for perceiving the emotion and gender of a face. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference Request Poster
Harris, D., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015). What’s in a face? Investigating mechanisms for processing gender and emotion in a face. Talk presented at the New England Psychological Association.
Harris, D., Groth, A., Hayes-Skelton, S. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015). Using face adaptation to reveal mechanisms of social anxiety. Poster presented in April at Anxiety and Depression Association of America. PDF
Harris, D., Luo, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015). Why so angry? Investigating gender bias in the identification of emotion. Poster presented at the New England Psychological Association (NEPA). PDF
O'Grady, S, Guillory, S. B., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2015). 21-Month-Old Toddlers Pass an Anticipatory Version of the Invisible Displacement Task. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 19-21, 2015, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Smith, H., Fischer, J., Kanwisher, N., Carter, A. S., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2015). An Eye-Tracking Study of Attentional Disengagement and Social Orienting in 2-Year-Old Toddlers. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 19-21, 2015, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Smith, H., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2015). Can 2-Year-Old Toddlers Switch Targets During Visual Search? Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 19-21, 2015, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Smith, H., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2015). The Cost of Attentional Engagement: Target Switching during Visual Search in 2-Year-Old Toddlers with ASD. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, May 13-16, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT. PDF
Williams, A., Harris, D., Lapp, H., Hunter, R., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2015). Adapting to emotional information: influences on perception and the physiological stress response. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference Request Poster
2014
Special Issue
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Stoner, G. (Eds.) (2014). Beyond Space-based or Feature-based Selection: Mechanisms of Object-based Attention. Research Topic in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/1220/beyond-space-based-or-feature-based-selection-mechanisms-of-object-based-attention
Papers
Blaser, E., Eglington, L., Carter, A.S., & Kaldy, Z. (2014). Pupillometry Reveals a Mechanism for the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Advantage in Visual Tasks. Scientific Reports, 4, 4301; doi:10.1038/srep04301. PDF
Conferences
Chow, D. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). What you hear is what you see: Non-spatial visual information can hinder auditory detection early in development. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster
Chow, D., Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Dobkins, K.R. (2014). A salient auditory stimulus improves visual contrast sensitivity but does not improve detection speed in 3- and 6-month-olds. Poster presented at the International Society for Infant Studies, Berlin, Germany. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). Crossmodal Interactions: Linking behavioral and neuronal changes in development. Talk presented at the Museum of Science. Request Poster
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Dobkins, K.R. (2014). Multisensory interactions and the principle of inverse effectiveness early in development: Why threshold performance matters. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development. Request Poster
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, D., & Boynton, G.M. (2014). Within- and cross-modal attention modulate unattended visual information as revealed by the strength of visual motion aftereffects across visual contrast. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA. PDF
Crowley J.E., Harris, D.A., Groth, A.J., Hayes-Skelton S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). Social Anxiety: Perceptual influences of happy versus angry faces. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference. Request Poster
Groth, A. J., Guillory, S. B., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2014). Visual search performance and IQ in 2-year-olds. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Visual Science Society, May 16-21, 2014, St. Pete's Beach, FL. Request Poster
Guillory, S.B., Kaldy, Z., Shukla, M., & Pomplun, M. (2014). Pupil Dilation Predicts Memory Strength in a Visual Short-term Memory Task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. Poster
Guillory, S. B., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2014). Task-evoked pupillary response predicts performance in a visual working memory task in 7-10-months-olds. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 3-5, 2014, Berlin, Germany. PDF
Harris, D., Crowley J., Groth, A.J., Hayes-Skelton S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). Adaptation to happy faces: quantifying underlying mechanisms of perceptual bias contributing to social anxiety. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference. PDF
Harris, D., Crowley, J., Hayes-Skelton, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014) Reaction time changes accompany perceptual changes after adaptation to happy faces in individuals with high social anxiety. Poster presented at New England Psychological Association. PDF
Harris, D., Crowley, J., Hayes-Skelton, S., Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014) Responses to emotional information in individuals with high versus low social anxiety: Changes in perception without concomitant changes in reaction time after adaptation to angry faces. Poster presented at New England Psychological Association. Request Poster
Harris, D., Groth, A., Hayes-Skelton, S., and Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). Face Adaptation: A window into mechanisms of social anxiety. Poster presented at Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Chicago, IL.
Jane, K., Chow, H., Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). Can what you see help how you hear? Understanding cross-modal interactions early in development.Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference. Request Poster
Larason, A., Chow, H., Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). The development of cross-modal interactions in infants as revealed by eye tracking methodology. Poster presented at UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conference. Request Poster
Smith, H., Guillory, S.B., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z. (2014). Resistance to distraction in visual search in 2-year-old toddlers with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Williams, A., Chow, H., Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2014). Auditory stimulus salience can alter visual detectability and the nature of crossmodal interactions.Poster presented at UMass Boston Summer Research Symposium. Request Poster
Williams, A., Chow, H., Ciaramataro, V.M. (2014) Sound influences visual detectability and reaction time: comparing crossmodal interactions for manual versus saccadic responses. Poster presented at New England Psychological Association.
2013
Papers
Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2013). Red to green or fast to slow? Infants' Visual Working Memory for 'Just Salient Differences'. Child Development, 84(6), 1855-1862. PDF
Kaldy, Z., Giserman, I., Carter, A. S., & Blaser, E. (2013). The mechanisms underlying the ASD advantage in visual search. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. PDF
Payne, L., Guillory, S., & Sekuler, R. (2013). Attention-modulated alpha-band osculations protect against intrusion of irrelevant information. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. PDF
Conferences
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Dobkins, K.R. (2013). Cross-modal Attention: when does a sound help visual detectability? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Dobkins, K.R. (2013). The development of cross-modal attention: when can a sound impair visual detection? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Eglington, L. (2013). Crossmodal Attention: Learning to attend across sensory modalities. Poster presented at Learning to Attend, Attending to Learn: Neurological, Behavioral and Computational Perspectives.
Guillory, S., Blaser, E., Eglington, L., & Kaldy, Z. (2013). Task-evoked pupillary responses in iconic memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, May 10-15, 2013, Naples, Fl. PDF
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Guillory, S. (2013). Infants can play the Memory Game: A novel anticipation-based object/location task. Talk presented as part of the Symposium "Knowing 'What' is 'Where': New Findings on Object Individuation and Identification in Infancy" Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, April 18-21, 2013.
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Guillory, S. (2013). Putting memory to work: A novel anticipation-based visual working memory task for infants. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. Aug 29-Sept 1, 2013, Budapest, Hungary.
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., Guillory, S.B., Carter, A.S., Martinez-Pedraza, F., & Groth, A. (2013). Increased task-specific attentional focus in 2-year old toddlers with ASD. Attending to Learning, Learning to Attend: Neurological, Behavioral and Computational Perspectives, Nov 6-7, 2013, San Diego, CA. PDF
Kiraly, I., Takacs, S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2013). Long-term recall of rhyming text: Preschoolers are better than adults. Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Central European University, January 10-12, 2013, Budapest, Hungary.
2012
Papers
Gervain, J., Mehler, J., Werker, J.F., Nelson, C.A., Csibra, G., Lloyd-Fox, S., Shukla, M., & Aslin, R.N. (2012). Near Infrared Spectroscopy: A report from the McDonnell Infant Methodology Consortium. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2010.07.004. PDF
Shukla, M., Gervain, J., Mehler, J., & Nespor, M. (2012). Linguistic constraints on statistical learning in early language acquisition. PDF
Conferences
Blaser, E., Eglington, L., & Kaldy, Z. (2012). Toddlers with ASD are better at visual search without trying harder: a pupillometric study. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 11-16, 2012, Naples, FL. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Jentzen, D. (2012) Crossmodal attention alters auditory contrast sensitivity. Poster presented at International Multisensory Research Forum. Poster
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Jentzen, D. (2012) Crossmodal attention influences auditory contrast sensitivity: Contrast Gain or Response Gain? Poster presented at International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems. PDF
Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2012). Red to green or fast to slow: Infants' use of equally salient static (color) versus dynamic (rotation speed) features in object identification. Poster presented at the 2012 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Jan 12-14, 2012, Budapest, Hungary. PDF
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Biondi, M. (2012). Can infants play the "Memory" game? Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 6-10, 2012, Minneapolis, MN. PDF
2011
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Mitchell, J.F., Stoner, G.R., Reynolds, J.H., & Boynton, G.M. (2011). Object-based attention to one of two superimposed surfaces alters responses in human early visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 105(3): 1258-65. PDF
Kaldy, Z., Kraper, C., Carter, A., & Blaser, E. (2011). Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder are more successful at visual search than typically developing toddlers. Developmental Science, 14, 980-8. PDF
Nespor, M., Shukla, M., & Mehler, J. (2011). Stress-timed vs. syllable-timed languages. In: M. van Oostendorp, C.J. Ewen, E. Hume and K. Rice (Eds.) The Blackwell companion to phonology. 5 vols. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. PDF
Shukla, M., White, K. S., & Aslin, R. N. (2011). Prosody guides the rapid mapping of auditory word-forms onto visual objects in 6-month-old. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. PDF
Shukla, M., Wen, J., White, K. S., & Aslin, R. N. (2011). SMART-T: A system for fully automated anticipatory eye-tracking paradigms. Behavior Research Methods, DOI 10.3758/s13428-010-0056-6. PDF
Conferences
Blaser E. & Kaldy, Z. (2011). Fast development of iconic memory: Infants' capacity matches adults. Poster presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception, August 28-Sept 1, 2011, Toulouse, France. PDF
Ganea, P., Kaldy, Z., Biondi, M., & Harris, P. (2011). What is the time course of verbal updating? Infants' use of language to update mental representations. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society of Research in Child Development, March 30-April 2, 2011, Montreal, CA. PDF
Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2011). The first buffer of visual information: Iconic memory in infants. Talk presented as part of the Symposium: Memory Development in Infancy. 2011 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Jan 14-16, 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Biondi, M. (2011). Iconic memory capacity in 6-month-old infants and adults. Paper presented as part of the Symposium: New and Robust Approaches to the Study of Object Cognition: Integrating Methods Across Age Groups. Biennial Meeting of the Society of Research in Child Development, March 30-April 2, 2011, Montreal, CA.
Shukla, M., & Aslin, R.N. (2011). Stop-N-Speak: A Novel Gaze-Contingent Paradigm for Assessing Auditory Preferences in Infancy. Talk at the SRCD 2011, Montreal, Canada.
Shukla, M., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2011). Prosody guides statistical speech segmentation and word learning in 6-month-olds. Talk at the symposium: The role of prosody in guiding language learning in pre-lexical infants, organized by M. Shukla, 2011 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.
2010
Papers
Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2010). Infants get five stars on iconic memory tests: A partial report test of 6-month-old infants' iconic memory capacity. Psychological Science, 21, 1643-1645. PDF
Shukla, M., & Nespor, M. (2010). Rhythmic patterns cue word order. In: L. Rochman, and N. Erteschik-Shir (Eds.) The Sound Pattern of Syntax. OUP: Oxford (pp 174 - 188). Request Article
Conferences
Aslin, R.N., & Shukla, M. (2010). "Unimodal and multimodal sensory activations in human infant cortex." Talk presented at the Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Aslin, R.N., Shukla, M., White, K.S., & Wen, J. (2010). "Use of a gaze-contingent eye-tracking paradigm to assess visual and auditory categories." International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.
Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z., Lo, H., & Biondi, M. (2010). A salience-mapping method for testing infants' speed vs. luminance visual working memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 7-13, 2010, Sarasota, FL. PDF
Kraper, C., Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Carter, A. M. (2010). 2.5-year-old toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder are more successful at visual search than typically developing toddlers. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, May 20-22, 2010, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Biondi, M. (2010). Measuring iconic memory capacity in 6-month-old infants using partial report. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies, March 11-14, 2010, Baltimore, MD.
Shukla, M. (2010). "The SMART-T system: Anticipatory eye-tracking in infancy." EyeTracKids III: Eyetracking conference for infant and child researchers, Philadelphia, PA.
Shukla, M., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2010). "Exploring Infants' Natural Categorization Biases with a Fully Automated Eye-tracking Methodology." Talk at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.
2009
Papers
Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2009). How to compare apples and oranges: Infants' object identification tested with equally salient shape, luminance and color changes. Infancy, 14, 222-43. PDF
Conferences
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., Kraper, C., Higgins, E., & Carter, A. (2009). Visual search without instructions: An eye-tracking study with toddlers. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 2-4, 2009, Denver, CO. PDF
Kraper, C., Kaldy, Z., Higgins, E., Blaser, E., & Carter, A. (2009). Do toddlers experience the McGurk Illusion? An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 2-4, 2009, Denver, CO. PDF
Shukla, M. (2009). Domain specificity and statistical computations in speech segmentation. Talk at the Interlocution Workshop, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.
Shukla, M., Gebhart, A.L., & Aslin, R. (2009). Optical Imaging of multimodal sensory processing in infants. Talk at the SRCD 2009 Biennial Meeting, Denver, USA.
2008
Papers
Nespor, M., Mehler, J., Shukla, M., & Pena, M. (2008). Perche solo gli esseri humani parlano? Controversie sui meccanismi di acquisizione del linguaggio. In: M. Piccolino (Ed.) Neuroscienze controverse. Bollati Boringhieri (pp 319-356).
Nespor, M., Shukla, M., van de Vijver, R., Avesani, C., Schraudolf, H., & Donati, C. (2008). Different phrasal prominence realizations in VO and OV languages? Lingue e linguaggio, VII.2, 1-28. PDF
Toro, J.M., Shukla, M., Nespor, M., & Endress, A.D. (2008). The quest for generalizations over consonants: Asymmetries between consonants and vowels are not the by-product of acoustic differences. Perception and Psychophysics, 70(8), 1515-1525. PDF
Conferences
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Mitchell, J.F., Reynolds, J.R., Stoner, G.R., & Boynton, G.M. (2008). Beyond spatial and feature-based selection: Exogenous surface-based attention enhances responses in early visual human cortical areas. Soc. Neurosci, Abstr. PDF
Franklin, A., & Kaldy, Z. (2008). How infants use color in understanding the physical world. Symposium co-chaired at the International Conference on Infant Studies, March 27-29, Vancouver, CA.
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Crug, A. (2008). What is the "same amount of change" for infants? Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, March 27-29, Vancouver, CA.
Schlack, A., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Gil-Da-Costa, R.M., & Albright, T.D. (2008). Cued associative recall: novel pairings of visual motion to color or to auditory tones improves motion discrimination in noisy environments. Soc. Neurosci, Abstr. PDF
Shukla, M., & Nespor, M. (2008). "The vowel tier constrains statistical computations over the consonantal tier." Poster presented at AMLaP, September 2008, Cambridge, UK.
2007
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Buracas, G.T., & Boynton, G.M. (2007). Spatial and cross-modal attention alter responses to unattended sensory information in early visual and auditory human cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98(4), 2399-2413. PDF
Leslie, A., & Kaldy, Z. (2007). Things to remember: Limits, codes, and the development of object working memory in the first year. In: Oakes, L. M. and Bower, P. J. (Eds.) Short- and long-term memory in infancy and early childhood: Taking the first steps toward remembering. pp. 103-125. Oxford, Oxford University Press. PDF
Mehler, J., Gervain, J., Endress, A. D., & Shukla, M. (2007). Mechanisms of language acquisition: imaging and behavioral evidence. In: C. A. Nelson and M. Luciana (eds.) Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (2nd Edition). MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass. Request Article
Shukla, M., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2007). An interaction between prosody and statistics in the segmentation of fluent speech. Cognitive Psychology, 54(1), 1-32. PDF
Conferences
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Boynton, G.M. (2007). Crossmodal attention can alter responses in early visual cortex, with perceptual correlates best linked to V1. Annual Spring Retreat for Cognitive Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Buracas, G.T., & Boynton, G.M. (2007). Behavioral measures of cross-modal attention accord with fMRI responses in V1, not MT+. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2007). Infants’ visual working memory for shape, luminance and color tested with equally salient objects. Poster presented at the European Conference of Visual Perception, Aug 25-31, Arezzo, Italy.
Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. & Vazquez, M. D. (2007). Infants’ visual working memory for shape and luminance tested with equally salient objects. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, March 22-25, Philadelphia, PA.
Nespor, M., Shukla, M., & van de Vijver, R. (2007). "Setting the head-complement parameter?" Talk presented at OCP 4, January 2007, Rhodes, Greece.
Schlack, A., Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Albright, T. (2007). Altering motion perception by motion-color pairing. European Conference on Vision and Perception Abstr.
2006
Papers
Arman, A.C., Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Boynton, G.M. (2006). Effects of feature-based attention on the motion aftereffect at remote locations. Vision Research, 46(18), 2968-2976. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2006). Methodological problems in infancy research: What are infants interested in? In: Gervain, J., Kovacs, K., Lukacs, A. and Racsmany, M. (Eds.) A mind with a thousand faces. A Festschrift in honor of Csaba Pleh. Budapest, Akademiai Press. pp. 390-397. (In Hungarian).
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Leslie, A. M. (2006). A new method for calibrating perceptual salience across dimensions in infants: The case of color vs. luminance. Developmental Science, 9, 482-489. PDF
Mehler, J., Nespor, M., Shukla, M., & Pena, M. (2006). Why is language unique to humans? In: R. Romo and M. Diamond (Eds.) Percept, decision, action: bridging the gaps. Novartis Foundation: London, UK. (pp 251-280). PDF
Ng, M., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Anstis, S., Boynton, G.M., & Fine, I. (2006). Selectivity for the configural cues that identify the gender, ethnicity and identity of faces in human cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(51), 19552-7. PDF
2005
Papers
Kaldy, Z., & Leslie, A. (2005). A memory span of one? Object identification in 6.5-month-old infants. Cognition, 57, 153-177. PDF
Shukla, M. (2005). Language from a biological perspective. Journal of Biosciences, 30(1), 119-127. PDF
2004
Papers
Kaldy, Z. (2004). Slow developmental processes of the visual system. In: J. Gervain and C. Pleh (Eds.) Invisible cognition. Gondolat, Budapest. pp. 45-52. (In Hungarian).
Kaldy, Z., & Kovacs, I. (2004). Is there an independent planning system? Suggestions from a developmental perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 41-42. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Sigala, N. (2004). The neural mechanisms of object working memory: What is where in the infant brain? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 28, 113-121. PDF
2003
Papers
Fitzmaurice, M., Ciaramitaro, V., Palmer, L., & Rosenquist, A. (2003). Visual detection deficits following inactivation of the superior colliculus in the cat. Visual Neuroscience, 20(6), 687-701. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Kovacs, I. (2003). Visual context integration is not fully developed in 4-year-old children. Perception, 32, 657-666. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Leslie, A. M. (2003). Identification of objects in 9-month-old infants: Integrating 'what' and 'where' information. Developmental Science, 6, 360-373. PDF
2002
Papers
Shukla, M. (2002). Dichotomies in the perception of speech. Journal of Biosciences, 27(3), 189-190. PDF
2001
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Cameron, E.L., & Glimcher, P.W. (2001). Stimulus probability directs spatial attention: an enhancement of sensitivity in humans and monkeys. Vision Research, 41, 57-75. PDF
Glimcher, P.W., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Platt, M.L., Bayer, H.M., Brown, M.A., & Handel, A. (2001). Application of neurosonography to experimental physiology. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 108, 131-144. PDF
Leslie, A. M., & Kaldy, Z. (2001). Indexing individual objects in infant working memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 78, 61-74. PDF
Shukla, M. (2001). Getting the beat. Journal of Biosciences, 26(1), 6-7. PDF
1994-2000
Papers
Blass, E.M. & Ciaramitaro, V. (1994) A new look at some old mechanisms in human newborns: Taste and tactile determinants of state, affect and action. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 239, 59(1), 1-81. PDF
Blass, E.M., & Ciaramitaro, V. (1994). Tones and states. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 239, 59(1), 97-101. PDF
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