Sackler Institute | Dima Amso, PhD

Publications

Amso, D., Fitgerald, M., Davidow, J.Y., Gilhooly, T., & Tottenham, N. (under review). Visual exploration strategies and the development of infants' facial emotion discrimination.
Amso, D., (in press). The Developmental Process: Evidence from an Integrating Science. To appear in Developmental Psychology. Nova Science Publishers.
Soliman, F., Glatt, C. E., Levita, L., Bath, K. G., Jones, R. M., Pattwell, S. S., Tottenham, N., Amso, D., Somerville, L., Voss, H. U., Glover, G., Ballon, D. J., Lee, F. S., & Casey, B. J. (in press). Genetic Variant BDNF (Val66Met) Polymorphism Alters Learning in Mouse and Human. Science.
Amso, D. , (2009). A cohesive developmental social neuroscience: research, methods, and integration. [Review of the book Handbook of Developmental Social Neuroscience]. PsycCritiques-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 54 (No. 40), Article 3.
Amso, D. (2009). Perceptual development: Attention. In B. Goldstein (ed.) Encyclopedia of Perception. SAGE Publications, Inc.
Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (2009). Building object knowledge from perceptual input. In B.M. Hood & L. Santos (Eds.). The origins of object knowledge. OUP.
Casey BJ, Glatt, C., Tottenham. N, Soliman, F., Bath, K., Amso, D., Altemus, M., Pattwell., S., Jones, R., Levita, L., Mezey, J., Clark, A., Gunnar, M., Thomas, K.,Hempstead, B., McEwen, B., & Lee, F.S. (2009). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor as a Model System for examining Gene by Environment Interactions across Development. Neuroscience, 164, 108-120.
Amso, D., & Casey, B.J. (2008). The development of cognitive control. In L. Squire (ed.), The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. San Diego, Elsevier.
Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (2008). Development of visual selection in 3- to 9-month-olds: Evidence from saccades to previously ignored locations. Infancy, 13(6), 675-686.
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Diamond, A., & Amso, D. (2008). Contributions of neuroscience to our understanding of cognitive development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17(2), 136-141.
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Johnson, S.P., Amso, D., Frank, M.C., & Shuwairi, S.M. (2008). Perceptual development in infancy as the foundation of event perception. To appear in T.F. Shipley & J. Zacks (Eds.), Understanding events: From perception to action. New York: Oxford University Press.
Shapiro, T., & Amso, D. (2008). School age development. In A. Tasman, M. Maj, M.B. First, J. Kay, & J.A. Lieberman (Eds.), Psychiatry, 3rd Edition. John Wiley & Sons.
Schlesinger, M., Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (2007). The neural basis for visual selective attention in young infants: A computational account. Adaptive Behvaior, 15, 135-148.
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Schlesinger, M., Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (2007). Stimulating infants' gaze patterns during the development of perceptual completion. In L. Berthouze, C.G. Prince, M. Littman, H. Kozima, & C. Balkenius (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. Sweden: Lund University Cognitive Studies.
Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (2006). Learning by selection: Visual search and object perception in young infants. Developmental Psychology, 42(6), 1236-1245.
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Amso, D., & Casey, B.J. (2006). Beyond what develops when: Neuroimaging may inform how cognition changes with development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15(1), 24-29.
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Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (2006). Visual selection and object perception. Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Development & Learning. IEEE.
Casey, B.J., Amso, D., & Davidson, M.C. (2006). Learning about learning and development with modern imaging technology. In Yuko Munakata & Mark H. Johnson (Eds.), Processes of Change in Brain and Cognitive Development, Attention & Performance XXI. Oxford University Press.
Davidson, M., Amso, D., Cruess, L., & Diamond, A. (2006). Development of cognitive control and executive functions from 4-13 years: Evidence from manipulations of memory, inhibition, and task switching. Neuropsychologia, 44(11), 2037-2078.
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Amso, D., Davidson, M.C., Johnson, S.P., Glover, G., & Casey, B.J. (2005). The contributions of the hippocampus and the striatum to simple association and frequency-based learning. NeuroImage, 27, 291-198.
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Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (2005). Selection and inhibition in infancy: Evidence from the spatial negative priming paradigm. Cognition, 95(2), B27-B36.
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Johnson, S.P., Hannon, E., & Amso, D. (2005). Perceptual development. In B. Hopkins (Ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Johnson, S.P., Slemmer, J.A., & Amso, D. (2004). Where infants look determines how they see: Eye movements and object perception performance in 3-month-olds. Infancy, 6(2), 185-201.
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Johnson, S.P., Amso, D., & Slemmer, J.A. (2003). Development of object concepts in infancy: Evidence for early learning in an eye tracking paradigm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 100(18), 10568-10573.
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Diamond, A., Kirkham, N., & Amso, D. (2002). Conditions under which young children CAN hold two rules in mind and inhibit a prepotent response. Developmental Psychology, 38(3), 352-362.
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Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology

Dima Amso, PhD

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