| SES # | TOPICS | REQUIRED READINGS | SUGGESTED READINGS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basic Visual Development (Neurons and Behavior) | ||
| 2 | Basic Visual Development (Neurons and Behavior) (cont.) | Kandel, and Jessel. Principles of Neural Science. Chapter 60. | |
| 3 | Basic Visual Development (Neurons and Behavior) (cont.) | Braastad, B. O., and P. Heggelund. "Development of Spatial Receptive Field Organization and Orientation Selectivity in Kitten Striate Cortex." Journal of Neurophysiology 53 (1985): 1158-1178. Kiorpes, L., and S. A. Bassin. "Development of Contour Integration in Macaque Monkeys." Visual Neuroscience 20 (2003): 567-575. Kiorpes, L., and J. A. Movshon. "Development of Sensitivity to Visual Motion in Macaque Monkeys." Visual Neuroscience 21, no. 6 (2004): 851-859. | Braastad, B. O., and P. Heggelund. "Development of Spatial Receptive Field Organization and Orientation Selectivity in Kitten Striate Cortex." Journal of Neurophysiology 53 (1985): 1158-1178. Kiorpes, L., and S. A. Bassin. "Development of Contour Integration in Macaque Monkeys." Visual Neuroscience 20 (2003): 567-575. Kiorpes, L., and J. A. Movshon. "Development of Sensitivity to Visual Motion in Macaque Monkeys." Visual Neuroscience 21, no. 6 (2004): 851-859. |
| 4 | Basic Visual Development (Neurons and Behavior) (cont.) | Johnson, M. "Functional Brain Development in Humans." Nature Reviews: Neuroscience 2 (2001): 475-483. Schoups, A., R. Vogels, N. Qian, and G. Orban. "Practising Orientation Identification Improves Orientation Coding in V1 Neurons." Nature 412 (2001): 549-553. Baker, J. "Current Developments in the Theory of Ocular Dominance Column Formation." Upublished Paper, GMU, 2000. | Johnson, M. H. "Sensitive Periods in Functional Brain Development: Problems and Prospects." Developmental Psychobiology 46 (2005): 287-292. Schoups, A., R. Vogels, N. Qian, and G. Orban. "Practising Orientation Identification Improves Orientation Coding in V1 Neurons." Nature 412 (2001): 549-553. Fagiolini, M., T. Pizzorusso, N. Berardi, L. Domenici, and L. Maffei. "Functional Postnatal Development of the Rat Primary Visual Cortex and The Role of Visual Experience: Dark Rearing and Monocular Deprivation." Vision Research 34 (1994): 709-720. Baker, J. "Current Developments in the Theory of Ocular Dominance Column Formation." Upublished Paper, GMU, 2000. |
| 5 | Basic Visual Development (Neurons and Behavior) (cont.) | Sen, M., A. Yonas, and D. Knill. "Development of Infants' Sensitivity to Surface Contour Information for Spatial Layout." Perception 30 (2001): 167-176. Yonas, A., and C. Granrud. "Infants' Perception of Depth from Cast Shadows." Unpublished Paper, University of Minnesota, 2002. | Banton, T., B. I. Bertenthal, and J. Seaks. "Infants' Sensitivity to Statistical Distributions of Motion Direction and Speed." Vision Research 39 (1999): 3417-3430. Yonas, A., C. E. Granrud, and M. E. Arterberry. "Infants' Sensitivity to Kinetic and Binocular Information for Shape." Child Development 58 (1987): 910-917. Arterberry, M. E., and A. Yonas. "Perception of Three-dimensional Shape Specified by Optic Flow by 8-week-old Infants." Perception and Psychophysics 62, no. 3 (2000): 550-556. |
| 6 | Basic Visual Development (Neurons and Behavior) (cont.) | Maurer, D., et al. "Rapid Improvement in the Acuity of Infants After Visual Input." Science 286 (1999): 108-110. Skoczenski, A., and A. Norcia. "Neural Noise Limitations on Infant Visual Sensitivity." Nature 391 (1998): 697-700. | Al Yonas lectures. |
| 7 | Basic Visual Development (Neurons and Behavior) (cont.) | Banton, T., B. Bertenthal, and J. Seaks. "Infants' Sensitivity to Statistical Distributions of Motion Detection and Speed." Vision Research 39 (1999): 3417-3430. | Johnson, M. H., and Y. Munakata. "Processes of Change in Brain and Cognitive Development." Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9 (2005): 152-158. Teller, D. Y. "First Glances: The Vision of Infants, The Friedenwald Lecture." Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 38, no. 11 (October 1997): 2183-203. (Also chapter 6 in The Cognitive Neurosciences) Wilson, H. R. "Development of Spatiotemporal Mechanisms in Infant Vision." Vision Research 28 (1988): 611-628. |
| 8 | Basic Visual Development (Neurons and Behavior) (cont.) | Needham, A., and R. Baillargeon. "Object Segregation in 9-month-old Infants." Cognition 62 (1997): 121-149. Wilcox, T. "Object Individuation: Infants' Use of Shape, Size, Pattern, and Color." Cognition 72 (1999): 125-166. Munakata, Y., et al. "Visual Representation in the Wild: How Rhesus Monkeys Parse Objects." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 13, no. 1 (2001): 44-58. | Skoczenski, A. M., and A. M. Norcia. "Neural Noise Limitations on Infant Visual Sensitivity." Nature 391 (1998): 697-700. Maurer, D., T. L. Lewis, H. Brent, and A. Levin. "Rapid Improvement in the Acuity of Infants After Visual Input." Science 286 (1999): 108-110. Teller, D. Y. "The Development of Visual Acuity in Human and Monkey Infants." Trends in NeuroSciences (1981): 421-24. |
| 9 | Basic Visual Development (Neurons and Behavior) (cont.) | Quinn, P., et al. "Development of Form Similarity as a Gestalt Grouping Principle in Infancy." Psychological Science 13, no. 4 (2002): 320-328. Quinn, P., and R. Bhatt. "Learning Perceptual Organization in Infancy." Psychological Science 16, no. 7 (2005): 511-515. ———. "Good Continuation Affects Discrimination of Visual Pattern Information in Young Infants." Perception and Psychophysics 67, no. 7 (2005): 1171-1176. | Johnson, M. H. "Functional Brain Development in Humans." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2 (2001): 475-483. Johnson, M. H., and D. Mareschal. "Perceptual and Cognitive Development in Infancy." Current Opinion in Neurobiology 11 (2001): 213-218. Johnson, M. H., D. Mareschal, and G. Csibra. "The Functional Development and Integration of the Dorsal and Ventral Visual Pathways: A Neurocomputational Approach." In Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. MIT Press, 2001. |
| 10 | Development of Perceptual Organization | Johnson, S., et al. "The Role of Good form in Young Infants' Perception of Partially Occluded Objects." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 76 (2000): 1-25. Johnson, S., and R. Aslin. "Perception of Object Unity in 2-month-old Infants." Developmental Psychology 31, no. 5 (1995): 739-745. Jusczyk, P., et al. "Synchronous Change and Perception of Object Unity: Evidence from Adults and Infants." Cognition 71 (1999): 257-288.  Johnson, S. "The Development of Visual Surface Perception: Insights into the Ontogeny of Language." In Progress in Infancy Research. Vol. 1. Edited by Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Lewis Lipsitt, and Harlene Hayne. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000. ISBN: 0805834931.Johnson, S. "Visual Development in Human Infants: Binding Features, Surfaces, and Objects." Visual Cognition 8, nos. 3, 4, 5 (2001): 565-578. ———. "Development of Object Perception." In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: Vol. 3: Psychology. Edited by L. Nadel (Series editor) and R. Goldstone (Volume editor). London, UK: Macmillan, 2002, pp. 392-399. ISBN: 0333792610. | Johnson, S. P., J. G. Bremner, A. M. Slater, U. C. Mason, and K. Foster. "Young Infants' Perception of Unity and Form in Occlusion Displays." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 81 (2002): 358-374. Kaufman, J., G. Csibra, and M. H. Johnson. "Representing Occluded Objects in the Human Infant Brain." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biology Letters, DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0067, 2003. Kellman, P. J., and E. S. Spelke. "Perception of Partly Occluded Objects in Infancy." Cognitive Psychology 15 (1983): 483-524. |
| 11 | Perceptual Organization - Gestalt Laws | Johnson, S., et al. "Young Infants' Perception of Unity and Form in Occlusion Displays." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 81 (2002): 358-374. Johnson, S., L. Cohen, and K. Marks. "Young Infants' Perception of Object Unity in Rotation Displays." Infancy 4, no. 2 (2003): 285-295. Smith, W., S. Johnson, and E. Spelke. "Motion and Edge Sensitivity in Perception of Object Unity." Cognitive Psychology 46 (2003): 31-64. Johnson, S., et al. "Infants' Perception of Object Trajectories." Child Development 74, no. 1 (2003): 94-108. Johnson, S. "Development of Perceptual Completion in Infancy." Psychological Science 15, no. 11 (2004): 769-775. | Quinn, P., and R. Bhatt. "Learning Perceptual Organization in Infancy." Psychological Science 16, no. 7 (2005): 511-515. ———. "Good Continuation Affects Discrimination of Visual Patterns Information in Young Infants." Perception and Psychophysics 67, no. 7 (August 2005): 1171-1176. Yonas, A., and M. E. Arterberry. "Infants Perceive Spatial Structure Specified by Line Junctions." Perception 23 (1995): 1427-1435. |
| 12 | Perceptual Organization - Object Unity I | Bremner J., et al. "Conditions for Young Infants' Perception of Object Trajectories." Child Development 76, no. 5 (2005): 1029-1043. Johnson S., D. Amso, and J. Slemmer. "Development of Object Concepts in Infancy: Evidence for Early Learning in an Eye-tracking Paradigm." PNAS 100, no. 18 (2003): 10568-10573. Johnson, S., and K. Johnson. "Early Perception-action Coupling: Eye Movements and the Development of Object Perception." Infant Behavior and Development 23 (2000): 461-483. | Csibra G., G. Davis, M. W. Spratling, and M. H. Johnson. "Gamma Oscillations and Object Processing in the Infant Brain." Science 290 (2000): 1582-1585. Spelke, E. S., K. Breinlinger, K. Jacobson, and A. Phillips. "Gestalt Relations and Object Perception: A Developmental Study." Perception 22 (1993): 1483-1501. Johnson, S. P. "Building Knowledge from Perception in Infancy." In Building Object Categories in Developmental Time. Edited by L. Gershkoff-Stowe and D. Rakison. Mahwah, NJ: Hillsdale, 2005, pp. 33-62. |
| 13 | Perceptual Organization - Object Unity II | Rakison, D., and D. Poulin-Dubois. "You Go This Way and I'll Go That Way: Developmental Changes in Infants' Detection of Correlations Among Static and Dynamic Features in Motion Events." Child Development 73, no. 3 (2002): 682-699. Rakison, D. "Infants' Sensitivity to Correlations Between Static and Dynamic Features in a Category Context." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 89 (2004): 1-30. ———. "A Secret Agent? How Infants Learn About the Identity of Objects in a Causal Scene." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 91 (2005): 271-296. | Needham, A. "Object Recognition and Object Segregation in 4.5-month old Infants." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Needham, A., and R. Baillargeon. "Object Segregation in 8-month-old infants." Cognition 62 (1997): 121-149. ———. "Effects of Prior Experience on 4.5-month old Infants' Object Segregation." Infant Behavior and Development 21 (1998): 1-24. |
| 14 | Object Perceptual - Eye Tracking | Hummel, J., and I. Biederman. "Dynamic Binding in a Neural Network for Shape Recognition." Psychological Review 99, no. 3 (1992): 480-517. Mareschal, D., and S. Johnson. "Learning to Perceive Object Unity: A Connectionist Account." Developmental Science 5, no. 2 (2002): 151-185 Prodohl, C., R. Wurtz, and C. von der Malsberg. "Learning the Gestalt Rule of Collinearity from Object Motion." Neural Computation 15 (2003): 1865-1896. | Wilcox, T. "Object Individuation: Infants' Use of Shape, Size, Pattern, and Color." Cognition 72 (1999): 125-166. Wilcox, T., and R. Baillargeon. "Object Individuation in Infancy: The Use of Featural Information in Reasoning About Occlusion Events." Cognitive Psychology 37 (1998): 97-155. Johnson, S. P., J. G. Bremner, A. M. Slater, and U. C. Mason. "The Role of Good Form in Infants' Perception of Partly Occluded Objects." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 76 (2000): 1-25. |
| 15 | Object Perceptual - Motion Grouping | Needham, A., G. Dueker, and G. Lockhead. "Infants' Formation and Use of Categories to Segregate Objects." Cognition 94 (2005): 215-240. Notman, L., P. Sowden, and E. Ozgen. "The Nature of Learned Categorical Perception Effects: A Psychophysical Approach." Cognition 95 (2005): B1-B14. Fahle, M. "Learning to Tell Apples from Oranges." Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9, no. 10 (2005): 455-457. Gomez, J. "Species Comparative Studies and Cognitive Development." Trends in Cognitive Science 9, no. 3 (2005): 118-125. | Johnson, M. H. "Developing An Attentive Brain." In The Attentive Brain. Edited by R. Parasuraman. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998, pp. 427-444. ISBN: 0262161729. Johnson, M. H., and R. O. Gilmore. "Object-centered Attention in Eight-month-old Infants." Developmental Science 1 (1998): 221-225. Farroni, T., M. H. Johnson, M. Brockbank, and F. Simion. "Infants Use of Gaze Direction to Cue Attention: The Importance of Perceived Motion." Visual Cognition 7 (2000): 705-718. |
| 16 | Object Perceptual - Motion Grouping (cont.) | Rakison, D., and L. Cohen. "Infants' Use of Functional Parts in Basic-like Categorization." Developmental Science 2, no. 4 (1999): 423-431. Rakison, D., and D. Poulin-Dubois. "Developmental Origin of the Animate-inanimate Distinction." Psychological Bulletin 429, no. 2 (2001): 209-228. Rakison, D. "Developing Knowledge of Objects' Motion Properties in Infancy." Cognition 96 (2005): 183-214. | Mareschal, D., and R. French. "Mechanisms of Categorization in Infancy." Infancy 1 (2000): 59-76. Quinn, P. C., A. M. Slater, E. Brown, and R. A. Hayes. "Developmental Change in Form Categorization in Early Infancy." British Journal of Developmental Psychology 19 (2001): 207-218. Quinn, P. C., A. Adams, E. Kennedy, L. Shettler, and A. Wasnik. "Development of An Abstract Category Representation for the Spatial Relation between in 6- to 10-month-old Infants." Developmental Psychology 39 (2003): 151-163. Quinn, P. C. "Is the Aasymmetry in Young Infants' Categorization of Humans versus Nonhuman Animals based on Head, Body, or Global Gestalt Information?" Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 11 (2004): 92-97. |
| 17 | Object Perceptual - Motion Grouping (cont.) | Mareschal, D., D. Powell, G. Westermann, and A. Volein. "Evidence of Rapid Correlation-based Perceptual Category Learning by 4-month-olds." Infant and Child Development 14 (2005): 445-457. Kirkham, N., J. Slemmer, and S. Johnson. "Visual Statistical Learning in Infancy: Evidence for Domain General Learning Mechanism." Cognition 83 (2002): B35-B42. Westermann, G., and D. Mareschal. "From Parts to Wholes: Mechanisms of Development in Infant Visual Object Processing." Infancy 5, no. 2 (2004): 131-151. | Quinn, P. C. "Development of Subordinate-level Categorization in 3- to 7-month-old Infants." Child Development 75 (2004): 886-899. French, R. M., D. Mareschal, M. Mermillod, and P. C. Quinn. "The Role of Bottom-up Processing in Perceptual Categorization by 3- to 4-month-old Infants: Simulations and Data." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 133 (2004): 382-397. Quinn, P. C. "Multiple Sources of Information and Their Integration, Not Dissociation, as an Organizing Principle for Understanding Infant Concept Formation." Developmental Science 7 (2004): 511-513. |
| 18 | Development and Brain Imaging | Csibra, G., G. Davis, M. W. Spratling, and M. H. Johnson. "Gamma Oscillations and Object Processing in the Infant Brain." Science 290 (2000): 1582-1585. Quinn, P., A. Westerlund, and C. Nelson. "Neural Markers of Categorization in 6-month Old Infants." Psychological Science 17, no. 1 (2006): 59-66. Casey, B., N. Tottenham, C. Liston, and S. Durston. "Imaging the Developing Brain: What have We Learned About Cognitive Development?" Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9, no. 3 (2005): 104-110. | Younger, B. A., and L. B. Cohen. "How Infants Form Categories." Psychology of Learning and Motivation 19 (1985): 211-247. Younger, B. A. "The Segregation of Items into Categories by Ten-month-old Infants." Child Development 56 (1985): 1574-1583. ———. "Parsing Objects into Categories: Infants' Perception and Use of Correlated Attributes." In Early Category and Concept Development. Edited by D. Rakison and L. M. Oakes. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 77-102. Younger, B. A., and L. B. Cohen. "Developmental Change in Infants' Perception of Correlations Among Attributes." Child Development 57 (1986): 803-815. |
| 19 | Development and Brain Imaging (cont.) |
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