Learning and Brain Development Lab

Learning & Brain
Development Lab

Publications

Our lab examines learning and attention at different stages life: infancy, childhood and adulthood. Learn more about our previous studies and recent findings!
Our lab examines learning and attention at different stages life: infancy, childhood and adulthood. Learn more about our previous studies and recent findings!

Endogenous Control and Reward-based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces

Hunter, B., Montgomery, B., Sridhar, A. and Markant, J. (2024)
Developmental Psychobiology., 66: e22521

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Individual differences in selective attention and engagement shape students’ learning from visual cues and instructor presence during online lessons

King, J., Marcus, T. & Markant, J. (2023)
Sci Rep 13, 5075

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Six- to ten-year-old children do not show race-based orienting biases to faces during an online attention capture task

Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2023)
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 230

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Caregiver faces capture 6- to 10-year-old children’s attention during an online visual search task.

Hunter, B. K., & Markant, J. (2023)
Developmental psychology, 59(2), 344–352.

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Selective attention to lesson-relevant contextual information promotes 3- to 5- year old children’s learning

King, J., & Markant, J. (2023)
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Science, e13237

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Dynamic emotional messages differentially affect 6-month-old infants’ attention to eyes and gaze cues

Noonan, C.F., Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2021)
Infant Behavior and Development, 64

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Endogenous Control and Reward-based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces

Hunter, B., Montgomery, B., Sridhar, A. and Markant, J. (2024)
Developmental Psychobiology., 66: e22521

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Caregiver faces capture 6- to 10-year-old children’s attention during an online visual search task.

Hunter, B. K., & Markant, J. (2023)
Developmental psychology, 59(2), 344–352.

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Individual differences in selective attention and engagement shape students’ learning from visual cues and instructor presence during online lessons

King, J., Marcus, T. & Markant, J. (2023)
Sci Rep 13, 5075

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Six- to ten-year-old children do not show race-based orienting biases to faces during an online attention capture task

Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2023)
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 230

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Selective attention to lesson-relevant contextual information promotes 3- to 5- year old children’s learning

King, J., & Markant, J. (2023)
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Science, e13237

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Dynamic emotional messages differentially affect 6-month-old infants’ attention to eyes and gaze cues

Noonan, C.F., Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2021)
Infant Behavior and Development, 64

Past Publications

Context and attention control determine whether attending to competing information helps or hinders learning in school-aged children

Markant, J., & Amso, D. (2021)
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, e1577

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Differential sensitivity to species- and race-based information in the development of attention orienting and attention holding face biases in infancy

Hunter, B.K. & Markant, J. (2021)
Developmental Psychobiology, 2020

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Individual differences in selective attention and scanning dynamics influence children's learning from relevant non-targets in a visual search task

King, J., & Markant, J. (2020)
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 193(104797)

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Exercise similarly facilitates men and women's selective attention task response times but differentially affects memory task performance

Coleman, M., Offen, K., & Markant, J. (2018)
Frontiers in Psychology, 9(1405), 1-19

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Spatial selective attention biases are shaped by long-term musical training and short-term exposure to tones

Cruse, A., Offen, K., & Markant, J. (2018)
Brain and Cognition, 125, 106-117

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Attention and perceptual learning interact in the development of the other-race effect

Markant, J. & Scott, L.S. (2018)
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(3), 163-169

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When increasing distraction helps learning: Distractor number and content interact in their effects on memory

Nussenbaum, K., Amso, D., & Markant, J. (2017)
Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 79, 2606-2619

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Selective attention as a mechanism of resilience: Attention neutralizes the adverse effects of socioeconomic status on memory in 9-month-old infants

Markant, J., Ackerman, L., Nussenbaum, K., & Amso, D. (2016)
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 18, 26-33

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The development of selective attention orienting is an agent of change in learning and memory efficacy

Markant, J. & Amso, D. (2016).
Infancy, 21(2), 154-176

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Visual selective attention biases contribute to the other-race effect among 9-month-old infants

Markant, J., Oakes, L.M., & Amso, D. (2016)
Developmental Psychobiology, 58(3), 355-365

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Not all attention orienting is created equal: Recognition memory is enhanced when attention orienting involves distractor suppression

Markant, J., Worden, M.S., & Amso, D. (2015).
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 120, 28 -40

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An eye tracking investigation of developmental change in bottom-up attention orienting to faces in cluttered natural scenes

Amso, D., Haas, S., & Markant, J. (2014).
PLoS ONE, 9(1), e85701

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Bottom-up attention orienting in young children with autism

Amso, D., Haas, S. Markant, J., Tenenbaum, E., & Sheinkopf, S. (2014).
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44(3), 664-673

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Developmental differences in effects of task pacing on implicit sequence learning

Hodel, A.S., Markant, J., Van Den Heuvel, S.E., Cirilli Raether, J.M., & Thomas, K.M. (2014).
Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 153

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Leveling the playing field: Attention mitigates the effects of individual variability in intelligence

Markant, J. & Amso, D. (2014)
Cognition, 131(2), 195-204

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Contributions of COMT Val158Met to cognitive stability and flexibility in infancy

Markant, J., Cicchetti, D., Hetzel, S. & Thomas, K.M. (2014a).
Developmental Science, 17(3), 396-411

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Relating dopaminergic and cholinergic polymorphisms to spatial attention during infancy

Markant, J., Cicchetti, D. Hetzel, S. & Thomas, K.M. (2014b).
Developmental Psychology, 50(2), 360-369

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Selective memories: Infants’ encoding is enhanced in selection via suppression

Markant, J. & Amso, D. (2013)
Developmental Science, 16(6), 926-940

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Conference Posters

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