Readings

Required readings are those that were actually read and discussed during class, while the suggested readings are those that were originally planned for the course, but not actually read.

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.
Buy at MIT Press 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.)