Publications

Articles and Chapters
Books

Representative Publications

Articles and Chapters

Object Tracking

Johnson, S. P., & Shuwairi, S. M. (2009). Learning and memory facilitate predictive tracking in 4-month-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102, 122-130. View Abstract

Hall-Haro, C., Johnson, S. P., Price, T. A., Vance, J. A., & Kiorpes, L. (2008). Development of object concepts in macaque monkeys. Developmental Psychobiology, 50, 278-287. View Abstract

Bremner, J. G., Johnson, S. P., Slater, A., Mason, U., Cheshire, A., & Spring, J. (2007). Conditions for young infants' failure to perceive trajectory continuity. Developmental Science,10, 613-624. View Abstract

Shuwairi, S. M., Curtis, C. E., & Johnson, S. P. (2007). Neural substrates of dynamic object occlusion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1275-1285. View Abstract

Bremner, J. G., Johnson, S. P., Slater, A. M., Mason, U., Foster, K., Cheshire, A., & Spring, J. (2005). Conditions for young infants' perception of object trajectories. Child Development, 74, 1029-1043. View Abstract

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, 10568-10573. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P., Bremner, J. G., Slater, A., Mason, U., Foster, K., & Cheshire, A. (2003). Infants' perception of object trajectories. Child Development, 74, 94-108. View Abstract

Perceptual Completion

Soska, K. C., Adolph, K. E., & Johnson, S. P. (in press). Systems in development: Motor skills acquisition facilitates 3D object completion. Developmental Psychology. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P., Davidow, J., Hall-Haro, C., & Frank, M. C. (2008). Development of perceptual completion originates in information acquisition. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1214-1224. View Abstract

Soska, K. C., & Johnson, S. P. (2008). Development of 3D object completion in infancy. Child Development, 79, 1230-1236. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P. (2004). Development of perceptual completion in infancy. Psychological Science, 15, 769-775. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P., Cohen, L. B., Marks, K. H., & Johnson, K. L. (2003). Young infants' perception of object unity in rotation displays. Infancy, 4, 285-295. View Abstract

Smith, W. C., Johnson, S. P., & Spelke, E. S. (2003). Motion and edge sensitivity in perception of object unity. Cognitive Psychology, 46, 31-64. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P., Bremner, J. G., Slater, A., Mason, U., & Foster, K. (2002). Young infants' perception of unity and form in occlusion displays. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 81, 358-374. View Abstract

Mareschal, D., & Johnson, S. P. (2002). Learning to perceive object unity: A connectionist account. Developmental Science, 5, 151-185. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P., Bremner, J. G., Slater, A., & Mason, U. (2000). The role of good form in young infants' perception of partly occluded objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 76, 1-25. View Abstract

Jusczyk, P. W., Johnson, S. P., Spelke, E. S., & Kennedy, L. J. (1999). Synchronous change and perception of object unity: Evidence from adults and infants. Cognition, 71, 257-288. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P. (1997). Young infants' perception of object unity: Implications for development of attentional and cognitive skills. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 6, 5-11. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P., & Aslin, R. N. (1996). Perception of object unity in young infants: The roles of motion, depth, and orientation. Cognitive Development, 11, 161-180. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P., & Aslin, R. N. (1995). Perception of object unity in 2-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 31, 739-745. View Abstract

Slater, A., Johnson, S. P., Brown, E., & Badenoch, M. (1996). Newborn infants' perception of partly occluded objects. Infant Behavior and Development, 19, 145-148. View Abstract

Visual Attention / Visual Perception

Gredebäck, G, Johnson, S. P., & von Hofsten, C. (in press). Eye tracking in infancy research. Developmental Neuropsychology. View Abstract

Shuwairi, S. M., Tran, A., DeLoache, J. S., & Johnson, S. P. (in press). Infants' response to pictures of impossible objects. Infancy. View Abstract

Walker, P., Bremner, J. G., Mason, U., Spring, J., Mattock, K., Slater, A., & Johnson, S. P. (in press). Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to synaesthetic cross-modality correspondences. Psychological Science. View Abstract

Frank. M. C., Vul, E., & Johnson, S. P. (2009). Development of infants' attention to faces during the first year. Cognition, 110, 160-170. View Abstract

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, 675-686. View Abstract

Moore, D. S., & Johnson, S. P. (2008). Mental rotation in human infants: A sex difference. Psychological Science, 19, 1063-1066. View Abstract

Schlesinger, M., Amso, D., & Johnson, S. P. (2007). The neural basis for visual selective attention in young infants: A computational account. Adaptive Behavior, 15, 135-148. View Abstract

Shuwairi, S. M., Albert, M., & Johnson, S. P. (2007). Discrimination of possible and impossible objects in infancy. Psychological Science, 18, 303-307. View Abstract

Amso, D., & Johnson, S. P. (2006). Learning by selection: Visual search and object perception in young infants. Developmental Psychology, 42, 1236-1245. View Abstract

Amso, D., & Johnson, S. P. (2005). Selection and inhibition in infancy: Evidence from the spatial negative priming paradigm. Cognition, 95, B27-B36. View Abstract

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, 185-201. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P., & Mason, U. (2002). Perception of kinetic illusory contours by 2-month-old infants. Child Development, 73, 22-34. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P. (2001). Visual development in human infants: Binding features, surfaces, and objects. Visual Cognition, 8, 565-578. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P., & Aslin, R. N. (2000). Infants' perception of transparency. Developmental Psychology, 36, 808-816. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P., & Johnson, K. L. (2000). Early perception-action coupling: Eye movements and the development of object perception. Infant Behavior and Development, 23, 461-483. View Abstract

Slater, A., Bremner, G., Johnson, S. P., Sherwood, P., Hayes, R., & Brown, E. (2000). Newborn infants' preference for attractive faces: The role of internal and external facial features. Infancy, 1, 265-274. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P., & Aslin, R. N. (1998). Young infants' perception of illusory contours in dynamic displays. Perception, 27, 341-353. View Abstract

Aslin, R. N., & Johnson, S. P. (1996). Suppression of the optokinetic reflex in human infants: Implications for stable fixation and shifts of attention. Infant Behavior and Development, 19, 233-240. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P. (1996). Habituation patterns and object perception in young infants. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 14, 207-218. View Abstract

Learning Mechanisms

Frank, M. C., Slemmer, J. A., Marcus, G. F., & Johnson, S. P. (2009). Information from multiple modalities helps 5-month-olds learn abstract rules. Developmental Science, 12, 504-509. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P., Fernandes, K. J., Frank, M. C., Kirkham, N. Z., Marcus, G. F., Rabagliati, H., & Slemmer, J. A. (2009). Abstract rule learning for visual sequences in 8- and 11-month-olds. Infancy, 14, 2-18 . View Abstract

Kirkham. N. Z., Slemmer, J. A., Richardson, D. C., & Johnson, S. P. (2007). Location, location, location: Development of spatiotemporal sequence learning in infancy. Child Development, 78, 1559-1571. View Abstract

Marcus, G. F., Fernandes, K. J., & Johnson, S. P. (2007). Infant rule learning facilitated by speech. Psychological Science, 18, 387-391. View Abstract

Amso, D., Davidson, M. C., Johnson, S. P., Glover, G., & Casey, BJ. (2005). Contributions of the hippocampus and the striatum to simple association and frequency-based learning. NeuroImage, 27, 291-298. View Abstract

Hannon, E. E., & Johnson, S. P. (2005). Infants use meter to categorize rhythms and melodies: Implications for musical structure learning. Cognitive Psychology, 50, 354-377. View Abstract

Kirkham, N. Z., Slemmer, J. A., & Johnson, S. P. (2002). Visual statistical learning in infancy: Evidence for a domain general learning mechanism. Cognition, 83, B35-B42. View Abstract

Book chapters etc.

Amso, D., & Johnson, S. P. (in press). Building object knowledge from perceptual input. To appear in B. Hood & L. Santos (Eds.), The origins of object knowledge. New York: Oxford University Press.

Frankenhuis, W. E., Barrett, H. C., & Johnson, S. P. (in press). Developmental origins of biological motion perception. In K. L. Johnson & M. Shiffrar (Eds.), Visual perception of the human body in motion. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kim, H., & Johnson, S. P. (in press). Infant perception. To appear in B. Goldstein (Ed.), Encyclopedia of perception. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Johnson, S. P. (in press). A constructivist view of object perception in infancy. To appear in L. M. Oakes, C. H. Cashon, M. Casasola, & D. H Rakison (Eds.), Early perceptual and cognitive development. New York: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, S. P. (in press). Object perception. To appear in P. D. Zelazo (Ed.), Handbook of developmental psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Slater, A. M., Bremner, J. G., Johnson, S. P., & Hayes, R. (in press). The role of perceptual processes in infant addition/subtraction events. To appear in L. M. Oakes, C. H. Cashon, M. Casasola, & D. H Rakison (Eds.), Early perceptual and cognitive development. New York: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, S. P. (2010). Perceptual completion in infancy. In S. P. Johnson (Ed.), Neoconstructivism: The new science of cognitive development (pp. 45-60). New York: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, S. P., Amso, D., Frank, M. C., & Shuwairi, S. M. (2008). Perceptual development in infancy as the foundation of event perception. In T. F. Shipley & J. Zacks (Eds.), Understanding events: How humans see, represent, and act on events (pp. 65-95). New York: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, S. P. (2008). Developmental origins of object perception. In A. Woodward & A. Needham (Eds.), Learning and the infant mind (pp. 47-65). New York: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, S. P., & Soska, K. C. (2008). Object concept. In M. M. Haith and J. B. Benson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of infant and early child development (pp. 469-478). San Diego, CA: Elsevier.

Johnson, S. P., & Slater, A. (2006). The development of intelligence in infancy. In A. Slater & M. Lewis (Eds.), Introduction to infant development (2nd ed., pp. 103-118). New York: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, S. P. (2005). Building knowledge from perception in infancy. In L. Gershkoff-Stowe & D. Rakison (Eds.), Building object categories in developmental time: 32nd Carnegie symposium on cognition (pp. 33-62). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Johnson, S. P., Hannon, E. E., & Amso, D. (2005). Perceptual development. In B. Hopkins (Ed.), Cambridge encyclopedia of child development (pp. 210-216). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Johnson, S. P. (2003). Development of fragmented vs. holistic object perception. In G. Schwarzer & H. Leder (Eds.), The development of face processing (pp. 3-17). Cambridge, MA: Hogrefe & Huber.

Johnson, S. P. (2003). The nature of cognitive development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 102-104. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P. (2003). Theories of development of the object concept. In J. G. Bremner and A. M. Slater (Eds.), Theories of infant development (pp. 174-203). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Johnson, S. P. (2001). Neurophysiological and psychophysical approaches to visual development. In A. F. Kalverboer & A. Gramsbergen (Series Eds.) & J. B. Hopkins (Section Ed.), Handbook of brain and behaviour in human development: IV. Development of perception and cognition (pp. 653-675). Amsterdam: Elsevier. View Abstract

Johnson, S. P. (2000). The development of visual surface perception: Insights into the ontogeny of knowledge. In C. Rovee-Collier, L. Lipsitt, & H. Hayne (Eds.), Progress in infancy research (Vol. 1, pp. 113-154). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. View Abstract

Books

Johnson, S. P. (Ed.) (2010). Neoconstructivism: The new science of cognitive development. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hopkins, B., & Johnson, S. P., Eds. (2005). Prenatal development of postnatal functions. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Hopkins, B., & Johnson, S. P., Eds. (2003). Neurobiology of infant vision. Westport, CT: Praeger.

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