Articles and Chapters
Learning Mechanisms
Endress, A., & Johnson, S. P. (2021). When forgetting fosters learning: A neural network model for statistical learning. Cognition, 213, 104621.
Bettoni, R., Bulf., H., Brady, S., & Johnson, S. P. (2021). Infants’ learning of non-adjacent regularities from visual sequences. Infancy, 26, 319-326.
Bulf, H., Quadrelli, E., Brady, S., Nguyen, B., Macchi Cassa, V., & Johnson, S. P. (2021). Rule learning transfer across linguistic and visual modalities in 7-month-old infants. Infancy, 26, 441-453.
Sanders, A. J., & Johnson, S. P. (2021). Indexing early visual memory durability in infancy. Child Development, 92, e221-e235.
Endress, A., Slone, L. K., & Johnson, S. P. (2020). Statistical learning and memory. Cognition, 204, 104346.
Marin, A., Hutman, T., Ponting, C. McDonald, N., M., Carver, L., Baker, E., Daniel, M., Dickinson, A., Dapretto, M., Johnson, S. P., & Jeste, S. (2020). Electrophysiological signatures of visual statistical learning in three-month-old infants at familial and low risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Developmental Psychobiology, 62, 858-870.
Wood, S. M. W., Johnson, S. P., & Wood, J. N. (2019). Automated study challenges the existence of a foundational statistical learning ability in newborn chicks. Psychological Science, 30, 1592-1602.
Schonberg, C., Marcus, G. F., & Johnson, S. P. (2018). The roles of item repetition and position in infants’ abstract rule learning. Infant Behavior and Development, 53, 64-80.
Slone, L. K., & Johnson, S. P. (2018). When learning goes beyond statistics: Infants represent visual sequences in terms of chunks. Cognition, 178, 92-102.
Yeung, H., Denison, S., & Johnson, S. P. (2016). Infants’ looking to surprising events: When eye-tracking reveals more than looking time. PLoS One, 11, e0164277.
Atagi, N., DeWolf, M., Stigler, J.W., & Johnson, S. P. (2016). The role of visual representations in college students’ understanding of mathematical notation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 22, 295-304.
Miller, M., Iosif, A.M., Young, G.S., Hill, M., Hanzel, E.P., Hutman, T., Johnson, S. P., & Ozonoff, S. (2016). School-age outcomes of infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 9, 632-642.
Bulf, H., Brenna, V., Valenza, E., Johnson, S. P., & Turati, C. (2015). Many faces, one rule: The role of perceptual expertise in infants’ sequential rule learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 1595. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01595
Goldenberg, E., & Johnson, S. P. (2015). Category generalization in a new context: The role of visual attention. Infant Behavior and Development, 38, 49-56. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.12.001
Jeste, S. S., Kirkham, N., Senturak, D., Hasenstab, K., Sugar, C., Kupelian, C., Baker, E., Sanders, A., Shimizu, C., Norona, A., Paparella, T., Freeman, S. F. N., & Johnson, S. P. (2015). Electrophysiological evidence of heterogeneity in visual statistical learning in young children with ASD. Developmental Science, 18, 90-105.
Miller, M., Young, G. S., Hutman, T., Johnson, S. P., Schwichtenberg, A. J., & Ozonoff, S. (2015). Early pragmatic language difficulties in siblings of children with autism: Implications for DSM-5 Social Communication Disorder? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 56, 774-781.
Slone, L. K., & Johnson, S. P. (2015). Infants’ statistical learning: 2- and 5-month-olds’ segmentation of continuous visual sequences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 133, 47-56.
ter Schure, S., Mandell, D. J., Escudero, P., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & Johnson, S. P. (2014). Learning stimulus-location associations in 8- and 11-Month-old infants: Multimodal versus unimodal information. Infancy, 19, 476-495.
Krogh, L., Vlach, H. A., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Statistical learning across development: Flexible yet constrained. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:598. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00598
Vlach, H. A., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Memory constraints on infants’ cross-situational statistical learning. Cognition, 127, 375-382.
Marcus, G. F., Fernandes, K. J., & Johnson, S. P. (2012). The role of association in early word-learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:283. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00283
Rabagliati, H., Senghas, A., Johnson, S. P., & Marcus, G. F. (2012). Infant rule learning: Advantage language, or advantage speech? PLoS ONE, 7, e40517.
Bulf, H., Johnson, S. P., & Valenza, E. (2011). Visual statistical learning in the newborn infant. Cognition, 121, 127-132.
Johnson, S. P. (2010). How infants learn about the visual world. Cognitive Science, 34, 1158-1184.
Special Issue of Cognitive Science. Mechanisms of Cognitive Development: Domain-General or Domain-Specific Constraints? (Vladimir Sloutsky, Ed.)
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.
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.
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.
Marcus, G. F., Fernandes, K. J., & Johnson, S. P. (2007). Infant rule learning facilitated by speech. Psychological Science, 18, 387-391.
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.
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.
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.
Social Perception
Johnson, S. P., Dong, M., Ogren, M., & Senturk, D. (2021). Infants’ identification of gender in biological motion displays. Infancy, 26, 798-810.
Peng, Y., Lu, H., & Johnson, S. P. (2021). Infant perception of causal motion produced by humans and inanimate objects. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101615.
Johnson, S. P., Alt, N. P., Biosah, C., Dong, M., Goodale, B. M., Senturk, D., & Johnson, K. L. (2021). Development of infants’ representation of female and male faces. Vision Research, 184, 1-7.
Ogren, M., & Johnson, S. P. (2021). Primary caregiver emotional expressiveness facilitates development of emotion understanding. Infant Behavior and Development, 62, 101508.
Atagi, N., & Johnson, S. P. (2020). Language experience is associated with infants’ visual attention to speakers. Brain Sciences, 10, 550.
Ogren, M., & Johnson, S. P. (2020). Factors facilitating early emotion understanding development: Contributions to individual differences. Human Development, 64, 108-118.
Ogren, M., & Johnson, S. P. (2020). Intermodal emotion matching at 15 Months, but not 9 or 21 months, predicts early childhood emotion understanding: A longitudinal investigation. Cognition and Emotion. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2020.1743236
Ogren, M., Kaplan, B., Peng, Y., Johnson, K. L., & Johnson, S. P. (2019). Motion or emotion: Infants discriminate emotional biological motion based on low-level information. Infant Behavior and Development, 57, 101324.
Tsang, T., Johnson, S. P., Jeste, S., & Dapretto, M. (2019). Social complexity and the early social environment affect visual social attention to faces. Autism Research, 12, 445-457.
Anderson, J. R., Holland, E., Heldreth, C., & Johnson, S. P. (2018). Revisiting the Jezebel stereotype: The impact of target race on sexual objectification. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 42, 461-476.
Nozadi, S., Spinrad, T., Johnson, S. P., & Eisenberg, N. (2018). Relations of emotion-related temperamental characteristics to attentional biases and social functioning. Emotion, 18, 481-492.
Ogren, M., Burling, J. M., & Johnson, S. P. (2018). Family expressiveness relates to happy emotion matching among 9-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 174, 29-40.
Tsang, T., Ogren, M., Peng, Y., Nguyen, B., Johnson, K. L., & Johnson, S. P. (2018). Infant perception of sex differences in biological motion displays. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 173, 338-350.
Tsang, T., Atagi, N., & Johnson, S. P. (2018). Selective attention to the mouth is associated with expressive language skills in monolingual and bilingual infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 169, 93-109.
Singarajah, A., Chanley, J., Gutierrez, Y., Cordon, Y., Nguyen, B., Burakowski, L., & Johnson, S. P. (2017). Infant attention to same- and other-race faces. Cognition, 159, 76-84.
Kim, H.I., Johnson, K.L., & Johnson, S. P. (2015). Gendered race: Are infants’ face preferences guided by intersectionality of sex and race? Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1330. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01330
Kim, H. I., & Johnson, S. P. (2014). Detecting “infant-directedness” in face and voice. Developmental Science, 14, 621-627.
del Rosario, M., Gillespie-Lynch, K., Johnson, S. P., Sigman, M., & Hutman, T. (2014). Parent-reported temperament trajectories among infant siblings of children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44, 381-393.
Frank, M. C., Amso, D., & Johnson, S. P. (2014). Visual search and attention to faces in early infancy. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 118, 13-26.
Escudero, P., Robbins, R. A., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Sex-related preferences for real and doll’s faces versus real and toy objects in young infants and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116, 367-379.
Frankenhuis, W. E., House, B., Barrett, C., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Infants’ perception of chasing. Cognition, 126, 224-233.
Gillespie-Lynch, K., Elias, R., Escudero, P., Hutman, T., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Atypical gaze following in autism: A comparison of three potential mechanisms. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43, 2779-2792.
Gluckman, M., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Attentional capture by social stimuli in young infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:527. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00527
Kim, H., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Do young infants prefer an infant-directed face or a happy face? International Journal of Behavioral Development, 37, 125-130.
Gaither, S. E., Pauker, K., & Johnson, S. P. (2012). Biracial and monoracial infant own-race face perception: An eye tracking study. Developmental Science, 15, 775-782.
Navab, A., Gillespie-Lynch, K., Johnson, S. P., Sigman, M., & Hutman, T. (2012). Eye tracking as a measure of responsiveness to joint attention in infants at risk for autism. Infancy, 17, 416-431.
Frank. M. C., Vul, E., & Johnson, S. P. (2009). Development of infants’ attention to faces during the first year. Cognition, 110, 160-170.
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.
Object Tracking
Bremner, J. G., Slater, A., Mason, U., Spring, J., Tham, D. S. Y., Rees, A., Tham, D., & Johnson, S. P. (2021). Eye tracking provides no evidence that young infants understand path obstruction. Infant Behavior and Development, 65, 101659.
Tham, D. S. Y., Rees, A., Bremner, J. G., Slater, A., & Johnson, S. P. (2021). Orientation effects in the development of linear object tracking in early infancy. Child Development, 92, 324-334.
Tham, D. S. Y., Rees, A., Bremner, G., Slater, A., & Johnson, S. P. (2019). Auditory information for spatial location and pitch height correspondence support young infants’ perception of object persistence. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 178, 341-351.
Bremner, J. G., Slater, A. M., Hayes, R. A., Mason, U. C., Murphy, C., Spring, J. , Draper, L., & Johnson, S. P. (2017). Young infants’ visual fixation patterns in addition and subtraction tasks support an object tracking account. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 162, 199-208.
Bremner, J. G., Slater, A. M., Mason, U. C., Spring, J., & Johnson, S. P. (2017). Limits of object persistence: Young infants perceive continuity of vertical and horizontal trajectories, but not 45-degree oblique trajectories. Infancy, 22, 303-322.
Bremner, J. G., Slater, A. M., Mason, U. C., Spring, J., & Johnson, S. P. (2016). Perception of occlusion by young infants: Must the occlusion event be congruent with the occluder? Infant Behavior and Development, 44, 240-248.
Bremner, J. G., Slater, A. M., & Johnson, S. P. (2015). Perception of object persistence: The origins of object permanence in infancy. Child Development Perspectives, 9, 7-13.
Bremner, J. G., Slater, A. M., Mason, U. C., Spring, J., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Trajectory perception and object continuity: Effects of shape and color change on 4-month-olds’ perception of trajectory identity. Developmental Psychology, 49, 1021-1026.
Johnson, S. P., Bremner, J. G., Slater, A. M., Shuwairi, S. M., Mason, U., Spring, J., & Usherwood, B. (2012). Young infants’ perception of the trajectories of two- and three-dimensional objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113, 177-185.
Bremner, J. G., Slater, A. M., Johnson, S. P., Mason, U. C., & Spring. J. (2012a). The effects of auditory information on 4-month-olds’ perception of trajectory continuity. Child Development, 83, 954-964.
Bremner, J. G., Slater, A. M., Johnson, S. P., Mason, U. C., & Spring. J. (2012b). Illusory contour figures are perceived as occluding contours by 4-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 48, 398-405.
Kirkham, N. Z., Wagner, J., Swan, K., & Johnson, S. P. (2012). Sound support: Intermodal information facilitates infants’ perception of an occluded trajectory. Infant Behavior & Development, 35, 174-178.
Slater, A. M., Bremner, J. G., Johnson, S. P., Hayes, R. A. (2010). The role of perceptual and cognitive processes in addition-subtraction studies with 5-month-old infants. Infant Behavior & Development, 33, 685-688.
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.
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.
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.
Shuwairi, S. M., Curtis, C. E., & Johnson, S. P. (2007). Neural substrates of dynamic object occlusion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1275-1285.
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.
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.
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.
Perceptual Completion
Soska, K. C., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Development of three-dimensional completion of complex objects. Infancy, 18, 325-344.
Schlesinger, M., Amso, D., & Johnson, S. P. (2012). Simulating the role of visual selective attention during the development of perceptual completion. Developmental Science, 15, 739-752.
Soska, K. C., Adolph, K. E., & Johnson, S. P. (2010). Systems in development: Motor skills acquisition facilitates 3D object completion. Developmental Psychology, 46, 129-138.
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.
Soska, K. C., & Johnson, S. P. (2008). Development of 3D object completion in infancy. Child Development, 79, 1230-1236.
Johnson, S. P. (2004). Development of perceptual completion in infancy. Psychological Science, 15, 769-775.
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.
Smith, W. C., Johnson, S. P., & Spelke, E. S. (2003). Motion and edge sensitivity in perception of object unity. Cognitive Psychology, 46, 31-64.
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.
Mareschal, D., & Johnson, S. P. (2002). Learning to perceive object unity: A connectionist account. Developmental Science, 5, 151-185.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Johnson, S. P., & Aslin, R. N. (1995). Perception of object unity in 2-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 31, 739-745.
Johnson, S. P., & Náñez, J. E. (1995). Young infants’ perception of object unity in two-dimensional displays. Infant Behavior & Development, 18, 133-143.
Slater, A., Johnson, S. P., Brown, E., & Badenoch, M. (1996). Newborn infants’ perception of partly occluded objects. Infant Behavior and Development, 19, 145-148.
Perceptual Development
Johnson, S. P., & Moore, D. S. (2020). Spatial thinking in infancy: Origins and development of mental rotation. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5:10.
Goldknopf, E. J., Gillespie-Lynch, K., Marroquín, A. D., Nguyen, B. D., & Johnson, S. P. (2019). Spontaneous visual search during the first two years: Improvement but no evidence of pop-out. Infant Behavior and Development, 57, 101331.
van Renswoude, D. R., Visser, I., Raijmakers, M. E. J., Tsang, T., & Johnson, S. P. (2019). Real-world scene perception in infants: What factors guide attention allocation? Infancy, 24, 693-717.
Slone, L. K., Moore, D. S., & Johnson, S. P. (2018). Object exploration facilitates 4-month-olds’ mental rotation performance. PLoS ONE, 13, e0200468
Constantinescu, M., Moore, D. S., Johnson, S. P., & Hines, M. (2018). Early contributions to infants’ mental rotation abilities. Developmental Science, 21, e12613. doi: 10.1111/desc.12613
Heil, M., Krüger, M., Krist, H., Johnson, S. P., & Moore, D. S. (2018). Adults’ sex difference in a dynamic mental rotation task: Validating infant results. Journal of Individual Differences. 39, 48–52.
van Renswoude, D. R., Raijmakers, M. E. J., Koornneef, A., Johnson, S. P., Hunnius, S., & Visser, I. (2017). Gazepath: An eye-tracking analysis tool that accounts for individual differences and data quality. Behavior Research Methods. doi: 10.3758/s13428-017-0909-3
Christodoulou, J., Johnson, S. P., Moore, D., & Moore, D. S. (2016). Seeing double: 5-month-olds’ mental rotation of dynamic, 3D block stimuli presented on dual monitors. Infant Behavior and Development, 45(A), 64-70.
Van Renswoude, D. R., Johnson, S. P., Raijmakers, M. E. J., & Visser, I. (2016). Do infants have the horizontal bias? Infant Behavior and Development, 44, 38-48.
Schlesinger, M., Johnson, S. P., & Amso, D. (2014). Prediction-learning in infants as a mechanism for gaze control during object exploration. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:441. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00441
Schonberg, C., Sandhofer, C. M., Tsang, T., & Johnson, S. P. (2014). Does bilingual experience affect early visual perceptual development? Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1429. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01429
Shuwairi, S. M., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Oculomotor exploration of impossible figures in early infancy. Infancy, 18, 221-232.
Kirkham, N. Z., Richardson, D. C., Wu, R., & Johnson, S. P. (2012). The importance of “what”: Infants use featural information to index objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113, 430-439.
Morgante, J. D., Zolfaghari, R., & Johnson, S. P. (2012). A critical test of temporal and spatial accuracy of the Tobii T60XL eye tracker. Infancy, 17, 9-32.
Bremner, J. G., Slater, A. M., Johnson, S. P., Mason, U. C., Spring, J., & Bremner, M. E. (2011). Two- to 8-month-old infants’ cross-modal perception of dynamic auditory-visual spatial co-location. Child Development, 82, 1210-1223.
Johnson, S. P. (2011). Development of visual perception. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1002/wcs.128
Moore, D. S., & Johnson, S. P. (2011). Mental rotation of dynamic, three-dimensional stimuli by 3-month-old infants. Infancy, 16, 435-445.
Morgante, J. D., & Johnson, S. P. (2011). Infants’ perception of object-surface interplays. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29, 999-1005.
Shuwairi, S. M., Tran, A., DeLoache, J. S., & Johnson, S. P. (2010). Infants’ response to pictures of impossible objects. Infancy, 15, 636-649.
Gredebäck, G, Johnson, S. P., & von Hofsten, C. (2010). Eye tracking in infancy research. Developmental Neuropsychology, 35, 1-19.
Walker, P., Bremner, J. G., Mason, U., Spring, J., Mattock, K., Slater, A., & Johnson, S. P. (2010). Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to synaesthetic cross-modality correspondences. Psychological Science, 21, 21-25.
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.
Moore, D. S., & Johnson, S. P. (2008). Mental rotation in human infants: A sex difference. Psychological Science, 19, 1063-1066.
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.
Shuwairi, S. M., Albert, M., & Johnson, S. P. (2007). Discrimination of possible and impossible objects in infancy. Psychological Science, 18, 303-307.
Amso, D., & Johnson, S. P. (2006). Learning by selection: Visual search and object perception in young infants. Developmental Psychology, 42, 1236-1245.
Amso, D., & Johnson, S. P. (2005). Selection and inhibition in infancy: Evidence from the spatial negative priming paradigm. Cognition, 95, B27-B36.
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.
Johnson, S. P., & Mason, U. (2002). Perception of kinetic illusory contours by 2-month-old infants. Child Development, 73, 22-34.
Johnson, S. P. (2001). Visual development in human infants: Binding features, surfaces, and objects. Visual Cognition, 8, 565-578.
Johnson, S. P., & Aslin, R. N. (2000). Infants’ perception of transparency. Developmental Psychology, 36, 808-816.
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.
Johnson, S. P., & Aslin, R. N. (1998). Young infants’ perception of illusory contours in dynamic displays. Perception, 27, 341-353.
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.
Johnson, S. P. (1996). Habituation patterns and object perception in young infants. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 14, 207-218.
Book chapters etc.
Panneton, R., Bremner, J. G., & Johnson, S. P. (2021). Infancy studies come of age: Jacques Mehler’s influence on the importance of perinatal experience for early language learning. Cognition, 213, 104543.
Johnson, S. P. (2020). Development of the visual system. In J. Rubenstein (Series Ed.) & H. Tager-Flusberg (Section Ed.), Comprehensive developmental neuroscience: Neural circuit development and function in the brain (Vol. 2, pp. 335-358). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Johnson, S. P. (2020). Mechanisms of statistical learning in infancy. In J. B. Childers (Ed.), Language and concept acquisition from infancy through childhood: Learning from multiple exemplars (pp. 11-30). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Johnson, S. P. (2020). Object concept. In J. Benson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of infant and early child development (2nd ed, Vol. 2, pp. 453-462). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Moore, D. S., & Johnson, S. P. (2020). The development of mental rotation ability across the first year after birth. In J. Benson (Ed.), Advances in child development and behavior (Vol. 58, pp. 1-33). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Johnson, S. P. (2019). Development of visual-spatial attention. In T. Hodgson (Ed.), Processes of Visuospatial attention and working memory; Current topics in behavioral neurosciences (Vol. 41, pp. 37-58). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
Johnson, S. P. (2018). Object perception. In O. Braddick (Series Ed.) & C. von Hofsten (Vol. Ed.), Oxford research encyclopedia of psychology. New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.62
Johnson, S. P. (2018). Perception. In M. Bornstein (Ed.), The Sage encyclopedia of lifespan human development (pp. 1613-1615). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Johnson, S. P., Slater, A., & Hocking, I. (2017). Theories and issues in child development. In A. M. Slater & J. G. Bremner (Eds.), Introduction to developmental psychology (3rd ed., pp. 41-77). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
Slater, A. M., Johnson, S. P., & Muir, D. (2017). The scope and methods of developmental psychology. In A. M. Slater & J. G. Bremner (Eds.), Introduction to developmental psychology (3rd ed., pp. 3-40). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.Johnson, S. P., & Hannon, E. H. (2015). Perceptual development. In R. M. Lerner (Series Ed.) & L. Liben & U. M. Müller (Vol. Eds), Handbook of child psychology and developmental science: Vol. 2: Cognitive development (7th ed., pp. 63-112). New York: Wiley.
Johnson, S. P., & Hannon, E. H. (2015). Perceptual development. In R. M. Lerner (Series Ed.) & L. Liben & U. M. Müller (Vol. Eds), Handbook of child psychology and developmental science: Vol. 2: Cognitive development (7th ed., pp. 63-112). New York: Wiley.
Johnson, S. P. (2013). Development of the visual system. In P. Rakic & J. Rubenstein (Series Eds.) & H. Tager-Flusberg (Section Ed.), Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience: Neural Circuit Development and Function in the Brain (Vol. 3, pp. 249-269). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Johnson, S. P. (2013). Object perception. In P. D. Zelazo (Ed.), Handbook of developmental psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 371-379). New York: Oxford University Press.
Frankenhuis, W. E., Barrett, H. C., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Developmental origins of biological motion perception. In K. L. Johnson & M. Shiffrar (Eds.), Visual perception of the human body in motion (pp. 121-138). New York: Oxford University Press.
Johnson, S. P. (2011). A constructivist view of object perception in infancy. In L. M. Oakes, C. H. Cashon, M. Casasola, & D. H Rakison (Eds.), Infant perception and cognition: Recent advances, emerging theories, and future directions (pp. 51-68). New York: Oxford University Press.
Slater, A. M., Bremner, J. G., Johnson, S. P., & Hayes, R. (2011). The role of perceptual processes in infant addition/subtraction events. In L. M. Oakes, C. H. Cashon, M. Casasola, & D. H Rakison (Eds.), Infant perception and cognition: Recent advances, emerging theories, and future directions (pp. 85-110). New York: Oxford University Press.
Amso, D., & Johnson, S. P.(2010). Building object knowledge from perceptual input. In B. Hood & L. Santos (Eds.), The origins of object knowledge (pp. 211-226). 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.
Kim, H., & Johnson, S. P. (2010). Infant perception. In B. Goldstein (Ed.), Encyclopedia of perception (pp. 496-501) . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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.
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.
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.
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.