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Amblyopia: background to the special issue on stroke recoveryDaphne Maurer
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Dev Psychobiol 54:224-38. 2012..Both animal and human studies of amblyopia have recently identified exciting ways to remediate vision in adulthood that bear some similarity to the interventions that have proved successful in promoting recovery from stroke...- Rapid improvement in the acuity of infants after visual inputD Maurer
Department of Ophthalmology, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
Science 286:108-10. 1999..The results indicate that patterned visual input is necessary for the postnatal improvement of human visual acuity and that the onset of such input initiates rapid functional development... - Repeated measurements of contrast sensitivity reveal limits to visual plasticity after early binocular deprivation in humansDaphne Maurer
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada
Neuropsychologia 44:2104-12. 2006..However, there is sufficient plasticity during middle childhood to allow some recovery at low spatial frequencies. The results shed new light on the role of early visual experience and the nature of developmental plasticity... - The shape of boubas: sound-shape correspondences in toddlers and adultsDaphne Maurer
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Canada
Dev Sci 9:316-22. 2006..0005), with no significant difference between the two ages (p > .10). Such naturally biased correspondences between sound and shape may influence the development of language... - Missing sights: consequences for visual cognitive developmentDaphne Maurer
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1
Trends Cogn Sci 9:144-51. 2005..This has important implications for understanding the role of early visual experience in shaping visual cognitive development... - Neural correlates of processing facial identity based on features versus their spacingD Maurer
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada
Neuropsychologia 45:1438-51. 2007.... - Sleeper effectsDaphne Maurer
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Dev Sci 10:40-7. 2007.... - Effects of early visual deprivation on perceptual and cognitive developmentDaphne Maurer
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4K1, Canada
Prog Brain Res 164:87-104. 2007..We end by discussing the implications for understanding the developmental mechanisms underlying normal perceptual and cognitive development... - Cross-modal transfer of shape is difficult to demonstrate in one-month-oldsD Maurer
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Child Dev 70:1047-57. 1999..Future studies exploring the ability to transfer information about other shapes will be easier to interpret if they include controls for side bias and stimulus preference... - A happy story: Developmental changes in children's sensitivity to facial expressions of varying intensitiesXiaoqing Gao
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
J Exp Child Psychol 107:67-86. 2010..This slow development may impact children's social and cognitive development by limiting their sensitivity to subtle expressions of disapproval or disappointment... - Expert face processing requires visual input to the right hemisphere during infancyRichard Le Grand
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Nat Neurosci 6:1108-12. 2003..However, the two hemispheres are not equipotent: only the right hemisphere is capable of using the early input to develop expertise at face processing... - A window on the normal development of sensitivity to global form in Glass patternsTerri L Lewis
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Perception 33:409-18. 2004..During middle childhood, the mechanisms mediating sensitivity to concentric structure develop at the same rate as those mediating sensitivity to parallel structure... - Sensitivity to global form in glass patterns after early visual deprivation in humansTerri L Lewis
Department of Ophthalmology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada M5G 1X8
Vision Res 42:939-48. 2002.... - Becoming a face expertCatherine J Mondloch
Department of Psychology, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Psychol Sci 17:930-4. 2006..The results indicate that improvements in face recognition after age 8 are not related to experience with human faces and may be related to general improvements in memory or in perception (e.g., hyperacuity and spatial integration)... - Sensitivity to first- and second-order motion and form in children and adultsVickie Armstrong
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
Vision Res 49:2774-81. 2009..25 cyc/deg than at 1 cyc/deg. Thresholds became adult-like later for motion than for form and later for first-order than second-order stimuli. For first-order stimuli, the changes with age were larger and more protracted... - Similarities and differences in the perceptual structure of facial expressions of children and adultsXiaoqing Gao
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada
J Exp Child Psychol 105:98-115. 2010..We conclude that an adult-like representation of facial expressions develops slowly during childhood... - What aspects of face processing are impaired in developmental prosopagnosia?Richard Le Grand
Department of Psychology, Kwantlen University College, Canada
Brain Cogn 61:139-58. 2006..The results show that DP is a heterogeneous condition and that impairment in recognizing faces cannot be predicted by poor performance on any one measure of face processing... - The development of sensitivity to biological motion in noiseAlejo Freire
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, 1280 Main St West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Perception 35:647-57. 2006..The comparison implies an immaturity at 6 years of age in the neural networks involved specifically in the processing of biological motion, networks that may include the superior temporal sulcus (STS)... - The influence of recent experience on perceptions of attractivenessPhilip A Cooper
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Perception 37:1216-26. 2008..The results demonstrate that perceptions of attractiveness are influenced by recent experience, and suggest that internal face prototypes are constantly being updated by experience... - Recognizing the face of Johnny, Suzy, and me: insensitivity to the spacing among features at 4 years of ageCatherine J Mondloch
Brock University, Ontario, Canada
Child Dev 77:234-43. 2006..The results contrast with studies showing some sensitivity to the spacing of features in infants and preschool children; multiple mechanisms of face processing may make use of spatial relations and develop at different rates... - Orientation discrimination in 5-year-olds and adults tested with luminance-modulated and contrast-modulated gratingsTerri L Lewis
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
J Vis 7:9. 2007..Together, the findings suggest that orientation discrimination is slow to develop and worse for second-order than first-order patterns in both children and adults... - Impairment in holistic face processing following early visual deprivationRichard Le Grand
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Psychol Sci 15:762-8. 2004..These findings suggest that early visual experience is necessary to set up or maintain the neural substrate that leads to holistic processing of faces... - Better perception of global motion after monocular than after binocular deprivationDave Ellemberg
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. West, Hamilton, Ont, Canada L85 4K1
Vision Res 42:169-79. 2002..These findings suggest that beyond the primary visual cortex, competitive interactions between the eyes can give way to collaborative interactions that enable a relative sparing of some visual functions after monocular deprivation... - The colors of the alphabet: naturally-biased associations between shape and colorFerrinne Spector
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 37:484-95. 2011.... - Synesthesia: a new approach to understanding the development of perceptionFerrinne Spector
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior, McMaster University, Canada
Dev Psychol 45:175-89. 2009..Such intersensory associations appear to reflect intrinsic sensory cortical organization that influences the development of perception and of language and that may constrain the learning of environmentally based associations... - The effects of spatial proximity and collinearity on contour integration in adults and childrenBatsheva Hadad
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Vision Res 50:772-8. 2010..Only after age 14 did collinearity, the most reliable cue, come to compensate efficiently for spatial proximity... - Effects of early pattern deprivation on visual developmentTerri L Lewis
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Optom Vis Sci 86:640-6. 2009..The results point to new research questions on why early visual deprivation can cause later deficits, what limits adult plasticity, and whether effective rehabilitation in other areas can provide new clues for the treatment of amblyopia... - Development of sensitivity to spacing versus feature changes in pictures of houses: Evidence for slow development of a general spacing detection mechanism?Rachel A Robbins
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Exp Child Psychol 109:371-82. 2011..The results suggest that, at least by age 8, immaturities in sensitivity to the spacing of features may be related to immaturities in general perceptual mechanisms rather than face-specific mechanisms... - The effect of face orientation on holistic processingCatherine J Mondloch
Department of Psychology, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
Perception 37:1175-86. 2008..We propose a hierarchical model of face perception in which linear decreases in holistic processing underlie qualitative shifts in other aspects of face perception... - Developmental changes in face processing skillsCatherine J Mondloch
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, L8S 4K1 Ont, Canada
J Exp Child Psychol 86:67-84. 2003..Together, the results indicate that the slow development of sensitivity to second-order relations causes children to be especially poor at recognizing the identity of a face when it is seen in a new orientation... - Developmental changes in perceptions of attractiveness: a role of experience?Philip A Cooper
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Dev Sci 9:530-43. 2006.... - Why 8-year-olds cannot tell the difference between Steve Martin and Paul Newman: factors contributing to the slow development of sensitivity to the spacing of facial featuresCatherine J Mondloch
Department of Psychology, Brock University, St Catharines, Ont L2S 3A1, Canada
J Exp Child Psychol 89:159-81. 2004..However, even when the task is modified to compensate for these problems, children remain less sensitive than adults to the spacing of features... - Gradual improvement in fine-grained sensitivity to triadic gaze after 6 years of ageMark D Vida
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L8
J Exp Child Psychol 111:299-318. 2012..Subsequent improvements in sensitivity involve, at least in part, an increase in sensitivity to eye position... - Developmental changes during childhood in single-letter acuity and its crowding by surrounding contoursSeong Taek Jeon
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada
J Exp Child Psychol 107:423-37. 2010..The stronger influence of crowding in children may be caused by immaturities in the brain areas beyond the primary visual cortex (V1) where early visual inputs are combined and may contribute to their slower reading speed... - The effect of categorisation on sensitivity to second-order relations in novel objectsMayu Nishimura
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Perception 37:584-601. 2008.... - Influence of intensity on children's sensitivity to happy, sad, and fearful facial expressionsXiaoqing Gao
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior, McMaster University, Ont, Canada
J Exp Child Psychol 102:503-21. 2009..Together, the results indicate that there is slow development of accurate decoding of subtle facial expressions... - Developmental changes in the processing of hierarchical shapes continue into adolescenceCatherine J Mondloch
1280 Main St West, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada L8S 4K1
J Exp Child Psychol 84:20-40. 2003.... - The colour of Os: naturally biased associations between shape and colourFerrinne Spector
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour, McMaster University, 1280 Main St West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
Perception 37:841-7. 2008..They suggest that sensory cortical organisation initially binds colour to some shapes, and that learning to read can induce additional associations, likely through the influence of higher-order networks as letters take on meaning... - Fitting the child's mind to the world: adaptive norm-based coding of facial identity in 8-year-oldsMayu Nishimura
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Canada
Dev Sci 11:620-7. 2008..This finding suggests that, by 8 years of age, the adaptive computational mechanisms used to code facial identity are like those of adults and hence that children's immaturities in face processing arise from another source... - A comparison of spatial frequency tuning for the recognition of facial identity and facial expressions in adults and childrenXiaoqing Gao
McMaster University, Canada
Vision Res 51:508-19. 2011..The patterns suggest that adults use finer details for recognizing facial expressions than for identifying faces, a tuning that appears as early as age 10... - Configural face processing develops more slowly than featural face processingCatherine J Mondloch
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Perception 31:553-66. 2002..Overall, the results indicate that adult expertise in configural processing is especially slow to develop... - Discrimination of facial features by adults, 10-year-olds, and cataract-reversal patientsCatherine J Mondloch
Department of Psychology, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
Perception 39:184-94. 2010..By the age of 10 years, children are close to, but not quite at, adult levels of accuracy. The previous findings cannot be attributed to our having inadvertently created a feature set that was unusually easy to discriminate... - The development of contour interpolation: evidence from subjective contoursBat Sheva Hadad
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada L8S 4K1
J Exp Child Psychol 106:163-76. 2010..e., highly supported contours) are more easily interpolated... - Multiple sensitive periods in human visual development: evidence from visually deprived childrenTerri L Lewis
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Dev Psychobiol 46:163-83. 2005..A comparison of results from unilaterally versus bilaterally deprived children provides insights into the complex nature of interactions between the eyes during normal visual development... - The development of symmetrical OKN in infants: quantification based on OKN acuity for nasalward versus temporalward motionT L Lewis
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada
Vision Res 40:445-53. 2000..2 to 0.7 octaves between 3-24 months, primarily because of improvements in OKN acuity for N-T motion. The results suggest that immaturities in the cortical pathways involved in OKN persist until at least 2 years of age... - Effects of the height of the internal features of faces on adults' aesthetic ratings and 5-month-olds' looking timesS Geldart
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Perception 28:839-50. 1999..The results suggest that the influence of feature height on reactions to faces is different for adults and 5-month-olds, and hence that it may be shaped by cultural learning and/or experience with faces sometime after early infancy... - Do small white balls squeak? Pitch-object correspondences in young childrenCatherine J Mondloch
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 4:133-6. 2004..These data support the hypothesis that some cross-modal correspondences may be remnants of the neural mechanisms underlying neonatal perception... - Effects of normal and abnormal visual experience on the development of opposing aftereffects for upright and inverted facesRachel A Robbins
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Canada Psychology Department, Brock University, Canada Department of Ophthalmology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada School of Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Dev Sci 15:194-203. 2012.... - The development of fine-grained sensitivity to eye contact after 6years of ageMark D Vida
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L8
J Exp Child Psychol 112:243-56. 2012..These findings indicate that until after age 6, relatively poor sensitivity to direct versus averted gaze limits children's ability to use gaze cues to make social judgments... - Putting order into the development of sensitivity to global motionD Ellemberg
McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Vision Res 44:2403-11. 2004..They also suggest that those separate mechanisms mature at different rates during middle childhood... - Discrimination of speed in 5-year-olds and adults: are children up to speed?I J Ahmed
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada
Vision Res 45:2129-35. 2005..5 degrees s(-1)) than at the faster (6 degrees s(-1)) reference speed. The findings suggest that the mechanisms underlying speed discrimination are immature in 5-year-olds, especially those that process slower speeds... - Comparison of sensitivity to first- and second-order local motion in 5-year-olds and adultsDave Ellemberg
Groupe de Recherche en Neuropsychologie Experimentale, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Spat Vis 16:419-28. 2003....