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| TERESA G WILCOXSummaryAffiliation: Texas A and M University Country: USA Publications
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Infants' reasoning about opaque and transparent occluders in an individuation taskTeresa Wilcox
Psychology Department, Texas A and M University, 230 Psychology Building, 4235 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Cognition 85:B1-10. 2002..e. occlusion) than when they must retrieve and compare categorically distinct events (i.e. occlusion and no-occlusion)...
Priming infants to attend to color and pattern information in an individuation taskTeresa Wilcox
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, 4235 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Cognition 90:265-302. 2004..The results are discussed in terms of the kinds of experiences that can lead to increased sensitivity to surface features and the mechanisms that support feature priming in young infants...
Using near-infrared spectroscopy to assess neural activation during object processing in infantsTeresa Wilcox
Texas A and M University, Psychology Department, MS 4235 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
J Biomed Opt 10:11010. 2005..The outcome has important implications for research in cognitive development, developmental neuroscience, and optical imaging...
Multisensory exploration and object individuation in infancyTeresa Wilcox
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Dev Psychol 43:479-95. 2007..More broadly, these results shed light on the nature of infants' object representations and the cognitive mechanisms that support infants' changing sensitivity to color differences...
Color-function categories that prime infants to use color information in an object individuation taskTeresa Wilcox
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, 4235 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Cogn Psychol 57:220-61. 2008..These results shed light on the development of categorization abilities, cognitive mechanisms that support color-function priming, and the kinds of experiences that can increase infants' sensitivity to color information...
Hemodynamic response to featural changes in the occipital and inferior temporal cortex in infants: a preliminary methodological explorationTeresa Wilcox
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Dev Sci 11:361-70. 2008..These data were discussed in terms of (a) what they suggest about the neural basis of feature processing in infants and (b) the viability of using NIRS to study brain-behavior relations in infants...
Hemodynamic changes in the infant cortex during the processing of featural and spatiotemporal informationTeresa Wilcox
Texas A and M University, United States
Neuropsychologia 47:657-62. 2009..The outcome of this experiment reveals early functional specialization of temporal cortex and lays the foundation for future investigation of the maturation of object processing pathways in humans...
Dissociation of processing of featural and spatiotemporal information in the infant cortexTeresa Wilcox
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Neuroimage 53:1256-63. 2010..The outcome of these studies informs brain-behavior models of cognitive development and lays the foundation for systematic investigation of the functional maturation of object processing systems in the infant brain...
Priming infants to use pattern information in an object individuation task: the role of comparisonTeresa Wilcox
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Dev Psychol 47:886-97. 2011..These results join a growing body of research indicating the importance of comparison to category formation in infants and reveal the impact of categorization and comparison processes on object individuation in infancy...
Research Grants
- Auditory Information and Object Individuation in InfancyTeresa Wilcox; Fiscal Year: 2005..These theories eventually will be used by parents, educators, and daycare providers to create environments that are most likely to facilitate learning about the physical nature of objects in healthy and at-risk infants. ..
- The Neural Basis of Object Processing in InfancyTeresa Wilcox; Fiscal Year: 2006....
- Optical Imaging in InfantsTeresa Wilcox; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Optical Imaging in InfantsTERESA G WILCOX; Fiscal Year: 2010....
