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Take Action on Distraction: The definitive guide to improving attention and focus in the Early Years and Key Stage 1.
Wass, S., & Goldenberg, G. (2025). Take Action on Distraction: The definitive guide to improving attention and focus in the Early Years and Key Stage One. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/take-action-on-distraction-9781801995580/
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Who Leads and Who Follows? The Pathways to Joint Attention During Free-Flowing Interactions Change Over Developmental Time.
M. Perapoch Amadó, Phillips, M., Esposito, G., Greenwood, E., Ives, J., P. Labendzki, Lancaster, K., Northrop, T. J., Viswanathan, N. K., M. Gök, Peñaherrera, M. J., Jones, H., & Wass, S. V. (2025). Who Leads and Who Follows? The Pathways to Joint Attention During Free‐Flowing Interactions Change Over Developmental Time. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14229
Foraging and inertia: Understanding the developmental dynamics of overt visual attention
Wass, S. V., Perapoch Amadó, M., Northrop, T., Marriott Haresign, I., & Phillips, E. A. M. (2024). Foraging and inertia: understanding the developmental dynamics of overt visual attention. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105991
Finding order in chaos: influences of environmental complexity and predictability on development
Lancaster, K. L., & Wass, S. V. (2024). Finding order in chaos: influences of environmental complexity and predictability on development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.11.012
Outdoor learning in urban schools: Effects on 4–5 year old children's noise and physiological stress
Goldenberg, G., Atkinson, M., Dubiel, J. and Wass, S. (2024). Outdoor learning in urban schools: Effects on 4–5 year old children’s noise and physiological stress. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102362
Why behaviour matters: Studying inter-brain coordination during child-caregiver interaction
Marriot Haresign, I., Phillips, E. A. M., & Wass, S. V. (2024). Why behaviour matters: Studying inter-brain coordination during child-caregiver interaction. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101384
Endogenous oscillatory rhythms and interactive contingencies jointly influence infant attention during early infant-caregiver interaction.
Phillips, E. A. M., Goupil, L., Whitehorn, M., Bruce-Gardyne, E., Csolsim, F. A., Kaur, N., Greenwood, E., Haresign, I. M., & Wass, S. V. (2024). Endogenous oscillatory rhythms and interactive contingencies jointly influence infant attention during early infant-caregiver interaction. ELife, 12. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.88775.2
The neural and physiological substrates of real-world attention change across development.
Perapoch Amadó, M., Greenwood, E., Ives, J., Labendzki, P., Marriott Haresign, I., Northrop, T. J., Phillips, E. A. M., Viswanathan, N. K., Whitehorn, M., Jones, E. J. H., & Wass, S. V. (2023). The neural and physiological substrates of real-world attention change across development. Elife. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.92171.2
Comparative Strengths and Challenges on Face-to-Face and Computer-Based Attention Tasks in Autistic and Neurotypical Toddlers.
Sacrey, L.-A. R., Zwaigenbaum, L., Elshamy, Y., Smith, I., Brian, J., & Wass, S. (2023). Comparative strengths and challenges on face‐to‐face and computer‐based attention tasks in autistic and neurotypical toddlers. Autism Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2983
Attention and social communication skills of very preterm infants after training attention control: Bayesian analyses of a feasibility study.
Perra, O., Alderdice, R., Sweet, D., McNulty, A., Papageorgiou, K., Johnston, M., Wass, S.V. (2022) Attention abilities, focused attention, and social communication skills of very preterm infants after training attention control: results from a feasibility study of a randomised controlled trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273767
INTERSTAARS: Attention training for infants with elevated likelihood of developing ADHD: A proof-of-concept randomised controlled trial.
Goodwin, A., Emily, Salomone, S., Mason, L., Holman, R., Begum-Ali, J., Hunt, A., Ruddock, M., Vamvakas, G., Robinson, E., Holden, C. J., Taylor, C., Smith, T. J., Sonuga-Barke, E., Bolton, P., Charman, T., Pickles, A., Wass, S., & Johnson, M. H. (2021). INTERSTAARS: Attention training for infants with elevated likelihood of developing ADHD: A proof-of-concept randomised controlled trial. Translational Psychiatry, 11(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01698-9
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The origins of effortful control: How early development within arousal/regulatory systems influences attentional and affective control.
Wass, S. V. (2021). The origins of effortful control: How early development within arousal/regulatory systems influences attentional and affective control. Developmental Review, 61, 100978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2021.100978
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Very preterm infants engage in an intervention to train their control of attention: results from the feasibility study of the Attention Control Training (ACT) randomised trial.
Perra, O., Wass, S., McNulty, A., Sweet, D., Papageorgiou, K. A., Johnston, M., Bilello, D., Patterson, A., & Alderdice, F. (2021). Correction to: Very preterm infants engage in an intervention to train their control of attention: results from the feasibility study of the attention control training (ACT) randomised trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 7(1), 1–1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-021-00943-8
Future preferences and prospection of future of outcomes: Independent yet specific associations with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Kostyrka-Allchorne, K., Cooper, N., Wass, S.V. & Sonuga-Barke, E.J.S. (2020) Future preferences and prospection of future of outcomes: Independent yet specific associations with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Adolescence, 83, 31-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.07.003
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Training attention control of very preterm infants: protocol for a feasibility study of the Attention Control Training (ACT).
Perra, O., Wass, S., McNulty, A., Sweet, D., Papageorgiou, K., Johnston, M., Patterson, A., Bilello, D., & Alderdice, F. (2020). Training attention control of very preterm infants: protocol for a feasibility study of the Attention Control Training (ACT). Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 6(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-020-0556-9
Impaired Visual Search in Children with Rett Syndrome.
Rose, S., Wass, S.V., Jankowski, J.J. Feldman, J.F. and Djukic, A. (2019) Impaired Visual Search in Children with Rett Syndrome. Pediatric Neurology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2018.10.002
Attention Shifting and Disengagement in Rett Syndrome.
Rose, S., Wass, S.V., Jankowski, J.J., Feldman, J.F., Djukic, A. (2019). Attentional Shifting and Disengagement in Rett Syndrome. Neuropsychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000515
Parental neural responsivity to infants’ visual attention: how mature brains scaffold immature brains during social interaction.
Wass, S.V., Noreika, V., Georgieva, S., Clackson, K., Brightman, L., Nutbrown, R., Santamaria, L., Leong, V. (2018) Parental neural responsivity to infants’ visual attention: how mature brains scaffold immature brains during social interaction. PLoS Biology. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006328
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Infants’ visual sustained attention is higher during joint play than solo play: is this due to increased endogenous attention control or exogenous stimulus capture?
Wass, S.V., Clackson, K., Georgieva, S.D., Brightman, L., Nutbrown, R., & Leong, V. (2018). Infants’ visual sustained attention is higher during joint play than solo play: is this due to increased endogenous attention control or exogenous stimulus capture? Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12667
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How orchids concentrate? The relationship between physiological stress reactivity and cognitive performance during infancy and early childhood.
Wass, S.V. (2018). How orchids concentrate? The relationship between physiological stress reactivity and cognitive performance during infancy and early childhood. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 90, 34-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.03.029