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Blending Human and Artificial Intelligence to support Autistic Children’s Social Skills.
Porayska-Pomsta, K., Alcorn, A., Avramides, K., Bernardini, S., Foster, M.-E.,Frauenberger, C., Good, J., Guldberg, K., Keay-Bright, W., Kossyvaki, L.,Lemon, O., Mademtzi, M., Menzies, R., Beale, S., Mital, P., Pain, H., Rajendran, G., Waller, A., Wass, S.V., Smith, T.J. (2018). Blending Human and Artificial Intelligence to support Autistic Children’s Social Skills. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 25 (6) 35:1-35. https://doi.org/10.1145/3271484
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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Increases in arousal are more long-lasting than decreases in arousal: on homeostatic failures during emotion regulation in infancy.
Wass, S.V., Clackson, K. & Leong, V. (2018). Increases in arousal are more long-lasting than decreases in arousal: on homeostatic failures during emotion regulation in infancy. Infancy 23 (5), 628-649. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12243
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
Toward a neuroscientific understanding of play: A neuropsychological coding framework for analysing infant-adult play patterns.
Neale, D. Clackson, K., Georgieva, S., Dedetas, H., Wass, S.V. & Leong, V. (2018). Towards a neuroscientific understanding of play: A neuropsychological coding framework for analysing infant-adult play patterns. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00273
New meanings of thin-skinned: the contrasting attentional profiles of typical 12-month-olds who show high, and low, stress reactivity.
Wass, S.V., de Barbaro, K., Clackson, K. & Leong, V. (2018). New meanings of thin-skinned: the contrasting attentional profiles of typical 12-month-olds who show high, and low, stress reactivity. Developmental Psychology. 54(5), 816-828.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000428
Speaker gaze increases information coupling between infant and adult brains.
Leong, V., Byrne, E., Clackson, K., Lam, S. & Wass, S.V. (2017). Speaker gaze increases information coupling between infant and adult brains. Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences. 114 (50), 13290–13295. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.170249311
Changes in behaviour and salivary cortisol following targeted cognitive training in typical 12-month-old infants.
Wass, S.V., Cook, C. & Clackson, K. (2017). Changes in behaviour and salivary cortisol following targeted cognitive training in typical 12-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology. 53(5), 815-825. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000266
Training basic visual attention leads to changes in responsiveness to social communicative cues in 9-month- old infants.
Forssman, L. & Wass, S.V. (2017). Training basic visual attention leads to changes in responsiveness to social communicative cues in 9-month-old infants. Child Development. 89 (3) 199-213. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12812
Sustained attention in the face of distractors: a study of children with Rett Syndrome.
Rose, S., Djukic, A., Wass, S.V., Jankowski, J., Feldman, J. (2017). Sustained attention in the face of distractors: a study of children with Rett Syndrome. Neuropsychology. 31(4), 403-410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/neu0000369
Attention training for infants at familial risk of ADHD (INTERSTAARS): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
Goodwin, A., Salomone, S., Bolton, P., Charman, T., Jones, E.J.H., Pickles, A., Robinson, E., Smith, T., Sonuga-Barke, E.J.S., Wass, S.V. & Johnson, M.H. (2016). Attention training for infants at familial risk of ADHD (INTERSTAARS): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials. 17:608. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1727-0
Infant attention is dynamically modulated with changing arousal levels.
De Barbaro, K., Clackson, K. & Wass, S.V. (2016). Infant attention is dynamically modulated with changing arousal levels. Child Development. 88(2), 629-639. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12689
Developmental Psychology: How Social Context Influences Infants’ Attention.
Wass, S.V. & Leong, V. (2016). Developmental Psychology: How Social Context Influences Infants’ Attention. Current Biology 26, R357-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.051
Temporal dynamics of arousal and attention in 12-month-old infants.
Wass, S.V., Clackson, K., de Barbaro, K. (2016). Temporal dynamics of arousal and attention in 12-month-old infants. Developmental Psychobiology. 58(5), 623-639. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21406
Stress reactivity speeds basic encoding processes in infants.
De Barbaro, K., Clackson, K. & Wass, S.V. (2016). Stress reactivity speeds basic encoding processes in infants. Developmental Psychobiology. 58(5), 546-555. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21399
First evidence of the feasibility of gaze-contingent attention training for school children with autism.
Powell, G., Wass, S.V., Erichsen, K. & Leekam, S.R. (2016). First evidence of the feasibility of gaze-contingent attention training for school children with autism. Autism. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361315617880
Training attention control outside the lab: Applying gaze-contingent training within community settings to infants from diverse SES backgrounds
Ballieux, H., Wass, S.V., Tomalski, P., Kushnerenko, E., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M.H., & Moore, D.G. (2016). Training attention control outside the lab: Applying gaze-contingent training within community settings to infants from diverse SES backgrounds. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 43, 8-17.
The uses of eye-tracking with children.
Wass, S. (2016). The Use of Eye Tracking with Infants and Children. In J. Prior & J. van Herwegen (Eds.), Practical Research With Children. Routledge. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304023664_THE_USE_OF_EYE_TRACKING_WITH_INFANTS_AND_CHILDREN
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Tonic and phasic co-variation of peripheral arousal indices in infants.
Wass, S.V., Clackson, K., Cook, C. & de Barbaro, K. (2015). Tonic and phasic co-variation of peripheral arousal indices in infants. Biological Psychology 111, 26-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.08.006