Our Published Papers

 

2025

  • Hunter, B. K., Kiat, J. E., Klotz, S. M., Nelson, C. M., Luck, S. J., & Oakes, L. M. (2025). The predictive ability of GBVS feature channels on infants’ fixations of natural scenes. Visual Cognition, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2025.2468690
  • DeBolt, M.C., Caswell, B.L., George, M., Maleta, K., Prado, E.L., Ross-Sheehy, S., Stewart, C.P., Oakes, L.M (2025). A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Infants' Spatial Attention on the Infant Orienting With Attention (IOWA) Task. Child Development, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14228

2024

  • Beckner, A.G., Arnold, C.D., Bragg., M.G., Caswell, B.L., Chen, Z., Cox, K., DeBolt, M.C., George, M., Maleta, K., Stewart, C., Oakes, L.M., Prado, E. (2024). Examining infants’ visual paired comparison performance in the US and rural Malawi. Developmental Science, e13439. https://doi.org/10.11111343/desc
  • Oakes, L.M., Hayes, T.R., Klotz, S.M., Pomaranski, K.I., & Henderson, J.M. (2024). The role of local meaning in infants’ fixations of natural scenes. Infancy, 29, 284-298 https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12582

2023

  • Oakes, L. M. (2023). The cascading development of visual attention in infancy: Learning to look and looking to learn. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32, 410-417. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214231178744
  • Beckner, A. G., Katz, M., Tompkins, D. N., Voss, A. T., Winebrake, D., LoBue, V., Oakes, L. M., & Casasola, M. (2023). A Novel Approach to Assessing Infant and Child Mental Rotation. Journal of Intelligence, 11(8), 168. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11080168
  • Beckner, A.G., Voss, A.T., Phillips, L., King, K., Casasola, M., Oakes, L.M. (2023). An investigation of mental rotation in infancy using change detection. Infant Behavior and Development, 71, 101834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101834
  • Oakes, L. M. (2023). Understanding developmental cascades and experience: Diversity matters. Infancy, 28(3), 492–506. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12539
  • Bragg, M. G., Prado, E. L., Caswell, B. L., Arnold, C. D., George, M., Oakes, L. M., Beckner, A. G., DeBolt, M. C., Bennett, B. J., Maleta, K. M., & Stewart, C. P. (2023). The association between plasma choline, growth and neurodevelopment among Malawian children aged 6–15 months enrolled in an egg intervention trial. Maternal & Child Nutrition, 19, e13471. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.13471
  • DeBolt, M. C., Mitsven, S. G., Pomaranski, K. I., Cantrell, L. M., Luck, S. J., & Oakes, L. M. (2023). A new perspective on the role of physical salience in visual search: Graded effect of salience on infants’ attention. Developmental Psychology, 59(2), 326–343. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001460
  • DeBolt, M. C., & Oakes, L. M. (2023). The impact of face masks on infants' learning of faces: An eye tracking study. Infancy, 28(1), 71–91. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12516

2022

  • DeBolt, M. C., & Oakes, L. M. (2022). Commentary on six solutions: Moving forward with measurement in mind. Infant and Child Development, 31(5), e2324. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2324
  • Kiat, J. E., Luck, S. J., Beckner, A. G., Hayes, T. R., Pomaranski, K. I., Henderson, J. M., & Oakes, L. M. (2022). Linking Patterns of Infant Eye Movements to a Neural Network Model of the Ventral Stream Using Representational Similarity Analysis. Developmental Science, 25, e13155. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13155

2021

  • Nelson, C.M., Oakes, L.M. (2021). “May I Grab Your Attention?”: An Investigation Into Infants' Visual Preferences for Handled Objects Using Lookit as an Online Platform for Data Collection. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.733218
  • Oakes, L. M., DeBolt, M. C., Beckner, A. G., Voss, A. T., & Cantrell, L. M. (2021). Infant Eye Gaze While Viewing Dynamic Faces. Brain Sciences, 11(2), 231. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11020231

2020

  • DeBolt, M. C., Rhemtulla, M., & Oakes, L. M. (2020). Robust data and power in infant research: A case study of the effect of number of infants and number of trials in visual preference procedures. Infancy, 25, 393-419. DOI: 10.1111/infa.12337 PMID: 32744759
  • Beckner, A.G., Cantrell, L.M., DeBolt, M.C., Martinez, M., Luck, S.J., & Oakes, L.M. (2020). Visual short-term memory for overtly attended objects during infancy. Infancy, 25, 347-370. doi: 10.1111/infa.12332 PMID: 32749061
  • Hoemann, K. Wu, R., LoBue, V., Oakes, L.M., Xu, F., & Barrett, L.F. (2020). Developing an understanding of emotion categories: Lessons from objects. Trends in Cognitive Science, 24, 39- 51. 
  • Prado, E., Maleta, K. Caswell, B.L., George, M., Oakes, L.M., DeBolt, M.C., Bragg, M.G., Arnold, C.D., Iannotti, L.L., Lutter, C.K., & Stewart, C.P. (2020). Early child development outcomes of a randomized trial providing one egg per day to children age 6 to 15 months in Malawi. The Journal of Nutrition, 150, 1933-1942. 

2019

  • Brito, N.H., Fifer. W.P., Amso, D., Barr, R., Bell, M.A., Calkins, S., Flynn, A., MontgomeryDowns, H.E., Oakes, L.M., Richards, J.E., Samuelson, L.M. & Colombo, J. (2019): Beyond the Bayley: Neurocognitive assessments of development during infancy and toddlerhood, Developmental Neuropsychology, 44(2), 220-247. DOI: 10.1080/87565641.2018.1564310 
  • Cantrell, L.M., Kanjlia, S., Harrison, M., Luck, S.J., & Oakes, L.M. (2019). Cues to individuation facilitate 6-month-old infants’ visual short-term memory. Developmental Psychology, 55, 905-919. DOI:10.1037/dev0000683. 
  • Oakes, L. M., Sperka, D., DeBolt, M. C., & Cantrell, L. M. (2019). Habit2: A stand-alone software solution for presenting stimuli and recording infant looking times in order to study infant development. Behavior Research Methods, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019- 01244-y

2018

  • Hurley, K.B., & Oakes, L.M. (2018). Infants’ daily experience with pets and their scanning of animal faces. Frontiers in Veterinary Science—Veterinary Humanities and Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2018.00152
  • Mitsven, S.G., Cantrell, L.M., Luck, S.J., & Oakes, L.M. (2018). Visual short-term memory guides infants’ visual attention. Cognition, 177, 189-197. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.04.016 PMID: 29704857

2017

  •  Ellis, A.E., Xiao, N., Lee, K., & Oakes, L.M. (2017). Scanning of own- versus other-race faces in infants from racially diverse or homogenous communities. Developmental Psychobiology, 59, 613-627. 
  • Oakes, L.M. (2017). Plasticity may change inputs as well as processes, structures, and responses. Cognitive Development, 42, 4-14. 
  • Oakes, L. M. (2017). Sample Size, Statistical Power, and False Conclusions in Infant Looking‐Time Research. Infancy, 22, 436-469. 
  • Oakes, L.M., Baumgartner, H.B., Kanjlia, S., & Luck, S.J. (2017). An eye-tracking investigation of color-location binding in infants’ visual short-term memory, Infancy, 22, 584-607. 
  • Ellis, A. E., & Oakes, L. M. (2016). Research collaboration creates opportunities for high-impact undergraduate research. CUR Quarterly, 36, 19-21. 

2016

  • Kwon, M. K., Setoodehnia, M., Baek, J., Luck, S. J., & Oakes, L. M. (2016). The development of visual search in infancy: Attention to faces versus salience. Developmental Psychology, 52, 537- 555. 
  • Ross-Sheehy, S., Perone, S., Vecera, S., & Oakes, L.M. (2016). The relationship between sitting and the use of symmetry as a cue to figure-ground assignment in 6.5-month-old infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 759. 

2015

  • Markant, J., Oakes, L. M., & Amso, D., (2015). Visual selective attention biases contribute to the other-race effect among 9-month-old infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 58, 355-365. 
  • Hurley, K. B., & Oakes, L. M. (2015). Experience and distribution of attention: Pet exposure and infants’ scanning of animal images. Journal of Cognition and Development, 16, 11-30. 

2014

  • Kovack-Lesh, K.A., McMurray, B., & Oakes, L.M. (2014). Four-month-old infants’ visual
investigation of cats and dogs: Relations with pet experience and attentional strategy, Developmental Psychology, 50, 402-413. doi: 10.1037/a0033195 PMID: 2373128  
  • Kwon, M.K., Luck, S.J., & Oakes, L.M. (2014). Visual short-term memory for complex objects in 6-and 8-month-old infants. Child Development, 85, 564-577. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12161 

2013

  • Baumgartner, H.A., & Oakes, L.M. (2013). Investigating the relation between infants’ manual activity with objects and their perception of dynamic events, Infancy, 18, 983-1006. 10.1111/infa.12009 
  • Oakes, L.M., Baumgartner, H.A., Barrett, F.S., Messenger, I.M., & Luck, S.J. (2013). Developmental changes in visual short-term memory in infancy: Evidence from eyetracking. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 697. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00697 
  • Oakes, L. M. & Ellis, A. E. (2013). An eye-tracking investigation of developmental changes in infants’ exploration of upright and inverted human faces, Infancy, 18, 134-148. DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00107.x PMID:23525142 
  • Oakes, L. M., & Kovack-Lesh, K. A. (2013). Infants’ visual recognition memory for a series of categorically related items, Journal of Cognition and Development, 14, 63-86. PMID:23495291 

2012

  • Kovack-Lesh, K.A., Oakes, L.M., & McMurray, B. (2012). Contributions of attentional style and previous experience to 4-month-old infants’ categorization, Infancy, 3, 324-338. DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00073.x PMID: 22523478
  • Oakes, L. M. (2012). Advances in eye tracking in infancy research, Infancy, 17, 1-8, DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00101.x

2011

  • Baumgartner, H. A., & Oakes, L. M. (2011). Infants’ developing sensitivity to object function: Attention to features and feature correlations, Journal of Cognition and Development, 12, 275- 298. 
  • Oakes, L. M., Hurley, K. B., Ross-Sheehy, S., & Luck, S. J. (2011). Developmental changes in infants’ visual short-term memory for location, Cognition, 11, 293-305. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2010.11.007 PMID: 2116883 
  • Perone, S., Madole, K. L., & Oakes, L. M. (2011). Learning how actions function: The role of outcomes in infants’ representation of event. Infant Behavior and Development, 34, 351-362. PMID: 21429585 
  • Ross-Sheehy, S., Oakes, L. M., & Luck, S. M. (2011). Exogenous attention influences visual short-term memory in infants. Developmental Science, 14, 490-501. PMID: 21477189 

2010

  • Hurley, K.B., Kovack-Lesh, K. A., & Oakes, L. M. (2010). The influence of pets on infants’ processing of cat and dog images. Infant Behavior and Development, 33, 619-628. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2010.07.015 PMID: 2072822 
  • Oakes, L. M. (2010). Using habituation of looking time to assess mental processes in infancy. Journal of Cognition and Development, 11, 255-268. PMID: 20730029 

2009

  • Horst, J. S., Ellis, A. E., Samuelson, L. K., Trejo, E., Worzalla, S. L., Peltan, J. R., & Oakes, L. M. (2009). Toddlers can adaptively change how they categorize: Same objects, same session, two different categorical distinctions. Developmental Science, 12, 96-105. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467- 7687.2008.00737.x PMID:19120417 
  • Oakes, L. M. (2009). The “Humpty Dumpty” problem in the study of early cognitive development: Putting the infant back together again. Current Perspectives in Psychological Science, 4, 352- 358. PMID: 20161394 
  • Oakes, L. M., Kovack-Lesh, K. A., & Horst, J. S. (2009). Two are better than one: Comparison influences infants' visual recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104, 124-131. PMID:18951555 
  • Oakes, L.M., Messenger, I.M., Ross-Sheehy, S., & Luck, S.J. (2009). New evidence for rapid development of color-location binding in infants’ visual short-term memory. Visual Cognition, 17, 67-72. DOI: 10.1080/13506280802151480. PMID: 20046220 

2008

  • Kannass, K. N., & Oakes, L. M. (2008). The development of attention and its relations to language in infancy and toddlerhood. Journal of Cognition and Development, 9, 222-246. 
  • Kovack-Lesh, K. A., Horst, J. H., & Oakes, L. M. (2008). The cat is out of the bag: The joint influence of previous experience and looking behavior on infant categorization. Infancy, 13, 285-307. 
  • Perone, S., Madole, K. L., Ross-Sheehy, S., Carey, M., & Oakes, L. M. (2008). The relation between infants’ activity with objects and attention to object appearance. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1242-1248. PMID: 18793058