Publications

Wass, S.V., Forssman, L. & Leppänen, J. (in press). Robustness and Precision: How Data Quality May Influence Key Dependent Variables in Infant Eye-Tracker Analyses Infancy.

Wass, S.V. (in press). Comparing methods for measuring peak look duration: are individual differences observed on screen-based tasks also found in more ecologically valid contexts? Infant Behavior and Development. pdf

Leppänen, J., Forssman, L., Kaatiala, J., Yrttiahoa, S. & Wass, S. (2014). Widely applicable MATLAB routines for automated analysis of saccadic reaction times. Behavior Research Methods. DOI 10.3758/s13428-014-0473-z pdf

Wass, S.V. & Smith, T.J. (2014). Oculomotor behaviour during naturalistic orienting: relation to individual differences in infancy. Infancy. DOI: 10.1111/infa.12049 pdf

Wass, S.V. (2014). Applying cognitive training to target executive functions during early development. Child Neuropsychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2014.882888 pdf

Wass, S.V. & Smith, T.J. (2014). Visual motherese? Signal-to-noise ratios in toddler-directed television. Developmental Science. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12156 pdf

Wass, S.V. & Porayska-Pomsta, K. (2013). The uses of didactic and cognitive training technologies in the behavioral treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Autism 18(3), 1-21. DOI: 10.1177/1362361313499827 pdf

Wass, S.V., Scerif, G. & Johnson, M.H. (2012). Training attentional control and working memory – is younger, better? Developmental Review 32 (4), 360–387. pdf

Wass, S.V., Smith, T.J. & Johnson, M.H. (2012). Parsing eyetracking data to provide accurate fixation duration estimates in infants and adults. Behavior Research Methods. DOI 10.3758/s13428-012-0245-6. pdf

Wass, S.V., Porayska-Pomsta, K. & Johnson, M.H. (2011). Training attentional control in infancy. Current Biology 21 (18), 1543-1547. pdf Egs of press coverage of this paper: Science Daily (US), Telegraph (UK).

Wass, S.V. (2011). Distortions and disconnections: disrupted brain connectivity in autism. Brain and Cognition 75(1), 18-28. pdf

Porayksa-Pomsta, K., Frauenberger, C., Wass., S.V. et al.  (2011). Developing technology for autism, an interdisciplinary approach. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 16 (2), 117-127.

Wass, S.V., Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2010). The missing developmental dimension in the network perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33: 175-176.

Wass, S.V., Jones, E.J.H., Gliga, T., Smith, T.J., Charman, T., BASIS team, Johnson, M.H. (under review). Faster micro-temporal orienting behaviours in 8-month-old infants associate with lower social and communication skills scores at 36 months.