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 Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

 

 


Cornish, K., Scerif, G., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (in press). Tracing syndrome-specific trajectories of attention across the lifespan. Cortex, special issue on selective developmental disorders.

 

Scerif, G., Worden, M., Seiger, L., Davidson, M., & Casey, B.J. (in press). Context-driven attention modulates early stimulus-processing when resolving stimulus-response conflict. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

 

Scerif, G., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2005). The dawn of cognitive genetics? Crucial developmental caveats. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 126-135. [pdf]

 

Scerif, G., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Campos, R., Elsabbagh, M., Driver, J., & Cornish, K. (2005). To look or not to look? Typical and atypical development of oculomotor control. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 4, 591-604. [Author proofs]

 

Scerif, G., Cornish, K., Wilding, J., Driver, J., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2004). Visual search in typically developing toddlers and toddlers with fragile X or Williams syndrome. Developmental Science, 7, 116-130.[Author proofs]

 

Scerif, G., Gomez, J.C., & Byrne, R.W. (2004). What do Diana monkeys (Cercopithecus diana diana) know about conspecifics' focus of attention? Animal Behaviour, 68, 1239-1247.[Author proofs]

 

Karmiloff-Smith, A., Scerif, G., & Ansari, D. (2003). Double dissociations in developmental disorders: Theoretically misconceived, empirically dubious. Cortex, 39, 161-163.[pdf]

 

Karmiloff-Smith, A., Scerif, G., & Thomas, M. (2002). Different approaches to relating genotype to phenotype in developmental disorders. Developmental Psychobiology, 40, 311-322.[pdf]

 

Bull, R., & Scerif, G. (2001). Executive functioning as a predictor of children’s mathematics ability. Shifting, inhibition, and working memory. Developmental Neuropsychology, 19, 273-293. [pdf]

 

Other Publications

 

 


Karmiloff-Smith, A., Ansari, D., Campbell, L., Scerif, G., & Thomas, M. (in press).  Theoretical implications of studying genetic disorders: The case of Williams syndrome. To appear in: C. Morris, H. Lenhoff and P.Wang (Eds.) Williams-Beuren Syndrome: Research and Clinical Perspectives.  Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

Scerif, G., Kotsoni, E., & Casey, B.J. (in press). The functional neuroimaging of development. To appear in: R. Cabeza and A. Kingstone (Eds.), Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition. Cambridge: MIT Press.

 

Scerif, G. (2004). Development and genetic disorders: Early selective attention in fragile X syndrome. The Neil O’Connor Prize for Developmental Disabilities. British Psychological Society, Developmental Forum.

 

Scerif, G., & Cornish, K. (2003). Early development in fragile X syndrome. In D. Dew-Hughes (Ed.), Educating children with Fragile X Syndrome, pp.127-131. Routledge, United Kingdom.

 

Scerif, G., Paterson, S., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2002). What Piaget could have learnt from…working with Inhelder: A review of “Working with Piaget: Essays in Honour of Bärbel Inhelder.” Archives de Psychologie, 115-118.

 

Scerif, G., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2001). Genes and environment: What does interaction really mean? Review of “Are We Hardwired? The role of genes in Human Behavior.” Trends in Genetics, 17, 418-419.

 

 

Published Conference Abstracts

 

 


Scerif, G., Cornish, K., Wilding, J., Driver, J., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2005). Early attention difficulties in fragile X syndrome: Underlying mechanisms and developmental trajectories, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. F20, Suppl. S.

 

Scerif, G., Cornish, K., Campos, R., Elsabbagh, M., Whiting, B., Driver, J., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2004). To look or not to look? The control of saccades in typically developing infants and toddlers with fragile X syndrome. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. D21 Suppl. S.

 

Worden, M.S., Scerif, G., Seiger, L. & Casey, B.J. (2004). Top-down expectancy modulates early stimulus feature processing to resolve stimulus conflict. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. C14 Suppl. S.

 

Scerif, G., Wilding, J., Cornish, K., Driver, J., Humphreys, K., Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2002). Executive control in visual search for multiple targets in toddlers with Fragile X Syndrome. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, B33 Suppl. S.

 

 

Colloquia

 

 


2005           “Cognitive Genomics? Questioning and integrating disciplines through atypical development”. Department of Psychology, University of Oxford, and School of Psychology, University of St. Andrews.

 

                    “Typical and atypical development of attentional processes: their trajectories and interactions in infancy and early childhood”. British Psychological Society, Developmental Section Annual Conference, Edinburgh.

 

                    “Selective attention to chromatic stimuli in preschool children born very preterm.” 10th Child Vision Research Society Meeting, Bled, Slovenia.

 

                    “The Neural Bases of Attentional Control: Clues from Atypical Development”. Division of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham.

 

2004          “Cognitive Genomics? Questioning and integrating disciplines through atypical development”. Institute for Genetics, Biorisks and Society, University of Nottingham.

 

2003          “Atypical development of attention in neurodevelopmental disorders: The case of toddlers with fragile X syndrome.” Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College.

 

“Genetic disorders and development: The case of early selective attention in fragile X syndrome.” Keynote lecture at the Annual Meeting of Swedish Developmental Psychologists, Stockholm.

 

“Genetic disorders and development: The case of early selective attention in fragile X syndrome.” Department of Human Communication Sciences, University College London.

 

“Genes and development: The case of early selective attention in fragile X syndrome.” Neil O’Connor Award in Developmental Disabilities Lecture, Annual Meeting of the British Psychological Society, Developmental Section, Coventry.

 

“Development of visual selective attention in toddlers and infants with fragile X syndrome.” Society for Research in Child Development, within the symposium “Fragile X Syndrome: Developmental Studies of Behavior, Cognition, and Physiology.”

 

“Atypical development of attention in neurodevelopmental disorders: The case of toddlers with fragile X syndrome.” Neurosciences and Mental Health Theme Seminar Series, Institute of Child Health.

 

2002          “Selective attention in toddlers with fragile X syndrome.” Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.

 

“Visual selective attention in toddlers with fragile X syndrome.” 8th Conference of the National Fragile X Foundation.

 

“Exogenously- and endogenously-driven attention in infants and toddlers with fragile X syndrome.” 8th Conference of the National Fragile X Foundation, Chicago.