Faculty
Sarah M. Shuwairi
- Academic Interests: 3-D Object Perception, Pictorial Depth Cues, Shape Categorization, Infant Development, and Eye Tracking
- Research: My research is focused on understanding the nature and development of object perception in infancy and early childhood. I am particularly interested in how infants and young children process global aspects of shape as well as local features of objects, and how these mechanisms operate together in early development. For example, how do we come to understand that real objects are coherent and spatiotemporally continuous in 3-dimensions? And, which parts of the brain are functioning to support these mechanisms in children and adults? We measure infants' looking and reaching behaviors as they view and explore new objects around them. We also measure the pattern of eye movements to evaluate exactly where infants allocate their attentional resources when viewing novel object displays.
Publications:
- Shuwairi, S. M. (2009). Preference for impossible figures in 4-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104, 115-123.
- Shuwairi, S. M., Albert, M. K., & Johnson, S. P. (2007). Discrimination of possible and impossible objects in infancy. Psychological Science, 18, 303-307.
- Shuwairi, S. M., Curtis, C. E., & Johnson, S. P. (2007). Neural substrates of dynamic object occlusion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1275-1285.
Website: The Baby Lab at Lehman College
Last modified: Oct 13, 2011
