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Overview

Dima Amso is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans several fields including psychology, medicine, and neuroscience, with a focus on developmental and cognitive processes.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Within these fields, they specialize in several subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Education

The primary topics of Dima Amso's work focus on:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Recent publications by Dima Amso include:

  • "Association of Birth During the COVID-19 Pandemic With Neurodevelopmental Status at 6 Months in Infants With and Without In Utero Exposure to Maternal SARS-CoV-2 Infection" (2022), published in JAMA Pediatrics
  • "Pre-symptomatic intervention for autism spectrum disorder (ASD): defining a research agenda" (2021), published in Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • "The Ontogeny of Hippocampus-Dependent Memories" (2020), published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Towards a more inclusive and equitable developmental cognitive neuroscience" (2021), published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "Assessment of Neurodevelopment in Infants With and Without Exposure to Asymptomatic or Mild Maternal SARS-CoV-2 Infection During Pregnancy" (2023), published in JAMA Network Open

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Dima Amso include:

  • William P. Fifer
  • Michal R. Zieff
  • Kirsten A. Donald
  • Marlie Miles
  • Laurel J. Gabard-Durnam

Dima Amso's work is regularly published in prominent venues such as:

  • Developmental Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science

In addition, Dima Amso has contributed to academic books, including the Cambridge University Press volume "The Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development" published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Development of cognitive control and executive functions from 4 to 13 years: Evidence from manipulations of memory, inhibition, and task switching

    Matthew C. Davidson;Dima Amso;Loren Cruess Anderson;Adele Diamond

  • A Genetic Variant BDNF Polymorphism Alters Extinction Learning in Both Mouse and Human

    Fatima Soliman;Charles E. Glatt;Kevin G. Bath;Liat Levita

  • Conditions under which young children can hold two rules in mind and inhibit a prepotent response.

    Adele Diamond;Natasha Kirkham;Dima Amso

  • The attentive brain: insights from developmental cognitive neuroscience.

    Dima Amso;Gaia Scerif

  • Development of object concepts in infancy: Evidence for early learning in an eye-tracking paradigm

    Scott P. Johnson;Dima Amso;Jonathan A. Slemmer

  • The relationship between physical activity and diet and young children's cognitive development: A systematic review.

    Pooja S. Tandon;Alison Tovar;Avanthi T. Jayasuriya;Emily Welker

  • Where Infants Look Determines How They See: Eye Movements and Object Perception Performance in 3-Month-Olds

    Scott P. Johnson;Jonathan A. Slemmer;Dima Amso

  • Visual search and attention to faces during early infancy.

    Michael C. Frank;Dima Amso;Scott P. Johnson

  • BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR AS A MODEL SYSTEM FOR EXAMINING GENE BY ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS ACROSS DEVELOPMENT

    BJ Casey;Charles E. Glatt;Nim Tottenham;Fatima Soliman

  • Contributions of Neuroscience to Our Understanding of Cognitive Development.

    Adele Diamond;Dima Amso

  • Learning by selection: visual search and object perception in young infants.

    Dima Amso;Scott P. Johnson

  • An Eye Tracking Investigation of Developmental Change in Bottom-up Attention Orienting to Faces in Cluttered Natural Scenes

    Dima Amso;Sara Haas;Julie Markant

  • Beyond What Develops When Neuroimaging May Inform How Cognition Changes With Development

    Dima Amso;B.J. Casey

  • Variant Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (Valine66Methionine) Polymorphism Contributes to Developmental and Estrous Stage-Specific Expression of Anxiety-Like Behavior in Female Mice

    Kevin G. Bath;Jocelyn Chuang;Joanna L. Spencer-Segal;Dima Amso

  • Attention and word learning in autistic, language delayed, and typically developing children

    Elena J. Tenenbaum;Dima Amso;Beau Abar;Stephen J. Sheinkopf

  • Bottom-Up Attention Orienting in Young Children with Autism

    Dima Amso;Sara Haas;Elena Tenenbaum;Julie Markant

  • The development of implicit learning from infancy to adulthood: item frequencies, relations, and cognitive flexibility.

    Dima Amso;Juliet Davidow

  • Selection and inhibition in infancy: evidence from the spatial negative priming paradigm

    Dima Amso;Scott P. Johnson

  • A novel ecological account of prefrontal cortex functional development.

    Denise M. Werchan;Dima Amso

  • The role of the visual association cortex in scaffolding prefrontal cortex development: A novel mechanism linking socioeconomic status and executive function.

    Maya L. Rosen;Maya L. Rosen;Dima Amso;Katie A. McLaughlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott P. Johnson
Scott P. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles
B. J. Casey
B. J. Casey Barnard College
Natasha Z. Kirkham
Natasha Z. Kirkham Birkbeck, University of London
Nim Tottenham
Nim Tottenham Columbia University
David Badre
David Badre Brown University
Kevin G. Bath
Kevin G. Bath Brown University
Adele Diamond
Adele Diamond University of British Columbia
Lisa M. Oakes
Lisa M. Oakes University of California, Davis
Francis S. Lee
Francis S. Lee Cornell University
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University

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