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  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Lisa M. Oakes is affiliated with the University of California, Davis, in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on developmental and educational psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience. Their interdisciplinary work also engages with areas such as computer vision and pattern recognition, education, and automotive engineering.

The scientist's published work addresses a range of topics including child and animal learning development, visual attention and saliency detection, early childhood education and development, spatial cognition and navigation, face recognition and perception, infant development and preterm care, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Major publication venues for Lisa M. Oakes include the journal Infancy, where they have contributed eight papers, followed by the Journal of Vision with six publications. Developmental Psychology, Developmental Science, and Frontiers in Psychology each include three of their articles.

Frequent collaborators in their research endeavors include Michaela C. DeBolt, Aaron G. Beckner, Marianella Casasola, Taylor R. Hayes, and John M. Henderson.

Their recent articles include:

  • Diversity and representation in infant research: Barriers and bridges toward a globalized science of infant development (2023, Infancy)
  • 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 (2020, Infancy)
  • Expanded carrier screening for reproductive risk assessment: An evidence-based practice guideline from the National Society of Genetic Counselors (2023, Journal of Genetic Counseling)
  • Early Child Development Outcomes of a Randomized Trial Providing 1 Egg Per Day to Children Age 6 to 15 Months in Malawi (2020, Journal of Nutrition)
  • Developmental changes in natural scene viewing in infancy (2021, Developmental Psychology)

Lisa M. Oakes has contributed to academic literature beyond journal articles, including book publications such as The Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

In recognition of professional contributions, they were named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Preschoolers' questions and parents' explanations: Causal thinking in everyday activity.

    Maureen A. Callanan;Lisa M. Oakes

  • Infant perception of a causal event

    Lisa M. Oakes;Leslie B. Cohen

  • The Development of Visual Short‐Term Memory Capacity in Infants

    Shannon Ross-sheehy;Lisa M. Oakes;Steven J. Luck

  • How infants perceive a simple causal event

    Leslie B. Cohen;Lisa M. Oakes

  • Integrating Language and Gesture in Infancy.

    Elizabeth Bates;Donna Thal;Kimberly Whitesell;Larry Fenson

  • Making Sense of Infant Categorization: Stable Processes and Changing Representations☆☆☆

    Kelly L. Madole;Lisa M. Oakes

  • Sample size, statistical power, and false conclusions in infant looking-time research.

    Lisa M. Oakes

  • Development of Infants' Use of Continuity Cues in Their Perception of Causality.

    Lisa M. Oakes

  • Early Category and Concept Development: Making Sense of the Blooming, Buzzing Confusion

    David H. Rakison;Lisa M. Oakes

  • Infants' object examining: Habituation and categorization ☆ ☆☆

    Lisa M Oakes;Kelly L Madole;Leslie B Cohen

  • A Comparison of Infants' Categorization in Paired and Successive Presentation Familiarization Tasks

    Lisa M. Oakes;Rebecca J. Ribar

  • Language and hand preference in early development

    Elizabeth Bates;Barbara O'Connell;Jyotsna Vaid;Paul Sledge

  • Using Habituation of Looking Time to Assess Mental Processes in Infancy.

    Lisa M. Oakes

  • Developmental changes in infants' attention to function and form-function correlations

    Kelly L Madole;Lisa M Oakes;Leslie B Cohen

  • Examining in Infancy: Does It Reflect Active Processing?.

    Lisa M. Oakes;Donald J. Tellinghuisen

  • By land or by sea: the role of perceptual similarity in infants' categorization of animals.

    Lisa M. Oakes;Deborah J. Coppage;Angela Dingel

  • Rapid Development of Feature Binding in Visual Short-Term Memory

    Lisa M. Oakes;Shannon Ross-Sheehy;Steven J. Luck

  • Advances in Eye Tracking in Infancy Research.

    Lisa M. Oakes

  • Developmental changes in endogenous control of attention: the role of target familiarity on infants' distraction latency.

    Lisa M. Oakes;Kathleen N. Kannass;D. Jill Shaddy

  • The Development of Attention and Its Relations to Language in Infancy and Toddlerhood.

    Kathleen N. Kannass;Lisa M. Oakes

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven J. Luck
Steven J. Luck University of California, Davis
Leslie B. Cohen
Leslie B. Cohen The University of Texas at Austin
Dima Amso
Dima Amso Columbia University
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego
Jodie M. Plumert
Jodie M. Plumert University of Iowa
Bob McMurray
Bob McMurray University of Iowa
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
Patricia J. Bauer
Patricia J. Bauer Emory University
Vanessa LoBue
Vanessa LoBue Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jyotsna Vaid
Jyotsna Vaid Texas A&M University

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