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Scott P. Johnson is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant emphasis on developmental and educational psychology. Additionally, they work in cognitive neuroscience, education, surgery, and automotive engineering.

Their research topics notably include child and animal learning development, language development and disorders, autism spectrum disorder research, spatial cognition and navigation, face recognition and perception, early childhood education and development, and genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Johnson has contributed to publications in a variety of journals, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Cognition
  • Infant Behavior and Development
  • Infancy
  • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
  • Child Development

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on infancy research, autism biomarkers, and neural network models for learning. Notable works include:

  • "Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference," 2020, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • "The Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC-CT): Scientific Context, Study Design, and Progress Toward Biomarker Qualification," 2020, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
  • "The Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials: evaluation of a battery of candidate eye-tracking biomarkers for use in autism clinical trials," 2022, Molecular Autism
  • "Biomarker Acquisition and Quality Control for Multi-Site Studies: The Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials," 2020, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
  • "When forgetting fosters learning: A neural network model for statistical learning," 2021, Cognition

Scott P. Johnson has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Shafali Jeste
  • Damla Şentürk
  • James C. McPartland
  • Géraldine Dawson
  • Susan Faja

Best Publications

  • Visual statistical learning in infancy: evidence for a domain general learning mechanism

    Natasha Z Kirkham;Jonathan A Slemmer;Scott P Johnson

  • Systems in development: motor skill acquisition facilitates three-dimensional object completion.

    Kasey C. Soska;Karen E. Adolph;Scott P. Johnson

  • Development of Infants' Attention to Faces during the First Year.

    Michael C. Frank;Edward Vul;Scott P. Johnson

  • Preverbal Infants’ Sensitivity to Synaesthetic Cross-Modality Correspondences

    Peter Walker;J. Gavin Bremner;Ursula Mason;Joanne Spring

  • Mental Rotation in Human Infants: A Sex Difference

    David S. Moore;Scott P. Johnson

  • Eye Tracking in Infancy Research

    Gustaf Gredebäck;Scott Johnson;Claes von Hofsten

  • The Broader Autism Phenotype in Infancy: When Does It Emerge?

    Sally J Ozonoff;Gregory S. Young;Ashleigh Belding;Monique Hill

  • Visual statistical learning in the newborn infant.

    Hermann Bulf;Scott P. Johnson;Eloisa Valenza

  • Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference

    Michael C. Frank;Katherine Jane Alcock;Natalia Arias-Trejo;Gisa Aschersleben

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

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

  • Perception of object unity in 2-month-old infants.

    Scott P. Johnson;Richard N. Aslin

  • Infants Use Meter to Categorize Rhythms and Melodies: Implications for Musical Structure Learning.

    Erin E. Hannon;Scott P. Johnson

  • Infant Rule Learning Facilitated by Speech

    Gary F. Marcus;Keith J. Fernandes;Scott P. Johnson

  • 18-Month Predictors of Later Outcomes in Younger Siblings of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium Study

    Katarzyna Chawarska;Frederick Shic;Suzanne Macari;Daniel J. Campbell

  • Perception of object unity in young infants: The roles of motion, depth, and orientation

    Scott P Johnson;Richard N Aslin

  • Newborn Infants' Preference for Attractive Faces: The Role of Internal and External Facial Features

    Alan Slater;Gavin Bremner;Scott P. Johnson;Penny Sherwood

  • 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

  • Location, location, location : Development of spatiotemporal sequence learning in infancy

    Natasha Z. Kirkham;Jonathan A. Slemmer;Daniel C. Richardson;Scott P. Johnson

  • Visual search and attention to faces during early infancy.

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

  • Memory Constraints on Infants' Cross-Situational Statistical Learning.

    Haley A. Vlach;Scott P. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Slater
Alan Slater University of Exeter
Dima Amso
Dima Amso Columbia University
Ted Hutman
Ted Hutman University of California, Los Angeles
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University
Natasha Z. Kirkham
Natasha Z. Kirkham Birkbeck, University of London
Kerri L. Johnson
Kerri L. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles
Richard N. Aslin
Richard N. Aslin Yale University
Raphael Bernier
Raphael Bernier University of Washington
Sally J Ozonoff
Sally J Ozonoff University of California, Davis
Elizabeth S. Spelke
Elizabeth S. Spelke Harvard University

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