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Research
Interests and Current Projects I
am most interested in the interaction between mind and body early in development.
Of particular interest are issues of behavioral organization and mechanisms
of developmental change. Areas of research:
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Spontaneous
eye blinking in human infants (supported
by NIH EY016238)
- Development
of reaching in human infants
- Scientific
thinking (developed in collaboration with Dr. Brad Wray, Philosophy)
- World view
formation (developed in collaboration with many students
See descriptions below the table
| Recent
Work |
Author |
PDF
file |
| Factors regulating
eye blink rate in young infants (article) |
LFB |
OVS
2010 |
| Links between spontaneous
eye blinking and temperament in young infants (poster) |
LFB |
ICIS
2010 |
| Sensitivity of
the rate of spontaneous eye blinking to the type of stimuli in young
infants (article) |
LFB |
DP
2009 |
| Relationship
between spontaneous eye blinking and positive affect... (poster) |
LFB |
Quest
2009 (tif) |
| Relationship
between palpebral fissure size and spontaneous eye blinking (poster) |
LFB |
ICIS
2008 (tif) |
| The development
of blinking across the first year (preliminary analyses; poster) |
Kara Wallace |
Quest
SB 2007 |
| Adult eye blinking:
myths and meanings (colloquium) |
LFB |
Adult
SB Talk |
| Development of
spontaneous eye blinking in infancy: links to temperament (poster) |
LFB |
ISDP
2006 |
| Factors
contributing to changes in the frequency of spontaneous eye blinking
in infants and adults
|
Leigh Ann
Hubbard,
Katie
Lewis |
EPA
2006 |
| Relationship
between spontaneous eye blinking and visual attention in young infants |
LFB |
APS 2006 |
| Relationship
between spontaneous eye blinking and visual attention in young infants
(poster) |
LFB |
MDL
2005 |
Systematic
temporal variation in the rate of spontaneous eye blinking in human
infants (article)
|
LFB |
DP
study 2004 |
Spontaneous
eye blinking in human infants: a review (article)
|
LFB |
DP
review 2004 |
1.
Spontaneous eye blinking in human infants
Focus:
The behavior, development, functions and mechanisms of endogenous (spontaneous)
eyeblinking in infants. Clinical, primate neuropharmacological and
adult cognitive research indicate that the central dopamine (DA) system
is at least part of the mechanism underlying spontaneous eye blinking.
Manipulations of central DA (via experiments or pathology) result in reliable
changes in the rate of blinking. Very
little is known about spontaneous blinking in human infants.
Research is supported by a National Eye Institute Grant of NIIH (EY16238)
to LFB. Aims.
Many Oswego students have collaborated on this project, please see Student
Assistants.
2.
Development of infant reaching
Focus: Role of visual
attention in the development of motor control and new motor skills, such
as reaching, in human infants. Infants were studied longitudinally;
at each observation, infants' 3-D hand position was recorded during 3
conditions: Looking at a nearby toy, Not looking at a nearby toy, and
when No toy was present. Spatio-temporal characteristics of
these pre-reaching arm movements reveal features of developing limb control.
A Faculty-Student Collaboration Challenge Grant supports
this work.
Poster (pdf) presented at the Motor Development
and Learning Conference, II, in Murcia Spain, May 2005.
Research
with young adults
3.
Scientific thinking
Focus: Dr.
Brad Wray, Philosophy and I are collaborating in an investigation into
scientific thinking. The broad purpose of our collaboration is to understand
higher order thinking and how this skill or ability is acquired. We aim
to investigate this from a cognitive perspective and as a result of a
socialization process. Specific questions of interest include: how students
come to generalize appropriately; whether and how students benefit from
working in groups; how they learn to determine the scope of claims, or
methods, etc.; and how students begin to realize what features of their
experience are salient and relevant to realizing their research goals.
The pilot study began in Spring 2008 with the assistance of two Presidential
Scholars (Katie Crandall and Kevin McConnell). Christie Hillenbrand is
currently working on this project. This represents our initial investigation
into factors that might be involved in scientific thinking among college
students.
4.
Worldview formation
Focus: Relationship
between cognitive development and formation
of philosophical
and religious beliefs in middle and late adolescence. As of 2007, approximately
80 participants have completed our survey and manuscript development will
begin this year. Quest
poster 2007 Students who have worked on this most recently are Maggie
Fillioe, Matt Pond and Sabrina Narad.
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