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2025
2025
- Spencer, J. P., Buss, A. T., McCraw, A. R., Johns, E., & Samuelson, L. K. (2025). Integrating attention, working memory, and word learning in a dynamic field theory of executive function development: Moving beyond the 'component' view of executive function. Developmental Review, 75, 101182. [pdf]
- Beckerson, M. E., Kerr-German, A. N., & Buss, A. T. (2024). Examining the relationship between functional connectivity and broader autistic traits in non-autistic children. Child Neuropsychology, 31(3), 445-466. [pdf]
- McCraw, A., Sullivan, J., Lowery, K., Eddings, R., Heim, H. R., & Buss, A. T. (2024). A dynamic field theory of executive function: Identifying early neurocognitive markers. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 89(3), 7-109. [pdf]
- Heim, H. R., Lowery, K., Eddings, R., Nikam, B., Kerr-German, A., & Buss, A. T. (2024). Examining neural dynamics during dimensional label comprehension and production as a function of dimensional attention. Journal of Cognition and Development, 25(1), 127-147. [pdf]
- Kerr-German, A., Tas, A. C., & Buss, A. T. (2023). A multi-method approach to addressing the toddler data desert in attention research. Cognitive Development, 65, 101293. [pdf]
- Kinder, K. T., Heim, H. L. R., Parker, J., Lowery, K., McCraw, A., Eddings, R. N., Defenderfer, J., Sullivan, J., & Buss, A. T. (2022). Systematic review of fNIRS studies reveals inconsistent chromophore reporting practices. Neurophotonics, 9(4), 040601. [pdf]
- Lowery, K., Nikam, B., & Buss, A.T. (2022). Dimensional label learning contributes to the development of executive function. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-12. [pdf]
- Kerr-German, A., Namuth, A., Santosa, H., Buss, A. T., & White, S. (2022). To snack or not to snack: Using fNIRS to link inhibitory control to functional connectivity in the toddler brain. Developmental Science, e13229. [pdf]
- Kinder, K. T., Buss, A. T., & Tas, A. C. (2022). Tracking flanker task dynamics: Evidence for continuous attentional selectivity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 48(7), 771. [pdf]
- Defenderfer, J., Forbes, S., Wijeakumar, S., Hedrick, M., Plyler, P., & Buss, A. T. (2021). Frontotemporal activation differs between perception of simulated cochlear implant speech and speech in background noise: An image-based fNIRS study. NeuroImage, 240, 118385. [pdf]
- Liu, Z., Shore, J., Wang, M., Yuan, F., Buss, A. T., Zhao, X. (2021). A systematic review on hybrid EEG/fNIRS in brain-computer interface. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 68, 102595. [pdf]
- Buss, A. T., Magnotta, V., Hazeltine, E., Kinder, K. T., & Spencer, J. P (2021). Probing the neural systems underlying flexible dimensional attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(7), 1365-1380. [pdf]
- Buss, A. T., Magnotta, V., Penny, W., Schöner, G. & Spencer, J. P. (2021). How do neural processes give rise to cognition? Simultaneously predicting brain and behavior with a dynamic model of visual working memory. Psychological Review. [pdf]
- Perone, S., Simmering, V., & Buss, A. T. (2021). A dynamical reconceptualization of executive function development. Perspectives on Psychological Science. [pdf]
- Kinder, K. T. & Buss, A. T. (2021). The effect of motor engagement on memory: Testing a motor-induced encoding account. Memory & Cognition. [pdf]
- Kerr-German, A. N. & Buss, A. T. (2020). Exploring the neural basis of selective and flexible dimensional attention: An fNIRS study. Journal of Cognition and Development, 31(3), 313-325. [pdf]
- Tas, C. A., Costello, M. C., & Buss, A. T. (2020). Age-related decline in visual working memory: The effect of non-target objects during a delayed estimation task. Psychology and Aging, 35(4), 565-577. [pdf]
- Buss, A. T. & Nikam, B. (2020). Not all labels develop equally: The role of labels in guiding attention to dimensions. Cognitive Development, 53, 100843. [pdf]
- Buss, A. T. & Lowery, K. (2020). Inhibitory control and executive function. In J. B. Benson (ed.), Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development, 2nd edition, vol. 2. Elsevier: Oxford, (pp. 183-193).
- Buss, A. T. & Kerr-German, A. N. (2019). Dimensional attention as a mechanism of executive function: Integrating flexibility, selectivity, and stability. Cognition, 192, 104003. [pdf]
- Buss, A. T., Ross-Sheehy, S., & Reynolds, G. D. (2018) Visual working memory in early development: A developmental cognitive neuroscience perspective. Journal of Neurophysiology, 120, 1472-1483. [pdf]
- Costello, M. C. & Buss, A. T. (2018). Age-related decline of visual working memory: Behavioral results simulated with a dynamic neural field model. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30(10), 1532-1548. [pdf] Press Coverage. Model Files.
- Buss, A. T. & Spencer, J. P. (2018). Changes in frontal and posterior cortical activity underlie the early emergence of executive function. Developmental Science, 21(4), e12602. [pdf]
- Defenderfer, J., Kerr-German, A., Hedrick, M., & Buss, A. T. (2017) Investigating the role of temporal lobe activation in speech perception accuracy with normal hearing adults: An event-related design. Neuropsychologia, 106, 31-41. [pdf]
- Wifall, T., Buss, A. T., Spencer, J. P., Farmer, T., & Hazeltine, E. (2017). Reaching into response selection: Stimulus and response similarity influence central operations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(3), 555-568. [pdf]
- Wijeakumar, S. Huppert, T. J., Magnotta, V., Buss, A. T., & Spencer, J. P. (2017). Validating an image-based fNIRS approach with fMRI and a working memory task. NeuroImage, 147(15), 204-218. [pdf]
- Buss, A. T. (2017). Computational models of executive function development. In S. Wiebe and J. Karbach (Eds.), Frontiers in Developmental Science: Lifespan Development and Plasticity of Executive Function. Taylor & Francis: New York, NY, (pp. 124-144).
- Ambrose, J., Wijeakumar, S., Buss, A. T., & Spencer, J. P. (2016). Feature-based change detection reveals inconsistent individual differences in working memory capacity. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 10(33). [pdf]
- Buss, A. T., Wifall, T., & Hazeltine, E. (2016). The emergence of higher level cognitive flexibility: Dynamic field theory and executive function. In J. P. Spencer and G. S. Schoner (Eds.), Dynamic Thinking--A Primer on Dynamic Field Theory. Oxford University Press: New York, NY, (pp. 327-342).
- Perone, S., Molitor, S., Buss, A. T., Spencer, J. P., & Samuelson, L. K. (2015). Enhancing the executive functions of 3-year-olds in the dimensional change card sort task. Child Development, 86(3), 812-827. [pdf]
- Wijeakumar, S., Magnotta, V., Buss, A. T., Ambrose, J., Wifall, T., Hazeltine, E., & Spencer, J. P. (2015). Response control networks are selectively modulated by attention to rare events and memory load regardless of the need for inhibition. NeuroImage, 120(5), 331-344. [pdf]
- Buss, A. T. & Spencer, J. P. (2015). Rule-representation. In Brain Mapping: An Encylcopedic Reference, vol. 1. Elsevier: Oxford, (pp. 337-342).
- Buss, A. T. & Spencer, J. P. (2014). The emergent executive: A dynamic field theory of the development of executive function. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 79(2). [pdf]
- Buss, A. T., Wifall, T., Hazeltine, E., & Spencer, J. P. (2014). Integrating the behavioral and neural dynamics of response selection in a dual-task paradigm: A dynamic neural field model of Dux et al. (2009). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 334-351. [pdf]
- Buss, A. T., Fox, N., Boas, D. A., & Spencer, J. P. (2014). Probing the early development of visual working memory capacity with functional near-infrared spectroscopy. NeuroImage, 85, 314-325. [pdf]
- Johnson, J. S., Simmering, V. R., & Buss, A. T. (2014). Beyond slots and resources? Grounding cognitive concepts in neural dynamics. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 76, 1630-1654. [pdf]
- Spencer, J. P. & Buss, A. T. (2013). The emerging executive: Using dynamic fields to understand the development of cognitive control. In P. D. Zelazo & M. Sera (Eds.), The Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology: Developing Cognitive Control Processes: Mechanisms, Implications, and Interventions, vol. 37. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, (pp.91-142).
- Buss, A. T. & Spencer, J. P. (2012). When seeing is knowing: Visual cues and the dissociation between children’s rule-knowledge and rule-use. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 561-569. [pdf]
- Spencer, J. P., Perone, S., & Buss, A. T. (2011). Twenty years and going strong: a dynamics systems revolution in motor and cognitive development. Child Development Perspectives. 5(4), 260-266. [pdf]
- Spencer, J. P. & Buss, A. T. (2011). Finding a way out: Why developmental science does not need another “ism”. Child Development Perspectives, 5(3), 166-168. [pdf]
