Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
(using maiden name)
(*denotes a student co-author)
Shuwairi, S. M., *Tran, A., Belardo, J., & Murphy, G. L. (2020). Conceptual understanding of complexity, symmetry, and object coherence in young children. Infant and Child Development, 29(2), e2150. (https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2150)
Murphy, G. L., & Shuwairi, S. M. (2019). People’s sensitivity to content vs. formal properties of visual stimuli: evidence from category construction. Acta Psychologica, 200, 102932.
*Krause, C., *Longo, D., & Shuwairi, S. M. (2019). Increased visual interest and affective responses to impossible figures in early infancy. Infant Behavior & Development, 57, 101341.
Shuwairi, S. M. (2019). Haptic exploration of depicted and real objects by 9-month-old infants. Infant and Child Development, 28(2), e2125. (https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2125)
Shuwairi, S. M., *Bainbridge, R., & Murphy, G. L. (2014). Concept formation and categorization of complex, asymmetric and impossible figures. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 76, 1789-1802.
Shuwairi, S. M. & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Oculomotor exploration of impossible figures in early infancy. Infancy, 18, 221-232.
Johnson, S. P., Bremner, J. G., Slater, A. M., Shuwairi, S. M., Mason, U., Spring, J., & Usherwood, B. (2012). Young infants’ perception of the trajectories of two-and three-dimensional objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113, 177-185.
Shuwairi, S. M., *Tran, A., DeLoache, J. S., & Johnson, S. P. (2010). Infants’ response to pictures of impossible objects. Infancy, 15, 636-649.
Shuwairi, S. M. (2009). Preference for impossible figures in 4-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104, 115-123.
Johnson, S. P. & Shuwairi, S. M. (2009). Learning and memory facilitate predictive tracking in 4-month-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102, 122-130.
Shuwairi, S. M., Curtis, C. E., & Johnson, S. P. (2007). Neural substrates of dynamic object occlusion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1275-1285.
Shuwairi, S. M., Albert, M. K., & Johnson, S. P. (2007). Discrimination of possible and impossible objects in infancy. Psychological Science, 18, 303-307.
Holopigian, K., Shuwairi, S. M., Greenstein, V. C., Winn, B. J., Zhang, X., Carr, R. E., & Hood, D. C. (2005). Multifocal visual evoked potentials to cone specific stimuli in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Vision Research, 45, 3244-3252.
Shuwairi, S. M., Cronin-Golomb, A., O’Donnell, B. F., & McCarley, R. W. (2002). Color discrimination in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 55, 197-204.
Balcer, L. J., Baier, M. L., Pelak, V. S., Fox, R. J., Shuwairi, S. M., Galetta, S. L., Cutter, G. R., & Maguire, M. G. (2000). New low contrast vision charts: Reliability and test characteristics in patients with MS. Multiple Sclerosis, 6, 163-171.
Book Chapters
Johnson, S. P., Amso, D., Frank, M. C., & Shuwairi, S. M. (2008). Perceptual development in infancy as the foundation of event perception. In T. F. Shipley & J. Zacks (Eds.), Understanding events: How humans see, represent, and act on events. New York: Oxford University Press.