PUBLICATIONS

Books and Monographs

Colombo J, Fagen JW (Eds.) (1990). Individual differences in infancy: Reliability, stability, and prediction. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.

Horowitz FD, Colombo J (Eds.) (1990). Infancy research: A summative look and directions for the future. (A special issue of the Merrill Palmer Quarterly) Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.

Colombo J (1993). Infant cognition: Predicting later intellectual functioning. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

Coldren JT, Colombo J (1994). The nature and processes of preverbal learning: Implications from nine month old infants' discrimination problem solving. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 59(4, Whole No. 249). (PMID: 7997251)

Colombo J, McCardle P, Freund L. (Eds.) (2008, in press). Infant pathways to language: Methods, models, and research directions. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Journal Articles

Meacham JA, Colombo J (1979). External cues facilitate prospective remembering in 5 and 7 year olds. Journal of Educational Research, 3, 299-301.

Colombo J, Bundy RS (1981). A method for the measurement of infant auditory selectivity. Infant Behavior and Development, 4, 229-231.

Bundy RS, Colombo J, Singer JT (1982). Pitch perception in infancy. Developmental Psychology, 18, 10-14.

Colombo J (1982). The critical period concept: Research, methodology, and conceptual issues. Psychological Bulletin, 92, 260-275. (PMID: 7071261)

Colombo J, Bundy RS (1983). Infant response to auditory familiarity and novelty. Infant Behavior and Development, 6, 305-311.

Colombo J, Laurie CA, Martelli TA, Hartig BR (1984). Stimulus context and infant orientation discrimination. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 37, 576-586. (PMID: 6747549)

Colombo J, Horowitz FD (1985). A parametric study of the infant control procedure. Infant Behavior and Development, 8, 117-121.

Colombo J (1985). Spectral complexity and infant attention. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 146, 519-522. (PMID: 3835230)

Colombo J, Horowitz FD (1986). Infants' attentional responses to frequency modulated sweeps. Child Development, 57, 287-291. (PMID: 3956313)

Colombo J, O'Brien M, Mitchell DW, Horowitz FD (1986). Stimulus salience and relational processing. Infant Behavior and Development, 9, 377-380.

Colombo J, Mitchell DW, O'Brien M, Horowitz FD (1987). Stability of infant visual habituation during the first year. Child Development, 58, 474-489. (PMID: 3829788)

Colombo J, Mitchell DW, O'Brien M, Horowitz FD (1987). Stimulus and motoric influences on visual habituation at three months. Infant Behavior and Development, 10,173-181.

Colombo J, O'Brien M., Mitchell DW, Roberts KR, Horowitz FD. (1987). A lower boundary for visual categorization in preverbal infants. Journal of Child Language, 14, 383-385. (PMID: 3611249)

Colombo J, Horowitz FD (1987). Behavioral state as a lead variable in neonatal research. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly of Behavioral Development, 33, 423-438. (This article was reprinted in: S Chess, A Thomas, M Hertzig [Eds., 1988], Annual progress in child psychiatry and child development [pp. 128-141]. New York: Basic Books.)

Zheng SY, Colombo J, Horowitz FD. (1988). Psychological development of the only child: Implications for the Chinese single-child policy. Journal of Practical Pediatrics (Beijing, China), 5, 271-272.

Colombo J, Mitchell DW (1988). Infant visual habituation: In defense of an information-processing analysis. European Bulletin of Cognitive Psychology/Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive, 8, 455-461.

Colombo J, Mitchell DW, Horowitz FD (1988). Infant visual behavior in the paired-comparison paradigm: Test-retest and attention-performance relations. Child Development, 59, 1198-1210. (PMID: 3168636)

Moss M. M., Colombo J Mitchell DW, Horowitz FD (1988). Neonatal behavioral organization and 3-month visual discrimination. Child Development, 59, 1211-1220.(PMID: 3168637)

Zheng S.-Y., Colombo, J. (1989). Gender differences, family configuration, and preschool social participation. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 150, 45-50.

Colombo J Moss, M. M., Horowitz FD (1989). Neonatal state profiles: Reliability and short-term prediction of neurobehavioral status. Child Development, 60, 1102-1110. (PMID: 2805889)

Bundy, R. S., Colombo J Warnick-Yarmel, P. (1989). Association learning and pitch perception. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 27, 234-236.

Colombo J Mitchell DW, Dodd, J. D., Coldren JT, Horowitz FD (1989). Longitudinal correlates of infant attention in the paired comparison paradigm. Intelligence, 13, 33-42.

Colombo J McCollam, K., Coldren JT, Mitchell DW, Rash, S. J. (1990). Form categorization in 10-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 49, 173-188. (PMID: 2332720)

Horowitz FD, Colombo, J. (1990). Future agendas and directions for infancy research. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly of Behavioral Development, 36, 173-178.

Colombo J Mitchell DW, Coldren JT, Atwater, J. D. (1990). Discrimination learning during the first year of life: Stimulus and positional cues. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 16, 98-109. (PMID: 2136753)

Colombo J Mitchell DW, Coldren JT, Freeseman LJ (1991). Individual differences in infant attention: Are short lookers faster processors or feature processors? Child Development, 62, 1247-1257. (PMID: 1786713)

Freeseman LJ, Colombo J Coldren JT (1993). Individual differences in infant visual attention: Discrimination and generalization of global and local stimulus properties. Child Development, 64, 1191-1203. (PMID: 8404264)

Colombo J Frick JE, Ryther, J. S., Coldren JT, Mitchell DW (1995). Infants' detection of analogs of "motherese" in noise. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly of Behavioral Development, 41, 104-113.

Colombo, J. (1995). On the neural mechanisms underlying developmental and individual differences in infant fixation duration: Two hypotheses. Developmental Review, 15, 97-135.

Colombo J Ryther, J. S., Frick JE, Gifford, J. J. (1995). A visual "pop-out" effect in infants: Evidence for preattentive search in 3- and 4-month-olds. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2, 266-268.

Colombo J Freeseman LJ, Coldren JT Frick JE (1995). Individual differences in infant visual fixation: Dominance of global and local stimulus properties. Cognitive Development, 10, 271-285.

Colombo, J. (1995). Cost, utility, and the judgments of institutional review boards. Psychological Science, 6, 318-319.

Frick JE Colombo, J. (1996). Individual differences in infant visual attention: Recognition of degraded visual forms by 4-month-olds. Child Development, 67, 188-204. (PMID: 8605827)

Colombo J Frick JE, Ryther, J. S., Gifford, J. J. (1996). Individual differences in infant visual attention: Four-month-olds' recognition of forms connoted by complementary contour. Infant Behavior and Development, 19, 113-119.

Saxon TF, Frick JE, Colombo, J. (1997). Individual differences in infant visual fixation and maternal interactional styles. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly of Behavioral Development, 43, 48-66.

Colombo J Frick JE, Gorman, S.A. (1997). Sensitization during visual habituation sequences: Procedural effects and individual differences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 67, 223-235. (PMID: 9388807)

Stoecker, J. J, Colombo J Frick JE Ryther, J. S. (1998). Long- and short-looking infants' recognition of symmetrical and asymmetrical visual forms. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 71, 63-78. (PMID: 9742186)

Frick JE, Colombo J Saxon TF (1999). Individual and developmental differences in disengagement of fixation in early infancy. Child Development 70, 537-548. (PMID: 10368908)

Saxon TF, Colombo J Robinson EL, Frick JE (2000). Dyadic interaction profiles in infancy and preschool intelligence. Journal of School Psychology, 38, 9-25.

Frick JE, Colombo J, Allen JR (2000). The temporal sequence of global-local processing in 3-month-olds. Infancy, 1, 375-386.

Colombo, J (2001). The development of visual attention in infancy. Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 337-367. (PMID: 11148309)

Colombo, J (2001). A cognitive-neuroscience approach to infant contingency processing and perception. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 65, 321-334. (PMID: 11531129)

Colombo J, Richman WA, Shaddy DJ, Greenhoot AF, Maikranz J. (2001). HR-Defined phases of attention, look duration, and infant performance in the paired-comparison paradigm. Child Development, 72, 1605-1616. (PMID: 11768135)

Maikranz, J.M., Colombo J Richman WA, Frick JE (2000). Autonomic indicators of sensitization and look duration in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 23, 137-151.

Colombo, J. (2001). Recent advances in the assessment of infant cognition: Implications for LC-PUFA supplementation studies. Lipids, 36, 919-926. (PMID: 11724464)

Casebolt K., Colombo J, Chandler J. (2002). Teachers perceptions and the TOMI as predictors of visual/visual-motor skills in motorically impaired and non-impaired elementary school-aged children. Physical Educator, 60, 34-41.

Colombo J Richman WA (2002). Infant timekeeping: Anticipation and attention in 4-month-olds. Psychological Science, 13, 475-479. (PMID: 12219817)

Colombo J (2002). Infant attention grows up: The emergence of a developmental cognitive neuroscience perspective. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 196-199. (This article was reprinted in: J. Lerner A. E. Alberts, [Eds., 2003], Current Directions in Developmental Psychology [1^st Edition, pp. 18-26]. New York: Prentice-Hall.)

Greenhoot, A. F., Semb, G., Colombo J Schreiber, T. S. (2004). Scientific reasoning in college students: The roles of prior beliefs and reasoning components in causal inference. Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 203-221

Colombo J, Richman WA, Shaddy DJ, Maikranz JM, Blaga, O. (2004). Developmental course of visual habituation and preschool cognitive and language outcome. Infancy, 5, 1-38.

Shaddy DJ, Colombo, J. (2004). Developmental change in attention: Dynamic and static stimuli. Infancy, 5, 355-365.

Colombo J, Kannass, KN, Shaddy DJ, Kundurthi S, Anderson CJ, Blaga OM, Carlson SE (2004). Maternal DHA and the development of attention in infancy and toddlerhood. Child Development, 75, 1254-1267. (PMID: 15260876)

Blaga, O, Colombo, J (2006). Visual processing and infant ocular latencies in the overlap paradigm. Developmental Psychology, 42, 1069-1076. (PMID: 17087542)

Cheatham CL, Colombo J, Carlson S.E. (2006). N-3 fatty acids and cognitive and visual acuity development: Methodological and conceptual considerations. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 83 (supplement), 1458S-1466S. (PMID: 16841855)

Wainwright P, Colombo, J (2006). Nutrition and the development of cognitive functions: Interpretation of behavioral studies in animals and human infants. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 84, 1-10. (PMID: 17093144)

Anderson CJ, Colombo J (2006). Pupillary responses and visual scanning in children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 28, 1238-1256. (PMID: 16840248)

Kannasss KN, Colombo J (2007). The effects of continuous and intermittent distractors on cognitive performance and attention in preschoolers. Journal of Cognitive Development, 8, 63-78.

Richman WA, Colombo J (2007). Joint book reading in the second year and vocabulary outcomes. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 21, 242-253.

Aylward BS, Roberts MC, Colombo J, Steele RG (2007). Identifying the classics: An examination of articles published in the journal of pediatric psychology from 1976-2006. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 33, 576-589. (PMID: 18073233)

Gustafson KM, Colombo J Carlson SE (2008). Docosahexaenoic acid and cognitive function: Is the link mediated by the autonomic nervous system? Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids. 79, 135-140. (PMID: 18930644)

Blaga OM, Shaddy DJ, Anderson CJ, Kannass, KN, Little TD, Colombo J (2009). Structure and continuity of intelligence during early childhood. Intelligence, 37, 106-113.

Kannass, KN, Colombo J Carlson SE (2009). Maternal DHA levels and toddler free-play attention. Developmental Neuropsychology 34(2), 159-174.

Colombo J, Mitchell DW (2009). Infant visual habituation. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 92, 225-234. (PMID: 186200701)

Rankin CH, Abrams T, Barry R, Bhatnagar S, Clayton D, Colombo J, Coppola G, Geyer MA, Glanzman D, Marsland S, McSweeney F, Wilson W, Wu CF. Thompson R. (2009). Habituation revisited: An updated and revised description of the behavioral characteristics of habituation. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 92, 127-134. (PMID: 188542191)

Anderson CJ, Colombo, J. (2009). Larger tonic pupil size in young children with autism spectrum disorder. Developmental Psychobiology, 51, 207-211.

Harris WS, Mozaffarian D, Lefevre M, Toner CD, Colombo J, Cunnane SC, Holden JM, Klurfeld DM, Morris MC, Whelan J. (2009). Towards establishing dietary reference intakes for long-chain omega-3 fatty acids. Journal of Nutrition, 139(4), 804S-819S. (PMID: 19244379)

Coldren JT, Colombo J. (2009). Attention as a cueing function during kindergarten childrens dimensional change task performance. Infant and Child Development, 18(5), 441-454, (Epub ahead of print, DOI: 10.1002/icd.632)

Colombo J, Shaddy DJ, Anderson CJ, Blaga OM, Gibson LJ, Kannass, KN (2010). What habituates in infant visual habituation? A psychophysiological analysis. Infancy, 15(2), 107-124. (Epub ahead of print, DOI: 10.1002/icd.632)

Kannass KN, Colombo J, Wyss N. (2010). Now, pay attention! The effects of instruction on childrens attention. Journal of Cognition and Development, 11(4), 509-532. (PMID: 21218123; PMCID: PMC3015160)

Colombo J, Carlson SE, Cheatham CL, Fitzgerald-Gustafson KM, Kepler A, Doty T. (2011, in press). LCPUFA supplementation during infancy lowers heart rate and changes the distribution of attention. Pediatric Research, 70, 1-5. (Epub ahead of print, doi: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e31822a59f5; PMID: 21705959; PMCID pending)

Roberts JE, Hatton DD, Bailey D, Long ACJ, Anello V, Colombo J. (2011) Visual attention and autistic behavior in infants with fragile X syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities. (Epub ahead of print, doi: 10.1007/s10803-011-1316-8; PMID: 21720726; PMCID pending).

Brez CN, Colombo J. (2012). Your eyes say no, but your heart says yes: Behavioral and psychophysiological indices in infant quantitative processing. Infancy. (Epub ahead of print, doi: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.0094.x)

Anderson CJ, Colombo, J. (2012). Pupil and salivary indicators in autism spectrum disorder. Developmental Psychobiology, in press.

Colombo J Carlson SE (2012). Is the message the measure? BSID and studies of nutritional intervention. Pediatrics, in press.

Book Chapters

Colombo, J. (1986). Recent studies in early auditory development. In G.J. Whitehurst (Ed.) Annals of Child Development, (Volume 3, pp. 53-98). Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press.

Colombo J Mitchell DW (1990). Individual and developmental differences in infant visual attention: Fixation time and information processing. In J. Colombo and J.W. Fagen (Eds.), Individual differences in infancy: Reliability, stability, and prediction (pp. 193-227). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Colombo, J. (1997). Individual differences in infant cognition: Methods, measures and models. In J. Dobbing (Ed.), Developing brain and behavior: The role of lipids in infant formulas (Chapter text: pp. 339-372; Commentary and Author's replies: pp. 372-385). London: Academic Press.

Mitchell DW, Colombo, J. (1997). Infant cognition and general intelligence. In W. Tomic J. Kingma (Eds.), Advances in cognition and educational practice: Reflections on the concept of intelligence (pp. 101-119). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Colombo, J. Janowsky, J. S. (1998). A cognitive neuroscience approach to individual differences in infant cognition. In J. E. Richards (Ed.), The cognitive neuroscience of attention: A developmental perspective (pp. 363-392). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Colombo, J. Frick JE (1999). Recent advances and issues in the study of preverbal intelligence. In M. Anderson (Ed.), The development of intelligence (pp. 46-71). East Sussex: Psychology Press.

Colombo J Shaddy DJ, Richman WA (2000). Cognition, development, and exceptional talent in infancy. In R. Friedman B. Shore (Eds.), Talents unfolding: Cognition and development. (pp. 123-148). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Colombo J Saxon, T. (2002). Infant attention and the development of cognition: Does the environment moderate continuity? In H. Fitzgerald, K. Karraker, T. Luster (Eds.), Infant development: Ecological perspectives. (pp. 35-60). Washington, DC: Garland Press.

Colombo, J. (2004). Visual attention in infancy: Process and product in early cognitive development. In M. Posner (Ed.), Cognitive neuroscience of attention (pp. 329-341). New York: Guilford Press

Colombo, J. Cheatham, C. (2007). The emergence of endogenous attention in infancy and early childhood. In R. Kail (Ed.), Advances in child development and behavior (pp. 283-322). New York: Elsevier. (PMID: 17120808)

Colombo J Shaddy DJ, Blaga OM, Anderson CJ, Kannass, KN (2009). High cognitive ability in infancy and early childhood. In F. D. Horowitz, R. F. Subotnik, D. J. Matthews (Eds.), The development of giftedness and talent across the life span (pp. 23-42). Washington, DC: American Psychological Society Press.

Colombo J Shaddy, D.J., Blaga, O.M., Anderson, C.J., Kannasss, K.N., Richman WA (2009). Attentional predictors of vocabulary from infancy. In J. Colombo, P. McCardle, L. Freund (Eds.), Infant pathways to language: Methods, models, and research directions (pp. 143-168). New York, NY: Psychology Press/Taylor and Francis.

McCardle, P., Colombo J Freund, L. (2009). Measuring language in infancy. In J. Colombo, P. McCardle, L. Freund (Eds.), Infant pathways to language: Methods, models, and research directions (pp. 1-12). New York, NY: Psychology Press/Taylor and Francis.

Geldhof, G. J., Little, T. D., Colombo, J. (2012, in press). Self-regulation across the lifespan. In R. Lerner (Series Ed.), M. Lamb A. Freund (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of Lifespan Development. New York, NY: John Wiley.

Bornstein, M. H., Colombo, J. (2012, in press). Infant cognitive functioning and child mental development. In S. Pauen M. H. Bornstein (Eds.), Early Childhood Development and Later Achievement. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Colombo J Kannass, KN, Walker, D. Brez, C. D. (2012, in press). The development of attention in infancy and early childhood: Implications for early childhood and early intervention. In Odom, S.L., Pungello, E., Gardner-Neblett, N. (Eds.), Re-visioning the beginning: The implications of developmental and health science for infant/toddler care and poverty. New York: Guilford Press.

Cheatham CL, Colombo J Carlson SE (2011, in press). Long chain fatty acids in the developing retina and brain. In D.F. Anderson, R.A. Polin, W.W. Fox (Eds.), Fetal and neonatal physiology (4th Edition). New York: Elsevier.

Colombo J Brez, C. D., Curtindale, L. C. (2012, in press). Infant perception and cognition. In R. M. Lerner, M. A. Easterbrooks, J. Mistry (Volume Eds.), I. B. Weiner (Series Ed.), Handbook of psychology, Volume 6: Developmental Psychology. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Over 30 other publications (book reviews/notices/encyclopedia entries)