Publications
2000s
Yonas, A., & Granrud, C. (in press). Infants' Perception of Depth from Cast Shadows. Perception and Psychophysics.
Kavsek, M.J., & Yonas, A (in press) The perception of moving subjective contours by 4 month old infants. Perception.
Alexander, A.J., Chov, M.H., Granrud, C.E., Yonas, A. (2005). Picture perception in infants: Do 9-month-olds attempt to grasp objects depicted in photographs? Infancy, 8(2), 147-166
Arterberry, M.E., & Yonas A. (2000). Perception of three-dimensional shape specified by optic flow by 8-week-old infants. Perception & Psychophysics, 62(3), 550-556.
Sen, M.G., Yonas, A., & Knill, D.C.(2001) Development of infants' sensitivity to surface contour information for spatial layout. Perception, 30(2), 167-176.
Yonas, A. (2001). Reflections on the study of infant perception and cognition: What does Morgan's Canon really tell us to do? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 78, 50-54.
Yonas, A., (2001) Two ecological approaches to cognition. Human Development, 44(1), 67-70.
Abecassis, M., Sera, M.D., Yonas A., & Schwade, J. (2001) What's in a shape? Children represent shape variability differently than adults when naming objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 78, 213-239.
Kavsek, M.J., Waidhas, J., Yonas, A. (2001). On the perception of illusionary contours in infancy. [German]. Zeitschrift fur Entwicklungspsychologie und Padagogische Psychologie. Vol 33(2) 2001, 67-77. Hogrefe-Verlag Gmbh & Co KG, Germany
Yonas, A., Elieff, C.A., & Arterberry, M. E. (2002). Emergence of sensitivity to pictorial depth cues: Charting development in individual infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 25, 495-514.
Konczak, J., Bruggeman, H., & Yonas, A. (in press) The Ames trapezoidal window illusion has a differential effect on aiming movements and slant perception under binocular and monocular viewing conditions. Perception and Psychophysics.
Yonas, A., Granrud, C.E., Chov, M.H. & Alexander, A.J. Picture perception in infants: Do 9- month-olds treat objects depicted in photographs as real objects? Infancy.
Chapters:
Yonas, A., (2003). Development of space perception. In R. Anand (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London, England: Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
1990s
Craton, L.G., & Yonas, A. (1990). Kinetic occlusion: Further studies of the boundary flow cue. Perception and Psychophysics, 47, 169-179.
Arterberry, M E., Bensen, A.S., & Yonas, A. (1991). Infants' responsiveness to static-monocular depth information: A recovery from habituation approach. Infant Behavior and Development, 14, 241-251.
Gunderson, V.M., Yonas, A., Sargent, P.L., & Grant-Webster, K.S. (1993, March). Infant macaque monkeys respond to pictorial depth. Psychological Science, 4(2), 93-98.
McKenzie, B.E., Skouteris, H., Day, R.H., Hartman, B., & Yonas, A. (1993). Effective action by infants to contact objects by reaching and leaning. Child Development, 64, 415-429.
Phipps-Yonas, S., & Yonas, A. (1993). Children and sexuality: The observations and opinions of family daycare providers. CURA Reporter.
Yonas, A., & Hartman, B. (1993). Perceiving the affordance of contact in 4- and 5-month-old infants. Child Development, 64, 298-308.
Nanez, J.E., & Yonas, A. (1994). Effects of luminance and texture motion on infant defensive reactions to optical collision. Infant Behavior and Development, 17, 165-174.
Yonas, A., & Arterberry, M.E. (1995). Infants perceive spatial structure specified by line junctions. Perception, 23, 1427-1435
Yonas, A. (1997) Commentary on High-Performance Computing and Human Vision I: Perception of visual space. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 29, 47.
Chapters:
Yonas, A., Arterberry, M.E., & Craton, L.G. (1993). Perceptual development in infancy: Cutting cognition at its joints. In C. Granrud (Ed.), Visual Perception and Cognition in Infancy: Twenty-third Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Yonas, A., Knill, D.C., Sen, M., & Bittinger, K.A. (1993, August 8-13). The development in human infants of sensitivity to surface contour information for 3-D layout. In S. Valenti & J. Pittenger (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action II. Posters presented in the VIIth International Conference on Event Perception and Action (pp. 166-170). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Yonas, A., Sen, M., & Knill, D.C. (1993, August 8-13). Reconceptualizing accretion and deletion of texture. In S. Valenti & J. Pittenger (Eds.), Studies in Perception and Action II. Posters presented in the VIIth International Conference on Event Perception and Action (pp. 288-292). University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
1980s
Pettersen, L., Yonas, A., & Fisch, R.O. (1980). The development of blinking in response to impending collision in preterm, full term, and postterm infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 3, 155-165.
Kaufmann, R., Maland, J., & Yonas, A. (1981). Sensitivity of 5- and 7-month-old infants to pictorial depth information. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 32, 162-168.
Yonas, A., Pettersen, L., & Granrud, C.E. (1982). Infants' sensitivity to familiar size as information for distance. Child Development, 53, 1285-1290.
Mutch, K., Smith, I.M., & Yonas, A. (1983). The effect of two- and three-dimensional distance on apparent motion. Perception, 12, 305-312.
Granrud, C.E., & Yonas, A. (1984). Infant's perception of pictorially specified interposition. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 37, 500-511.
Granrud, C.E., Yonas, A., & Pettersen, L. (1984). A comparison of responsiveness to monocular and binocular depth information in 5- and 7-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 38, 19-32.
Granrud, C.E., Yonas, A., Smith, I.M., Arterberry, M.E., Glicksman, M. L., & Sorknes, A. C. (1984). Infants' sensitivity to accretion and deletion of texture as information for depth at an edge. Child Development, 55, 1630-1636.
Granrud, C.E., Haake, R.J., & Yonas, A. (1985). Infants' sensitivity to familiar size: The effect of memory on spatial perception. Perception and Psychophysics, 37, 459-466.
Granrud, C.E., Yonas, A., & Opland, E.A. (1985). Infants' sensitivity to the depth cue of shading. Perception and Psychophysics, 37, 415-419.
Yonas, A., Granrud, C.E., & Pettersen, L. (1985). Infants' sensitivity to relative size information for distance. Developmental Psychology, 21(1), 161-167.
Yonas, A., Granrud, C.E., Arterberry, M.E., & Hanson, B.L. (1986). Infants' distance perception from linear perspective and texture gradients. Infant Behavior and Development, 9, 247-256.
Yonas, A., Craton, L., & Thompson, W.B. (1987). Relative motion: Kinetic information for the order of depth at an edge. Perception and Psychophysics, 41(1), 53-59.
Yonas, A., Granrud, C.E., & Arterberry, M.E. (1987). Infants' sensitivity to kinetic and binocular information for shape. Child Development, 58, 910-917.
Arterberry, M.E., & Yonas, A. (1988). Infant sensitivity to kinetic information for three-dimensional object shape. Perception and Psychophysics, 44(1), 1-6.
Craton, L.G., & Yonas, A. (1988). Infants' sensitivity to boundary flow information for depth at an edge. Child Development, 59, 1522-1529.
Arterberry, M.E., Yonas, A., & Sorknes, A. (1989). Self-produced locomotion and the development of responsiveness to linear perspective and texture gradients. Developmental Psychology, 25, 976-982.
Chapters:
Olson, R., Cooper, R., & Yonas, A. (1980). Pictorial perception in children. In M. Hagen (Ed.), The perception of pictures: Durer's devices: Beyond the projective model of pictures (Vol. 2). New York: Academic Press.
Norcia, A M., Yonas, A., & Peck, J. (1980). Saccadic eye movement latencies as a function of target directional uncertainty. In D. H. Fender & M. B. Cooper (Eds.), Ocular motor systems. Pasadena, CA: Caltech Press.
Harris, T.L., & Hodges, R.E. (Coeditors). (1981). A dictionary of reading and related terms. A. Yonas (Member, Editorial Advisory Board). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
Yonas, A. (1981). Infants' responses to optical information for collision. In R. N. Aslin, J. Alberts, & M. Petersen (Eds.), Development of perception: Psychobiological perspectives: The visual system (Vol. 2, pp. 313-334). New York: Academic Press.
Yonas, A. (1984, December 5-7). The perception of spatial layout from motion. Proceedings of The First Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications (p. 245). Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society in Cooperation with American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Sheraton, Denver Tech Center, Denver, CO. Computer Society Press.
Yonas, A., & Granrud, C. (1985). The development of sensitivity to kinetic binocular and pictorial depth information in human infants. In D. Ingle, M. Jeannerod, & D. Lee (Eds.), Brain Mechanisms and Spatial Vision (pp. 113-145). Amsterdam: Martinus Nijhoff Press.
Yonas, A., & Granrud, C.E. (1985). Development of visual space perception in infants. In J. Mehler & R. Fox (Eds.), Neotate cognition: Beyond the blooming buzzing confusion (pp. 45-67). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Yonas, A., & Granrud, C.E. (1985). Reaching as a measure of infant's spatial perception. In G. Gottlieb & N. Krasnegor (Eds.), Measurement of audition and vision in the first year of postnatal life: A methodological overview (pp. 301-322). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Yonas, A., Arterberry, M.E., & Granrud, CE. (1987). Space perception in infancy. In R. Vasta (Ed.), Annals of Child Development. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Yonas, A., & Owsley, C. (1987). Development of visual space perception. In P. Salapatek & L. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of infant perception: Vol. 2. From perception to cognition (pp. 79-122). New York: Academic Press.
Yonas, A. (Ed.). (1988). Perceptual development in infancy: Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology (Vol. 20). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
1970s
Yonas, A., & Hagen, M. (1973). Effects of static and motion parallax information on perception of size in children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 15, 254-266.
Yonas, A., & Pittenger, J. (1973). The effect of accuracy of searching for many targets. Perception and Psychophysics, 13, 513-516.
Benson, C., & Yonas, A. (1973). Development of sensitivity to static pictorial depth information. Perception and Psychophysics, 13, 361-366.
Rieser, J., Yonas, A., & Wikner, K. (1976). Radial localization of odors. Child Development, 47, 856-859.
Gordon, F.R., & Yonas, A. (1976). Sensitivity to binocular depth information in infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 22, 413-422.
Yonas, A., & Cooper, R. (1976). The Minnesota Conference on Pictorial Perception. Leonardo, 9, 311-313.
Milewski, A.E., & Yonas, A. (1977). Texture size specificity in the slant after-effect. Perception and Psychophysics, 21(1), 47-49.
Yonas, A., Bechtold, A.G., Frankel, D., Gordon, F.R., McRoberts, G., Norcia, A., & Sternfels, S. (1977). Development of sensitivity to information for impending collision. Perception and Psychophysics, 21(2), 97-104.
Balch, W., Milewski, A.E., & Yonas, A. (1977). Mechanisms underlying the slant after-effect. Perception and Psychophysics, 21(6), 581-585.
Yonas, A., Oberg, C., & Norcia, A. (1978). Development of sensitivity to binocular information for the approach of an object. Developmental Psychology, 14(2), 147-152.
Yonas, A., Cleaves, W., & Pettersen, L. (1978). Development of sensitivity to pictorial depth. Science, 200(4337), 77-79.
Yonas, A., Goldsmith, L.T., & Hallstrom, J.L. (1978). The development of sensitivity to information from cast shadows in pictures. Perception, 7, 333-342.
Patberg, J.P., & Yonas, A. (1978). The effects of the reader's skill and the difficulty of the text on the perceptual span in reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 4(4), 545-552.
Yonas, A., & Carleton, L.R. (1978). Construct validity and the question of stages. (Comment on "The stage question in cognitive-developmental theory" by C. H. Brainerd.) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1, 206.
Yonas, A. (1978). Comment on "Perception of subjective lines, surfaces and volumes in three-dimensional constructions" by C. Ware and J. M. Kennedy. Leonardo, 11, 258.
Yonas, A., Kuskowski, M.A., & Sternfels, S. (1979). The role of frames of reference in the development of responsiveness to shading information. Child Development, 50, 495-500.
Yonas, A., Pettersen, L., & Lockman, J. (1979). Young infants' sensitivity to optical information for collision. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 33, 268-276.
Chapters:
Gibson, E.J., Shurcliff, A., & Yonas, A. (1971). Utilization of spelling patterns by deaf and hearing subjects. In H. Levin & J. Williams (Eds.), Basic studies on reading. New York: Basic Books.
Hartup, W.W., & Yonas, A. (1971). Developmental psychology. Annual Review of Psychology, 22, 337-392.
Yonas, A., & Pick, H.L., Jr. (1975). An approach to the study of infant space perception. In L. B. Cohen & P. Salapatek (Eds.), Infant perception: From sensation to cognition (Vol. 2). New York: Academic Press.
Pick, H.L., Jr., Yonas, A., & Rieser, J. (1979). Spatial reference systems in perceptual development. In M. Bornstein & W. Kessen (Eds.), Psychological development from infancy. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Yonas, A. Studies of spatial perception in infancy. (1979). In A.D. Pick (Ed.), Perception and its development: Essays in honor of Eleanor J. Gibson. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Yonas, A. (1979). Attached and cast shadows. In C.F. Nodine & D.F. Fisher (Eds.), Perception and pictorial representation. New York: Praeger.
1960s
Gibson, E.J., & Yonas, A. (1966). A developmental study of visual search behavior. Perception and Psychophysics, 1, 169-171.
Gibson, E.J., & Yonas, A. (1966). A developmental study of the effects of visual and auditory interference on a visual scanning task. Psychonomic Science, 5, 169-170.
Kaplan, G., Yonas, A., & Shurcliff, A. (1966). Visual and acoustic confusability in a visual search task. Perception and Psychophysics, 1, 172-174.
Yonas, A., & Gibson, E.J. (1967). A developmental study of feature-processing strategies in letter discrimination. Project Literacy Reports, 8, 11-21.
Chapters:
Yonas, A. (1968). Acquisition of information-processing strategies in a time-dependent task. In H. Levin, E.J. Gibson, & J.J. Gibson (Eds.), The analysis of reading skill: A program of basic and applied research. Final research report, Office of Education, Contract No. OE-6-10-156.
Gibson, E.J., Schapiro, F., & Yonas, A. (1968). Confusion matrices for graphic patterns obtained with a latency measure. In H. Levin, E.J. Gibson, & J.J. Gibson (Eds.), The analysis of reading skill: A program of basic and applied research. Final research report, Office of Education, Contract No. OE-6-10-156.