BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID: 1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE: America/Los_Angeles DTSTAMP: 20260531T131817 BEGIN:VEVENT UID: info@vconferenceonline.com SUMMARY:Developmental Papers: Motor & Cognition PRIORITY:0 CATEGORIES:SESSION CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART:20200617T093000 DTEND:20200617T105000 URL: https://event.vconferenceonline.com DESCRIPTION:CHAIR: LAUREN BRYANT (COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS)

9:30am - 9:45am
FIRST STEPS: USING THE NANIT BABY MONITOR TO CLASSIFY NOCTURNAL INFANT MOVEMENTS
AARON DEMASI (THE GRADUATE CENTER AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK), SARAH BERGER (THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK)
Infants spend most of their time asleep, therefore, most of their development takes place at night in the crib. Using movement as a window into psychological development, the current study tests the feasibility of manually coding motor behaviors using Nanit video baby monitoring technology to qualify and quantify an infant’s movements in the crib. The method was feasible and showed that, on the night before his first steps, an infant practiced gross motor movements.

9:50am - 10:05am
LEARNING TO THINK BY LEARNING TO MOVE
NANCY RADER (ITHACA COLLEGE)
Koziol’s theory of brain development links locomotion with executive function (EF). To examine this relationship, we randomly assigned 5-month-old pre-crawling infants to a locomotor or non-locomotor control group. During 12 sessions, the locomotor group used a robotic device to navigate to toy locations while toys for the control group were in reach. At 7 months, we assessed performance on an EF task. The locomotor group performed better and scores correlated with time locomoting.

10:10am - 10:25am
REWARD SENSITIVITY COUNTERACTS THE EFFECTS OF INCENTIVES ON EARLY CHILDHOOD EXECUTIVE FUNCTION
LAUREN BRYANT (COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS), KIMBERLY CUEVAS (UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT)
Executive functions (EFs) are higher-order processes that control behavior and cognition. Incentives generally enhance adult EFs, especially for individuals with high reward sensitivity. However, it is unclear whether this factor plays a similar role in early reward-EF associations. Preschool children completed rewarded and non-rewarded versions of a Stroop-like task. Rewards enhanced children’s EFs, but contrary to adult findings, these effects were smaller for reward-sensitive children. These findings will be discussed in terms of attentional control.

10:30am - 10:45am
ASSESSING ATTENTION IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES IN-OFFICE AND ONLINE
NANCY HUGUENIN (BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS & TECHNOLOGY, INC.)
Prior reinforcement histories of separate stimulus components determined which features of stimulus compounds young children of typical development and adolescents with developmental disabilities attended to. The children attended to symbols in the compounds with an unchanged prior reinforcement history. The adolescents, because of overselective attention, required extended training before they attended to the unchanged symbols. Prior reinforcement histories also controlled how participants attended to a stimulus compound when procedures were provided online. LOCATION: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR