Marie T. Balaban 


Publications

RESEARCH ARTICLES & CHAPTERS:
     Balaban, M.T., Anthony, B.J., & Graham, F.K. (1985).  Modality-repetition and attentional effects on reflex blinking in infants and adults. Infant Behavior & Development, 8,443-457.

     Balaban, M.T., Losito, B.D.G., Simons, R.F., & Graham, F.K. (1986). Off-line latency and amplitude scoring of the human reflex blink with Fortran IV. Psychophysiology, 23,612 (Computer Program abstract);  with unpublished user's guide.

     Balaban, M.T., Anthony, B.J., & Graham, F.K. (1989). Prestimulation effects on blink and cardiac reflexes of 15-month human infants. Developmental  Psychobiology, 22,115-127.

     Balaban, M.T., Rhodes, D. L., & Neuringer, A. J. (1990). Orienting and defense responses to punishment: Effects on learning.  Biological Psychology, 30,203-217.

     Balaban, M. T.  (1991) Psychophysiological ambitions. [Review of Handbook of Clinical Psychophysiology edited by G. Turpin.]  Contemporary Psychology, 36,212-213.

     Brownlee, S., Leventhal, H., and Balaban, M. T. (1992).  Autonomic correlates of illness imagery. Psychophysiology,29,142-153.

     Balaban, M. T. & Dannemiller, J. L. (1992).   Age differences in responses to temporally modulated patterns at  6 and 12 weeks. Infant Behavior and Development, 15,359-375.

     Balaban, M. T. & Taussig, H. N. (1994). Salience of fear in the affective modulation of the human startle blink.   Biological Psychology, 38,117-131.

     Balaban, M. T. (1995).  Affective influences on startle in five-month-olds:  Reactions to facial expressions of emotion.  Child Development, 66,28-36.

     Balaban, M. T. & Waxman, S. R. (1996).  An examination of the factors underlying the facilitative effect of word phrases on object categorization in 9-month-old infants. In A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes, & A. Zukowski (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Volume 1.Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

     Balaban, M. T.  (1996). Probing basic mechanisms of sensory, attentional, and emotional development: Modulation of the infant blink response. In C. Rovee-Collier & L. Lipsitt (Eds.), Advances in Infancy,Vol. 10, 219-256.

     Balaban, M. T. & Waxman, S. R. (1997). Do words facilitate object categorization in 9-month-old infants? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 64,3-26.

     Balaban, M. T., Snidman, N., & Kagan, J. (1997).  Attention, emotion, and reactivity in infancy and early childhood. In Lang, P.J., Simons, R. F., & Balaban, M. T., (Eds.). Attention and orienting: Sensory and motivational processes. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

     Balaban, M. T.,  Anderson, L. M., & Wisniewski, A. (1998). Lateral asymmetries in infant melody perception.  Developmental Psychology, 34,39-48.

     Simons, R. F., Graham, F. K., Miles, M. A., & Balaban, M. T. (1998). Event-related potential and heart-rate change to rare signal and nonsignal stimuli at long interstimulus intervals. Psychophysiology, 35,563-575.

     Berg, W. K., & Balaban, M. T. (1999). Startle elicitation: Stimulus parameters, recording techniques, and quantification.  In M. E. Dawson, A. M. Schell, & A. Böhmelt  (Eds.), Startle modification: Implications for neuroscience, cognitive science, & clinical science(pp.21-50).

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BOOKS:

     Lang, P. J., Simons, R. F., & Balaban, M. T. (Eds.) (1997).  Attention and orienting: Sensory and motivational processes.Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

TEACHING-RELATED & OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

     Rimm, S. E., Markow, D. B., & Balaban, M. T. (1992). The revision process: A tool for conceptual development. On Teaching and Learning,Number 4, 55-66 (invited paper).

     Balaban, M. T. (1993). Infant perceptual systems.  In F. N. Magill (Ed.), Survey of social science: Psychology.Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.

RECENT / CURRENT MEETING PRESENTATIONS:

     Wisniewski, A. L., Balaban, M. T., Abbett, K. J., Chung, C. T., & Tan, J. R. (1997). Variation in functional cerebral asymmetry across the menstrual cycle.  Presentation at the meeting of the Society for Behavioral Endocrinology, Baltimore, MD, May, 1997.

     Galloway, M. K., & Balaban, M. T. (1998).  Home and school influences on the academic environment of adolescents.  Presentation at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, February, 1998.

     Wisniewski, A. B., Galloway, M. K., & Balaban, M. T.  (1998). Sex and maturation rate: Predictors of functional cerebral lateralization in academically gifted adolescents. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco: CA, April, 1998.

     Balaban, M. T., Chinen, R., & Waxman, S. R. (2000).  How do parents guide infants' attention to novel object categories?  Presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England, July, 2000.

     Czernecki, I., Booth, A., Balaban, M. T. , & Waxman, S. R. (2001). Parental input to infants regarding individual objects, categories of objects, and naming. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, April, 2001.

     Duva, C. A., Hoots, C., Balaban, M., & Tooke, J. (2002). Influence of math anxiety on false memory. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, San Francisco, CA, April, 2002.

     Balaban, M. T., & Waxman, S. W. (2002). Do words and melodies facilitate infants' heart rate and looking responses in an object categorization task? Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, April 2002.