Note: Publications and presentations prior to May 2021 are listed under my former name, Brianna Keenan.
*denotes undergraduate mentee
Published Journal Articles
Jakobsen, K., Hunter, B.K., & Simpson, E. (2023). Pareidolic faces receive prioritized attention in the dot-probe task. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85. 1106-1126. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02685-6
Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2023b). Six- to ten-year-old children do not show race-based orienting biases to faces during an online attention capture task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105628
Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2023a). Caregiver faces capture 6-10-year-old attention during an online visual search task. Developmental Psychology, 59(2), 344-352. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001420
Malone, I., Hunter, B.K., Rossow, H., Herzog, H., Zolotukhin, S., Munger, S., & Dotson, C.D. (2021). Y1 receptors modulate taste-related behavioral responsiveness in male mice to prototypical gustatory stimuli. Hormones and Behavior, 136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2021.105056
Noonan, C.F., Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2021). Dynamic emotional messages differentially affect 6-month-old infants’ attention to eyes and gaze cues. Infant Behavior and Development, 64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101626
Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2021). Differential sensitivity to species- and race-based information in the development of attention orienting and face biases in infancy. Developmental Psychobiology, 63, 461-469. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22027
Manuscripts in Preparation
Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (in prep). Differential development of attention orienting and attention holding biases to caregiver faces from 6- to 9-months of age.
Hunter, B.K., Sifre, R., Bacher, L., Elison, J., & Markant, J. (in prep). Evaluation of a velocity-based eye blink detection algorithm in infants.
Oral Presentations
Conferences
Hunter, B.K., Klotz, S., DeBolt, M., Luck, S., & Oakes, L. (2023, May). Evaluation of Graph-Based Visual Saliency model using infant fixation data. Talk presented at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting. St. Pete Beach, FL.
Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2023, March). Social reward uniquely biases children’s attention orienting to faces. Talk presented as part of a paper symposium at the Society for Research on Child Development Biennial Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT.
Sridhar, A.*, Hunter, B.K., Montgomery, B., & Markant, J. (2022, September). Infant temperament predicts attention orienting biases to caregiver vs. stranger faces. Talk presented at the ICIS Founding Generation Summer Internship Symposium. Virtual.
Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2022, July) Attention orienting and attention holding biases to caregiver faces develop at different rates from 6- to 9-months of age. Oral presentation presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies 2022 Biennial Meeting. Ottawa, Canada.
Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2021, November). Caregiver faces capture 6-10-year-old children’s attention during an online visual search task. Flash talk presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology meeting. Chicago, IL.
Department
Hunter, B.K. (2023, January). Using the Natural Scenes Dataset to understand infant visual attention. Talk presented at UC Davis Visual Cognition Seminar. Davis, CA.
Hunter, B.K. (2022, November). Attention to faces. Talk presented at UC Davis Developmental Brownbag series. Davis, CA.
Hunter, B.K. (2021, December). Attention Orienting to Caregivers during Infancy and Childhood. Talk presented at Tulane University’s psychology department colloquium series. New Orleans, L.A.
Keenan, B. (2019, September). Evaluating the impact of reward learning on infant selective attention. Talk presented at Tulane University’s psychology department colloquium series. New Orleans, L.A.
Keenan, B. (2019, April). Reward learning and its effects on visual attention in infancy. Talk presented at the Tulane University Downtown-Uptown Neuroscience Krewe (D.U.N.K.) meeting. New Orleans, LA.
Poster Presentations
Peer Reviewed
Marcus, T., Wood, A.*, Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2023, November). Attention is biased to the self-face in an attention capture task: investigating the role of social reward. Poster accepted to the Psychonomics Society annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Montgomery, B., Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2023, November). Differential development of attention orienting and attention holding biases to caregiver vs. stranger faces in infancy. Poster accepted to the Psychonomics Society annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Montgomery, B., Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2022, November). Differential impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on infants’ attention orienting and attention holding to caregiver faces. Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA.
Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2021, September). Caregiver faces capture 7-10-year-old children’s attention during an online visual search task. Poster accepted to the Attention and Memory in Development Virtual Workshop; withdrawn due to Hurricane Ida.
Keenan, B., & Markant, J. (2021, April). Distractor context drives differential attention orienting and attention holding to caregiver and stranger faces in infancy. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development virtual Biennial Meeting.
Markant, J., & Keenan, B. (2020, July). Distractor context drives differential attention orienting to caregiver and stranger faces in infancy. Poster accepted to the International Congress on Infant Studies; withdrawn due to COVID-19. Glasgow, Scotland.
Markant, J., & Keenan, B. (2020, July). Infants demonstrate increased suppression of perceptually salient distractors in the context of own- versus other-race faces. Poster accepted to the International Congress on Infant Studies; withdrawn due to COVID-19. Glasgow, Scotland.
Keenan, B., & Markant, J. (2020, May). Own-race and own-species faces differentially capture visual attention in infancy. Poster accepted to the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting; withdrawn due to COVID-19. St. Pete Beach, FL.
McNair, S.*, Keenan, B., & Markant, J. (2020, May). Infant attention-orienting to caregiver vs. stranger faces varies across distractor contexts. Poster presented at the Online UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference.
McNair, S.*, Keenan, B., & Markant, J. (2020, May). Infant attention-orienting to caregiver vs. stranger faces varies across distractor contexts. Poster accepted to the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting; withdrawn due to COVID-19. St. Pete Beach, FL.
Keenan, B., & Markant, J. (2019, October). Infants demonstrate biased selective attention to own-species but not own-race faces at 6- and 11-months of age. Poster presented at International Society for Developmental Psychobiology meeting. Chicago, IL.
Markant, J., Keenan, B., & Offen, K. (2019, May). Prior reward learning biases selective attention among 9-12-month-old infants. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete Beach, FL.
Keenan, B., Offen, K., & Markant, J. (2019, March). High-value reward biases 9-12- month-old infants’ visual search performance. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Baltimore, MD.
• Student and Early Career Council (SECC) poster competition nomination
Keenan, B., Offen, K., & Markant, J. (2018, November). Reward learning biases selective attention among 9- to 12-month-old infants. Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology meeting’s invited poster session at Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA.
Keenan, B., Offen, K., & Markant, J. (2018, November). Reward learning biases selective attention among 9- to 12-month-old infants. Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology meeting. San Diego, CA.
• People’s choice competition finalist
Keenan, B., Heller, R., & Rowland, N. (2014). Effects of food unpredictability in the weight and overall health in mice. Poster presented at Florida Undergraduate Research Conference 2015 (Daytona, FL) and Biology at the Beach 2015 (St. Augustine, FL).
Non-Peer Reviewed
Sridhar, A.*, Hunter, B.K., Montgomery, B., & Markant, J. (2022, August). Infant Temperament Predicts Attention Orienting Biases to Caregiver vs. Stranger Faces. Poster presented at the Tulane Undergraduate Research in Neuroscience Summer Program. New Orleans, LA.
Adab, R.*, Keenan, B., & Markant, J. (2021, April). Children’s attention to faces: An online replication of an attention orienting task. Poster presented at the Tulane Health Science Research Days. Virtual.
McNair, S.*, Keenan, B., & Markant, J. (2021, April). Attention biases in 7-10-year-old children on an online dot probe task. Poster presented at the Tulane Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT) Student Research Poster Day.
McNair, S.*, Keenan, B., & Markant, J. (2020, May). Infants’ attention-orienting to caregiver vs. stranger faces varies across distractor contexts. Poster accepted to the Tulane Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT) Student Research Poster Day; cancelled due to COVID-19.
Keenan, B., Offen, K., & Markant, J. (2019, April). High-value reward biases 9-12- month-old infants’ visual search performance. Poster presented at the Annual Tulane University School of Science and Engineering Research Day, New Orleans, LA
• Outstanding Student Research Poster finalist
McNair, S.*, Keenan, B., & Markant, J. (2019, April). Reward learning biases visual search performance in infancy. Poster presented at the Tulane Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT) Student Research Poster Day. New Orleans, LA.
Keenan, B., Offen, K., & Markant, J. (2019, April). High-value reward biases 9-12- month-old infants’ visual search performance. Poster presented at the Tulane School of Science and Engineering Annual Board of Advisors Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
Aber, R.*, Keenan, B., & Markant, J. (2019, March). Selective attention biases exhibit no influence on the other-race effect in adults. Poster presented at the 2019 Tulane Health Science Research Days. New Orleans, LA.
McNair, S.*, Keenan, B., & Markant, J. (2019, March). High-value reward learning biases visual search in infancy. Poster presented at the Tulane Health Science Research Days. New Orleans, LA.
McNair, S.*, Keenan, B., & Markant, J. (2019, January). Reward learning biases visual search performance in infancy. Poster presented at 2019 Diversifying Clinical Psychology Networking Event. New Orleans, LA.
• Poster Excellence Award
Keenan, B., Heller, R., & Rowland, N. (2014). Effects of food unpredictability in the weight and overall health in mice. Poster presented at the University of Florida Department of Psychology Poster Session. Gainesville, FL.
• Outstanding Poster award