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Suzanne Scherf

Associate Professor of Psychology, Penn State University
Verified email at psu.edu
Cited by 4054

Visual category‐selectivity for faces, places and objects emerges along different developmental trajectories

KS Scherf, M Behrmann, K Humphreys… - Developmental …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The organization of category‐selective regions in ventral visual cortex is well characterized
in human adults. We investigated a crucial, previously unaddressed, question about how this …

Brain basis of developmental change in visuospatial working memory

KS Scherf, JA Sweeney, B Luna - Journal of cognitive …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although brain changes associated with the acquisition of cognitive abilities in early
childhood involve increasing localized specialization, little is known about the brain changes …

A two-hit model of autism: Adolescence as the second hit

G Picci, KS Scherf - Clinical Psychological Science, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Adolescence brings dramatic changes in behavior and neural organization. Unfortunately,
for some 30% of individuals with autism, there is marked decline in adaptive functioning …

Designing serious game interventions for individuals with autism

EM Whyte, JM Smyth, KS Scherf - Journal of autism and developmental …, 2015 - Springer
The design of “Serious games” that use game components (eg, storyline, long-term goals,
rewards) to create engaging learning experiences has increased in recent years. We examine …

[HTML][HTML] Facing changes and changing faces in adolescence: a new model for investigating adolescent-specific interactions between pubertal, brain and behavioral …

KS Scherf, M Behrmann, RE Dahl - Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2012 - Elsevier
Adolescence is a time of dramatic physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes as well
as a time for the development of many social–emotional problems. These characteristics …

The amygdala: an agent of change in adolescent neural networks

KS Scherf, JM Smyth, MR Delgado - Hormones and behavior, 2013 - Elsevier
This article is part of a Special Issue “Puberty and Adolescence”. A unique component of
adolescent development is the need to master new developmental tasks in which peer …

Emergence of global shape processing continues through adolescence

KS Scherf, M Behrmann, R Kimchi… - Child development, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The developmental trajectory of perceptual organization in humans is unclear. This study
investigated perceptual grouping abilities across a wide age range (8–30 years) using a …

Connecting developmental trajectories: Biases in face processing from infancy to adulthood

KS Scherf, LS Scott - Developmental psychobiology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The nature of the developmental trajectory of face recognition abilities from infancy through
adulthood is multifaceted and currently not well understood. We argue that the …

A theoretical rut: revisiting and critically evaluating the generalized under/over‐connectivity hypothesis of autism

G Picci, SJ Gotts, KS Scherf - Developmental science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In 2004, two papers proposed that pervasive functional under‐connectivity (Just et al., ) or a
trade‐off between excessive local connectivity at the cost of distal under‐connectivity (…

A quantitative meta-analysis of face recognition deficits in autism: 40 years of research.

JW Griffin, R Bauer, KS Scherf - Psychological Bulletin, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The ability to recognize an individual face is essential to human social interaction. Even subtle
errors in this process can have huge implications for the way we relate to social partners. …