My Research
My objective is to understand the development of attention and reward over time, particularly regarding interactions with technology and online contexts. My work utilizes eye-tracking and behavioral methods across developmental stages from infancy to adulthood.
Publications
Hunter, B., Montgomery, B., Sridhar, A., & Markant, J. (in preparation). Endogenous Control and Reward-Based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces.
Presentations
Montgomery, B., Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2024, April). Investigating the Role of Direct Competition on Species- and Race-based Attention Orienting Biases to Faces during Infancy. Poster presented at Tulane Research, Innovation and Creativity Summit, New Orleans, LA.
Graduate Student Best Poster Award
Montgomery, B., Hunter, B.K., Sridhar, A., & Markant, J. (2024, March). Infant Sensitivity to Reward Influences Attention Biases towards Caregiver Faces. Poster presented at Society for Affective Science, New Orleans, LA.
Montgomery, B., Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2023, November). Differential Development of Attention Orienting and Attention Holding to Caregiver vs Stranger Faces in Infancy. Poster presented at Psychonomic Society, 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
Meyer, E., Montgomery, B., & Markant, J. (2024, April). Infants’ Attention Orienting to Caregiver Versus Stranger Faces Relates to Caregivers’ Self-Reported Anxiety. Poster presented at Tulane Research, Innovation and Creativity Summit, New Orleans, LA.
Sridhar, A., Hunter, B.K., Montgomery, B., & Markant, J. (2024, July). Individual Differences in Reward Sensitivity Shape Infants’ Attention Biases Towards Caregiver Faces. Poster accepted to International Congress on Infant Studies, Glasgow, Scotland.
Marcus, T., Montgomery, B., & Markant, J. (2024, March). Infant’s Attention Biases Towards Caregivers vs. Strangers Reflect Social Network Size. Poster accepted to Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena, CA
Sridhar, A., Montgomery, B., Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2022, September). Infant Reactivity Predicts Attention Orienting Biases to Caregiver vs. Stranger Faces. Presentation at the International Congress on Infant Studies Founding Generation Fellowship Fall Symposium (virtual).