Note: Publications and presentations prior to May 2021 are listed under my former name, Brianna Keenan.
*denotes undergraduate mentee
Published Journal Articles
Hunter, B. K., Kiat, J. E., Klotz, S. M., Nelson, C. M., Luck, S. J., & Oakes, L. M. (2025). The predictive ability of GBVS feature channels on infants’ fixations of natural scenes. Visual Cognition, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2025.2468690
Hunter, B.K., Montgomery, B., Sridhar, A.* & Markant, J. (2024). Endogenous control and reward‐based mechanisms shape infants’ attention biases to caregiver faces. Developmental Psychobiology, 66(6). e22521. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22521
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
Oral Presentations
Hunter, B.K., Kiat, J., Luck, S., & Oakes, L. (2024, July). Evaluating visual attention development by relating infant eye movements to adult fMRI data. Talk presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies. Glasgow, Scotland.
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.
Poster Presentations
Hunter, B.K., Klotz, S., Luck, S., & Oakes, L. (2025, May). What can 100,000 fixations tell us about infants’ visual exploration of naturalistic scenes. Poster accepted to the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting. St. Pete Beach, FL.
Grench, G.*, Sun, Y.*, Valeroso, M.*, Xu, J.*, DeBolt, M. C., Hunter, B. K., & Oakes, L. M. (2025, May). The role of gaze at the top half of faces in infants' face memory. Poster accepted to the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting. Minneapolis, MN.
Montgomery, B., Hunter, B.K., & Markant, J. (2025, May). Visual contexts shape species- and race-based attention orienting biases to faces during infancy. Poster accepted to the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting. Minneapolis, MN.
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 presented at 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 presented at 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).