Journal Articles
Blanco, NJ, & Sloutsky, VM. (2020). Systematic Exploration and Uncertainty Dominate Young Children’s Choices. Developmental Science (in press). Online publication Preprint
Blanco, NJ, & Sloutsky, VM. (2020). Attentional mechanisms drive systematic exploration in young children. Cognition, 202, 104327. Online Publication Preprint PDF
Blanco, NJ, Sloutsky, VM. (2019). Adaptive Flexibility in Category Learning? Young Children Exhibit Smaller Costs of Selective Attention than Adults. Developmental Psychology. PDF
Cooper, JA, Blanco, NJ, Maddox, WT. (2017). Framing Matters: Effects of Framing on Older Adults' Exploratory Decision-Making. Psychology and Aging. 32(1), 60. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Saucedo, CL, Gonzalez-Lima, F. (2017). Transcranial Infrared Laser Stimulation Improves Rule-Based, but not Information-Integration, Category Learning in Humans. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 139, 69-75. PDF
Pang, B, Blanco, NJ, Maddox, WT, & Worthy, DA. (2016). To not settle for small losses: evidence for an ecological aspiration level of zero in dynamic decision-making. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-11. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Love, BC, Ramscar, M, Otto, AR, Smayda, K, Maddox, WT. (2016) Exploratory Decision- Making as a Function of Lifelong Experience, not Cognitive Decline. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Love, BC, Cooper, JA, McGeary, JE, Knopik, VS, Maddox, WT. (2015). A Frontal Dopamine System for Reflective Exploratory Behavior. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Maddox, WT, Gonzalez-Lima, F. (2015). Improving executive function using transcranial infrared laser stimulation. Journal of Neuropsychology. PDF
Chandrasekaran, B, Yi, HG, Blanco, NJ, McGeary, JE, Maddox, WT. (2015). Enhanced Procedural Learning of Speech Sound Categories in a Genetic Variant of FOXP2. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(20), 7808-7812. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Otto, AR, Maddox, WT, Beevers, CG, Love, BC. (2013). The Influence of Depression Symptoms on Exploratory Decision-Making. Cognition. 129, 563-568. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Gureckis, TM, (2012). Does category labeling lead to forgetting? Cognitive Processing, DOI: 10.1007/s10339-012-0530-4. PDF
Chapters and encyclopedia entries
Blanco, NJ, (2018). Categorization. SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. (edited by Bornstein, MH). SAGE publications Inc.
Blanco, NJ. (2017). Dopamine. Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. (edited by Zeigler-Hill, V & Shackelford, TK). Springer.
Conference papers
Blanco, NJ, Sloutsky, VM. (2019). Predicting Learned Inattention from Attentional Selectivity and Optimization. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Savic, O, Blanco, NJ, Sloutsky, VM. (2019). Not All Exceptions Are the Same: Different Memory Demands for Differentiation, Isolation and Odd-ball Exceptions. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Sloutsky, VM. (2018). Exploration and Attention in Young Children. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Savic, O, Blanco, NJ, Sloutsky, VM. (2018). Developmental Differences in the Status of Category Exceptions. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Gureckis, TM. (2011). Does category labeling lead to forgetting? Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Posters
Blanco, NJ, Sloutsky, VM. (2019). Exploration and exploitation in development: charting shifts in decision strategies across childhood. Cognitive Development Society Bi-Ennial Conference 2019. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Sloutsky, VM. (2019). Predicting Learned Inattention from Attentional Selectivity and Optimization. 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, QC, Canada. July, 2019. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Sloutsky, VM. (2018). Exploration and Attention in Young Children. 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Madison, WI. July, 2018. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Sloutsky, VM. (2017). Adaptive Flexibility in Category Learning? Young Children Exhibit Smaller Costs of Selective Attention than Adults. Cognitive Development Society Bi-Ennial Conference 2017. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Sloutsky, VM. (2017). Exploration dominates choice behavior in young children. Cognitive Development Society Bi-Ennial Conference 2017. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Gonzalez-Lima, F, Saucedo, C, Huyghe, C, Maddox, WT. (2016). Transcranial Infrared Laser Stimulation Improves Rule-Based Category Learning. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. New York, NY. April, 2016. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Maddox, WT. (2015). Gains and Losses in Reflective Exploratory Decision-making in Depression. 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Pasadena, CA. July, 2015. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Love, BC, Ramscar, M, Otto, AR, Smayda, K, Maddox, WT. (2015). Exploratory Decision- Making as a Function of Lifelong Experience. The 4th Biennial Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference. Dallas, TX. January, 2015. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Otto, AR, Smayda, K, Love, BC, Maddox, WT. (2015). Reflective Exploratory Decision-Making in Older Adults. 2014 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada. November 2014. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Otto, AR, McGeary, J, Love, BC, Maddox, WT. (2013). Dopamine-related Genetic Influences on Exploratory Decision-making. 2013 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. November, 2013. PDF
Blanco, NJ, Gureckis, TM. (2011). Does category labeling lead to forgetting? 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, MA. July, 2011. PDF
Presented by co-authors
Putnam, OC, Blanco NJ, Sloutsky, VM. (2019). Decision-making in early childhood: Young children shift from perseverance to systematic exploration. Cognitive Development Society Bi-Ennial Conference 2019.
Savic, O, Blanco, NJ, Sloutsky, VM. (2019). Not All Exceptions Are the Same: Different Memory Demands for Differentiation, Isolation and Odd-ball Exceptions. 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, QC, Canada. July, 2019.
Savic, O, Blanco, NJ, Sloutsky, VM. (2018) Developmental Differences in the Status of Category Exceptions. 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Madison, WI. July, 2018.
Saucedo, C, Blanco, NJ, Barrett, D, Gonzalez-Lima, F. (2017). Transcranial infrared laser stimulation of the human prefrontal cortex improves decision-making. 120th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science. Junction, TX. March, 2017.
Saucedo, C, Blanco, NJ, Gonzalez-Lima, F, Maddox, WT. (2016). Effects of Transcranial Infrared Laser Stimulation in Category Learning. 119th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science. Junction, TX. March, 2016.
Pang, B, Blanco, NJ, Maddox, WT, & Worthy DA. (2015). Gains and Losses Respectively Promote Satisficing and Maximizing Behavior. 2015 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. November, 2015.
Koslov, S, Blanco, NJ, Chandrasekaran, B, Maddox, WT. (2015). Using Real-Time Computational Modeling to Individually Optimize Speech Category Learning. 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Pasadena, CA. July, 2015.