Publications & Presentations

Publications

Published

⁺Co-first authors

Morales, S.+, Vallorani, A.+, & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019). Affective, behavioral and neural responses to social evaluation relate to internalizing symptoms in young children: The moderating role of affect-biased attention to threat. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 36, 1 – 10.

Anaya, B., Vallorani, A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (in press). Delta-beta synchrony, behavioral inhibition, and social anxiety: Using a multilevel framework to explain trait and state-level differences. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Pérez-Edgar, K., Vallorani, A., Buss, K. A., & LoBue, V. (2020). Individual differences in infancy research: Letting the baby stand out from the crowd. Infancy, 25(4), 438 – 457.

Buss, K. A., Pérez-Edgar, K., Vallorani, A., & Anaya, B. (2019). Emotion reactivity and regulation: A developmental model of links between temperament and personality. In D. P. McAdams, R. L. Shiner, & J. T. Tackett (Eds.). Handbook of Personality Development, 106 – 117.

Constantino, J., Zhang, Y., Holzhauer, K., Sant, S., Long, K., Vallorani, A., Malik, L., & Gutmann, D. H. (2015). Distribution and within-family specificity of quantitative autistic traits in nf1. The Journal of Pediatrics, 167(3), 621 – 626.

Licis, A. K., Vallorani, A., Gao, F., Chen, C., Lenox, J., Yamada, K. A., Duntley, S. P., & Gutmann, D.H. (2013). Prevalence of sleep disturbances in children with neurofibromatosis type 1. Journal of Child Neurology, 28(11), 1400 – 1405.

Under Review

Vallorani, A., Anaya, B., Morales, S., MacNeill, L. A., Gunther, K. E., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (under review). Approach and avoidance in attention to threat and frontal EEG asymmetry: Patterns of risk within the context of behavioral inhibition relate to internalizing symptoms.

Vallorani, A., Fu, X., Morales, S., LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (under review). Modeling affect-biased attention development in infancy: Variable- and person-centered approaches and relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety.

Gunther, K. E., Fu, X, MacNeill, L. A., Vallorani, A., Ermanni, B., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (under review). Profiles of naturalistic attentional trajectories moderate the relation between Behavioral Inhibition and internalizing symptoms: A mobile eye tracking study.

Presentations

First Author Talks

*Co-mentored Undergraduate Student

Vallorani, A., Brown, K. M., Fu, X., Gunther, K., MacNeill, L. A., Ermanni, B., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, March). Processing social and non-social rewards in the peer context: The role of temperament. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.

Vallorani, A., Fu, X., Morales, S., LoBue, R., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2018, July). Person-centered profiles of infant affect-biased attention are associated with maternal anxiety and infant negative affect. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of The International Congress of Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA.

Vallorani, A., Kelly, K. M, & Boo, J. A.* (2016, May). Anxious, social and thinking introversion: Understanding introversion subtypes through the lens of alexithymia. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Vallorani, A., Sunami, N., McFadden, S. L., & Kelly, K. M.(2015, May). Emotionally blind with a social mind: Exploring the paradox of alexithymia. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

First Author Posters

Vallorani, A., Brown, K. M., Fu, X., Gunther, K. E., MacNeill, L. A., Ermanni, B., Hallquist, M. N., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2020, September). Partner affect influences social attention during dyadic play in young children. Poster accepted to the annual meeting of the Flux Society, Virtual.

Vallorani, A., Gunther K. E., Burris, J. L., Buss, K. A., LoBue, V., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2020, July). Modeling individual differences in developmental trajectories of orienting to emotional stimuli from 4- to 24-months. Poster accepted to the biannual meeting of The International Congress of Infant Studies, Virtual.

Vallorani, A., Brown, K. M., Fu, X., Gunther, K., MacNeill, L. A., Ermanni, B., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, August). Naturalistic social attention across a dynamic social interaction. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Flux Society, New York, NY.

Vallorani, A., Fu, X., Ram, N. & Buss, K. (2019, March). Person-centered profiles of infant temperament and infant prosocial behaviors with peers predict childhood social engagement. Poster presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.

Vallorani, A., Morales, S., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2018, August). Affect-biased attention moderates the relation between neural sensitivity to rejection and internalizing symptoms in young children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Flux Society, Berlin, Germany.

Vallorani, A., Fu, X., Gilsenen, K.*, & Buss, K. A. (2017, November). Blunted cortisol levels and dysregulated fear relate to reduced social approach in toddlers. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington D. C.

Vallorani, A. Morales, S., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017, September). Rejection distress coupled with reduced attention to and neural processing of social reward relates to internalizing symptoms. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Flux Society, Portland, OR.

Vallorani, A., Morales, S., Brown, K. M., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017, April). Associations among attentional bias to reward, effortful control and externalizing. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

Vallorani, A., Thai, N. K., Taber-Thomas, B. C., MacNeill, L. A., Morales, S., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017, March). Triple threat: Behavioral inhibition, frontal EEG asymmetry, and attention bias to threat as a high-risk marker profile for social anxiety. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Los Angeles, CA.

Vallorani, A., McFadden, S. L., Sunami, N., & Nielsen, S. E.* (2016, April). Autism spectrum disorder traits, not alexithymia traits, explain reduced attention to exclusion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

Vallorani, A., Sunami, N., McFadden, S. L., & Omura, M. (2015, October). Communication skills and positive affect recognition: The roles of alexithymia and autism traits. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.

Vallorani, A., Sunami, N., McFadden, S. L., Omura, M., Wilson, A. J., Berg, P. C., & Robinson, L. K. (2015, April). Attention versus recognition: Differences in emotion processing deficits in autism spectrum disorder and alexithymia. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.