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Preprint/Under Review

 

Lytle, M. N., Vallorani, A., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Reis, D., Gunther, K. E., Perlman, S. B., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (under review). Machine learning for psychologists: A mobile eye-tracking processing pipeline for adult and child data. American Psychologist, Special Issue.

 

Vallorani, A., Lytle, M. N., Hallquist, M. N. & Pérez-Edgar, K. (preprint). Effect of social interaction negative affect on within-person mentalizing network connectivity.

 

Vallorani, A., McNaughton, K. A., Lytle, M. N., Hallquist, M. N., Redcay, E. & Pérez-Edgar, K. (preprint). Mentalizing from self and friend perspectives: Relations between neural similarity, affective similarity and social anxiety symptoms.

 

2025

 

Pérez-Edgar, K., Gunther, K. E., & Vallorani, A. (2025). The wobbly bits of development: Variability, fluctuations, and synchrony as temporal markers linking temperament and psychopathology. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

 

2024

 

Vallorani, A., Gunther, K. E., Burris, J. L., LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (in press). Individual differences in developmental trajectories of affective attention  and relations with infant competence and social reticence with peers. Emotion.

 

2023

 

Vallorani, A., Gunther, K. E., Anaya, B., Burris, J. L., Field, A. P., Buss, K. A., LoBue, V., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2023). Assessing bidirectional relations between infant temperamental negative affect, maternal anxiety symptoms and infant affect-biased attention across the first 24-months of life. Developmental Psychology, 59(2), 364 - 376.

 

Vallorani, A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. Playing with new friends. Frontiers for Young Minds.

 

2022

 

Bierstedt, L., Reider, L. B., Burris, J. L., Vallorani, A., Gunther, K. E., Buss, K. A., Pérez-Edgar, K., & LoBue, V. (2022). Bi-directional relations between attention and social fear across the first two years of life. Infant Behavior and Development, 69, 101750.

 

Gunther, K. E., Fu, X, MacNeill, L. A., Vallorani, A., Ermanni, B., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2022). Profiles of naturalistic attentional trajectories moderate the relation between Behavioral Inhibition and internalizing symptoms: A mobile eye tracking study. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 50, 637 - 648.

 

Reider, L. B., Bierstedt, L., Burris, J. L., Vallorani, A., Gunther, K. E., Buss, K. A., Pérez-Edgar, K., & LoBue, V. (2022). Developmental patterns of normative affective attention across the first two years of life. Child Development, 93(6), e607 - e621.

 

Vallorani, A., Brown, K. M., Fu, X., Gunther, K. E., MacNeill, L. A., Ermanni, B., Hallquist, M. N., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2022). Relations between social attention, expressed positive affect and behavioral inhibition during play. Developmental Psychology, 58(11), 2036 - 2048. 

 

Zhou, A. M., Trainer, A., Vallorani, A., Fu, X., & Buss, K. A. (2022). Are fearful boys at higher risk for anxiety? Person-centered profiles of toddler fearful behavior predict anxious behaviors at age 6. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 911913.

 

2021

 

Anaya, B.+, Vallorani, A.+, & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021). Dyadic behavioral synchrony between behaviorally inhibited and non-inhibited peers is moderated by concordance in EEG frontal Alpha asymmetry and Delta-Beta coupling. Biological Psychology, 159, 108018.

 

Anaya, B., Vallorani, A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021). 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, 62, 771 - 779.

 

Vallorani, A., Fu, X., Morales, S., LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021). Variable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1719.

 

2020

 

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.

 

2019

 

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.

 

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.

 

pre-2019

 

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.

 

Presentations

First Author Talks

*Co-mentored Undergraduate Student

 

Vallorani, A., Reckner, E., Alkire, D., Warnell, K., & Redcay, E. (2025, May). Variable- and person-centered modeling of mentalizing behavior and relations with social anxiety symptoms and loneliness during childhood and adolescence. Poster accepted to the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

 

Vallorani, A., McNaughton, K. A., Shi, E.*, Hosangadi, A., Dziura, S., & Redcay, E. (2024, September). Development of the social brain from age eleven to fourteen years. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Flux Society, Baltimore, MD.

 

Vallorani, A., McNaughton, K. A., Lytle, M. N., Hallquist, M. N., Redcay, E., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2024, April). Mentalizing from self and friend perspectives: A naturalistic method for assessing neural similarity in mentalizing regions and relations with shared affect and social anxiety. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, Toronto, Canada.

 

Vallorani, A., Gunther, K. E., Burris, J. L., LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2023, March). Infant temperamental negative affect relates to social behavior with peers but not social attention. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT. Co-Chair of symposium Temperament and Social Relationships: Multiple Methods for Understanding the Whole Child Across Development

 

Vallorani, A., Morgan, J. K., Eckstrand, K. L., Sheeber, L., Ambrosia, M., Nance, M., Forbes, E. E., Hallquist, M. N., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021, April). Mentalizing system connectivity may reflect positive affect and moment-to-moment behavioral synchrony between adolescent friends. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science, Virtual.

 

Vallorani, A.+, Brown, K. M.+, Fu, X., Gunther, K. E., MacNeill, L. A., Ermanni, B., Hallquist, M. N., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021, April). Affect influences subsequent social attention captured via mobile eye-tracking during dyadic play in young children. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Virtual. Chair of symposium Timescales in the Study of Social Relationships: From Getting to Know You to Strengthening Bonds.

 

Vallorani, A., Gunther, K. E., Anaya, B., Morales, S., Fu, X., Burris, J. L, Field A. P., Buss, K. A., LoBue, V., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021, April). Relations between affect-biased attention, maternal anxiety and infant negative affect in cross-sectional and longitudinal samples. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Virtual.

 

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., McNaughton, K. A., Lytle, M. N., Hallquist, M. N., Redcay, E. & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2024, April). Mentalizing from self and friend perspectives: A naturalistic method for assessing neural similarity in mentalizing regions and relations with shared affect and social anxiety. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, Toronto, CA.

 

Vallorani, A., Lytle, M. N., Hallquist, M. N., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2022, March). Coordination of social attention and the mentalizing network during naturalistic social interactions between friends. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science, Virtual.

 

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 presented at 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.

 

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