Publications & Presentations

Publications

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In Press

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

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

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

2022

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.

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.

Under Review/Preprints

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

Gunther, K. E., Werchan, D. M., Anaya, B., Vallorani, A., Pérez-Edgar, K., & Amso, D. (under review). Maternal buffering of neural and attentional responses to emotionally valenced stimuli in infancy.

Presentations

First Author Talks

*Co-mentored Undergraduate Student

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., 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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