Publications
Published
+Co-first authors
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.
2025
2024
2023
Vallorani, A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. Playing with new friends. Frontiers for Young Minds.
2022
2021
2020
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.
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.