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Impact of the auditory environment on cognitive performance and behaviour in schools/workplaces: Methodological review 2023-2026
Massonnié, J., Radun, J., Visentin, C., Burgess, M., Donovan, C., Goldenberg, G. and Kawai, C. (2026) ‘Impact of the auditory environment on cognitive performance and behaviour in schools/workplaces: Methodological review 2023–2026’, 15th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14–18 June 2026, pp. 1–12.
How might outdoor and natural environments support children’s self-regulation of attention and behaviour? A scoping review of candidate mediating pathways.
Goldenberg, G., and S. V. Wass. "How might outdoor and natural environments support children’s self-regulation of attention and behaviour? A scoping review of candidate mediating pathways." Journal of Environmental Psychology (2026): 103187.
Dyadic sensorimotor behaviours of young typically developing children and children with Down Syndrome: Object dominance and motor handling.
Bocchetta, C., Thompson, C. D. J., Suarez-Rivera, C., Yu, C., & D’Souza, H. (in press). Dyadic sensorimotor behaviours of young typically developing children and children with Down Syndrome: Object dominance and motor handling. Developmental Science.
Pathways from social contingency to infant language learning
Suarez-Rivera, C., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. (2026). Pathways from social contingency to infant language learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 381 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0359
Take Action on Distraction: The definitive guide to improving attention and focus in the Early Years and Key Stage 1.
Wass, S., & Goldenberg, G. (2025). Take Action on Distraction: The definitive guide to improving attention and focus in the Early Years and Key Stage One. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/take-action-on-distraction-9781801995580/
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Who Leads and Who Follows? The Pathways to Joint Attention During Free-Flowing Interactions Change Over Developmental Time.
M. Perapoch Amadó, Phillips, M., Esposito, G., Greenwood, E., Ives, J., P. Labendzki, Lancaster, K., Northrop, T. J., Viswanathan, N. K., M. Gök, Peñaherrera, M. J., Jones, H., & Wass, S. V. (2025). Who Leads and Who Follows? The Pathways to Joint Attention During Free‐Flowing Interactions Change Over Developmental Time. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14229
Neural signatures of word learning during adult-child interactions
Mosteller, S., Sobanawartiny Wijeakumar and Wass, S. (2025). Neural Signatures of Word Learning During Adult-Child Interactions. Imaging Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00407
Foraging and inertia: Understanding the developmental dynamics of overt visual attention
Wass, S. V., Perapoch Amadó, M., Northrop, T., Marriott Haresign, I., & Phillips, E. A. M. (2024). Foraging and inertia: understanding the developmental dynamics of overt visual attention. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105991
Finding order in chaos: influences of environmental complexity and predictability on development
Lancaster, K. L., & Wass, S. V. (2024). Finding order in chaos: influences of environmental complexity and predictability on development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.11.012
Modelling or Matching: the effect of maternal vocal response to infant distress.
Massonnié, J., Radun, J., Visentin, C., Burgess, M., Donovan, C., Goldenberg, G. and Kawai, C. (2026) ‘Impact of the auditory environment on cognitive performance and behaviour in schools/workplaces: Methodological review 2023–2026’, 15th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14–18 June 2026, pp. 1–12.
Leader–follower dynamics during early social interactions matter for infant word learning
Goupil, L., Dautriche, I., Denman, K., Henry, Z., Marriott-Haresign, I. and Wass, S. (2024). Leader–follower dynamics during early social interactions matter for infant word learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(38). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321008121
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Learning to imitate facial expressions through sound
Viswanathan, N. K., C.J.M, C., Wass, S. V., & Goupil, L. (2024). Learning to imitate facial expressions through sound. Developmental Review, 73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2024.101137
Outdoor learning in urban schools: Effects on 4–5 year old children's noise and physiological stress
Goldenberg, G., Atkinson, M., Dubiel, J. and Wass, S. (2024). Outdoor learning in urban schools: Effects on 4–5 year old children’s noise and physiological stress. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102362
Journey beyond survival: Insights into physiological arousal and verbal communicative patterns of prematurely born preschoolers
Gomes, L., Gistelinck, L., Esposito, G., Van den Broeck, R., De Vos, M., Bollen, B., Ortibus, E., Naulaers, G., Wass, S. and Boets, B. (2024) ‘Journey beyond survival: Insights into physiological arousal and verbal communicative patterns of prematurely born preschoolers’. Presentation, 2024 Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS), Brussels, Belgium, 31 May 2024.
Examining speech-brain tracking during early bidirectional, free-flowing caregiver-infant interactions
Phillips, E.A.M., Goupil, L., Ives, J.E., Labendzki, P., Whitehorn, M., Marriott Haresign, I. and Wass, S.V. (2024). Examining speech-brain tracking during early bidirectional, free-flowing caregiver-infant interactions. : https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.16.594544
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Why behaviour matters: Studying inter-brain coordination during child-caregiver interaction
Marriot Haresign, I., Phillips, E. A. M., & Wass, S. V. (2024). Why behaviour matters: Studying inter-brain coordination during child-caregiver interaction. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101384
Endogenous oscillatory rhythms and interactive contingencies jointly influence infant attention during early infant-caregiver interaction.
Phillips, E. A. M., Goupil, L., Whitehorn, M., Bruce-Gardyne, E., Csolsim, F. A., Kaur, N., Greenwood, E., Haresign, I. M., & Wass, S. V. (2024). Endogenous oscillatory rhythms and interactive contingencies jointly influence infant attention during early infant-caregiver interaction. ELife, 12. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.88775.2
Annual Research Review: ‘There, the dance is – at the still point of the turning world’ – dynamic systems perspectives on coregulation and dysregulation during early development
Wass, S., Greenwood, E., Esposito, G., Smith, C., Necef, I., & Phillips, E. (2024). Annual Research Review: “There, the dance is – at the still point of the turning world” – dynamic systems perspectives on coregulation and dysregulation during early development. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 65(4), 481–507. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13960
The neural and physiological substrates of real-world attention change across development.
Perapoch Amadó, M., Greenwood, E., Ives, J., Labendzki, P., Marriott Haresign, I., Northrop, T. J., Phillips, E. A. M., Viswanathan, N. K., Whitehorn, M., Jones, E. J. H., & Wass, S. V. (2023). The neural and physiological substrates of real-world attention change across development. Elife. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.92171.2