RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
Search by keyword:
Browse by topic:
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
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
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
Download PDF | Access Paper
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
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.
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
Sing to me, baby: Infants show neural tracking and rhythmic movements to live and dynamic maternal singing.
Nguyen, T., Reisner, S., Lueger, A., Wass, S. V., Hoehl, S., & Markova, G. (2023). Sing to me, baby: Infants show neural tracking and rhythmic movements to live and dynamic maternal singing. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101313
Vocal communication is tied to interpersonal arousal coupling in caregiver-infant dyads.
Wass, S.V., Phillips, E., Smith, C., Goupil, L. (2022) Vocal communication is tied to interpersonal arousal coupling in caregiver-infant dyads. eLife. e77399. https://elifesciences.org/articles/77399
DEEP: A dual EEG pipeline for developmental hyperscanning studies.
Kayhan, E., Matthes, D., Haresign, I. M., Bánki, A., Michel, C., Langeloh, M., Wass, S.V. & Hoehl, S. (2022). DEEP: A dual EEG pipeline for developmental hyperscanning studies. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 54, 101104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101104
Download PDF | Access Paper
Measuring the temporal dynamics of inter-personal neural entrainment in continuous child-adult EEG hyperscanning data.
Measuring the temporal dynamics of inter-personal neural entrainment in continuous child-adult EEG hyperscanning data. (2022). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 54, 101093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101093.
Interpersonal neural entrainment during early social interaction.
Wass, S. V., Whitehorn, M., Haresign, I. M., Phillips, E., & Leong, V. (2020). Interpersonal neural entrainment during early social interaction. Trends in cognitive sciences, 24(4), 329-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.01.006
Emotional valence modulates the topology of the parent-infant inter-brain network.
Santamaria, L., Noreika, V., Georgieva, S., Clackson, K., Wass, S., & Leong, V. (2020). Emotional valence modulates the topology of the parent-infant inter-brain network. NeuroImage, 207, 116341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116341