The origins of effortful control: How early development within arousal/regulatory systems influences attentional and affective control

SV Wass - Developmental Review, 2021 - Elsevier
In this review, I consider the developmental interactions between two domains sometimes
characterised as at opposite ends of the human spectrum: early-developing …

How orchids concentrate? The relationship between physiological stress reactivity and cognitive performance during infancy and early childhood

SV Wass - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) is involved both in higher-order cognition
such as attention and learning, and in responding to unexpected, threatening events …

First steps into the pupillometry multiverse of developmental science

G Calignano, P Girardi, G Altoè - Behavior Research Methods, 2024 - Springer
Pupillometry has been widely implemented to investigate cognitive functioning since
infancy. Like most psychophysiological and behavioral measures, it implies hierarchical …

Infants' visual sustained attention is higher during joint play than solo play: is this due to increased endogenous attention control or exogenous stimulus capture?

SV Wass, K Clackson, SD Georgieva… - Developmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Previous research has suggested that when a social partner, such as a parent, pays
attention to an object, this increases the attention that infants pay to that object during …

Parents mimic and influence their infant's autonomic state through dynamic affective state matching

SV Wass, CG Smith, K Clackson, C Gibb… - Current biology, 2019 - cell.com
When we see someone experiencing an emotion, and when we experience it ourselves,
common neurophysiological activity occurs [1, 2]. But although inter-dyadic synchrony …

Infant attention is dynamically modulated with changing arousal levels

K de Barbaro, K Clackson, SV Wass - Child development, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional accounts of developing attention and cognition emphasize static individual
differences in information encoding; however, work from Aston‐Jones et al. suggests that …

Vocal communication is tied to interpersonal arousal coupling in caregiver-infant dyads

S Wass, E Phillips, C Smith, EOOB Fatimehin, L Goupil - ELife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
It has been argued that a necessary condition for the emergence of speech in humans is the
ability to vocalise irrespective of underlying affective states, but when and how this happens …

Influences of environmental stressors on autonomic function in 12‐month‐old infants: Understanding early common pathways to atypical emotion regulation and …

SV Wass, CG Smith, KR Daubney… - Journal of Child …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Previous research has suggested that children exposed to more early‐life
stress show worse mental health outcomes and impaired cognitive performance in later life …

Detection of dynamic changes of electrodermal activity to predict the classroom performance of college students

H Yu, M Xu, X Xiao, F Xu, D Ming - Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2024 - Springer
It is emphasized in the Self-regulated learning (SRL) framework that self-monitoring of
learning state is vital for students to keep effective in studying. However, it's still challenging …

Measuring the Autonomic Nervous System as a window into the mind and brain

M Ishikawa - European Psychologist, 2023 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Throughout the history of psychophysiology, measures of the autonomic nervous system
(ANS) have contributed to understanding psychological states and cognitive processing …