This review provides an introduction to two eyetracking measures that can be used to study
cognitive development and plasticity: pupil dilation and spontaneous blink rate. We begin by …

Background Theories of the intergenerational transmission of depression emphasize
alterations in emotion processing among offspring of depressed mothers as a key risk …

There is growing interest in psychophysiological and neural correlates of psychopathology,
personality, and other individual differences. Many studies correlate a criterion individual …

Vulnerability models of depression posit that individual differences in trait-like vulnerabilities
emerge early in life and increase risk for the later development of depression. In this review …

Reliable, valid, and efficient assessment of depression is critical to identify individuals in
need of treatment and to gauge treatment response. Current methods of assessment are …

Depression is a prevalent and severe mental disorder that significantly affects both mind and
body, leading to persistent feelings of sadness, despair, and impaired functionality …

The pupil has been shown to be sensitive to the emotional content of stimuli. We examined
this phenomenon by comparing fearful and neutral images carefully matched in the domains …

In the field of psychology, the merge of decision-theory and neuroscientific methods
produces an array of scientifically recognized paradigms. For example, by exploring …

Elaborative affective processing is observed in depression, and pupillary reactivity, a
continuous, sensitive, and reliable indicator of physiological arousal and neurocognitive …

This study combined multiple levels of analysis to examine whether disrupted neural and
pupillary reactivity to emotional faces serves as a state-or trait-like marker of adolescent …