Publications
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2024
Ewell A, Kao K and Tarullo A (2024) How do Children Learn to Manage Their Emotions?. Front. Young Minds. 12:1416143. doi: 10.3389/frym.2024.1416143. PDF
Ewell, A., Lopera-Perez, D., Kao, K., Tuladhar, C., Meyer, J., & Tarullo, A. (2024). Child biological stress and maternal caregiving style are associated with school readiness. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 67, 13-23. doi: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2023.11.003. PDF
Kao, K., Almeida, C. F., & Tarullo, A. R. (2024). Show Me How You Feel on Your Face: Preschool Children’s Capacity to Modulate Emotional Expression. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 70(1), 121-146. doi:10.1353/mpq.2024.a949144. PDF
Lopera‐Perez, D. C., Obradović, J., Yousafzai, A. K., Keehn, B., Siyal, S., Nelson, C. A., & Tarullo, A. R. (2024). Early Family Experiences and Neural Activity in Rural Pakistani Children: The Differential Role of Gender. Developmental Psychobiology, 66(6), e22534. PDF
Tarullo, A. R., Evans, D., Coetzee, L., Lopera-Perez, D. C., Brady, S. P., Gabard-Durnam, L. J., Fink, G., Hamer, D. H., Yousafzai, A. K., & Rockers, P. C. (2024). Neonatal Physical Growth Predicts Electroencephalography Power in Rural South African Children. Brain Sciences, 14(6):552. doi: 10.3390/brainsci14060552. PDF
2023
Rockers, P. C., Leppänen, J. M., Tarullo, A., Coetzee, L., Fink, G., Hamer, D. H., Yousafzai, A. K., Evans, D. (2023). Evaluation of a community health worker home visit intervention to improve child development in South Africa: A cluster-randomized controlled trial. PLOS Medicine 20(4): e1004222. PDF
Tarullo, A. R., Ewell, A. R., & Garrison, M. M. (2023). Sleep, Poverty, and Biological Stress: Mitigating Sleep Health Disparities in Early Childhood. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10(2), 221-228. doi: 10.1177/23727322231199942. PDF
2022
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Winebrake, D. A., Almeida, C. F., Tuladhar, C. T., Kao, K., Meyer, J. S., & Tarullo, A. R. (2022). Social fear in US infants: The roles of hair and salivary cortisol. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 95(1), 71-85. PDF
2021
Tuladhar, C. T., Schwartz, S., St. John, A. M., Meyer, J. S., & Tarullo, A. R. (2021). Infant diurnal cortisol predicts sleep. Journal of Sleep Research, 30(6),e13357. doi: 10.1111/jsr.13357. PDF
2020
Kao, K., Tuladhar, C., & Tarullo, A. (2020). Parental and family-level sociocontextual correlates of emergent emotion regulation: Implications for early social competence. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29(6), 1630-1641. doi: 10.1007/s10826-020-01706-4. PDF
Nayak, S., & Tarullo, A. (2020). Error-related negativity (ERN) and ‘hot’ executive function in bilingual and monolingual preschoolers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-12. doi: 10.1017/S1366728919000725. PDF
Nayak, S., Salem, H., & Tarullo, A. (2020). A lateralized readiness potential (LRP) study of response preparation and inhibition in bilingual and monolingual school-aged children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 41, 100740. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100740. PDF
St. John, A., & Tarullo, A. (2020). Neighborhood chaos moderates the association of socioeconomic status and child executive functioning. Infant and Child Development, 29, e2153. doi: 10.1002/icd.2153. PDF
Tarullo, A., Tuladhar, C.,* Kao, K., Drury, E.,** & Meyer, J. (2020). Cortisol and socioeconomic status in early childhood: A multi-dimensional assessment. Development and Psychopathology, 32, 1876-1887. PDF
Tuladhar, C., & Tarullo, A. (2020). Consistency in maternal affect and positive vocalization over the first year of life. Infant Behavior and Development, 58, 101415. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2019.101415. PDF
2019
Kao, K., Tuladhar, Meyer, J., & Tarullo, A. (2019). Emotion regulation moderates the association between parent and child hair cortisol concentration. Developmental Psychobiology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/dev.21850 PDF
St. John, A., Finch, K., & Tarullo, A. (2019). Socioeconomic status and neural processing of a go/no-go task in preschoolers: An assessment of the P3b. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 38, 100677. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100677 PDF
St. John, A., Kibbe, M., & Tarullo, A. (2019). A systematic assessment of socioeconomic status and executive functioning in early childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 178, 352-368. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2018.09.003 PDF
Tuladhar, C., St. John, A., & Tarullo, A. (2019). Parenting infants: The role of mothers’ perceptions of how they were parented. Advance online publication. Early Child Development and Care. doi: 10.1080/03004430.2018.1538133 PDF
2018
Kao, K., Doan, S., St. John, A, Meyer, J., & Tarullo, A. (2018). Salivary cortisol reactivity in preschoolers is associated with hair cortisol and behavioral problems. Stress, 21, 28-35. doi: 10.1080/10253890.2017.1391210 PDF
Kao, K., Nayak, S., Doan, S., & Tarullo, A. (2018). Relations between parent EF and child EF: The role of socioeconomic status and parenting in executive functioning in early childhood. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 4, 122-137. doi: 10.1037/tps0000154 PDF
St. John, A., Oztahtaci, B. & Tarullo, A. (2018). Parental executive function and verbal ability matter for scaffolding. Journal of Family Psychology, 32, 406-411. doi: 10.1037/fam0000374 PDF
Tarullo, A., Nayak, S., St. John, A., & Doan, S. (2018). Performance effects of reward-related feedback on the Dimensional Change Card Sort task. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 179, 171-175. doi: 10.1080/00221325.2018.1466264 PDF
2017
Flom, M., St. John, A., Meyer, J., & Tarullo, A. (2017). Infant hair cortisol: Associations with salivary cortisol and environmental context. Developmental Psychobiology, 59, 26-38. doi: 10.1002/dev.21449 PDF
St. John, A., Kao, K., Liederman, J., Grieve, P., & Tarullo, A. (2017). Maternal cortisol slope at 6 months predicts infant cortisol slope and EEG power at 12 months. Developmental Psychobiology, 59, 787-801. doi: 10.1002/dev.21540 PDF
St. John, Kao, K., Chita-Tegmark, M., Liederman, J., Grieve, P., & Tarullo, A. (2017). A within-subjects experimental protocol to assess the effects of social input on infant EEG. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 123, e55596. doi:10.3791/55596
Tarullo, A., Obradovic, J., Keehn, B., Rasheed, M., Siyal, S., Nelson, C. A., & Yousafzai, A. (2017). Gamma power in rural Pakistani children: Links to executive function and verbal abilities. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 1-8. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2017.03.007 PDF
Tarullo, A., St. John, A., & Meyer, J. (2017). Chronic stress in the mother-infant dyad: Maternal hair cortisol, infant salivary cortisol and interactional synchrony. Infant Behavior and Development, 47, 92-102. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2017.03.007 PDF
2016
St. John, A., Kao, K., Choksi, M., Liederman, J., Grieve, P., & Tarullo, A. (2016). Variation in infant EEG power across social and nonsocial contexts. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 152, 106-122. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2016.04.007 PDF
Tarullo, A., Isler, J., Condon, C., Violaris, K., Balsam, P., & Fifer, W. (2016). Neonatal eyelid conditioning during sleep. Developmental Psychobiology, 58, 875-882. DOI 10.1002/dev.21424 PDF
Tarullo, A., Youssef, A., Frenn, K., Wiik, K., Garvin, M., & Gunnar, M. (2016). Emotion understanding, parental mental state language, and behavior problems in post-institutionalized children. Development and Psychopathology, 28, 371-383. doi: 10.1017/S095457941500111X. PDF
2012
Garvin, M. C., Tarullo, A. R., Van Ryzin, M. & Gunnar, M. R. (2012). Post-adoption parenting and socioemotional development in post-institutionalized children. Development and Psychopathology, 24, 35–48. PDF
Isler, J. R., Tarullo, A. R., Grieve, P. G., Housman, E., Kaku, M., Stark, R. I. & Fifer, W. P. (2012). Toward an electrocortical biomarker of cognition for newborn infants. Developmental Science, 15, 260–271. PDF
Tarullo, A. R. (2012, Winter). Effects of child maltreatment on the developing brain. Child Welfare 360°: Using a Developmental Approach in Child Welfare Practice, 11. PDF
Williams, I., Tarullo, A. R., Grieve, P. G., Wilpers, A., Vignola, E., Myers, M. M. & Fifer, W. P. (2012). Fetal cerebrovascular resistance and neonatal EEG predict 18-month neurodevelopmental outcome in infants with congenital heart disease. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. PDF
2011
Johnson, A., Bruce, J., Tarullo, A. R. & Gunnar, M. R. (2011). Growth delay as an index of allostatic load in young children: Predictions to disinhibited social approach and diurnal cortisol activity. Development and Psychopathology, 23, 859–871. PDF
Tarullo, A. R., Mliner, S. & Gunnar, M. R. (2011). Inhibition and exuberance in preschool classrooms: Associations with peer social experiences and changes in cortisol across the preschool year. Developmental Psychology, 47(5), 1374–1388. PDF
Tarullo, A. R., Balsam, P. & Fifer, W. P. (2011). Sleep and infant learning. Infant and Child Development, 20, 35–46. PDF
Tarullo, A. R., Garvin, M. C. & Gunnar, M. R. (2011). Atypical EEG power distribution correlates with indiscriminately friendly behavior in internationally adopted children. Developmental Psychology, 47(2), 417–431. PDF
2010
Fifer, W. P., Byrd, D., Kaku, M., Eigsti, I., Isler, J. R., Grose-Fifer, J., Tarullo, A. R. & Balsam, P. (2010). Newborn infants learn during sleep. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(22), 10320–10323. PDF
2009
Bruce, J., Tarullo, A. R. & Gunnar, M. R. (2009). Disinhibited social behavior among internationally adopted children. Development and Psychopathology, 21, 157–171. PDF
Tarullo, A. R., Obradovic, J. & Gunnar, M. R. (2009, January). Self-control and the developing brain. Zero to Three, 31–37. PDF
2008
Tarullo, A. R., Quevedo, K., & Gunnar, M. R. (2008). The LHPA system and neurobehavioral development. In C. Nelson & M. Luciana (Eds.), Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd ed. (pp. 63–82). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2007
Pellegrini, A., Roseth, C., Mliner, S., Bohn, C., Van Ryzin, M., Vance, N., Cheatham, C. & Tarullo, A. R. (2007). Social dominance in preschool classrooms.Journal of Comparative Psychology, 121, 54–64. PDF
Tarullo, A. R., Bruce, J. & Gunnar, M. (2007). False belief and emotion understanding in post-institutionalized children. Social Development, 16, 57–78. PDF
2006
Tarullo, A. R. & Gunnar, M. R. (2006). Child maltreatment and the developing HPA axis. Hormones and Behavior, 50, 632–639. PDF
2005
Tarullo, A. R. & Gunnar, M. R. (2005). Institutional rearing and deficits in social relatedness: Possible mechanisms and processes. Cognitie, Creier, Comportament, 9, 329–342. PDF
