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2026<\/h2>\n

Brady, S. P., Ewell, A., Lopera-Perez, D. C., Rockers, P. C., Evans, D., Coetzee, L., Fink, G., Hamer, D. H., Yousafzai, A. K., & Tarullo, A. R. (2026). Physiological Markers of Early Social Skills in Rural South Africa: The Role of Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Heart Rate Variability. Developmental Psychobiology, 68(1). doi: <\/em>10.1002\/dev.70115. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

2025<\/h2>\n

Brady, S. P., Rockers, P. C., Evans, D., Coetzee, L., Lopera-Perez, D. C., Fink, G., Hamer, D. H., Yousafzai, A. K., & Tarullo, A. R. (2025). Infant EEG power predicts early childhood language and motor skills in a rural South African cohort.\u00a0Global Pediatrics<\/em>,\u00a014<\/em>, 100298. doi: 10.1016\/j.gpeds.2025.100298. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

2024<\/h2>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/em>, 13-23. doi: 10.1016\/j.ecresq.2023.11.003. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/span>Merrill-Palmer Quarterly<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>70<\/i>(1), 121-146. doi:10.1353\/mpq.2024.a949144. PDF<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Lopera\u2010Perez, D. C., Obradovi\u0107, 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.\u00a0<\/span>Developmental Psychobiology<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>66<\/i>(6), e22534. PDF<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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)<\/em>:552. doi: 10.3390\/brainsci14060552. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

2023<\/h2>\n

Rockers, P. C., Lepp\u00e4nen, 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<\/em>(4): e1004222. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

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)<\/em>, 221-228. doi: 10.1177\/23727322231199942. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

2022<\/h2>\n

Lopera-Perez, D. C.<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Nayak, S.<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Stangier, G.<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Tuladhar, C. T.<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>St. John, A. M.<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Grieve, P. G.<\/span>, &\u00a0<\/span>Tarullo, A. R.<\/span>\u00a0(<\/span>2022<\/span>).\u00a0<\/span>Infants\u2019 neural sensitivity to social interactions varies by income and infant-directed speech<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>Developmental Psychobiology<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>64<\/span><\/em>(4)<\/span>, e22265. <\/span>doi:10.1002\/dev.22265. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/em>, 95<\/em>(1), 71-85. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

2021<\/h2>\n

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<\/em>, 30<\/em>(6),<\/span>e13357. doi: 10.1111\/jsr.13357. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

2020<\/h2>\n

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,<\/em> 29<\/em>(6), 1630-1641. doi: 10.1007\/s10826-020-01706-4. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Nayak, S., & Tarullo, A. (2020).\u00a0Error-related negativity (ERN) and \u2018hot\u2019 executive function in bilingual and monolingual preschoolers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition,<\/em> <\/em>1-12. doi: 10.1017\/S1366728919000725. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

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, <\/em>100740. doi: 10.1016\/j.dcn.2019.100740. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

St. John, A., & Tarullo, A. (2020). Neighborhood chaos moderates the association of socioeconomic status and child executive functioning. Infant and Child Development, 29, <\/em>e2153. doi: 10.1002\/icd.2153. <\/em>PDF<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

Tarullo, A.,<\/strong> Tuladhar, C.,* Kao, K., Drury, E.,** & Meyer, J. (2020). Cortisol and socioeconomic status in early childhood: A multi-dimensional assessment. Development<\/em>\u00a0and Psychopathology, 32, <\/em>1876-1887. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span>Tuladhar, C., & Tarullo, A. (2020). Consistency in maternal affect and positive vocalization\u00a0over the first year of life. Infant Behavior and Development, 58, <\/em>101415. doi: 10.1016\/j.infbeh.2019.101415. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/u><\/span><\/span>2019<\/h2>\n

Kao, K., Tuladhar, Meyer, J., & Tarullo, A. (2019). Emotion regulation moderates the association between parent and child hair cortisol concentration. Developmental <\/em>Psychobiology. <\/em>Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002\/dev.21850 PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

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, <\/em>100677. doi: 10.1016\/j.dcn.2019.100677\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/em>, 352-368. doi: 10.1016\/j.jecp.2018.09.003\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuladhar, C., St. John, A., & Tarullo, A. (2019). Parenting infants: The role of mothers\u2019 perceptions of how they were parented. Advance online publication. Early Child Development and Care. <\/em>doi: 10.1080\/03004430.2018.1538133\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

2018<\/h2>\n

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, <\/em>28-35. doi: 10.1080\/10253890.2017.1391210\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Kao, K., Nayak, S., Doan, S., & Tarullo, A.\u00a0(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, <\/em>122-137. doi: 10.1037\/tps0000154\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

St. John, A., Oztahtaci, B. & Tarullo, A. (2018). Parental executive function and verbal ability matter for scaffolding. Journal of Family Psychology, 32, <\/em>406-411. doi: 10.1037\/fam0000374 PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

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, <\/em>171-175. <\/em>doi: 10.1080\/00221325.2018.1466264 PDF<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

2017<\/h2>\n

Flom, M., St. John, A., Meyer, J., & Tarullo, A. (2017). Infant hair cortisol: Associations with salivary cortisol and environmental context. Developmental Psychobiology, 59, <\/em>26-38. doi: 10.1002\/dev.21449\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

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, <\/em>787-801.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0doi: 10.1002\/dev.21540 PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

St. John,\u00a0Kao, 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, <\/em>e55596. doi:10.3791\/55596<\/p>\n

<\/strong>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, <\/em>1-8. doi:10.1016\/j.dcn.2017.03.007 PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

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, <\/em>47, <\/em>92-102. doi: 10.1016\/j.infbeh.2017.03.007 PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

2016<\/h2>\n

St. John, A., Kao, K., Choksi, M., Liederman, J., Grieve, P., & Tarullo, A. (2016).\u00a0Variation in infant EEG power across social and nonsocial contexts. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,\u00a0152, <\/em>106-122. doi:10.1016\/j.jecp.2016.04.007 PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Tarullo, A., Isler, J., Condon, C., Violaris, K., Balsam, P., & Fifer, W. (2016). Neonatal eyelid conditioning during sleep. Developmental Psychobiology, 58, <\/em>875-882. DOI 10.1002\/dev.21424 PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

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, <\/em>371-383. doi: 10.1017\/S095457941500111X. PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

2012<\/h2>\n

Garvin, M. C., Tarullo, A. R., Van Ryzin, M. & Gunnar, M. R. (2012). Post-adoption parenting and socioemotional development in post-institutionalized children.\u00a0Development and Psychopathology, 24, <\/em>35\u201348.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0Developmental Science, 15, <\/em>260\u2013271.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Tarullo, A. R. (2012, Winter). Effects of child maltreatment on the developing brain.\u00a0Child Welfare 360\u00b0: Using a Developmental Approach in Child Welfare Practice, 11<\/em>.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Williams, I., Tarullo, A. R.,\u00a0Grieve, 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.\u00a0Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology<\/em>.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

2011<\/h2>\n

Johnson, A., Bruce, J., Tarullo, A. R.\u00a0 <\/strong>& Gunnar, M. R. (2011). Growth delay as an index of allostatic load in young children: Predictions to disinhibited social approach and diurnal cortisol activity.\u00a0Development and Psychopathology, 23, <\/em>859\u2013871.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0Developmental Psychology, 47<\/em>(5), <\/em>1374\u20131388.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Tarullo, A. R., Balsam, P. & Fifer, W. P. (2011). Sleep and infant learning.\u00a0Infant and Child Development, 20, <\/em>35\u201346.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Tarullo, A. R., Garvin, M. C. & Gunnar, M. R. (2011). Atypical EEG power distribution correlates with indiscriminately friendly behavior in internationally adopted children.\u00a0Developmental Psychology<\/em>,\u00a047<\/em>(2), 417\u2013431.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

2010<\/h2>\n

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.\u00a0Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107<\/em>(22),<\/em> 10320\u201310323.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

2009<\/h2>\n

Bruce, J., Tarullo, A. R. & Gunnar, M. R. (2009). Disinhibited social behavior among internationally adopted children.\u00a0Development and Psychopathology, 21, <\/em>157\u2013171.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Tarullo, A. R., Obradovic, J. & Gunnar, M. R. (2009, January). Self-control and the developing brain. Zero to Three<\/em>, 31\u201337.<\/em> PDF<\/a>
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2008<\/h2>\n

Tarullo, A. R., Quevedo, K., & Gunnar, M. R. (2008). The LHPA system and neurobehavioral development. In C. Nelson & M. Luciana (Eds.),\u00a0Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience<\/em>, 2nd<\/sup> ed. (pp. 63\u201382). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.<\/p>\n

2007<\/h2>\n

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, <\/em>54\u201364.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Tarullo, A. R., Bruce, J. & Gunnar, M. (2007). False belief and emotion understanding in post-institutionalized children.\u00a0Social Development, 16, <\/em>57\u201378.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

2006<\/h2>\n

Tarullo, A. R. & Gunnar, M. R. (2006). Child maltreatment and the developing HPA axis.\u00a0Hormones and Behavior, 50, <\/em>632\u2013639.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

2005<\/h2>\n

Tarullo, A. R. & Gunnar, M. R. (2005). Institutional rearing and deficits in social relatedness: Possible mechanisms and processes. Cognitie, Creier, Comportament, 9, <\/em>329\u2013342.\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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