ZENG Guangyu

Publications

ZENG Guangyu
Title:

Assistant Professor

Education Background:
M.S. & Ph.D. in Applied Developmental Psychology, University of Miami
M.A. in Psychological Science, The Catholic University of America
B.S.Sc in Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Office Address

TXB827

Teaching Area

Sensation and Perception; Evolutionary Psychology; Social and Personality Psychology

Research

(1) Developmental dynamics of early communication:
- Interplay between physiology and behavior during interaction
- temporal coordination of communicative signals
(2) Individual variability in early sociality
- Temperament
- Social motivation
(3) Automated behavior measurements:
- Remote eye-tracking
- Facial movement/expression detection with machine learning

PublicationsInfo

(* = corresponding author; # = undergraduate student)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Zeng, G., Leung, T., Maylott, S. E., Malik, A., #Adornato, A. A., Feldman, R., Szeto, A., & Simpson, E. A. (2024). Infants’ salivary oxytocin and emotional resections to people. Hormones and Behavior, 164, 105579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2024.105579


*Leung, T. S., Zeng, G., Maylott, S. E., Malik, A., Zhang, S., #McNamara, E. C., Jakobsen, K. V., & Simpson, E. A. (in press). Emerging adults mirror infants’ emotions and yawns. Developmental Psychobiology.


*Leung, T. S., Zeng, G., Maylott, S. E., #Martinez, S. N., Jakobsen, K. V., & Simpson, E. A. (2024). Infection detection in faces: Children’s development of pathogen avoidance. Child Development, 95(1), e35-e46. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13983


*Rich, B., Zeng, G., Godovich, S. A., Ridgely, N., & Alvord, M. K. (2024). Measurement of emotionality and emotion regulation in a clinical sample of children: The psychometric properties of the How I Feel scale. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 42(1), 110-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/07342829231207923


*Zeng, G., Leung, T. S., Maylott, S. E., #Saunders, T. A., Messinger, D. S., Llabre, M. M., & Simpson, E. A. (2023). Social motivation predicts gaze following development in 2- to 14-month-old infants. Infancy, 28(4), 836-860. http://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12544

 

*Leung, T. S., Maylott, S. E., Zeng, G., #Nascimben, D. N., Jakobsen, K. V., & Simpson, E. A. (2023). Behavioral and physiological sensitivity to natural sick faces. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 110, 195-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2023.03.007

 

Zeng, G., *Simpson, E. A., & Paukner, A. (2023). Maximizing valid eye tracking data in human and macaque infants by optimizing calibration and adjusting areas of interest. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 881–907. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-02056-3


*Zeng, G., Maylott, S. E., Leung, T. S., Messinger, D. S., Wang, J., & Simpson, E. A. (2022). Temperamental fear, eye contact, and gaze aversion in early infancy. Developmental Psychobiology, 64(7), e22324. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22324


*Delgado, C. F., Simpson, E. A., Miron, O., Delgado, R. E., Zeng, G., & Gutierrez, A. (2021). Newborn auditory brainstem responses of children with developmental disabilities. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53, 776–788. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05126-1


*Miron, O., Delgado, R. E., Delgado, C. F., Simpson, E. A., Yu, K.-H., Gutierrez, A., Zeng, G., Gerstenberger, J. N., & Kohane, I. S. (2021). Prolonged auditory brainstem response in universal hearing screening of newborns with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 14(1), 46-52. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2422


*Simpson, E. A., Maylott, S. E., Mitsven, S. G., Zeng, G., & Jakobsen, K. V. (2020). Face detection in 2-to 6-month-old infants is influenced by gaze direction and species. Developmental Science, 23(2), e12902. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12902


Stage 1 Registered Report Preprints

*Maylott, S. E., Zeng, G., Leung, T. S., #Montenegro, C. S., #Barrios, A., Malik, A., Delgado, R.

E., Delgado, C. F., & Simpson, E. A. (2024). Newborn auditory brainstem response and sudden infant death syndrome. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 102(6), e25362. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnr.25362