Publications
Assistant Professor
TXB827
Sensation and Perception; Evolutionary Psychology; Social and Personality Psychology
(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
(* = 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
