OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Developmental Psychobiology is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Maternal care, infant fear memory retention, and the moderating role of variations in separation‐induced ultrasonic vocalizations	57
Longitudinal investigation of shyness and physiological vulnerability: Moderating influences of attention biases to threat and safety	33
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Cortisol response marks biological sensitivity to kindergartners’ social hierarchies for emerging school engagement	29
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Deprivation of direct adult contact during development affects social representation in a songbird	23
Cortisol in early childhood moderates the association between family routines and observed affective balance in children from low‐income backgrounds	19
Fathers, families, and physiology: Exploring the psychobiological context of fathering	16
The effect of face orientation on audiovisual speech integration in infancy: An electrophysiological study	16
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One brick at a time: Building a developmental profile of spatial abilities	15
The effect of physical and emotional partner violence exerted during pregnancy on prenatal attachment and depression levels in pregnant women	15
Commentary on the special issue: Building on progress and surmounting barriers in research on developmental psychobiology	15
Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography	15
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Assessing the motivational value of infant video clips on chimpanzees through discrimination learning task	14
Psychophysiological adjustment to formal education varies as a function of peer status and socioeconomic status in children beginning kindergarten	14
Fingerprint patterns in relation to an altered neurodevelopment in patients with autism spectrum disorder	14
Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study	14
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Neuroendocrine and autonomic stress systems activity in young adults raised by mothers with mental health and substance abuse problems: A prospective cohort study	13
Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia moderates the within‐person relations of parental emotional expressivity and children's prosocial behaviors	12
Testing detectability, attractivity, hedonic specificity, extractability, and robustness of colostrum odor—Toward an olfactory bioassay for human neonates	12
The role of epigenetic mechanisms in the long‐term effects of early‐life adversity and mother–infant relationship on physiology and behavior of offspring in laboratory rats and mice	12

Ganaxolone Therapy After Preterm Birth Restores Cerebellar Oligodendrocyte Maturation and Myelination in Guinea Pigs	11
Introduction to the special issue on threat and safety learning	11
Early temperamental and biological predictors of dimensions of social withdrawal in childhood	11
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Cultural Values Influence the Developmental Trajectory of Resistance to Social Influence Over the Course of Adolescence	11
Infant negative affectivity and patterns of affect‐biased attention	11
Effect of social instability stress in adolescence or adulthood on sensitivity to sucrose concentration in a social context in male and female Long‐Evans rats	11
Sensorimotor development of male and female rats subjected to neonatal anoxia	10
The development of interoceptive hunger signals	10
Neonatal resource scarcity alters maternal care and impacts offspring core temperature and growth in rats	10
Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women	10
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A person‐centered data analytic approach to dopaminergic polygenic moderation of child maltreatment exposure	9
Longitudinal associations between adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a moderator	9
Cumulative risks predict epigenetic age in adult survivors of extremely low birth weight	9
Progressive Voxel‐Wise Homotopic Connectivity from childhood to adulthood: Age‐related functional asymmetry in resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging	9
The role of maternal touch in the association between SLC6A4 methylation and stress response in very preterm infants	9
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Neural Sensitivity to Ambiguous Social Exclusion Reflects Information Processing Bias in Midadolescents With Higher Levels of Aggression	9
Children's planning of efficient tool use in a social context	9
Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers	9
Maternal oxytocin treatment at birth increases epigenetic age in male offspring	9
Examining the interaction between prenatal stress and polygenic risk for attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder on brain growth in childhood: Findings from the DREAM BIG consortium	9
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Maternal immune activation accelerates puberty initiation and alters mechanical allodynia in male and female C57BL6/J mice	9
Effects of skin‐to‐skin contact on full‐term infants’ stress reactivity and quality of mother–infant interactions	9
Long‐term stability of frontal electroencephalogram alpha power and asymmetry at rest in adults born at extremely low or normal birth weight: A 10‐year longitudinal study	8
Signal in the noise: Dimensions of predictability in the home auditory environment are associated with neurobehavioral measures of early infant sustained attention	8
Psychometric properties of infant electroencephalography: Developmental stability, reliability, and construct validity of frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling	8
Timing‐specific associations between income‐to‐needs ratio and hippocampal and amygdala volumes in middle childhood: A preliminary study	8
Long‐term effects of father involvement in childhood on their son's physiological stress regulation system in adulthood	8
Effects of Emotional Violence Experienced by Fathers From Their Partners in the Postpartum Period on Depression Level and Father–Infant Attachment	8
Disrupted serotonin system development via early life antidepressant exposure impairs maternal care and increases serotonin receptor expression in adult female offspring	8
Neural Sensitivity to Peer Feedback and Depressive Symptoms: Moderation by Executive Function	8
Adolescent chronic unpredictable stress causes a bias in goal‐directed behavior and distinctively changes the expression of NMDA and dopamine receptors in the dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatum in	8
Resting Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Activity in Childhood Following Maltreatment: A Meta‐Analysis	8
Equifinality in infancy: The many paths to walking	8
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Emergence of personality in weaning‐age kittens of the domestic cat?	8
The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent‐to‐child transmission of social fears via verbal information	8
Associations between adversity in the family of origin and hair cortisol concentration in adulthood	7
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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors during pregnancy and lactation: A scoping review of effects on the maternal and infant gut microbiome	7
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Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization	7
Obituary for Peter H. Wolff (July 8, 1926–August 17, 2021): An unnamed developmental psychobiologist	7
Adapting event‐related potential research paradigms for children: Considerations from research on the development of recognition memory	7

Influence of early social isolation on general activity and spatial learning in adult WAG/Rij rats	6
Adipocytokine correlates of childhood and adolescent mental health: A systematic review	6
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Habitual night waking associates with dynamics of waking cortical theta power in infancy	6
RSA instability in mothers of preschoolers and adolescents is related to observations of supportive parenting behaviors	6
Association between physical activity and allostatic load among pregnant women	6
Evaluating visuomotor coordination in children with amblyopia	6
Assessment of the effects of sex, age, and rearing condition on ultrasonic vocalizations elicited by pups during the maternal potentiation paradigm in C57BL/6J mice	6
Effects of social environments on male primate HPG and HPA axis developmental programming	6
Women are expected to smile: Preliminary evidence for the role of gender in the neurophysiological processing of adult emotional faces in 3‐year‐old children	6
The fear that remains: Associations between trauma, related psychopathology, and fear‐potentiated startle in youth resettled as refugees	6
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“Does your baby watch TV?”: The associations between at‐home TV watching and laboratory challenge cortisol are different for young infants and their mothers	5
Effects of Peripubertal Experiences on Competitive Behavior in Male Rats at Different Stages of Adulthood	5
Anxiety, aggression, reward sensitivity, and forebrain dopamine receptor expression in a laboratory rat model of early‐life disadvantage	5
The impact of poor fetal growth and chronic hyperpalatable diet exposure in adulthood on hippocampal function and feeding patterns in male rats	5
Effect of baby swimming lessons on infants’ avoidance of bodies of water	5
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Exploring the role of OXTR gene methylation in attachment development: A longitudinal study	5
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An in‐depth analysis of the polyvagal theory in light of current findings in neuroscience and clinical research	5
Examining the Relation Between Prenatal Emotion Dysregulation and Toddler Vocabulary Development: A Biobehavioral Approach	5
Maternal stress and development of infant attention to threat‐related facial expressions	5
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Behavioral and neurostructural correlates of childhood physical violence victimization: Interaction with family functioning	5
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Sex‐Specific Impacts of Early Life Sleep Disruption: Ethanol Seeking, Social Interaction, and Anxiety Are Differentially Altered in Adolescent Prairie Voles	5
Midfrontal theta oscillations and conflict monitoring in children and adults	5
Cognitive development from infancy to young adulthood in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): Effect of age, sex, and hormones on learning and affective state	5
Parasympathetic response to challenge in infancy moderates the effects of sociodemographic risk on academic achievement at school entry	5
Social relevance modulates multivariate neural representations of threat generalization in children and adults	5
Mother–child mutually responsive orientation and real‐time physiological coordination	5
Developmental windows for effects of choline and folate on excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission during human gestation	4
57th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology	4
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States–Mexico border	4
Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation	4
Emerging Adults Mirror Infants’ Emotions and Yawns	4
Chronic nicotine exposure alters sperm small RNA content in C57BL/6J mouse model	4
Exploring the impact of parental technoference on toddlers: A commentary on physiological and developmental implications	4
Fathering behavior, attachment, and engagement in childcare predict testosterone and cortisol	4
Maternal trait anxiety symptoms, frontolimbic resting‐state functional connectivity, and cognitive development in infancy	4
Context is key: Parasympathetic regulation in the classroom differentially predicts preschoolers’ socially competent behaviors	4
Longitudinal patterns of neuroendocrine coupling from middle childhood to early adolescence	4
Relationships of the very low birth weight infant microbiome with neurodevelopment at 2 and 4 years of age	4
Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse	4
Maternal mindfulness during pregnancy predicts newborn neurobehavior	4
Maternal distress, DNA methylation, and fetal programing of stress physiology in Brazilian mother–infant pairs	4
Processing of task‐irrelevant sounds during typical everyday activities in children	4
The influence of anterior cingulate GABA+ and glutamate on emotion regulation and reactivity in adolescents and adults	4
Neurobehavioral alterations induced by third‐trimester gestation‐equivalent ethanol exposure are inhibited by folate administration	4
Postweaning cafeteria diet induces a short‐term metabolic disfunction and a differential vulnerability to develop anxiety‐like and depressive‐like behaviors in male but not female rats	4
Early, concurrent, and consistent hand preferences predict stacking in toddlerhood	4
Risk for youth anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The interactive impact of financial stress and prepandemic electrocortical reactivity to negative self‐referential stimuli	4
Pupillary Responses to Dynamic Negative Versus Positive Facial Expressions of Emotion in Children and Parents: Links to Depression and Anxiety	4
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Early‐ and Late‐Stage Auditory Processing of Speech Versus Non‐Speech Sounds in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: An ERP and Oscillatory Activity Study	4
“Generalized unsafety” as fear inhibition to safety signals in adults with and without childhood trauma	4
Early Family Experiences and Neural Activity in Rural Pakistani Children: The Differential Role of Gender	4
Early‐life stress and current stress predict BMI and height growth trajectories in puberty	4
The effects of early weaning on Pavlovian fear conditioning in young rats	4
Development and validation of the Dimensional Inventory of Stress and Trauma Across the Lifespan (DISTAL): A novel assessment tool to facilitate the dimensional study of psychobiological sequelae of e	4
Abstracts from the 56th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology	4
Neonatal procedural pain affects state, but not trait anxiety behavior in adult rats	4