Publications
For an updated list of publications, please see Dr. Simpson's Google Scholar.
Recent Selected Publications, * = student author
*Ahn, Y., *Martin, K., *Prince, E., Chow, S. M., Cohn, J., Wang, J., Simpson, E. A., & Messinger, D. M. (in press). How still? Parent-infant interaction during the still-face and later infant attachment. Infant and Child Development, e2492. Advance Online Publication. http://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2492
ManyBabies ManyWebcams Consortium [includes Simpson, E. A.] (in press). Validation of an open source, remote web-based eye-tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood. Infancy. Advance Online Publication. http://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12564 Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/7924h/
Delgado, C., Ullery, M., Zeng, G., Simpson, E. A., Tanner, J. P., Kirby, R. S., Duclos, C., Lowry, J., & Salemi, J. L. (2023). Elevated risk for developmental disabilities in children with congenital heart defects. Birth Defects Research, 115(18), 1708-1722. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdr2.2246
Maylott, S. E., Patel-Syed, Z., Lebowitz, M., Leung, T. S., & Simpson, E. A. (2023). Maternal stress: The first 14 months postpartum. Parenting: Science and Practice, 23(3-4), 171-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2023.2269240
*Leung, T. S., *Zeng, G., *Maylott S. E., *Martinez, S., Jakobsen, K. V., & Simpson, E. A. (in press). Infection detection in faces: Children's development of pathogen avoidance. Child Development.
*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. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-02056-3
Jakobsen, K. V., & *Hunter, B. K. & Simpson, E. A. (2023). Pareidolic faces receive prioritized attention in the dot-probe task. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85, 1106-1126. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02685-6
*Maylott, S. E., *Fasano, R. M., *Moffitt, J. M., *Boland, C. L., *Burdette, E. T., *Nahin, E. R., Simpson, E. A., & Delgado, C. (2023). Rates of developmental disabilities vary across birth months in a tropical climate. The Journal of Special Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/00224669221148726
Torres, E. B., Varkey, H., Vero, J., London, E., Phan, H., Kittler, P., Gordon, A., Delgado, R. E., Delgado, C., & Simpson, E. A. (2023). Sensing echoes: Temporal misalignment in auditory brainstem responses as the earliest marker of neurodevelopmental derailment. PNAS Nexus, 2(2), pgac315. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac315
*Zeng, G., *Maylott, S. E., *Leung, T. S., Messinger, D. S., Wang, J., & Simpson, E. A. (2022). Infant temperamental fear, pupil dilation, and gaze aversion from smiling strangers. Developmental Psychobiology, 64(7), e22324. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22324
Visser, I., Bergmann, C., Byers-Heinlein, K., Dal Ben, R., Duch, W., Forbes, S., Franchin, L., Frank, M. C., Geraci, A., Hamlin, K., Kaldy, Z., Kulke, L., Laverty, C., Lew-Williams, C., Mateu, V., Mayor, J., Moreau, D., Nomikou, I., Schuwerk, T., Simpson, E. A., Singh, L., Soderstrom, M., Sullivan, J., van den Heuvel, M. I., Westermann, G., Yamada, Y., Zaadnoordijk, L., & Zettersten, M. (2022). Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e35. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21000455
Delgado, C. F., Simpson, E. A., *Zeng, G., Delgado, R. E., & *Miron, O. (2021). Newborn auditory brainstem responses in children with developmental disabilities. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05126-1
*Maylott, S. E., *Sansone, J., Jakobsen, K. V., & Simpson, E. A. (2021). Superior detection of faces in male infants at 2 months. Child Development, 92(4), e621-e634. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13543
*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
Jakobsen, K. V., *White, C., & Simpson, E. A. (2020). General and own-species attentional face biases. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02132-w
*Maylott, S. E., Paukner, A., *Ahn, Y. A., & Simpson, E. A. (2020). Human and monkey infant attention to dynamic social and nonsocial stimuli. Developmental Psychobiology, 62, 841-857. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21979
The ManyBabies Consortium [includes Simpson, E. A.] (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(1), 24-52.
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.
The Many Primates Consortium [includes Simpson, E. A.] (2019). Collaborative open science as a way to reproducibility and new insights in primate cognition research. Japanese Psychological Review, 62(3), 205-220.
Simpson, E. A., Robinson, L. M., & Paukner, A. (2019). Infant rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) personality and subjective well-being. PLoS ONE, 14(12), e0226747.
Simpson, E. A., *Maylott, S. E., *Lazo, R. J., *Leonard, K., Kaburu, S. S. K., Suomi, S. J., Paukner, A., & Ferrari, P. F. (2019). Social touch alters newborn monkey behavior. Infant Behavior and Development, 57, 101368.
Simpson, E. A., *Maylott, S. E., *Leonard, K., *Lazo, R. J., & Jakobsen, K. V. (2019). Face detection in infants and adults: Effects of orientation and color. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 186, 17-32.
Simpson, E. A., Paukner, A., *Pedersen, E. J., Ferrari, P. F., & Parr, L. A. (2019). Visual preferences for direct gaze faces in infant macaques (Macaca mulatta) with limited face exposure. Developmental Psychobiology, 61(2), 228-238.
Simpson, E. A., Sclafani, V., Paukner, A. Kaburu, S. S. K., Suomi, S. J., & Ferrari, P. F. (2019). Handling newborn monkeys alters later exploratory, cognitive, and social behaviors. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 35, 12-19.
*Wooddell, L. J., Simpson, E. A., *Murphy, A. M., Dettmer, A. M., & Paukner, A. (2019). Interindividual differences in neonatal sociality and emotionality predict juvenile social status in rhesus monkeys. Developmental Science, 22(2), e12749.
Meltzoff, A. N., Murray, L., Simpson, E. A., Heimann, M., Nagy, E., Nadel, J., Pedersen, E. J., Brooks, R., Messinger, D., De Pascalis, L., Subiaul, F., Paukner, A., & Ferrari, P. F. (2019). Eliciting imitation in early infancy. Developmental Science, 22(2), e12738.
Festante, F., Vanderwert, R., Sclafani, V., Paukner, A., Simpson, E. A., Suomi, S. J., Fox, N. A., & Ferrari, P. F. (2018). EEG beta desynchronization during hand goal-directed action observation in newborn monkeys and its relation to the emergence of hand motor skills. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 30, 142-149.
*Slonecker, E., Simpson, E. A., Suomi, S. J., & Paukner, A. (2018). Who's my little monkey? Effects of infant-directed speech on visual retention in infant rhesus macaques. Developmental Science, 21(2), e1251.
Paukner, A., Pederson, E. J., & Simpson, E. A. (2017). Testing the arousal hypothesis of neonatal imitation in infant rhesus macaques. PLOS ONE,12(6), e0178864.
Damon, F., Meary, D., Quinn, P. C., Lee, K., Simpson, E. A., Paukner, A., Suomi, S. J., & Pascalis, O. (2017). Perception of facial averageness: Evidence for a common mechanism in human and macaque infants. Scientific Reports, 7, 46303.
Paukner, A., Pederson, E. J., & Simpson, E. A. (2017). Testing the arousal hypothesis of neonatal imitation in infant rhesus macaques. PLOS ONE,12(6), e0178864.
Damon, F., Meary, D., Quinn, P. C., Lee, K., Simpson, E. A., Paukner, A., Suomi, S. J., & Pascalis, O. (2017). Perception of facial averageness: Evidence for a common mechanism in human and macaque infants. Scientific Reports, 7, 46303.
Simpson, E. A., Paukner, A., Sclafani, V., Kaburu, S. S. K., Suomi, S. J., & Ferrari, P. F. (2017). Acute oxytocin improves memory and gaze following in male but not female nursery-reared infant macaques. Psychopharmacology, 234, 497.
Simpson, E. A., *Maylott, S. E., Heimann, M., Subiaul, F., Paukner, A., Suomi, S. J., & Ferrari, P. F. (2017). Animal studies help clarify misunderstandings about neonatal imitation. Commentary on Keven & Akins target article, Neonatal imitation in context: Sensory-motor development in the perinatal period. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Simpson, E. A., Jakobsen, K. V., *Damon, F., Suomi, S. J., Ferrari, P. F., & Paukner, A. (2017). Face detection and the development of own-species bias in infant macaques. Child Development, 88, 103-113. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12565
Kaburu, S. K., Paukner, A., Simpson, E. A., Suomi, S. J., & Ferrari, P. F. (2016). Neonatal imitation predicts infant rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) social and anxiety-related behaviours at one year. Scientific Reports, 6, 34997. doi: 10.1038/srep34997
Dettmer, A. M., Kaburu, S. S. K., Simpson, E. A., Paukner, A., Sclafani, V., *Byers, K. L., *Murphy, A. M., *Miller, M., *Marquez, N., *Miller, G. M., Suomi, S. J., & Ferrari, P. F. (2016). Neonatal face-to-face interactions promote later social behaviour in infant rhesus monkeys. Nature Communications, 7, 11940. doi: 10.1038/NCOMMS11940
Gerson, S., Simpson, E. A., & Paukner, A. (2016). Drivers of social cognitive development in human and non-human primate infants. In J. Sommerville, & J. Decety (Eds.), Frontiers in Developmental Science Series: Social Cognition. Psychology Press, Taylor and Francis Group. pp. 98-128.
Simpson, E. A., *Miller, G. M., Ferrari, P. F., Suomi, S. J., & Paukner, A. (2016). Neonatal imitation and early social experience predict gaze following abilities in infant macaques. Scientific Reports, 6, 20233. doi: 10.1038/srep20233
Simpson, E. A., *Nicolini, Y., Shetler, M., Suomi, S. J., Ferrari, P. F., & Paukner, A. (2016). Experience-independent sex differences in newborn macaques: Females are more social than males. Scientific Reports, 6, 19669. doi: 10.10138/srep19669
Simpson, E. A., Suomi, S. J., & Paukner, A. (2016). Evolutionary relevance and experience contribute to face discrimination in infant macaques (Macaca mulatta). Journal of Cognition and Development, 17(2), 285-299. doi: 10.1080/15248372.2015.1048863
Jakobsen, K. V., *Umstead, L., & Simpson, E. A. (2016). Efficient human face detection in infancy. Developmental Psychobiology, 58(1), 129-136. doi: 10.1002/dev.21338
Simpson, E. A., Paukner, A., Suomi, S. J., & Ferrari, P. F. (2015). Neonatal imitation and its sensorimotor mechanism. In P.F. Ferrari & G. Rizzolatti (Eds.) New Frontiers in Mirror Neuron Research. Oxford University Press. pp. 296-314.
Vanderwert, R. E., Simpson, E. A., Paukner, A., Suomi, S. J., Fox, N. A., & Ferrari, P. F. (2015). Early social experience affects neural activity to affiliative facial gestures in newborn nonhuman primates. Developmental Neuroscience, 37(3), 243-252.
*Sclafani, V., Simpson, E. A., Suomi, S. J., & Ferrari, P. F. (2015). Development of space perception in relation to the maturation of the motor system in infant rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Neuropsychologia, 70. 429-441.
Cannon, E. N., Simpson, E. A., Fox, N. A., Vanderwert, R. E., Woodward, A. L., & Ferrari, P. F. (2015). Relations between infants' emerging reach-grasp competence and event-related desynchronization in EEG. Developmental Science. 1-13. doi: 10.1111/desc.12295
Christov-Moore, L., Simpson, E. A., Coude, G., *Grigaityte, K., Iacoboni, M. & Ferrari, P. F. (2014). Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 46(4), 604-627. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.09.001
Simpson, E. A., *Buchin, Z., *Werner, K., *Worrell, R., & Jakobsen, K. V. (2014). Finding faces among faces: Human faces are located more quickly and accurately than other primate and mammal faces. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76(8), 2175-2183. doi: 10.3758/s13414-014-0744-x
Paukner, A., Simpson, E. A., Ferrari, P. F., Mrozek, T., & Suomi, S. J. (2014). Neonatal imitation predicts how infants engage with faces. Developmental Science, 17(6), 833-840. doi: 10.1111/desc.12207
Simpson, E. A., *Sclafani, V., Paukner, A., *Hamel, A., Novak, M. A., Meyer, J. S., Suomi, S. J., & Ferrari, P. F. (2014). Inhaled oxytocin increases positive social behaviors in newborn macaques. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(19), 6922-6927. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1402471111
Simpson, E. A., Murray, L., Paukner, A., & Ferrari, P. F. (2014). The mirror neuron system as revealed through neonatal imitation: Presence from birth, predictive power, and evidence of plasticity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 369(1644), 1-12. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0289
Simpson, E. A., Jakobsen, K. V., Fragaszy, D. M., Okada, K., & Frick, J. E. (2014). The development of facial identity discrimination through learned attention. Developmental Psychobiology, 56(5), 1083-1101. doi: 10.1002/dev.21194
Simpson, E. A., *Mertins, H. L., *Yee, K., *Fullerton, A., & Jakobsen, K.V. (2014). Visual search efficiency is greater for human faces compared to animal faces. Experimental Psychology, 61(6), 439-456. doi: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000263
Simpson, E. A., Paukner, A., Suomi, S. J., Ferrari, P. F. (2014). Visual attention during neonatal imitation in newborn macaque monkeys. Developmental Psychobiology, 56(4), 864-870. doi: 10.1002/dev.21146
Ferrari, P. F., *Tramacere, A., Simpson, E. A., & Iriki, A. (2013). Mirror neurons through the lens of epigenetics. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17(9), 450-457. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.07.003
Paukner, A., *Bower, S., Simpson, E. A., & Suomi, S. J. (2013). Sensitivity to first-order relations of facial elements in infant rhesus macaques. Infant and Child Development, 22(3), 320-330. doi: 10.1002/icd.1793
Jakobsen, K. V., Frick, J. E., & Simpson, E. A. (2013). Look here! The development of attentional orienting to symbolic cues. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14(2), 229-249. doi: 10.1080/15248372.2012.666772
