PUBLICATIONS

+Indicates co-first author

  1. Fu, X., Franchak, J. M., MacNeill, L. A., Gunther, K. E., Borjon, J. I., Yurkovic-Harding, J., Bradshaw, J., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (in press). Implementing mobile eye-tracking in psychological research: A practical guide. Behavior Research Methods.  https://github.com/xiaoxuefu/MET_methods

  2. Dufford, A., MacNeill, L. A., Zhang, Y., Nielsen, A., Smyser, C. D., Luby, J. L., Rogers, C. E., Norton, E. S., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2024). Caudate volume is prospectively associated with irritability in toddlerhood. Developmental Psychobiology, 66, e22465. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22465

  3. Finlay-Jones, A., Ang, J., Brook, J. S., Lucas, J., MacNeill, L. A., Mancini, V., Lim, Y., Kottampally, K., Elliott, C., Smith, J., & Wakschlag, L. (2024). Systematic review and meta-analysis: Early irritability as a transdiagnostic neurodevelopmental vulnerability to later mental health problems. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 63, 184-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2023.01.018

  4. Gunther, K. E., Fu, X., MacNeill, L. A., Jones, M., Ermanni, B., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2024). Now it’s your turn!: Eye blink rate in a Jenga task modulated by interaction of task wait times, effortful control, and internalizing behaviors. PloS one, 19, e0294888. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294888

  5. MacNeill, L. A., Zvara, B. J., & Anderson, S. E. (2024). Association between maternal closeness with parents and mother-toddler relationship quality. Family Relations, 73, 645-660. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12910

  6. Wakschlag, L. S., MacNeill, L. A., Pool, L. R., Smith, J. D., Adam, H., Barch, D. M., Norton, E. S., Rogers, C. E., Smyser, C. D., Luby, J. L., Allen, N. B. (2024). Predictive utility of irritability “in context”: Proof-of-principle for an early childhood mental health risk calculator. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 53, 231-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2023.2188553

  7. +Zhang, Y., +MacNeill, L. A., Edwards, R. C., Nili, A., Zola, A., Burns, J. Giase, G., Norton, E. S., Wiggins, J., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2024). Developmental trajectories of irritability across the transition to toddlerhood: Associations with effortful control and psychopathology. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 52, 125-139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-023-01098-1

  8. MacNeill, L. A., Krogh-Jespersen, S., Zhang, Y., Giase, G., Edwards, R., Petitclerc, A., Mithal, L., Mestan, K., Grobman, W., Norton, E., Alshurafa, N., Moskowitz, J., Tandon, D., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2023). Lability of prenatal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic links to negative affect in infancy. Infancy, 28, 136-157. . https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12499

  9. Michelini, G., Gair, K., Tian, Y., Dougherty, L. R., Goldstein, B. L., MacNeill, L. A., Barch, D. M., Luby, J. L., Wakschlag, L. S., Klein, D. N., & Kotov, R. (2023). Do general and specific factors of preschool psychopathology predict preadolescent outcomes? A transdiagnostic hierarchical approach. Psychological Medicine, 53, 5405-5414. https://doi.org/10.1017/S003329172200246X

  10. Wiggins, J. L., Ureña Rosario, A., MacNeill, L. A., Briggs-Gowan, M., Smith, J. D., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2023). Prevalence, stability, and predictive utility of the Multidimensional Assessment of Preschoolers Study clinically optimized irritability score: Pragmatic early assessment of mental disorder risk. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 32, e1991. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1991

  11. Wiggins, J. L., Ureña Rosario, A., Zhang, Y., MacNeill, L. A., Yu, Q., Norton, E. S., Smith, J. D., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2023). Advancing earlier transdiagnostic identification of mental health risk: A pragmatic approach at the transition to toddlerhood. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 32, e1989. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1989

  12. Yu, Q., Hernandez, B., Swineford, C., Walker, N., MacNeill, L. A., Zhang, Y., Wakschlag, L. S., & Wiggins, J. L. (2023). Toward an optimized assessment of adolescent psychopathology risk: Multilevel environmental profiles and child irritability as predictors. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Advances, 3, e12180. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12180

  13. Cummings, P., Petitclerc, A., Moskowitz, J., Tandon, D., Zhang, Y., MacNeill, L. A., Alshurafa, N., Krogh-Jespersen, S., Hamil, J. L., Nili, A., Berken, J., Grobman, W., Rangarajan, A., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2022). Feasibility of passive ECG bio-sensing and EMA emotion report technologies and acceptability of just-in-time content in a well-being intervention: Considerations for scalability and improved uptake. Affective Science, 3, 849-861. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00147-0

  14. MacNeill, L. A., & Fosco, G. M. (2022). Intraindividual differences in adolescent threat appraisals and anxiety associated with interparental conflict. Journal of Marriage and Family, 84, 165-186. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12795

  15. MacNeill, L. A., Fu, X., Buss, K., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2022). Do you see what I mean?: Using mobile eye tracking to capture parent–child dynamics in the context of anxiety risk. Development and Psychopathology, 34, 997-1012. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579420001601

  16. Norton, E. S., Manning, B., Harriott, E., Nikolaeva, J., Nyabingi, O., Fredian, K., Page, J., Krogh-Jespersen, S., MacNeill, L. A., Roberts, M., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2022). Social EEG: A novel neurodevelopmental approach to studying brain-behavior links and brain-to-brain synchrony during naturalistic toddler-parent interactions. Developmental Psychobiology, 64, e22240. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22240

  17. Vallorani, A., Brown, K. M., Fu, X., Gunther, K. E., MacNeill, L. A., Ermanni, B., Hallquist, M. N., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2022). Relations between social attention, expressed positive affect, and behavioral inhibition during play. Developmental Psychology, 58, 2036-2048. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001412

  18. Wakschlag, L. S., Finlay-Jones, A. L., MacNeill, L. A., Kaat, A. J., Brown, C. H., Davis, M. M., Franklin, P., Berkel, C., Krogh-Jespersen, S., & Smith, J. D. (2022). Don’t get lost in translation: Integrating developmental and implementation sciences to accelerate real-world impact on children’s development, health, and wellbeing. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 827412. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.827412

  19. Finlay-Jones, A., Ang, J., Bennett, E., Downs, J., Kendall, S., Kottampally, K., Krogh-Jespersen, S., Lim, Y., MacNeill, L. A., Mancini, V., Marriott, R., Milroy, H., Robinson, M., Smith, J. D., Wakschlag, L., & Ohan, J. (2021). Caregiver-mediated interventions to support self-regulation among infants and young children (0-5): A protocol for a realist review. BMJ Open, 11, e046078. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046078

  20. Gunther, K. E., Brown, K. M., Fu, X., MacNeill, L. A., Jones, M., Ermanni, B., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021). Mobile eye-tracking captures changes in attention over time during a naturalistic paradigm in behaviorally inhibited children. Affective Science, 2, 495-505https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-021-00077-3

  21. Gunther, K. E., Fu, X., MacNeill, L. A., Vallorani, A., Ermanni, B., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021). Profiles of naturalistic attentional trajectories moderate the relation between behavioral inhibition and internalizing symptoms: A mobile eye tracking study. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 50, 637-648. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00881-2

  22. Krogh-Jespersen, S., MacNeill, L. A., Anderson, E. L., Stroup, H. E., Harriott, E. M., Gut, E., Blum, A., Fareedi, E., Fredian, K. M., Wert, S. L., Wakschlag, L. S., & Norton, E. S. (2021). Disruption leads to methodological and analytic innovation in developmental sciences: Recommendations for remote administration and dealing with messy data. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 732312-732312. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.732312   

  23. MacNeill, L. A., Allen, N. B., Poleon, R. B., Vargas, T., Osborne, K. J., Damme, K. S. F., Barch, D. M., Krogh-Jespersen, S., Nielsen, A. N., Norton, E. S., Smyser, C. D., Rogers, C. E., Luby, J. L., Mittal, V. A., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2021). Translating RDoC to real world impact in developmental psychopathology: A neurodevelopmental framework for application of mental health risk calculators. Development and Psychopathology, 33, 1665-1684. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579421000651

  24. MacNeill, L. A., Shewark, E. A., Pérez-Edgar, K., & Blandon, A. Y. (2021). Sharing behavior in the family system: Contributions of parental emotional expressiveness and children’s physiological regulation. Parenting: Science and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2020.1843358

  25. Norton, E. S., MacNeill, L. A., Harriott, E. M., Allen, N. B., Krogh-Jespersen, S., Smyser, C., Rogers, C. E., Smyser, T. A., Luby, J. L., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2021). EEG/ERP as a pragmatic method to expand the reach of infant-toddler neuroimaging in HBCD: Promises & Challenges. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 51, 100988. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100988

  26. Pérez-Edgar, K., LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., Field, A. P., Reider, L., Burris, J., Oleas, D., Zhou, A., Thomas, C., Leigh, S., Ostlund, B., Anaya, B., Gunther, K. E., Vallorani, A., Youatt, E., Smith, C., Promagan, N., Brown, K., Bierstedt, L., Pinzon, C., Revilla, K., Sarquez, M., Rajasekera, P., Fareedi, E., Kershner, A., McDoniel, M., Fu, X., Morales, S., MacNeill, L. A., Auday, E., Ermanni, B., Tucker, D., & Metcalf, K. (2021). Study protocol: Longitudinal attention and temperament study (LANTS). Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 656958. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.656958

  27. Pérez-Edgar, K., MacNeill, L. A., & Fu, X. (2020). Navigating through the experienced environment: Insights from mobile eye-tracking. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29, 286-292. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420915880.  

  28. MacNeill, L. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2020). Temperament and emotion. In Hupp, S. & Jewell, J. (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development. Wiley Press. http://doi.org/10.1002/9781119171492.wecad180

  29. Panlilio, C.C., Ferrara, A., & MacNeill, L. A. (2019). Trauma, self-regulation, and learning. In C. C. Panlilio (Ed.), Trauma-informed schools: Integrating child maltreatment prevention, detection, and intervention. Springer.

  30. MacNeill, L. A., Ram, N., Bell, M. A., Fox, N. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2018). Trajectories of infants’ biobehavioral development: Timing and rate of A-not-B performance gains and EEG maturation. Child Development, 89, 711-724. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13022

  31. Martin, M. J., Davies, P. T., & MacNeill, L. A. (2014). Social defense: An evolutionary-developmental model of children’s strategies for coping with threat in the peer group. Evolutionary Psychology, 12, 364-385. https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491401200206

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

  1. Wakschlag, L. S., Zhang, Y., Heffernan, M. E., MacNeill, L. A., Peterson, E. O., Friedland, S., Jaffe Sass, A., Smith, J. D., Davis, M. M., & Wiggins, J. L. (under 2nd review). Closing the research-to-practice gap via population-based validation of the MAPS-EASI 2.0 early childhood irritability screener for translation to clinical use.

PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

*Co-mentored undergraduate student/research assistant

  1. Dufford, A., MacNeill, L. A., Nielsen, A., Smyser, C. D., Norton, E. S., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2023, March). Infant Hippocampal Volume is Prospectively Associated with Irritability in Toddlerhood. Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, Utah.

  2. Zhang, Y., MacNeill, L. A., Edwards, R. C., Burns, J. L., Zola, A. R., Poleon, R. B., Nili, A. N., Giase, G. M., Ahrenholtz, R. M., Wiggins, J. L., Norton, E. S., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2023, March). “When to Worry” About Early Irritability: Developmental Trajectories of Irritability at the Transition to Toddlerhood. Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, Utah.

  3. Pérez-Edgar, K., Gunther, K. E., Vallorani, A., MacNeill, L. A., & Fu, X. (2021, November). Using Mobile Eye-tracking to capture Attention and Social Behavior In-the-Moment. Paper presented at the International Society of Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago, Illinois.

  4. Gunther, K. E., Brown, K., Fu, X., MacNeill, L. A., Ermanni, B., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021, April). Behavioral Inhibition Significantly Relates to Attentional Orienting to High Social Threat in Kindergarteners. Paper to be presented at the at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Virtual Conference.

  5. MacNeill, L. A. (2021, April). Discussant for symposium, From Psychological to Environmental Risk Mechanisms: Advancing the Study of Prenatal Influences on Biobehavioral Development, Short, S., Chair, presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Virtual Conference.

  6. MacNeill, L. A., Gunther, K. E., Buss K. A., LoBue, V., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021, April). Profiles of Parenting Risk Predict Infant Temperament and Attention to Threat: An Eye-Tracking Study. Paper to be presented at the at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Virtual Conference. Chair of symposium, Advances in the Study of Parenting and Infant Emotional Development: Merging Modern and Traditional Measures.

  7. Vallorani, A., Brown, K., Fu, X., Gunther, K. E., MacNeill, L. A., Ermanni, B., Hallquist, M., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021, April). Affect Influences Subsequent Social Attention Captured via Mobile Eye-Tracking During Dyadic Play in Young Children. Paper to be presented at the at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Virtual Conference.

  8. MacNeill, L. A., Fu, X., Buss, K. A., & Perez-Edgar, K. (2020, November). Do You See What I Mean?: Exploring Parent-Child Dynamics in the Context of Behavioral Inhibition with Mobile Eye-Tracking. Paper presented at the Occasional Temperament Conference. Virtual Conference.

  9. Pérez-Edgar, K., MacNeill, L. A., Burris, J. L., Gunther, K., Buss, K. A., & LoBue, V. (2019, July). Emerging Patterns of Mother-Child Relations: Maternal Anxiety, Child Temperament, and Child Attention. Paper presented at the 9th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Berlin, Germany.

  10. Gunther, K. E., Fu, X., MacNeill, L. A., Ermanni, B.*, Vallorani, A., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, March). Characterizing Naturalistic Sustained Attention in Behaviorally Inhibited Children: Risk Factors for Internalizing Symptoms. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland. 

  11. Fu, X., MacNeill, L. A., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, March). Affect-Biased Attention is Linked to Individual Differences in Social Withdrawal: A Multimodal Eye-Tracking Investigation. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland. Co-Chairs (with Xiaoxue Fu) of symposium, Using a Social-Interactive Neuroscience Approach to Study Cognitive Processes Underlying Risk for Developmental Psychopathology. 

  12. MacNeill, L. A., Fu, X., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, March). Using Mobile Eye-Tracking Methodology to Capture Parent-Child Dynamics in the Context of Anxiety Risk. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland. Co-Chairs (with Xiaoxue Fu) of symposium Using a Social-Interactive Neuroscience Approach to Study Cognitive Processes Underlying Risk for Developmental Psychopathology.

  13. Vallorani, A., Brown, K., Fu, X., Gunther, K. E., MacNeill, L. A., Ermanni, B.*, Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, March). Processing Social and Non-Social Rewards in the Peer Context: The Role of Temperament. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland.

  14. Pérez-Edgar, K., Morales, S., MacNeill, L. A., & Vallorani, A. (2017, November). Young Children's Affective and Psychophysiological Responses to Acceptance and Rejection from Peers. Paper presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C.

  15. MacNeill, L. A., Pérez-Edgar, K., & Blandon, A. Y. (2017, April). Prosocial Behavior in the Family System: Contributions of Parental Emotional Expressiveness and Child Physiological Regulation. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, Texas.

INVITED COLLOQUIA, CONFERENCE, AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS 

  1. MacNeill, L. A. (2023, September). Translating Developmental Discovery to Clinical Care: Risk Calculators for Early Childhood Mental Health. Paper presented at Boston Children’s Hospital Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Boston, Massachusetts.

  2. MacNeill, L. A. (2023, March). Through a Dyadic Lens: Viewing New Methods for Socioemotional Development in the Family. Paper to be presented at the University of Waterloo Developmental Brownbag Series, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario (virtual).

  3. MacNeill, L. A. (2022, January). Leveraging Ecologically Valid and Translational Methods to Study Children’s Emotion Regulation and Mental Health. Paper presented at Lurie Children’s Hospital Monthly Scholarly Projects Series, Chicago, Illinois.

  4. MacNeill, L. A. (2021, July). Mobile Eye-Tracking as a Tool for Studying Attention and Socioemotional Development in Naturalistic Contexts. Paper presented at the DS Summer Journal Club, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

  5. MacNeill, L. A. (2020, February). Temperament in Context: Integrating Methods from Family Systems and Biological Perspectives to Capture Risk for Anxiety. Paper presented at the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

  6. Gunther, K. E., MacNeill, L. A., & Vallorani, A. (2018, December). Introduction to Mobile Eye-Tracking: Assessing Attention in Naturalistic Contexts. Workshop presented for AXONS Student Neuroscience Society at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

  7. MacNeill, L. A. (2015, May). The Development of A-not-B-Task from 6-12 Months. Paper presented at the Pennsylvania State University Conference on Longitudinal/Multivariate Methods, University Park, Pennsylvania.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

*Mentored graduate student, undergraduate student, research assistant

  1. Raven, J.*, Patel, R.*, Edwards, R. C., Zhang, Y., MacNeill, L. A., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2023, September). Irritability and Internalizing Symptoms: The Role of Positive Parenting. Poster presented at the annual Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Lewis Landsberg Research Day, Chicago, Illinois.

  2. Poleon, R. B.*, Giase, G. M., Burns, J. L., Zhang, Y., MacNeill, L. A., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2023, March). Examining Relations between Maternal Responsiveness and Infant Social Competence Using Behavioral Observation Methods. Poster to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, Utah.

  3. Merrick, E.*, Nili, A.*, Anderson, E., MacNeill, L. A., Blum, A.*, Poleon, R.*, Fredian, K.*, Reynolds, H.*, Edwards, R., & Wakschlag, L. (2022, September). Capturing Emotion Dysregulation and Competence in Infancy: Adaptations of the Preschool Disruptive Behavior Diagnostic Observation Schedule. Poster presented at the annual Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Lewis Landsberg Research Day, Chicago, Illinois.

  4. Poleon, R. B.*, Trattner, A.*, Williams, A.*, Larson, N.*, Kornfeld, A.*, MacNeill, L. A., & Wakschlag, L. (2022, September). Relations between Maternal Responsiveness and Infant Social Competence. Poster presented at the annual Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Lewis Landsberg Research Day, Chicago, Illinois.

  5. Gunther, K. E., Fu, X., MacNeill, L. A., Jones, M., Ermanni, B., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021, November). Now It’s Your Turn!: Eye Blink Rate Modulated by Interaction of Wait Times, Inhibitory Control, and Internalizing Behaviors in a Jenga-Like Task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago, IL.

  6. MacNeill, L. A., Allen, N. B., Poleon, R. B., Pool, L., Vargas, T., Osborne, K. J., Damme, K. S. F., Barch, D. M., Krogh-Jespersen, S., Nielsen, A. N., Norton, E. S., Smyser, C. D., Rogers, C. E., Luby, J. L., Mittal, V. A., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2021, November).  Translating Developmental Science to Real-World Impact: A Neurodevelopmental Framework for Application of Mental Health Risk Calculators. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago, IL.

  7. Gunther, K. E., Fu, X., MacNeill, L. A., Jones, M., Ermanni, B., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021, September). Now It’s Your Turn!: Eye Blink Rate in a Jenga Task Modulated by Interaction of Task Wait Times, Effortful Control, and Internalizing Behaviors. Poster presented at the Flux Society Annual Meeting. Virtual Conference.

  8. Gunther, K. E., Fu, X., MacNeill, L. A., Jones, M., Ermanni, B., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021, November). Now It’s Your Turn!: Eye Blink Rate Modulated by Interaction of Wait Times, Inhibitory Control, and Internalizing Behaviors in a Jenga-Like Task. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago, IL

  9. MacNeill, L. A., Allen, N. B., Poleon, R. B., Pool, L., Vargas, T., Osborne, K. J., Damme, K. S. F., Barch, D. M., Krogh-Jespersen, S., Nielsen, A. N., Norton, E. S., Smyser, C. D., Rogers, C. E., Luby, J. L., Mittal, V. A., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2021, November).  Translating Developmental Science to Real-World Impact: A Neurodevelopmental Framework for Application of Mental Health Risk Calculators. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago, IL.

  10. Reges, O., Yang, X., Krefman, A., Pool, L., Wakschlag, L., Flynn, R., MacNeill, L. A., Davis, M., Marino, B., Labarthe, D., Van Horn, L., Hou, L., Lloyd-Jones, D., Allen, N. (2021, May). Early Neurodevelopment Related Variables and Cardiovascular Health: Findings From The Multidimensional Assessment Of Preschoolers Study. American Heart Association EPI | Lifestyle 2021 Scientific Sessions. Virtual Conference.

  11. Vallorani, A., Brown, K. M., Fu, X., Gunther, K. E., MacNeill, L. A., Ermanni, B., Hallquist, M. N., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2020, September). Affect Influences Social Attention Captured Via Mobile Eye-Tracking during Dyadic Play in Young Children. Poster presented at the Flux Society Annual Meeting. Virtual Conference.

  12. Gunther, K. E., Fu, X., MacNeill, L. A., Ermanni, B.*, Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, August). Mapping Visual Attention to Levels of Inhibitory Control: A Mobile Eye Tracking Investigation. Poster presented at the Flux Congress on Integrative Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, New York, New York.

  13. Vallorani, A., Brown, K. M., Fu, X., Gunther, K. E., MacNeill, L. A., Ermanni, B.*, Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, August). Naturalistic Social Attention across a Dynamic Social Interaction. Poster presented at the Flux Congress on Integrative Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, New York, New York.

  14. Ermanni, B.*, Gunther, K. E., Fu, X., Vallorani, A., MacNeill, L. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, March). Moderating Effect of Effortful Control on the Relation between Happy Biases and Externalizing Symptoms. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland.

  15. Gunther, K. E., Fu, X., MacNeill, L. A., Ermanni, B.*, Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, March). Low Naturalistic Attention Shifting as a Risk Factor for Internalizing Symptoms in Behaviorally Inhibited Children. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland.

  16. Leeds, J.*, Perone, O.*, MacNeill, L. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, March). Responses to Peer Acceptance Moderate the Relation between Parent Stress and Child Externalizing Problems. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland.

  17. MacNeill, L. A., Vallorani, A., Morales, S., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, March).  Effects of Temperament, Attention to Emotions, and Emotion Socialization on Internalizing Problems: An ERP Study. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland. 

  18. Vankeuren, L.*, Gunther, K. E., Fu, X., MacNeill, L. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, March). Naturalistic Attention Biases to Social Threat Characterize Socially Withdrawn Children. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland.

  19. Youatt, E., Vallorani, A., Morales, S., MacNeill, L. A., Gunther, K. E., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, March). High Levels of Behavioral Inhibition and Inhibitory Control Relate to Affective Responses to Peer Feedback in Young Children. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland. *Nominated for Best Poster. 

  20. Anaya, B., Thai, N., MacNeill, L. A., Morales, S., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, March). Do Multiple Systems Interact to Predict Anxiety? The Potential Role of Behavioral Inhibition, Adolescents’ Social Reticence, and EEG Delta-Beta Coupling. Poster presented at the International Convention of Psychological Science, Paris, France.

  21. MacNeill, L. A., Vallorani, A., Morales, S., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019, March). Attention Allocation to Emotions and Parenting Styles Moderate the Relation between Behavioral Inhibition and Internalizing Problems in Young Children: An ERP Study. Poster presented at the International Convention of Psychological Science, Paris, France.

  22. Gunther, K. E., MacNeill, L. A., Burris, J. L., LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2018, July). Patterns of Maternal Threat Bias Moderate the Association between Household Chaos and Infant Regulation. Poster presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

  23. MacNeill, L. A., Burris, J. L., Gunther, K. E., Pérez-Edgar, K., Buss, K. A., & LoBue, V. (2018, July). Attention Bias in Context: Profiles of Family Emotional Climate Contribute to Infant Temperament and Attention to Threat. Poster presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  24. MacNeill, L. A., & Fosco, G. M. (2018, April). Temperament, Interparental Conflict, and Cognitive Appraisals Predict Daily Variations in Adolescent Anxiety: A Within-Family Model. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Minneapolis, Minnesota.  

  25. Anaya, B., Thai, N., MacNeill, L. A., Galinsky, P.*, Morales, S., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017, November). Behavioral Inhibition and Anxiety in Relation to Delta-Beta Coupling: Potential Effects of an ABM Intervention. Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C.

  26. MacNeill, L. A., Vallorani, A., Morales, S., Taber-Thomas, B., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017, November).  Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Children's Attention Bias to Reward and Social Adjustment: Examining the Role of Parenting.  Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C.

  27. MacNeill, L. A., Taber-Thomas, B. C., Morales, S., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2017, April). Attention Biases and Disengagement Moderate Associations between Parenting and Young Children’s Adjustment Problems. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, Texas.

  28. Vallorani, A., Thai, N. K., Taber-Thomas, B. C., MacNeill, L. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (March, 2017). Triple Threat: Behavioral Inhibition, Frontal EEG Asymmetry, and Attention Bias to Threat as a High-Risk Marker Profile for Social Anxiety. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, Los Angeles, California.

  29. MacNeill, L. A., Lovell, M.*, & Blandon, A. Y. (2016, May). Prosocial Development in Early Childhood: The Influences of Parental Emotional Expressiveness and Children’s Physiological Regulation. Poster presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana.   

  30. MacNeill, L. A., Ram, N., Bell, M. A., Fox, N. A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2016, May). Individual Differences in A-not-B Performance and Brain Activity: Modeling Infant Development with Parallel Process Growth Models. Poster presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana.   

  31. Blandon, A. Y., & MacNeill, L. A. (2015, May). Supportive Coparenting is Associated with Mothers’ and Fathers’ Responses to Children’s Positive Emotions. Poster presented at the 2015 Annual Convention for the Association for Psychological Science, New York, New York.

  32. MacNeill, L. A., & Blandon, A. Y. (2015, March). Young Children’s Adjustment Problems: The Contributions of Parental Emotional Expressiveness and Child Physiological Regulation. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  33. MacNeill, L. A., Martin, M. J., Davies, P. T., & Cummings, E. M. (2013, April). Depressive Symptoms and Perceptions of Attachment in Friendships: A Behavioral Systems Approach.  Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington.

  34. Martin, M. J., Davies, P. T., MacNeill, L. A., Sturge-Apple, M., & Cicchetti, D. (2013, April). Coping with Interpersonal Threat in the Peer Group: The Social Defense System.  Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington.

  35. Martin, M. J., Davies, P. T., MacNeill, L. A., & Cummings, E. M. (2013, April). Attachment and Affiliation in Adolescence? Working Models of Friendship: An Evolutionary Behavioral Systems Approach.  Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington.

  36. Martin, M. J., Davies, P. T., & MacNeill, L. A. (2012, August). Defining “Function” in Adolescent Friendship Narratives: Applying an Ethological Behavioral Systems Approach. Poster presented at the Biennial International Conference on Human Ethology, Vienna, Austria.

  37. MacNeill, L. A., & Niemiec, C. P. (2012, April). Mindfulness, Stress, and Depressive Systems: An Examination of Interpersonal Stress Generation in College Students. Poster presented at the University of Rochester Undergraduate Research Exposition, Rochester, NY. 

  38. MacNeill, L. A., & Niemiec, C. P. (2012, March). Mindfulness, Stress, and Depressive Systems: An Examination of Interpersonal Stress Generation in College Students. Poster presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Ogden, Utah.