Publications

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+ co-first author (equal contribution) 

1.     Akbaryan, A., Churchill, M. L., McGrath, M., Alshawabkeh, A., Bosquet Enlow, M., Brennan, P. A., Collazo Vargas, J., Costello, L. A., D’Sa, V., Dunlop, A., Elliott, A. J., Firestein, M., Ghassabian, A., Hofheimer, J. A., Koinis-Mitchell, D., Margolis, A., Morales, S., Morello-Frosch, R., Nozadi, S. S., O’Connor, T. G., Schantz, S. L., Woodruff, T., Wright, R. J., & Shuffrey, L. C.; ECHO Cohort Consortium.. (2025). COVID-19 Pandemic Exposure and Toddler Behavioral Health in the ECHO Program. JAMA Network Open, 8(9), e2530346. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.30346

2.     Valadez, E. A., Conte, S., Richards, J. E., Feng, Y., Liuzzi, L., McSweeney, M., Tan, E., Buzzell, G. A., Morales, S., Winkler, A. M., Cardinale, E. M., White, L. K., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (in press). Integrating multimodal neuroimaging of error monitoring to estimate adolescents’ future anxiety. JAMA Network Open.

3.     *Monachino, A. D., *Hernandez, A., *Morales, I., Keil, A., & Morales, S. (2025). Using novel neural measures to explore the development of infant attention bias to threat. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0002066

4.     *Schwartzman, J., Kujawa, A., Jeste, S. S., Corbett, B. A., *Xu, W., *Monachino, A., … Morales, S. (2025). Study protocol for a multimethod investigation of the development of social and nonsocial reward responsivity and depression in autistic adolescents: Reward and Depression in Autism (RDA). BMC Psychology, 13, 603. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02911-w

5. Morales, S., *Oh, L., *Cox, K., *Rodriguez-Sanchez, R., *Nadaya, G., Buzzell, G. A., & Troller-Renfree, S. V. (2025). Generalizability of developmental EEG: Demographic reporting, representation, and sample size. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101567

6. Stohr, G. M., Harrewijn, A., Morales, S., Zeytinoglu, S., Laky, Z. E., Khosravi, P., ... & Haller, S. P. (2025). Adolescent cognitive control processing is associated with anxiety in young adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01293-1

7.     +Morales, S., & +Buzzell, G. A. (2025). EEG time-frequency dynamics of early cognitive control development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101548

8.     Ganiban, J.M., Blackwell, C.K., Liu, C., Leve, L., Neiderhiser, J., Mansolf, M., Chen, Z., Acevedo, B., Brennan, P.A., Bush, N.R., Frazier, J.A., Hipwell, A.E., Keating, D.P., LeWinn, K.Z., Morales, S., Norona-Zhou, A., Sullivan, A., Yao, L., Yi, L., Zhu, Y. & ECHO Cohort Consortium. (2025). Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms During Adolescence: The Protective Roles of Adolescent and Family Assets Within ECHO's Diverse National Population. Mental Health Science, 3: e103. https://doi.org/10.1002/mhs2.103

9.     Zeytinoglu, S., White, L., Morales, S., Degnan, K., Henderson, H., Pérez-Edgar, K., Pine, D., & Fox, N. (2025). The roles of parental verbal communication and child characteristics in the transmission and maintenance of social fears. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.14169

10.  Troller-Renfree, S.V., Morales, S., Buzzell, G.A., & Sandre, A. (2024). Heterogeneity in pediatric resting EEG data processing and analysis: A state of the field. Psychophysiology. e14733. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14733

11.  Rayport, Y. K, Morales, S., Shuffery, L.C., Hockett, C. W., Ziegler, K., Fifer, W. P., Elliott, A. J., & Sania, A., (2024). Prenatal maternal trait-anxiety, smoking, and socioeconomic adversities are associated with child executive function at 3-5 years of age. BMC Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-024-05113-2

12.  *Xu, W., Monachino, A. D., McCormick, S., Margolis, E. T., Sobrino, A., Bosco, C., Franke, C., Davel, L., Zieff, M. R., Donald, K. A., Gabard-Durnam, L. J., & †Morales, S. (2024). Advancing the Reporting of Developmental EEG Data: Tools for Estimating Reliability, Effect Size, and Data Quality Metrics. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 70, 101458 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101458

13.  Kanel, D., Morales, S., Altman, K., Richards, J. E., Winkler, A. M., Pine, D. S., Fox, N. A., & Filippi, C. A. (2024). Infants’ resting state functional connectivity and ERPs: A multimodal approach to investigating the neural basis of infant novelty detection. Developmental Psychology. 61(7), 1397–1411. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001892

14.  Fox, N. A., Pérez-Edgar, K., Morales, S., Brito, N. H., Campbell, A. M., Cavanagh, J. F., Gabard-Durnam, L. J., Hudac, C. M., Key, A. P., Larson-Prior, L. J., Pedapati, E. V., Norton, E. S., Reetzke, R., Roberts, T. P., Rutter, T. M., Scott, L. S., Shuffrey, L. C., Antúnez, M., Boylan, M. R., ... the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study EEG Workgroup. (2024). The development and structure of the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study EEG protocol. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 69, 101447 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101447

15.  Costello, L. A., Ziegler, K., McCormack, L., Akbaryan, A., Collazo Vargas, J., Harris, W. S., Jackson, K. H., Morales, S., Elliott, A. J., Hockett, C., & Shuffrey, L. C. (2024). Pre-pregnancy overweight or obesity moderates the association between prenatal maternal depression and infant cord blood omega-3 levels. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 24, 535 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-024-06732-4

16.  Hernandez-Castro, I., Eckel, S. P., Howe, C. G., Aung, M. T., Kannan, K., Robinson, M., Foley, H. B., Yang, T., Vigil, M. J., Chen, X., Grubbs, B., Al-Marayati, L., Toledo-Corral, C. M., Habre, R., Dunton, G. F., Farzan, S. F., Morales, S., Breton, C. V., & Bastain, T. M. (2024). Organophosphate ester flame retardant chemicals and maternal depression during pregnancy. Environmental Research, 119581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.119581

17.  Shuffrey, L. C., Rennie, B., Li, X., Galai, N., Pini, N., Akbaryan, A., ... Morales, S., … & ECHO Cohort Consortium. (2024). Combining developmental and sleep health measures for autism spectrum disorder screening: an ECHO study. Pediatric Research, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-024-03306-0

18.  Tan, E., Troller-Renfree, S., Morales, S., Buzzell, G. A., McSweeney, M., Antúnez, M., & Fox, N. A. (2024). Theta activity and cognitive functioning: Integrating evidence from resting-state and task-related developmental electroencephalography (EEG) research. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 67, 101404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101404

19.  Drexler, C. L., Valadez, E. A., Morales, S., Troller-Renfree, S. V., White, L. K., Degnan, K. A., Henderson, H. A., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (2024). Longitudinal relations among temperament, cognitive control, and anxiety: From toddlerhood to late adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 60(8), 1524–1532. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001802

20.  *Xu, X., Buzzell, G.A., *Bowers, M.E., Shuffrey, L.C., Leach, S.C., McSweeney, M., Yoder, L., Fifer, B., Myers, M., Elliott, A. J., Fox, N.A., & †Morales, S. (2024). Electrophysiological Correlates of Inhibitory Control in Children: Relations with Prenatal Risk Factors and Child Psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424000816

21.  *Hernandez, A., Sania, A., *Bowers, M, E., *Leach, S, C., McSweeney, M., Yoder, L., Fifer, W., Elliott, E, J., Shuffrey, L., Rauh, V., Around Him, D., Fox, N, A., & †Morales, S. (2024). Examining the Impact of Prenatal Maternal Internalizing Symptoms and Socioeconomic Status on Children’s Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Psychopathology. Developmental Psychobiology. 66(3), e22476.  https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22476

22.  Morales, S., *Bowers M. E., Shuffrey L. C., Ziegler, K., Troller-Renfree, S., *Hernandez, A., *Leach, S. C., McGrath, M., Leve, L. D., Nozadi, S. S., Swingler, M. M., Lai, J-S., Schweitzer, J. B., Fifer, W., Camargo, C. A., Hershey, G. K. K., Shapiro, A. L. B., Keating, D. P., Hartert, T. V., Deoni, S., Ferrara, A., Elliott A.J. & program collaborators for Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (2024). Maternal Education Prospectively Predicts Child Neurocognitive Function: An ECHO Study. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001642 Paper selected as APA’s Editor’s Choice.

23.  Pini, N., Sania, A., Rao, S., Shuffrey, L. C., Nugent, J. D., Lucchini, M., McSweeney, M., Hockett, C., Morales, S., Yoder, L., Ziegler, K., Perzanowski, M. S., Fox, N. A., Elliott, A. J., Myers, M. M., & Fifer, W. P. (2024). In Utero Exposure to Alcohol and Tobacco and Electroencephalogram Power During Childhood. JAMA Network Open, 7(1), e2350528. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.50528

24.  Tan, E., Zeytinoglu, S., Morales, S., Buzzell, G. A., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Degnan, K. A., Almas, A. N., Henderson, H. A., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (2024). Social versus non-social behavioral inhibition: Differential prediction from early childhood of long-term psychosocial outcomes. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13427

25.  Hwang, H., Filippi, C., Morales, S., Woodward, A., & Fox, N. A. (2023) Children’s social reticence toward a different-race peer depends on individual differences in temperament. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13390

26.  Shuffrey, L. C., Morales, S., Jacobson, M. H., Bosquet Enlow, M., Ghassabian, A., Margolis, A. E., Lucchini, M., Carroll, K. N., Crum, R. M., Dabelea, D., Deutsch, A., Fifer, W. P., Goldson, B., Hockett, C. W., Mason, W. A., Jacobson, L. T., O'Connor, T. G., Pini, N., Rayport, Y., Sania, A., … program collaborators for Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (2023). Association of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Perinatal Maternal Depression with Early Childhood Behavioral Problems: An Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Study. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13938

27.  +Buzzell, G. A., +Morales, S., +Valadez, E. A., Hunnius, S., & Fox, N. A. (2023). Maximizing the potential of EEG as a developmental neuroscience tool. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101201

28.  McSweeney, M., Morales, S., Valadez, E. A., Buzzell, G. A., Yoder, L., Fifer, W. P., Pini, N., Shuffrey, L. C., Elliott, A. J., Isler, J. R., & Fox, N. A. (2023). Age-related trends in aperiodic EEG activity and alpha oscillations during early- to middle-childhood. NeuroImage, 119925. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119925

29.  Zeytinoglu, S., Morales, S., Henderson, H.A., Fox, N.A. (2023). A Developmental Pathway from Early Inhibitory Control to Social Connectedness. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-023-01023-6

30.  Morales, S., *Bowers M.E., *Leach S.C., Buzzell G.A., McSweeney M., Yoder L., Fifer W., Elliott A.J., & Fox N.A. (2023). Early development of auditory detection and attentional capture, and their relation to inhibitory control. Psychophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14211

31.  Colomer, M., Chung, H., Meyer, M., Debnath, R., Morales, S., Fox, N.A., & Woodward, A. (2023). Action experience in infancy predicts visual-motor functional connectivity during action anticipation. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13339

32.  Fox, N. A., Zeytinoglu, S., Valadez, E., Buzzell, G. A., Morales, S., & Henderson, H. A. (2023). Developmental pathways linking early behavioral inhibition to later anxiety. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13702

33.  Isler, J. R., Pini, N., Lucchini, M., Shuffrey, L. C., Morales, S., Bowers, M. E., Leach, S. C., Sania, A., Wang, L., Condon, C., Nugent, J. D., Elliott, A. J., Friedrich, C., Andrew, R., Fox, N. A., Myers, M. M., & Fifer, W. P. (2023). Longitudinal characterization of EEG power spectra during eyes open and eyes closed conditions in children. Psychophysiology, e14158. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14158

34.  Cardinale, E. M., Bezek, J., Morales, S., Filippi, C., Smith, A. R., Haller, S., ... & Kircanski, K. (2023). Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of anxiety and irritability with adolescents’ neural responses to cognitive conflict. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.03.007

35.  Shuffrey L. C., Lucchini M., Morales S., Sania A., Hockett C., Barrett E., Carroll K. N., Cioffi C., Dabelea D., Dunlop A. L., Deutsch A., Fifer W. P., Firestein M. R., Hedderson M., Jacobson M., Kelly R. S., Kerver J. M., Mason W. A., Mirzakhani H., O’Connor T. G., Trasande L., Weiss S., Wright R., Zhu Y., Crum R. M., Lee S., Elliott A. J., & Monk C. (2022). Gestational diabetes mellitus, prenatal maternal depression, and risk for postpartum depression: an Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 22(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-05049-4

36.  Zhou, A. M., Morales, S., Youatt, E. M., & Buss, K.A. (2022). Autonomic Nervous System Activity Moderates Associations between Temperament and Externalizing Behaviors in Early Childhood. Developmental Psychobiology. 64, e22323. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22323

37.  Lopez, K., Monachino, A., Morales, S., Leach, S.C., Bowers, M.E., Gabard-Durnam, L.J. (2022) HAPPILEE: The Harvard Automated Processing Pipeline in Low Electrode Encephalography, a standardized software for low density EEG and ERP data. NeuroImage. 260, 119390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119390

38.  Valadez, E. A., Morales, S., Buzzell, G. A., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Henderson, H. A., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (2022). Development of proactive control and anxiety among behaviorally inhibited adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2022.04.012

39.  +Zeytinoglu, S., +Morales, S., Lorenzo, N. E., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Degnan, K. A., Almas, A. N., Henderson, H., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (2022). A developmental pathway from early behavioral inhibition to young adults’ anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic. FOCUS, 20(2), 224–231. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.focus.22020002

40.  Morales, S., & *Bowers, M. E. (2022). Time-frequency analysis methods and their application in developmental EEG data. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 54, 101067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101067

41.  Morales, S., *Bowers, M. E., *Leach, S. C., Buzzell, G. A., Fifer, W., Elliott, A., & Fox, N. A. (2022). Time-frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: an EEG study. Developmental Psychobiology, 64(3):e22215. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22215 **Top cited article 2022-2023

42.  Morales, S., Zeytinoglu, S., Lorenzo, N. E., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Degnan, K. A., Almas, A. N., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N.A. (2022). Which anxious adolescents were most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic? Clinical Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026211059524

43.  McSweeney, M., Morales, S., Valadez, E., Buzzell, G. A., & Fox, N. A. (2021). Longitudinal age- and sex-related change in background aperiodic activity during early adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 52, 101035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.101035

44.  Morales, S., Zeytinoglu, S., Buzzell, G. A., Valadez, E., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Bowers, M. E., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Degnan, K. A., Almas, A. N., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N.A. (2021). Neurocognitive Profiles in Adolescence Predict Subsequent Anxiety Trajectories during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Young Adulthood. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.06.004

45.  *+Suarez, G. L., +Morales, S., Miller, N., Penela, E., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Henderson, H., & Fox, N. A. (2021). Examining a Developmental Pathway from Early Behavioral Inhibition to Emotion Regulation and Social Anxiety: The Moderating Role of Parenting. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001225

46.  Troller-Renfree, S.V., Morales, S., *Leach, S.C., Bowers, M.E., Debnath, R., Fifer, W.P., Fox, N.A., & Noble, K.G. (2021). Feasibility of Assessing Brain Activity using Mobile, In-home Collection of Electroencephalography: Theory, Methods, and Analysis. Developmental Psychobiology. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22128

47.  +Zeytinoglu, S., +Morales, S., Lorenzo, N. E., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Degnan, K. A., Almas, A. N., Henderson, H.A., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N.A. (2021). A Developmental Pathway from Early Behavioral Inhibition to Young Adults’ Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2021.01.021

48.  +Garrett-Ruffin, S., +Cowden Hindash, A., +Kaczkurkin, A. N., +Mears, R. P., +Morales, S., +Paul, K., +Pavlov, Y., & Keil, A. (2021). Open Science in Psychophysiology: An Overview of Challenges and Emerging Solutions. International Journal of Psychophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.02.005

49.  *Bowers, M.E., Morales, S., Buzzell, G.A., Fox, N.A. (2021). The influence of monetary reward on proactive and reactive control in adolescent males. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100934

50.  Morales, S., Tang, A., Bowers, M.E., Miller, N. V., Buzzell, G.A., Smith, E., Seddio, K., Henderson, H. A., & Fox, N. A. (2021). Infant Temperament Prospectively Predicts General Psychopathology in Childhood. Development and Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579420001996

51.  Vallorani, A., Fu, X., Morales, S., LoBue, V., Buss, K.A. & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021). Person-Centered Profiles of Infant Affect-Biased Attention are Associated with Maternal Anxiety and Infant Negative Affect. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81119-5

52.  Lorenzo, N., Zeytinoglu, S., Morales, S., Listokin, J, Almas, A., Henderson, H., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Fox, N. A. (2021). Transactional Associations Between Parent and Young Adult Internalizing Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Role of Avoidant Coping. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-020-01374-z

53.  Fox, N. A., Buzzell, G. A., Morales, S., Valadez, E., Wilson, M., & Henderson, H. A., (2021) Understanding the Emergence of Social Anxiety in Children with Behavioral Inhibition. Biological Psychiatry, 89(7), 681-689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.10.004

54.  Debnath, R., Miller, N.V., Morales, S., Seddio, K.R., Fox, N.A. (2021). Investigating brain electrical activity and functional connectivity in adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in alpha frequency band. Brain Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2020.147142

55.  Pérez-Edgar, K., LoBue, V., Buss, K. A., Field, A. P., & LAnTs Team. (2021). Study protocol: Longitudinal attention and temperament study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 656958. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.656958

56.  Morales, S., Miller, N. V., Troller-Renfree, S. V., White, L. K., Degnan, K. A., Henderson H. A., & Fox, N. A. (2020). Attention bias to reward predicts behavioral problems and moderates early risk to externalizing and attention problems. Development and Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579419000166

57.  Buzzell, G.A., Morales, S., Bowers, M.E., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Pine, D.S., Henderson, H.A., Fox, N.A. (2020). A two-pathway model of behavioral inhibition risk for social anxiety: higher inhibition or lower shifting confers risk in children with a behaviorally inhibited temperament. Developmental Science, e13040. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13040

58.  Tang, A., Crawford, H., Morales, S., Degnan, K. A., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N.A. (2020). Infant behavioral inhibition predicts personality and social outcomes three decades later. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(18), 9800-9807. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917376117

59.  Debnath, R., Buzzell, G.A., Morales, S., Bowers, M.E., Leach, S.L., Fox, N.A. (2020). The Maryland Analysis of Developmental EEG (MADE) Pipeline. Psychophysiology, 57(6), e13580. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13580

60.  Buzzell, G. A., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Wade, M., Debnath, R., Morales, S., Bowers, M., Zeanah, C. H., Nelson, C.A., Fox, N. A. (2020). Adolescent Cognitive Control and Mediofrontal Theta Oscillations Are Disrupted by Neglect: Associations with Transdiagnostic Risk for Psychopathology in a Randomized Controlled Trial. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100777

61.  *Leach, S. C., Morales, S., Bowers, M. E., Buzzell, G. A., Debnath, R., Beall, D., & N. A. Fox (2020). Adjusting ADJUST: Optimizing the ADJUST Algorithm for Pediatric Data Using Geodesic Nets. Psychophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13566

62.  Buss, K. A., Cho, J., Morales, S., McDoniel, M., Frank-Webb, A., Schwartz, A., Cole, P. M., Dorn, L, D., Gest, S., & Teti, D. M. (2020). Toddler Dysregulated Fear Predicts Continued Risk for Social Anxiety Symptoms in Early Adolescence. Development and Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579419001743

63.  Bowers, M.E., Reider, L.B., Morales, S., Buzzell, G.A., Miller, N., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Pine, D.S., Henderson, H.A., & Fox, N.A. (2020). Differences in Parent and Child Report of the SCARED: Implications for Investigations of Social Anxiety in Adolescence. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-019-00609-3

64.  Fu, X., Morales, S., LoBue, V., Buss, K.A. & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019). Age and Temperament Moderate Attentional Vigilance to Faces in Infants: Evidence from an Eye-tracking Study. Developmental Psychobiology. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21920

65.  Morales, S., Bowman, L. C., Velnoskey, K. R., Fox, N. A., & Redcay, E. (2019). An fMRI study of action observation and action execution in childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100655

66.  Buzzell, G.A., Barker, T.V., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Bernat, E.M., Bowers, M.E., Morales, S., Bowman, L., Henderson, H.A., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (2019). Adolescent Cognitive Control, Theta Oscillations, and Social Motivation. NeuroImage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.04.077

67.  *Suarez, G., Morales, S., Metcalf K., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019). Perinatal complications are associated with social anxiety: the mediating role of temperament. Infant and Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2130  

68.  +Morales, S., +Vallorani, A., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019). Young Children’s Behavioral and Neural Responses to Peer Feedback Relate to Internalizing Problems. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.12.008

69.  Morales S., Ram N., Buss K. A., Cole P. M., Helm J. L., & Chow S-M. (2018). Age-related changes in the dynamics of fear-related regulation in early childhood. Developmental Science, e12633. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12633  

70.  Pérez-Edgar, K., Morales, S., LoBue, V., Taber-Thomas, B. C., Allen, E. K., Brown, K. M., & Buss, K. A. (2017).  The impact of negative affect on attention patterns to threat across the first two years of life.  Developmental Psychology, 53, 2219-2232. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000408

71.  Morales, S., Brown, K.M., Taber-Thomas, B.C., LoBue, V., Buss, K.A. & Pérez-Edgar, K.E. (2017). Maternal Anxiety Predicts Attentional Bias Towards Threat in Infancy. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000275

72.  Morales, S., Fu, X., & Pérez-Edgar, K. E. (2016). A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective on Affect Biased Attention. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 21, 26–41. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2016.08.001

73. Morales, S., Taber-Thomas, B.C., & Pérez-Edgar, K. E. (2016). Patterns of attention to threat across tasks in behaviorally inhibited children at risk for anxiety. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12391

74. Taber-Thomas, B.C., Morales, S., Hillary, F. G., & Pérez-Edgar, K. E. (2016). Altered topography of intrinsic functional connectivity in childhood risk for social anxiety. Depression and Anxiety. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.22508

75. Morales, S., Pérez-Edgar, K. E., & Buss K. A. (2016). Longitudinal relations among exuberance, externalizing behaviors, and attentional bias to reward: the mediating role of effortful control. Developmental Science. 19: 853–862. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12320

76. Morales, S., Pérez-Edgar, K. E., & Buss K. A. (2015). Attention biases towards and away from threat mark the relation between early dysregulated fear and the later emergence of social withdrawal. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43(6), 1067-1078. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-014-9963-9

77. Morales, S., Beekman, C., Blandon, A.Y., Stifter, C. A., & Buss, K. A. (2015). Longitudinal associations between temperament and socioemotional outcomes in young children: the moderating role of RSA and gender. Developmental Psychobiology, 57(1), 105-119. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21267  

78. Buss, K. A., Kiel, E. J., Morales, S., & Robinson, E. (2013). Toddler inhibitory control, bold response to novelty, and positive affect predict externalizing symptoms in kindergarten. Social Development, 23: 232–249. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12058

79. Pamplona, M. C., Ysunza, A., Chavelas, K., Arámburu, E., Patiño, C., Martí, F., & Morales, S. (2012). A study of strategies for treating compensatory articulation in patients with cleft palate. Journal of maxillofacial and oral surgery, 11(2), 144-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12663-011-0314-x

1. Walle, E. A., Main, A., & Morales, S. (2024). Temperament, emotion, and the self. In M. H. Bornstein & M. E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental science: An advanced textbook (pp. xx-xx). Publisher. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003387145-13

2.     Morales, S. & Fox, N. A. (2019). A Neuroscience Perspective on Emotional Development. In V. LoBue, K. Pérez-Edgar, & K. Buss (Eds.), Handbook of Emotional Development, Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17332-6_4

3.     Salo, V.C., Morales, S., Debnath, R., Smith, E.G., & Fox, N. A. (in press). Mirror system development and social cognition.In C.Tamis-LeMonda & J. Lockman (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

4.     Buzzell, G. A., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Morales, S., & Fox N. A. (2018). Relations Between Behavioral Inhibition, Cognitive Control and Anxiety: Novel Insights Provided by Parsing Subdomains of Cognitive Control. In: Behavioral Inhibition: Integrating Theory, Research, and Clinical Perspectives. K. Pérez-Edgar & N. A. Fox (Eds.), Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98077-5_10

5. Buss, K. A., Morales, S., Cho, S., & Philbrook, L. (2015). Infant temperament and socioemotional development: a biopsychosocial framework. In S. Calkins (Ed.), Handbook of Infant Biopsychosocial Development. Guilford Press.

6. Pérez-Edgar, K. E., Taber-Thomas, B. C., Auday, E., Morales, S. (2014). Temperament and attention as core mechanisms in the early emergence of anxiety. In Lagattuta, K. (ed). Children and Emotion. New Insights into Developmental Affective Sciences. Contrib Hum Dev. Basel, Karger, vol 26, pp 42-56. HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1159/000354350

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1.     *Xu, X., Buzzell, G.A., *Bowers, M.E., Shuffery, L.C., Leach, S.C., McSweeney, M., Yoder, L., Fifer, B., Myers, M., Elliott, A. J., Fox, N.A., & Morales, S. (Under Review). Electrophysiological Correlates of Inhibitory Control in Children: Age Changes and Relations with Prenatal Risk Factors and Child Psychopathology.

2.     Poole, K., Zeytinoglu, S., Morales, S., Degnan, K. A., Almas, A. N., Fox, N.A., & Henderson, H.A. (under review). Are social interactions comparable across in-person and online contexts?