Oscillatory neural and autonomic correlates of social attunedness during early life: new mechanistic insights into how we learn to learn from one another

Project Information

ONACSA

Grant agreement ID: 853251

DOI

10.3030/853251

Project closed

EC signature date 15 January 2020

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 274,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 274,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (24)

Allostasis and metastasis: the yin and yang of childhood self-regulation

Author(s): Sam Wass
Published in: Development and psychopathology, 2021, ISSN 0954-5794
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/cth4m

Understanding allostasis: early life self-regulation involves both up- and down-regulation of arousal

Author(s): Sam Wass, Celia Smith, Farhan Mirza
Published in: Child Development, 2023, ISSN 0009-3920
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/6ha8b

Learning to imitate facial expressions through sound

Author(s): Narain K. Viswanathan, Carina C.J.M. de Klerk, Samuel V. Wass, Louise Goupil
Published in: Developmental Review, Issue 73, 2024, Page(s) 101137, ISSN 0273-2297
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2024.101137

In infancy, it’s the extremes of arousal that are ‘sticky’: Naturalistic data challenge purely homeostatic approaches to studying self‐regulation

Author(s): Samuel V. Wass, Celia G. Smith, Kaili Clackson, Farhan U. Mirza
Published in: Developmental Science, Issue 24, 2023, ISSN 1363-755X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/desc.13059

Annual Research Review. ‘There, the dance is - at the still point of the turning world’: dynamic systems perspectives on co-regulation and dysregulation during early development

Author(s): Sam Wass, Emily Greenwood, Giovanni Esposito, Celia Smith, Isil Necef, Emily Phillips
Published in: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Issue 64, 2024, ISSN 0021-9630
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/faur4

Oscillatory entrainment to our early social or physical environment and the emergence of volitional control

Author(s): S V, Wass; M, Perapoch Amadó; J, Ives
Published in: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Issue 54, 2022, ISSN 1878-9293
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101102

Needing to shout to be heard? Affective dysregulation, caregiver under-responsivity, and disconnection between vocal signalling and autonomic arousal in infants from chaotic households

Author(s): Sam Wass, Louise Goupil, Celia Smith, Emily Greenwood
Published in: Child development, Issue 96, 2022, ISSN 0009-3920
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/z7whq

Vocalization and physiological hyperarousal in infant–caregiver dyads where the caregiver has elevated anxiety

Author(s): Celia G. Smith, Emily J. H. Jones, Tony Charman, Kaili Clackson, Farhan U. Mirza, Sam V. Wass
Published in: Development and Psychopathology, Issue 35, 2023, Page(s) 459-470, ISSN 0954-5794
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s095457942100153x

Temporal patterns in the complexity of child-directed song lyrics reflect their functions

Author(s): Pierre Labendzki, Louise Goupil, Sam Wass
Published in: Communications Psychology, Issue 3, 2025, ISSN 2731-9121
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00219-4

Stress and learning in pupils: Neuroscience evidence and its relevance for teachers

Author(s): Sue Whiting, Sam Wass, Simon Green, Michael Thomas
Published in: Mind, Brain, and Education, Issue 15, 2021, ISSN 1751-2271
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/9j24a

Gaze onsets during naturalistic infant-caregiver interaction associate with ‘sender’ but not ‘receiver’ neural responses, and do not lead to changes in inter-brain synchrony

Author(s): I. Marriott Haresign, E. A. M. Phillips, M. Whitehorn, F. Lamagna, M. Eliano, L. Goupil, E. J. H. Jones, S. V. Wass
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-28988-0

Finding order in chaos: influences of environmental complexity and predictability on development

Author(s): Katie Lancaster, Sam Wass
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Issue 29, 2024, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/hqv7p

Contingency and synchrony: interactional pathways towards attentional control and intentional communication

Author(s): Sam Wass, Emily Phillips, Ira Marriott Haresign, Marta Perapoch Amadó, Louise Goupil
Published in: Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 2024, ISSN 2640-7922
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/um4db

Anxious parents show higher physiological synchrony with their infants

Author(s): Celia Smith, Emily J.H. Jones, Tony Charman, Kaili Clackson, Farhan Mirza, Sam Wass
Published in: Psychological Medicine, 2021, ISSN 0033-2917
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/m2rsg

The origins of effortful control: How early development within arousal/regulatory systems influences attentional and affective control

Author(s): Samuel V. Wass
Published in: Developmental Review, Issue 61, 2023, Page(s) 100978, ISSN 0273-2297
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2021.100978

Vocal communication is tied to interpersonal arousal coupling in caregiver-infant dyads

Author(s): Sam Wass, Emily Phillips, Celia Smith, Elizabeth O O B Fatimehin, Louise Goupil
Published in: eLife, Issue 11, 2022, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.77399

Who Leads and Who Follows? The Pathways to Joint Attention During Free‐Flowing Interactions Change Over Developmental Time

Author(s): M. Perapoch Amadó, E. A. M. Phillips, G. Esposito, E. Greenwood, J. Ives, P. Labendzki, K. Lancaster, T. J. Northrop, N. K. Viswanathan, M. Gök, M. J. Peñaherrera, E. J. H. Jones, S. V. Wass
Published in: Child Development, 2025, ISSN 0009-3920
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.14229

Measuring the temporal dynamics of inter-personal neural entrainment in continuous child-adult EEG hyperscanning data

Author(s): I, Marriott Haresign; E A M, Phillips; M, Whitehorn; L, Goupil; V, Noreika; V, Leong; S V, Wass
Published in: Crossref, Issue 5, 2022, ISSN 1878-9293
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101093

Why behaviour matters: Studying inter-brain coordination during child-caregiver interaction

Author(s): Ira Marriot Haresign, Emily A.M., Phillips, Sam V., Wass
Published in: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Issue 67, 2024, Page(s) 101384, ISSN 1878-9293
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101384

Editorial perspective: Leaving the baby in the bathwater in neurodevelopmental research

Author(s): Sam Wass, Emily J.H. Jones
Published in: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Issue 64, 2023, Page(s) 1256-1259, ISSN 0021-9630
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13750

Needing to shout to be heard? Caregiver under‐responsivity and disconnection between vocal signaling and autonomic arousal in infants from chaotic households

Author(s): S. V. Wass, C. S. Smith, F. U. Mirza, E. M. G. Greenwood, L. Goupil
Published in: Child Development, Issue 96, 2025, Page(s) 527-545, ISSN 0009-3920
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.14183

Proactive or reactive? Neural oscillatory insight into the leader–follower dynamics of early infant–caregiver interaction

Author(s): Emily A. M. Phillips, Louise Goupil, Megan Whitehorn, Emma Bruce-Gardyne, Florian A. Csolsim, Ira Marriott-Haresign, and Sam V. Wass
Published in: PNAS, Issue 120, 2023, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2122481120

Endogenous oscillatory rhythms and interactive contingencies jointly influence infant attention during early infant-caregiver interaction

Author(s): Emily A.M. Phillips, Louise Goupil, Megan Whitehorn, Emma Bruce-Gardyne, Florian A. Csolsim, Navsheen Kaur, Emily Greenwood, Ira Marriott Haresign, Sam V. Wass
Published in: eLife, 2025, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.19.545295

Studying the Developing Brain in Real-World Contexts: Moving From Castles in the Air to Castles on the Ground

Author(s): Sam V. Wass, Louise Goupil
Published in: Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, Issue 16, 2024, ISSN 1662-5145
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2022.896919

Other (2)

Using dual EEG to analyse event-locked changes in child-adult neural connectivity

Author(s): I. Marriott Haresign, E. Phillips, M. Whitehorn, L. Goupil, S.V. Wass
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2021.06.15.448573

At Which Low Amplitude Modulated Frequency Do Infants Best Entrain? A Frequency Tagging Study

Author(s): James Ives, Pierre Labendzki, Marta Perapoch Amadó, Emily Greenwood, Narain Viswanathan, Tom Northrop, Sam Wass
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2022.12.08.519576