Publications

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+ co-first author (equal contribution) 

1. 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 (in press). Maternal Education Prospectively Predicts Child Neurocognitive Function: An ECHO Study. Developmental Psychology

2. 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. (in press). 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. +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

6. 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

7. Zeytinoglu, S., Morales, S., Henderson, H.A., Fox, N.A. (2023). Cascading Effects from Cognitive Control in Early Childhood to Behavioral Problems and Social Connectedness Outcomes in Middle Childhood and Adolescence. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-023-01023-6

8. 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

9. Colomer, M., Chung, H., Meyer, M., Debnath, R., Morales, S., Fox, N.A., & Woodward, A. (2022). Action experience in infancy predicts visual-motor functional connectivity during action anticipation. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13339

10. 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

11. Fox, N. A., Zeytinoglu, S., Valadez, E., Buzzell, G. A., Morales, S., & Henderson, H. A. (2022). Developmental pathways linking early behavioral inhibition to later anxiety. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13702

12. 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. (2022). Longitudinal characterization of EEG power spectra during eyes open and eyes closed conditions in children. Psychophysiology, e14158. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14158

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. +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

17. Cardinale, E. M., Bezek, J., Morales, S., Filippi, C., Smith, A. R., Haller, S., ... & Kircanski, K. (2022). 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. *+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

24. 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

25. +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

26. +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

27. *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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. *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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. *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  

45. +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

46. 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  

47. 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

48. 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

49. 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

50. 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

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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

54. 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  

55. 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

56. 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.     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

2.     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

3.     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

4. 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.

5. 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

* indicates mentee

+ co-first author (equal contribution)

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?