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Gustaf Gredebäck

Gustaf Gredebäck

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Psychology

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8070
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Overview

Gustaf Gredebäck is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and specializes in psychology, with a substantial focus on developmental and educational psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and education. Their research spans key topics such as child and animal learning development, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, migration, health and trauma, child abuse and trauma, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, and action observation and synchronization.

Their recent publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • The effects of war, displacement, and trauma on child development (2023, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications)
  • Social and emotional contexts predict the development of gaze following in early infancy (2020, Royal Society Open Science)
  • Social interaction targets enhance 13-month-old infants' associative learning (2021, Infancy)
  • The sticky mittens paradigm: A critical appraisal of current results and explanations (2020, Developmental Science)
  • Maternal childhood trauma and perinatal distress are related to infants' focused attention from 6 to 18 months (2021, Scientific Reports)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Marcus Lindskog, Umay Sen, Jonathan Hall, Joshua Juvrud, and Kim Astor. These collaborations highlight an interdisciplinary approach within developmental and social psychology fields.

Gredebäck has published extensively in several academic journals, with multiple contributions in:

  • Developmental Science
  • Infancy
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology

The scope of their work covers critical areas of child development, focusing especially on learning processes and social and emotional factors influencing early infancy and childhood. Their research on trauma and displacement also intersects with maternal mental health and developmental outcomes, contributing to the understanding of how adverse experiences affect child growth and attention mechanisms.

This diverse publication and collaboration record underscores a sustained research commitment to developmental and clinical psychology topics, aiming to better understand the cognitive and emotional pathways influencing child development in various social and environmental contexts.

Best Publications

  • Pupillometry: A Window to the Preconscious?

    Bruno Laeng;Sylvain Sirois;Gustaf Gredebäck

  • Infants predict other people's action goals.

    Terje Falck-Ytter;Gustaf Gredebäck;Claes von Hofsten

  • Eye Tracking in Infancy Research

    Gustaf Gredebäck;Scott Johnson;Claes von Hofsten

  • Eye tracking in early autism research

    Terje Falck-Ytter;Terje Falck-Ytter;Sven Bölte;Sven Bölte;Gustaf Gredebäck

  • Infants' understanding of everyday social interactions: a dual process account.

    Gustaf Gredebäck;Annika Maria D. Melinder

  • The development of joint visual attention: a longitudinal study of gaze following during interactions with mothers and strangers.

    Gustaf Gredebäck;Linn Fikke;Annika Melinder

  • Action production influences 12-month-old infants' attention to others' actions.

    Erin N. Cannon;Amanda L. Woodward;Gustaf Gredebäck;Claes von Hofsten;Claes von Hofsten

  • Preverbal Infants Anticipate That Food Will Be Brought to the Mouth: An Eye Tracking Study of Manual Feeding and Flying Spoons

    Olga Kochukhova;Gustaf Gredebäck

  • An Embodied Account of Early Executive-Function Development Prospective Motor Control in Infancy Is Related to Inhibition and Working Memory

    Janna M. Gottwald;Sheila Achermann;Carin Marciszko;Marcus Lindskog

  • Altered gaze following during live interaction in infants at risk for autism: An eye tracking study

    Emilia Thorup;Pär Nyström;Gustaf Gredebäck;Sven Bölte;Sven Bölte

  • Itsy Bitsy Spider…: Infants React with Increased Arousal to Spiders and Snakes.

    Stefanie Hoehl;Stefanie Hoehl;Kahl Hellmer;Maria Johansson;Gustaf Gredebäck

  • Action type and goal type modulate goal-directed gaze shifts in 14-month-old infants.

    Gustaf Gredebäck;Dorota Stasiewicz;Terje Falck-Ytter;Kerstin Rosander

  • Enhanced pupillary light reflex in infancy is associated with autism diagnosis in toddlerhood

    Pär Nyström;Teodora Gliga;Elisabeth Nilsson Jobs;Gustaf Gredebäck

  • Eye Movements During Action Observation

    Gustaf Gredebäck;Terje Falck-Ytter;Terje Falck-Ytter

  • The motor cortex is causally related to predictive eye movements during action observation

    Claudia Elsner;Alessandro D'Ausilio;Gustaf Gredebäck;Terje Falck-Ytter;Terje Falck-Ytter

  • Infants' Evolving Representations of Object Motion During Occlusion: A Longitudinal Study of 6- to 12-Month-Old Infants

    Gustaf Gredebäck;Claes von Hofsten

  • Goal anticipation during action observation is influenced by synonymous action capabilities, a puzzling developmental study

    Gustaf Gredebäck;Olga Kochukhova

  • The neuropsychology of infants’ pro-social preferences

    Gustaf Gredebäck;Katharina Kaduk;Marta Bakker;Janna Gottwald

  • Reduced orienting to audiovisual synchrony in infancy predicts autism diagnosis at 3 years of age

    Terje Falck-Ytter;Terje Falck-Ytter;Terje Falck-Ytter;Pär Nyström;Gustaf Gredebäck;Teodora Gliga

  • The Microstructure of Infants' Gaze as They View Adult Shifts in Overt Attention

    Gustaf Gredebäck;Carolin Theuring;Petra Hauf;Ben Kenward

  • Individual Differences in Face Processing : Infants' Scanning Patterns and Pupil Dilations are Influenced by the Distribution of Parental Leave

    Gustaf Gredebäck;Malin Eriksson;Clara Schmitow;Bruno Laeng

  • The development and neural basis of pointing comprehension

    Gustaf Gredebäck;Annika Maria D. Melinder;Moritz Daum

Frequent Co-Authors

Terje Falck-Ytter
Terje Falck-Ytter Uppsala University
Claes von Hofsten
Claes von Hofsten Uppsala University
Sven Bölte
Sven Bölte Karolinska Institute
Wolfgang Prinz
Wolfgang Prinz Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Annika Melinder
Annika Melinder University of Oslo
Giorgio Metta
Giorgio Metta Italian Institute of Technology
Daniel B. M. Haun
Daniel B. M. Haun Max Planck Society
Mikael Heimann
Mikael Heimann Linköping University
Stefanie Hoehl
Stefanie Hoehl University of Vienna
Elizabeth S. Spelke
Elizabeth S. Spelke Harvard University

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