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Overview

Koraly Pérez-Edgar is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and education.

Their work addresses several main research topics including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Pérez-Edgar frequently publishes in key academic journals. Notable venues include:

  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Infancy
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Pérez-Edgar include:

  • "Spectral parameterization for studying neurodevelopment: How and why," 2022, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "The importance of using multiple outcome measures in infant research," 2020, Infancy
  • "Navigating Through the Experienced Environment: Insights From Mobile Eye Tracking," 2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • "Parent-to-Child Anxiety Transmission Through Dyadic Social Dynamics: A Dynamic Developmental Model," 2022, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
  • "Variable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety," 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborators in Pérez-Edgar's research include:

  • Kristin A. Buss
  • Vanessa LoBue
  • Kelley E. Gunther
  • Alicia Vallorani
  • Berenice Anaya

Best Publications

  • Stable Early Maternal Report of Behavioral Inhibition Predicts Lifetime Social Anxiety Disorder in Adolescence

    Andrea Chronis-Tuscano;Kathryn Amey Degnan;Daniel S. Pine;Koraly Perez-Edgar

  • Impact of Behavioral Inhibition and Parenting Style on Internalizing and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood through Adolescence

    Lela Rankin Williams;Kathryn A. Degnan;Koraly E. Perez-Edgar;Heather A. Henderson

  • Attention biases to threat and behavioral inhibition in early childhood shape adolescent social withdrawal.

    Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Yair Bar-Haim;Jennifer Martin McDermott;Andrea Chronis-Tuscano

  • Temperament and Anxiety Disorders

    Koraly Elisa Perez-Edgar;Nathan A. Fox

  • Attention biases to threat link behavioral inhibition to social withdrawal over time in very young children.

    Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Bethany C. Reeb-Sutherland;Jennifer Martin McDermott;Lauren K. White

  • A history of childhood behavioral inhibition and enhanced response monitoring in adolescence are linked to clinical anxiety.

    Jennifer M. McDermott;Koraly Perez-Edgar;Heather A. Henderson;Andrea Chronis-Tuscano

  • Attention Bias Modification Treatment for Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Sharon Eldar;Alan Apter;Daniel Lotan;Koraly Perez Edgar

  • Attention biases, anxiety, and development: Toward or away from threats or rewards?

    Tomer Shechner;Jennifer C. Britton;Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Yair Bar-Haim

  • Striatal Functional Alteration in Adolescents Characterized by Early Childhood Behavioral Inhibition

    Amanda E. Guyer;Eric E. Nelson;Koraly Perez-Edgar;Koraly Perez-Edgar;Michael G. Hardin;Michael G. Hardin

  • Attention Alters Neural Responses to Evocative Faces in Behaviorally Inhibited Adolescents

    Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Roxann Roberson-Nay;Michael G. Hardin;Michael G. Hardin;Kaitlin Poeth

  • Different Psychophysiological and Behavioral Responses Elicited by Frustration in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder and Severe Mood Dysregulation

    Brendan A. Rich;B.S. Mariana Schmajuk;Koraly E. Perez-Edgar;Nathan A. Fox

  • Striatal functional alteration during incentive anticipation in pediatric anxiety disorders.

    Amanda E. Guyer;Victoria R. Choate;Allison Detloff;Brenda Benson

  • Neural Correlates of Reward Processing in Adolescents With a History of Inhibited Temperament

    Yair Bar-Haim;Nathan A. Fox;Brenda Benson;Amanda E. Guyer

  • Variations in the serotonin-transporter gene are associated with attention bias patterns to positive and negative emotion faces

    Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Yair Bar-Haim;Jennifer Martin McDermott;Elena Gorodetsky

  • Digital disruption? Maternal mobile device use is related to infant social-emotional functioning.

    Sarah Myruski;Olga Gulyayeva;Olga Gulyayeva;Samantha Birk;Koraly Pérez-Edgar

  • Variations of the flanker paradigm: Assessing selective attention in young children

    Jennifer Martin McDermott;Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Nathan A. Fox

  • The biology of temperament: An integrative approach.

    Nathan A. Fox;Heather A. Henderson;Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Lauren K. White

  • Individual differences in children’s performance during an emotional Stroop task: A behavioral and electrophysiological study

    Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Nathan A. Fox

  • The impact of reward, punishment, and frustration on attention in pediatric bipolar disorder.

    Brendan A. Rich;Mariana Schmajuk;Koraly E. Perez-Edgar;Daniel S. Pine

  • A developmental neuroscience perspective on affect-biased attention.

    Santiago Morales;Xiaoxue Fu;Koraly E. Pérez-Edgar

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Kristin A. Buss
Kristin A. Buss Pennsylvania State University
Vanessa LoBue
Vanessa LoBue Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Yair Bar-Haim
Yair Bar-Haim Tel Aviv University
Monique Ernst
Monique Ernst National Institutes of Health
Amanda E. Guyer
Amanda E. Guyer University of California, Davis
Heather A. Henderson
Heather A. Henderson University of Waterloo
Kathryn A. Degnan
Kathryn A. Degnan Catholic University of America
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health

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