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Overview

Tobias Grossmann is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and neuroscience, with a particular focus on developmental processes and neuroendocrine regulation.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Within these fields, their subfields of study focus on:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Clinical Psychology

Grossmann's research addresses a range of topics including:

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Infant Health and Development

They have published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Developmental Science
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Infant Behavior and Development

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Tobias Grossmann cover various aspects of infant brain development, behavior, and social cognition. Examples include:

  • Gut microbiota composition is associated with newborn functional brain connectivity and behavioral temperament, 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Variability in Infants' Functional Brain Network Connectivity Is Associated With Differences in Affect and Behavior, 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • The developmental origins of subliminal face processing, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain, 2022, Infant Behavior and Development
  • Impression Formation in the Human Infant Brain, 2020, Cerebral Cortex Communications

Grossmann has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Caroline Kelsey
  • Kathleen M. Krol
  • Jessica Stern
  • Amrisha Vaish
  • Olivia Allison

This body of work reflects Tobias Grossmann's involvement in examining developmental trajectories of brain function related to social behavior, emotion, and cognitive processes across infancy and childhood.

Best Publications

  • Not All Emotions Are Created Equal: The Negativity Bias in Social-Emotional Development

    Arnrisha Vaish;Tobias Grossmann;Amanda L. Woodward

  • Psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and mothers

    Kathleen M. Krol;Tobias Grossmann;Tobias Grossmann

  • The developmental origins of voice processing in the human brain

    Tobias Grossmann;Tobias Grossmann;Regine Oberecker;Stefan Paul Koch;Angela D. Friederici

  • The development of the social brain in human infancy

    Tobias Grossmann;Mark H. Johnson

  • Mapping functional brain development: Building a social brain through interactive specialization

    Mark H. Johnson;Tobias Grossmann;Kathrin Cohen Kadosh

  • Early cortical specialization for face-to-face communication in human infants

    Tobias Grossmann;Mark H. Johnson;Sarah Lloyd-Fox;Anna Blasi

  • Children Processing Music: Electric Brain Responses Reveal Musical Competence and Gender Differences

    Stefan Koelsch;Tobias Grossmann;Thomas C. Gunter;Anja Hahne

  • The development of emotion perception in face and voice during infancy

    Tobias Grossmann

  • Physiological and Behavioral Responses Reveal 9-Month-Old Infants’ Sensitivity to Pleasant Touch

    Merle T. Fairhurst;Line Löken;Tobias Grossmann

  • Developmental changes in infants' processing of happy and angry facial expressions: a neurobehavioral study.

    Tobias Grossmann;Tricia Striano;Angela D. Friederici

  • Crossmodal Integration of Emotional Information From Face and Voice in the Infant Brain

    Tobias Grossmann;Tricia Striano;Tricia Striano;Angela D. Friederici

  • The role of medial prefrontal cortex in early social cognition

    Tobias Grossmann

  • Infants' electric brain responses to emotional prosody

    Tobias Grossmann;Tricia Striano;Angela D. Friederici

  • Electric brain responses reveal gender differences in music processing.

    Stefan Koelsch;CA Burkhard Maess;Tobias Grossmann;Angela D. Friederici

  • The development of social brain functions in infancy.

    Tobias Grossmann

  • Selective prefrontal cortex responses to joint attention in early infancy

    Tobias Grossmann;Mark H. Johnson

  • Social perception in the infant brain: gamma oscillatory activity in response to eye gaze

    Tobias Grossmann;Mark H. Johnson;Teresa Farroni;Gergely Csibra

  • The discrimination of angry and fearful facial expressions in 7-month-old infants : an event-related potential study

    Andrea Kobiella;Tobias Grossmann;Vincent M. Reid;Tricia Striano

  • The Eyes as Windows Into Other Minds.

    Tobias Grossmann

  • Electrophysiological methods in studying infant cognitive development

    Gergely Csibra;Elena Kushnerenko;Tobias Grossmann

  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

    Tobias Grossmann

  • REVIEW ARTICLE The development of the social brain in human infancy

    Tobias Grossmann;Mark H. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Amrisha Vaish
Amrisha Vaish University of Virginia
Tricia Striano
Tricia Striano Hunter College
Teresa Farroni
Teresa Farroni University of Padua
Richard P. Ebstein
Richard P. Ebstein Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Gergely Csibra
Gergely Csibra Central European University
Emily S. Cross
Emily S. Cross University of Glasgow
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Stefan Koelsch
Stefan Koelsch University of Bergen
Mark Stoneking
Mark Stoneking Max Planck Society

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