PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Puglia, M.H., Krol, K. M., Missana, M, Williams, C. L., Lillard, T. S., Morris, J. P., Connelly, J. J.  & Grossmann, T. (2020). Epigenetic tuning of brain signal entropy in emergent human social behavior, BMC Medicine, 18:244. [pdf] 

Grossmann, T., Missana, M.  & Vaish, A. (2020). Helping, fast and slow: Exploring intuitive cooperation in early ontogeny. Cognition, 196, 104144.  [pdf] 

Grossmann, T., Missana, M. and Krol, K. M. (2018). The neurodevelopmental precursors of altruistic behavior in infancy. PLoS biology, 16(9), e2005281. [pdf] 

Missana, M., Altvater-Mackensen, N., & Grossmann, T. (2017). Neural correlates of infants’ sensitivity to vocal expressions in peers. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 39-44.  [pdf] 

Rajhans, P.; Jessen, S.; Missana, M. & Grossmann, T. (2016): Putting the face in context: Body expressions impact facial emotion processing in human infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 19, S. 115 - 121. [pdf] 

Rajhans, P., Missana, M., Krol, K. M., & Grossmann, T. (2015). The association of temperament and maternal empathy with individual differences in infants‘ neural responses to emotional body expressions. Development and Psychopathology, 27(4pt1), 1205-1216. [pdf] 

Missana, M., Atkinson, A. P., & Grossmann, T. (2015). Tuning the developing brain to emotional body expressions. Developmental Science, 18, 243-253.  [pdf] 

Krol, K. M., Rajhans, P., Missana, M., & Grossmann, T. (2015). Duration of exclusive breastfeeding is associated with differences in infants‘ brain responses to emotional body expressions. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8: 459. [pdf] 

Missana, M., & Grossmann, T. (2015). Infants’ emerging sensitivity to emotional body expressions: Insights from frontal asymmetrical brain activity. Developmental Psychology, 51, 151-160. [pdf] 

Missana, M., Rajhans, P., Atkinson, A. P. & Grossmann, T. (2014). Discrimination of fearful and happy body postures in 8-month-old infants: An event-related potential study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8, 531. [pdf] 

Missana, M., Grigutsch, M. & Grossmann, T. (2014). Developmental and individual differences in the neural processing of dynamic expressions of pain and anger. PLoS One 9 (4), e93728. [pdf] 

Grossmann, T., Missana, M., Friederici, A. D. & Ghazanfar, A. A. (2012). Neural correlates of perceptual narrowing in cross-species face-voice matching. Developmental Science 15(6), S. 830 - 839.  [pdf] 

Vaish, A., Missana, M. & Tomasello, M. (2011). Three-year-old children intervene in third-party moral transgressions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 29(1), S. 124 - 130. [pdf]