Sam V. Wass

The paper investigates how endogenous oscillatory rhythms and interactive contingencies influence infant attention during caregiver-infant interactions, finding that intrinsic cognitive processes, not caregiver behaviors, primarily control attention.

The paper investigates how cortical excitability during fixations relates to frequency-specific neural activity in children and adults, finding developmental differences in oscillatory patterns.

This study applies mTRF modelling to measure speech-brain tracking in naturalistic caregiver-infant interactions, showing optimal results with individual training on continuous data.

This study examines neural tracking and rhythmic movements in 7-month-old infants during maternal singing, finding links to later expressive vocabulary.

The paper examines how mutual gaze onsets during infant-caregiver interactions affect neural responses and inter-brain synchrony, finding sender-specific effects without increased synchrony.

This study examines domain generality of neural sensitivity and its relation to autonomic arousal in infants aged 6-12 months using ERP and heart rate measures.

This study investigates which low amplitude modulated frequency elicits the strongest neural entrainment in infants and adults, finding 2Hz to be most effective.

The paper adapts an adult ICA component classifier for infant EEG data, showing improved performance in artifact removal and classification accuracy compared to both the original adult classifier and manual methods.

The paper introduces computational methods to analyze event-locked changes in neural connectivity between adults and children using dual EEG data.

The paper examines whether neural, autonomic, and behavioral synchrony in mother-child dyads are distinct, finding that neural synchrony differs from other systems and is linked to social affiliation.

This study examines how emotional valence affects parent-infant inter-brain network topology using dual-EEG data during social interactions.

This study examines how parental neural responsivity to infants' visual attention influences infant attention during solo and joint play.

This study examines motion artifacts in infant and adult EEG during naturalistic activities, finding distinct topographical and spectral patterns in infants compared to adults.

The paper introduces a neuropsychological coding framework to analyze adult-infant play patterns across sensorimotor, cognitive, and socio-emotional dimensions, demonstrating its ability to distinguish playful from non-playful interactions.

This study shows that direct gaze between adults and infants enhances bidirectional neural coupling during communication, improving information transfer.

The paper applies the Aston-Jones framework to examine how tonic arousal and phasic changes relate to attention in infants and children, finding mid-level tonic arousal correlates with better selective attention.

The paper compares neural oscillatory entrainment to speech in infants and adults, finding infants show better phase-locking at Theta and Alpha rates but less accuracy at slow phrasal patterns.