Publications

2024 

Grossmann, T., & Allison, O. (2024). Dorso-medial prefrontal cortex responses to social smiles predict sociability in early human development. Imaging Neuroscience2, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00129 

Stern, J. A., Kelsey, C. M., Yancey, H., & Grossmann, T. (n.d.). Love on the developing brain: Maternal sensitivity and infants’ neural responses to emotion in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Developmental Sciencen/a(n/a), e13497. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.1349

Grossmann, T., & Fairhurst, M. “Genetic Variability in the Oxytocin System Is Linked to Individual Differences in Cuddliness among Human Infants.” Psychoneuroendocrinology 159 (January 1, 2024): 106419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106419

2023 

Dela Cruz, K. L., Kelsey, C. M., Tong, X., & Grossmann, T. (2023). Infant and maternal responses to emotional facial expressions: A longitudinal study. Infant Behavior and Development, 71, 101818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101818

Grossmann, T. “The Human Fear Paradox: Affective Origins of Cooperative Care.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46 (January 2023): e52. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X2200067X

Grossmann, T., & Wood, A. (2023). Variability in the expression and perception of positive affect in human infancy. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 18(1), nsad049. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsad049

Stern, J. A., Kelsey, C. M., Krol, K. M., & Grossmann, T. (2023). Maternal recognition of positive emotion predicts sensitive parenting in infancy. Emotion, 23(5), 1506–1512. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001125

2022

Farris, K., Kelsey, C. M., Krol, K. M., Thiele, M., Hepach, R., Haun, D. B., & Grossmann, T. (2022). Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain. Infant Behavior and Development, 68, 101727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101727

Chajes, J., Grossmann, T., & Vaish, A. “Fairness Takes Time: Development of Cooperative Decision Making in Fairness Context.” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 216 (April 1, 2022): 105344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105344.

Chajes, J. R., Stern, J. A., Kelsey, C. M., & Grossmann, T. (2022). Examining the Role of Socioeconomic Status and Maternal Sensitivity in Predicting Functional Brain Network Connectivity in 5-Month-Old Infants. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2022.892482

2021

Grossmann, T., & Dela Cruz, K.L. (In Press). Insights into the uniquely human origins of understanding other minds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20000710

Krol, K.M., Namaky, N., Monakov, M.V., Lai, P.S., Ebstein, R. & Grossmann, T.(2021). Genetic variation in the oxytocin system and its link to social motivation in human infants. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 131, 105290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105290

Kelsey, C.M., Farris, K.,  & Grossmann, T. (2021). Variability in infants’ functional network connectivity is associated with differences in affect and behavior. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 685754. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.685754

Grossmann, T. (2021). Becoming uniquely human? Comparing chimpanzee to human infancy. Developmental Science, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13142

Grossmann, T. (2021). Developmental origins of the pathway for social perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25, 546-547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.03.003

Haynes, K.T., Kelsey, C.M.,  & Grossmann, T. (2021). Probing infants’ sensitivity to pupil size when viewing eyes. Infancy. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12388

Kelsey, C.M., Prescott, S., McCulloch, J.A., Trinchieri, G., Valladares, T., Dreisbach, C., Alhusen, J. & Grossmann, T. (2021). Gut microbiota composition is associated with newborn functional brain connectivity and behavioral temperament. Brain, Behavior & Immunity, 91, 472-486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2020.11.003

2020

Krol, K.M., & Grossmann, T. (2020). Impression formation in the human infant brain. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 1, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay0680

Jessen, S., & Grossmann, T. (2020). The developmental origins of subliminal face processing. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 116, 454-460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.07.003

Puglia, M. H., Krol, K.M., Missana, M., Williams, C.L., Morris, J.P., Connelly, J.J., & Grossmann, T. (2020). Epigenetic tuning of brain signal entropy in emergent human social behavior. BMC Medicine, 18(1), 244. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01683-x

Grossmann, T., Missana, M., & Vaish, A. (2020). Helping, fast and slow: Exploring intuitive cooperation in early ontogeny. Cognition, 196: 104144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104144

Jessen, S., & Grossmann, T. (2020). Neural evidence for the impact of facial trustworthiness on object processing in a gaze-cueing task in 7-month-old infants. Social Neuroscience, 15, 74-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2019.1651764

2019

Krol, K.M., Moulder, R.G., Lillard, T.S., & Grossmann, T., & Connelly, J.J. (2019). Epigenetic dynamics in infancy and the impact of maternal engagement. Science Advances, 16, eaay0680. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay0680

Thrasher, C., & Grossmann, T. (2019). Children’s emotion perception in context: The role of caregiver touch and relationship quality. Emotion [online first] https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/emo0000704

Kelsey, C.M. & Grossmann, T.  (2019). A call for mapping the microbiota-gut-brain axis during human infancy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e74. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18002923

Krol, K.M., Puglia, M.H., Morris, J.P., Connelly, J.J., & Grossmann, T. (2019). Epigenetic modification of the oxytocin receptor gene is associated with emotion processing in the infant brain. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 37, 100648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100648

Kelsey, C.M., Krol, K.M., Kret, M.E., & Grossmann, T. (2019). Infants’ brain responses to pupillary changes in others are affected by race. Scientific Reports, 9, 4317. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40661-z

Jessen, S., & Grossmann, T. (2019). Neural evidence for the subliminal processing of facial trustworthiness in infancy. Neuropsychologia, 126, 46-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2019.1651764

2018

Altvater-Mackensen, N. & Grossmann, T. (2018). Modality-independent recruitment of inferior frontal cortex during speech processing in human infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 34, 130-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.10.002

Grossmann, T., Missana, M., & Krol, K.M. (2018). The neurodevelopmental precursors to altruistic behavior in infancy. PLOS Biology, 16:e2005281. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2005281

Kelsey, C.M., Dreisbach, C.N.,  Alhusen, J.L., & Grossmann, T. (2018). A primer on investigating the role of the microbiome in brain and cognitive development. Developmental Psychobiology. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21778

Kelsey, C.M., Vaish, A., & Grossmann, T. (2018). Eyes, more than other facial features, enhance real-world donation behavior. Human Nature. [Epub ahead of print] https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-018-9327-1

Krol, K.M., & Grossmann, T. (2018). Psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and mothers. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, 61(8), 977-985. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-018-2769-0

Krol, K.M., Monakhov, M., Lai, P.S., Ebstein, R., Heinrichs, M., & Grossmann, T. (2018). Genetic variation in the maternal oxytocin system affects cortisol responsiveness to breastfeeding in infants and mothers. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-018-0090-7

Vaish, A., Hepach, R., Grossmann, T. (2018). Desire understanding in 2-year-old children: An eye-tracking study. Infant Behavior and Development, 52, 22-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.05.002

Kelsey, C., Grossmann, T., & Vaish, A. (2018). Early reputation management: Three-year-old children are more generous following exposure to eyes. Frontiers in Psychology, 9: 698. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00698

2017

Jessen, S., & Grossmann, T. (2017). Exploring the role of spatial frequency information during neural emotion processing in human infants. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11: 486. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00486

Grossmann, T. (2017). How to build a helpful baby: A look at the roots of prosociality in infancy. Current Opinion in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.08.007

Vaish, A., Kelsey, C.M., Tripathi, A., & Grossmann, T. (2017). Attentiveness to eyes predicts generosity in a reputation-relevant context. Evolution and Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.07.004

Jessen, S., & Grossmann, T. (2017). Neural evidence for the subliminal processing of facial trustworthiness in infancy. Neuropsychologia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.04.025

Missana, M., Altvater-Mackensen, N., & Grossmann, T. (2017). Neural correlates of infants’ sensitivity to vocal expressions of peers. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 39-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.04.003

Grossmann, T. (2017). The eyes as windows into other minds: An integrative perspective. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12, 107-121. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616654457

Grossmann, T., & Jessen, S. (2017). When in infancy does the ‘fear bias’ develop? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 149-154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.06.018

Altvater-Mackensen, N., Jessen, S., & Grossmann, T. (2017). Brain responses reveal that infants’ face discrimination is guided by statistical learning from distributional information. Developmental Science, 20, e12393. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12393

2016

Jessen, S., & Grossmann, T. (2016). Neural and behavioral evidence for infants’ sensitivity to the trustworthiness of faces. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28, 1728-1736. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00999

Hepach, R., Vaish, A., Grossmann, T., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Young children want to see others get the help they need. Child Development, 87, 1703-1714. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12633

Rajhans, P., Altvater-Mackensen, N., Vaish, A., & Grossmann, T. (2016). Children’s altruistic behavior in context: The role of emotional responsiveness and culture. Scientific Reports, 6, 24089. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep24089

Jessen, S., Altvater-Mackensen, N., & Grossmann, T. (2016). Pupillary responses reveal infants’ discrimination of facial emotions independent of conscious perception. Cognition, 150, 163-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.02.010

Rajhans, P., Jessen, S., Missana, M., & Grossmann, T. (2016). Putting the face into context: Body expressions impact facial emotion processing in human infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 115-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2016.01.004

Altvater-Mackensen, N., Jessen, S., & Grossmann, T. (2016). Brain responses reveal that infants’ face discrimination is guided by statistical learning from distributional information. Developmental Science. [Epub ahead of print] https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12393

Altvater-Mackensen, N., & Grossmann, T. (2016). The role of left inferior frontal cortex during audiovisual speech perception in infants. NeuroImage, 133, 14-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.061

Altvater-Mackensen, N., Mani, N., & Grossmann, T. (2016). Audiovisual speech perception in infancy: The influence of vowel identify and infants’ productive abilities on sensitivity to (mis)matches between auditory and visual speech cues. Developmental Psychology, 52, 191-204. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039964

Jessen, S. & Grossmann, T. (2016). The developmental emergence of unconscious fear processing from eyes in infancy. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 142, 334-343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.09.009

2015

Grossmann, T. (2015). The development of social brain functions during infancy. Psychological Bulletin, 141, 1266-1287. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000002

Krol, K.M., Monakhov, M., Lai, P.S., Ebstein, R., & Grossmann, T. (2015). Genetic variation in CD38 and breastfeeding experience interact to impact infants’ attention to social eye cues. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, E5434-5442. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1506352112

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 & Psychopathology, 27, 1205-1216. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579415000772

Vaish, A., Grossmann, T., & Woodward, A. (2015). Person-centered positive emotions, object-centered negative emotions: Two-year-olds generalize negative but not positive emotions across individuals. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33, 391-397. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12093

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. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00459

Jessen, S. & Grossmann, T. (2015). Neural signatures of conscious and unconscious emotional face processing in human infants. Cortex, 64, 260-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.11.007

Missana, M. & Grossmann, T. (2015). Infants’ emerging sensitivity to emotional body expressions: Insights from frontal asymmetrical brain activity. Developmental Psychology, 51, 151-160. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0038469

Missana, M., Atkinson, A. P., & Grossmann, T. (2015). Tuning the developing brain to emotional body expressions. Developmental Science, 18, 243-253. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12209

Altvater-Mackensen, N., & Grossmann, T. (2015). Learning to match auditory and visual speech cues: Social influences on the acquisition of phonological categories.Child Development, 86, 362-378. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12320

2014

Jessen, S. & Grossmann, T. (2014). Unconscious discrimination of social cues from eye whites in infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, 16208-16213. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1411333111

Krol, K.M., Kamboj, S., Curran, V. & Grossmann, T. (2014). Breastfeeding experience differentially impacts recognition of happiness and anger in mothers. Nature Scientific Reports, 4: 7006. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep07006

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. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00531

Fairhurst, M.T., Löken, L., & Grossmann, T. (2014). Physiological and behavioral responses reveal 9-month-old infants’ sensitivity to pleasant touch. Psychological Science, 25, 1124-1131. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614527114

Missana, M., Grigutsch, M., & Grossmann, T. (2014). Developmental and individual differences in the neural processing of emotional expressions of pain and anger. PLOS ONE, 9 : e93728. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093728

Marschik, P.B., Tager-Flusberg, H., Kaufmann, W.E., Grossmann, T., & Einspieler, C. (2014). Three different profiles: early socio-communicative capacities in typical Rett syndrome, the preserved speech variant and normal development. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 17, 34-38. https://doi.org/10.3109/17518423.2013.837537

2013

Grossmann, T., Lloyd-Fox, S., & Johnson, M.H. (2013). Brain responses reveal young infants’ sensitivity to when a social partner follows their gaze. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, 155-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2013.09.004

Bartl-Pokorny, K.D., Marschik, P.B., Sigafoos, J., Tager-Flusberg, H., Kaufmann, W.E., Grossmann, T., & Einspieler, C. (2013). Early socio-communicative forms and functions in typical Rett syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 3133-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2013.06.040

Grossmann, T. (2013). The role of medial prefrontal cortex in early social cognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:340. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00340

Grossmann, T., Vaish, A., Franz, J., Schroeder, R., Stoneking, M., & Friederici, A.D. (2013). Emotional voice processing: Investigating the role of genetic variation in the serotonin transporter across development. PLOS ONE, 8, e68377. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068377

Grossmann, T. (2013). Mapping prefrontal cortex function in human infancy. Infancy, 18, 303-324. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12016

Grossmann, T., Cross, E. S., Ticini, L. F., & Daum, M. M. (2013). Action observation in the infant brain: the role of body form and motion. Social neuroscience, 8(1), 22-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2012.696077

2012

Grossmann, T., Missana, M.*, Friederici, A.D., & Ghazanfar, A.A. (2012). Neural correlates of multisensory perceptual narrowing. Developmental Science, 15, 830-839. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01179.x

Grossmann, T. & Friederici, A.D. (2012). When during development do our brains get tuned to the human voice? Social Neuroscience, 7, 369-372. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2011.628758

2011

Grossmann, T.,  Johnson, M.H., Vaish, A., Hughes, D., Quinque, D., & Friederici, A.D. (2011). Genetic and neural dissociation of individual responses to facial expressions of emotion in human infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 57-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2010.07.001

2010

Grossmann, T., Parise, E., & Friederici, A.D. (2010). The detection of communicative signals directed at the self in infant prefrontal cortex. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4, 201. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00201

Grossmann, T. & Johnson, M.H. (2010). Selective prefrontal cortex responses to joint attention in early infancy. Biology Letters, 6, 540-543. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.1069

Grossmann, T., Oberecker, R., Koch, S.P., & Friederici, A.D. (2010).  The developmental origins of voice processing in the human brain. Neuron, 65, 852-858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2010.03.001

Grossmann, T. (2010). The development of emotion perception in face and voice during infancy. Restorative Neurology & Neuroscience, 28, 219-236. https://doi.org/10.3233/rnn-2010-0499

2009

Grossmann, T., Gliga, T., Johnson, M. H., & Mareschal, D. (2009). The neural basis of perceptual category learning in human infants. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 2276-2286. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21188

Johnson, M. H., Grossmann, T., & Cohen Kadosh, K. (2009). Mapping functional brain development: Building a social brain through Interactive Specialization. Developmental Psychology, 45, 151-159. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0014548

2008

Grossmann, T., Johnson, M. H., Lloyd-Fox, S., Blasi, A., Deligianni, F., Elwell, C., & Csibra, G. (2008). Early cortical specialization for face-to-face communication in human infants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 275, 2803-2811. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0986

Vaish, A., Grossmann, T., & Woodward, A. (2008). Not all emotions are created equal: The negativity bias in early social-emotional development. Psychological Bulletin, 134, 383-403. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.134.3.383

Grossmann, T. (2008). Shedding light on infant brain function: The use of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in the study of face perception. Acta Paediatrica, 97, 1156-1158. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1651-2227.2008.00938.x

Johnson, M. H., Grossmann, T., & Farroni, T. (2008). The social cognitive neuroscience of infancy: Illuminating the early development of social brain functions.  Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 36, 331-364. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2407(08)00008-6

Kobiella, A.*, Grossmann, T., Striano, T., & Reid, V. M. (2008). The discrimination of angry and fearful facial expressions in 7-month-old infants: An event-related potential study. Cognition & Emotion, 22, 134-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930701394256

2007

Grossmann, T., & Johnson, M. H. (2007). The development of the social brain in infancy. European Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 909-919. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05379.x

Grossmann, T., Johnson, M. H., Farroni, T., & Csibra, G. (2007). Social perception in the infant brain: Gamma oscillatory activity in response to eye gaze. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 2, 284-291. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsm025

Grossmann, T., Striano, T., & Friederici, A. D. (2007). Developmental changes in infants’ processing of happy and angry facial expressions: A neurobehavioral study. Brain & Cognition, 64, 30-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2006.10.002

2006

Striano, T., Kopp, F., Grossmann, T., & Reid, V.M. (2006). Eye contact influences neural processing of emotional expressions in 4-month-old infants. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 1, 87-94. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsl008

Grossmann, T., Striano, T., & Friederici, A.D. (2006). Crossmodal integration of emotional information from face and voice in the infant brain. Developmental Science, 9, 309-315. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00494.x

2005

Grossmann, T., Striano, T., & Friederici, A.D. (2005). Infants’ electric brain responses to emotional prosody. NeuroReport, 16, 1825-1828. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.wnr.0000185964.34336.b1

2003

Koelsch, S., Grossmann, T., Gunter, T.C., Hahne, A., Schröger, E., & Friederici, A.D. (2003). Children processing music: Electric brain responses reveal musical competence and gender differences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 683-693. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2003.15.5.683

Koelsch, S., Maess, B., Grossmann, T., & Friederici, A.D. (2003). Electric brain responses reveal gender differences in music processing. NeuroReport, 14, 709-713. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200304150-00010

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