M. Perapoch Amadó, Phillips, M., Esposito, G., Greenwood, E., Ives, J., P. Labendzki, Lancaster, K., Northrop, T. J., Viswanathan, N. K., M. Gök, Peñaherrera, M. J., Jones, H., & Wass, S. V. (2025). Who Leads and Who Follows? The Pathways to Joint Attention During Free‐Flowing Interactions Change Over Developmental Time. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14229

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Mosteller, S., Sobanawartiny Wijeakumar and Wass, S. (2025). Neural Signatures of Word Learning During Adult-Child Interactions. Imaging Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00407

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Goupil, L., Dautriche, I., Denman, K., Henry, Z., Marriott-Haresign, I. and Wass, S. (2024). Leader–follower dynamics during early social interactions matter for infant word learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(38). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321008121

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Viswanathan, N. K., C.J.M, C., Wass, S. V., & Goupil, L. (2024). Learning to imitate facial expressions through sound. Developmental Review, 73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2024.101137

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Marriot Haresign, I., Phillips, E. A. M., & Wass, S. V. (2024). Why behaviour matters: Studying inter-brain coordination during child-caregiver interaction. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101384

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Phillips, E. A. M., Goupil, L., Whitehorn, M., Bruce-Gardyne, E., Csolsim, F. A., Kaur, N., Greenwood, E., Haresign, I. M., & Wass, S. V. (2024). Endogenous oscillatory rhythms and interactive contingencies jointly influence infant attention during early infant-caregiver interaction. ELife, 12. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.88775.2

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Wass, S., Greenwood, E., Esposito, G., Smith, C., Necef, I., & Phillips, E. (2024). Annual Research Review: “There, the dance is – at the still point of the turning world” – dynamic systems perspectives on coregulation and dysregulation during early development. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 65(4), 481–507. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13960

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Nguyen, T., Reisner, S., Lueger, A., Wass, S. V., Hoehl, S., & Markova, G. (2023). Sing to me, baby: Infants show neural tracking and rhythmic movements to live and dynamic maternal singing. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101313

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Wass, S.V., Phillips, E., Smith, C., Goupil, L. (2022) Vocal communication is tied to interpersonal arousal coupling in caregiver-infant dyads. eLife. e77399. https://elifesciences.org/articles/77399

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Kayhan, E., Matthes, D., Haresign, I. M., Bánki, A., Michel, C., Langeloh, M., Wass, S.V. & Hoehl, S. (2022). DEEP: A dual EEG pipeline for developmental hyperscanning studies. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 54, 101104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101104

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Measuring the temporal dynamics of inter-personal neural entrainment in continuous child-adult EEG hyperscanning data. (2022). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 54, 101093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101093.

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Wass, S. V., Whitehorn, M., Haresign, I. M., Phillips, E., & Leong, V. (2020). Interpersonal neural entrainment during early social interaction. Trends in cognitive sciences, 24(4), 329-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.01.006

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Santamaria, L., Noreika, V., Georgieva, S., Clackson, K., Wass, S., & Leong, V. (2020). Emotional valence modulates the topology of the parent-infant inter-brain network. NeuroImage, 207, 116341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116341

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Clackson, K., Wass, S., Georgieva, S., Brightman, L., Nutbrown, R., Almond, H., Bieluczyk, J., Carro, G., Rigby Dames, B. and Leong, V. (2019). Do helpful mothers help? Effects of maternal scaffolding and infant motivation on cognitive performance. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02661

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Wass., S.V., Smith, C.G., Clackson, K., Gibb, C., Eitzenberger, J., Mirza, F. U. (2019). Parents mimic and influence their infant’s autonomic state through dynamic affective state matching. Current Biology 29(14), 2415-2422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.016

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Wass, S.V., Noreika, V., Georgieva, S., Clackson, K., Brightman, L., Nutbrown, R., Santamaria, L., Leong, V. (2018) Parental neural responsivity to infants’ visual attention: how mature brains scaffold immature brains during social interaction. PLoS Biology. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006328

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Wass, S.V., Clackson, K., Georgieva, S.D., Brightman, L., Nutbrown, R., & Leong, V. (2018). Infants’ visual sustained attention is higher during joint play than solo play: is this due to increased endogenous attention control or exogenous stimulus capture? Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12667

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Leong, V., Byrne, E., Clackson, K., Lam, S. & Wass, S.V. (2017). Speaker gaze increases information coupling between infant and adult brains. Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences. 114 (50), 13290–13295. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.170249311

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Wass, S.V. & Leong, V. (2016). Developmental Psychology: How Social Context Influences Infants’ Attention. Current Biology 26, R357-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.051

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