Publications

The publications listed below reflect the Affective Development Lab’s research contributions to the study of emotion development, regulation, and related processes across the lifespan. Entries include full citation information and, when available, direct access to published articles or preprints.

These works represent the collaborative efforts of faculty, graduate students, and research assistants, and highlight the lab’s commitment to advancing empirical understanding within the field of affective science.

Submitted

Palser, E. R., Lawson, W., Goodall, E., & Pellicano, E. Interoception in autism, pitfalls and promise: a participatory research perspective.

Palser, E. R., Bahar, N., Carpenter, E., Bardorf, M., Kersey, M., Bogley, R., Inkelis, S., Pinheiro-Chagas, P., Tee, B. L., DeLeon, J., Sturm, V. E., Miller, Z. A., Mandelli, M. L., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., & Pereira, C. Timing of early language milestones predicts middle childhood language outcomes in dyslexia.

2025

Palser, E. R., Morris, N. A., Veziris, C R., Holley, S. R., Wallman Jones, A., Roy, A. R. K., Licata, A. E., Voges, M., Watson Pereira, C., Mandelli, M. L., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., & Sturm, V. E. (2025). Role of lateralized prefrontal cortex in positive and negative emotion regulation: Insights from dyslexia. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-17.

Palser, E. R., Zhang, B., Han, J., Martinez-Arroyo, A., Gerenza, A., Watson-Pereira, C., Miller, Z. A., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., & Sturm, V. E. (2025). Awe proneness links RSA and trait creativity in dyslexia. Journal of Creativity, 100109.

Wallman-Jones, A., Palser, E. R., Noohi, F., Zhang, B. Y., Veziris, C. R., Gerenza, A. K., Martinez-Arroyo, A. I., Shabash, M.., Roy, A. R. K., Holley, S. R., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., & Sturm, V. E. (2025). Elevated facial behavior variability during emotions contributes to better functional communication in dyslexia. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 49, 325–343.

Zhang, B., Gocheva, G., Tyler, A., Shabash, M., Wallman-Jones, A., Han, J., Garcia, D., Watson-Pereira, C., Miller, Z. A., Gorno Tempini, M. L., Sturm, V. E., & Palser, E. R. A sunny disposition and a big heart: thematic analysis of parent-reported strengths in dyslexia.

2024

Palser, E. R., Veziris, C. R., Morris, N. A., Roy, A. R. K., Watson Pereira, C., Holley, S. R., Miller, B. Gorno-Tempini, M. L., & Sturm, V. E. (2024). Elevated acoustic startle reactivity in children with dyslexia. Dyslexia, 30(3), e1779.

2023

Geraudie, A., Pressman, P. S., Pariente, J., Millanski, C., Palser, E. R., Ratnasiri, B., Battistella, G., Mandelli, M. L., Miller, Z. A., Miller, B. L., Sturm, V. E., Rankin, K. P., Gorno-Tempini, M.L., & Montembeault, M. (2023). Expressive prosody in patients with focal anterior temporal neurodegeneration. Neurology, 101 (8) e825-e835.

2022

Palser, E. R., Miller, Z. A., Licata, A. E., Yabut, N. A., Sudarsan, S. P., Tee, B. L., Deleon, J. A., Mandelli, M. L., Caverzasi, E., Sturm, V. E., Hendren, R., Possin, K. L., Miller, B. L., Gorno Tempini, M. L., Watson Pereira, C. (2022). Visual and social differences in dyslexia: deep phenotyping of four cases with spared phonology. NeuroCase, 1-13.

Wallman-Jones, A., Palser, E. R., Benzing, V., Schmidt, M. (2022). Acute physical-activity related increases in interoceptive ability are not enhanced with simultaneous interoceptive attention. Scientific Reports, 12, 15054.

Palser, E. R., Lazerwitz, M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2022). Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience. Nature Neuroscience, 25(3), 272-279.

2021

Palser, E. R., Morris, N. A., Roy, A. R., Holley, S. R., Veziris, C. R., Watson, C., ... & Sturm, V. E. (2021). Children with developmental dyslexia show elevated parasympathetic nervous system activity at rest and greater cardiac deceleration during an empathy task. Biological Psychology, 166, 108203.

Palser, E. R., Glass, J., Fotopoulou, A., & Kilner, J. M. (2021). Relationship between cardiac cycle and the timing of actions during action execution and observation. Cognition, 217, 104907.

Palser, E. R., Galvez-Pol, A., Palmer, C. E., Hannah, R., Fotopoulou, A., Pellicano, E., & Kilner, J. M. (2021). Reduced differentiation of emotion-associated bodily sensations in autism. Autism, 25(5), 1321-1334.

Sturm, V. E., Roy, A. K. R., Datta, S., Wang, C., Sible, I. J., Holley, S. R., Watson, C., Palser, E. R., Morris, N. A., Battistella, G., Rah, E., Meyer, M., Paksava, M., Mandelli, M. L., Deleon, J., Hoeft, F., Caverzasi, E., Miller, Z. A., Shapiro, K. A., Hendren, R., Miller, B. L., & Gorno Tempini, M. L. (2021). Enhanced visceromotor emotional reactivity in dyslexia and its relation to salience network connectivity. Cortex, 134, 278-295.

2020

Fourie, E., Palser, E. R., Pokony, J., & Rivera, S. (2020). Neural processing and production of gesture in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 3045.

Rahnev, D., … Palser, E. R., … Zylberberg, A. (2020). The confidence database. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(3), 317-325.

2019

Palser, E. R., Fotopoulou, A., Pellicano, L., & Kilner, J. M. (2020). Dissociation in how core autism features relate to interoceptive dimensions: evidence from cardiac awareness in autistic children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50(2), 572-582.

2018

Palser, E. R., Palmer, C. E., Galvez-Pol, A., Hannah, R., Fotopoulou, A., & Kilner, J. M. (2018). Alexithymia mediates the relationship between interoceptive sensibility and anxiety. PLOS One, 13(9), e0203212.

Palser, E. R., Fotopoulou, A., Pellicano, E., & Kilner, J. M. (2018). The link between interoceptive processing and anxiety in children with autism spectrum disorder: extending adult findings into a developmental sample. Biological Psychology, 136, 13-21.

Palser, E. R., Fotopoulou, A., & Kilner, J. M. (2018). Altering movement parameters disrupts metacognitive accuracy. Consciousness and Cognition, 57, 33-40.

Palser, E. R. (2018). The role of sensorimotor signals in cognition and its relevance to autism.

PsyPAG Quarterly, 108, 26-29.