Tobias Grossmann
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 143130 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tobias Grossmann |
| NOMBRES | Tobias |
| APELLIDO | Grossmann |
| FIRMA | GROSSMANN T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1116-6423 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 103 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Childhood first
The Co-Evolution of the Prefrontal Cortex and Human Childhood
Understanding the origins of human cognition requires integrating evidence from brain evolution, life history, and development. This review synthesizes evidence from paleoneurology, neuroscience, and developmental science to propose a novel evo-devo hypothesis: that prefrontal cortex (PFC) evolution was driven by a co-evolutionary feedback loop between socio-ecological pressures and a prolonged childhood. Two key fossil assemblages provide critic…
Social Smiling and Laughter Are Linked to Enhanced Functional Brain Connectivity in Young Infants’ Default Mode Network
The current study used functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to investigate whether and how individual differences in positive social engagement among 5‐month‐old ( N = 109; N = 35 final sample) infants relate to variability in functional connectivity in the human brain's Default‐Mode Network (DMN). Neuroimaging results showed that on average infants displayed greater functional connectivity in the right than in the left hemisphere of the…
Maternal recognition of positive emotion predicts sensitive parenting in infancy
Research on parent-child relationships demonstrates the importance of maternal sensitivity for the development of children's emotion regulation, social competence, and health; thus, it is important to understand the emotional-cognitive capacities underlying maternal sensitivity. We followed 120 mothers and their full-term infants from the newborn period to 5 months postpartum. Mothers' emotion recognition during the newborn period was measured us…
Probing infants’ sensitivity to pupil size when viewing eyes
Sensitive responding to eye cues plays a key role in human social interactions. Pupil size provides subtle cues regarding a social interaction partner's arousal states. The current study assessed infants’ sensitivity to and preference for differences in pupil size. Specifically, we examined White 14‐month‐old infants’ pupillary responses when viewing own‐race and other‐race (Asian) eyes with dilating, constricting, and static medium‐sized pupils.…
Variability in Infants' Functional Brain Network Connectivity Is Associated With Differences in Affect and Behavior
Variability in functional brain network connectivity has been linked to individual differences in cognitive, affective, and behavioral traits in adults. However, little is known about the developmental origins of such brain-behavior correlations. The current study examined functional brain network connectivity and its link to behavioral temperament in typically developing newborn and 1-month-old infants ( M [age] = 25 days; N = 75) using function…
Helping, fast and slow
Children’s emotion perception in context
From early in development, attention to emotional facial expressions is biased toward threat. We examined whether caregiver availability affects children's emotion perception and possibly reduces threat bias. In 3 experiments, 4- and 5-year-old children were asked to detect threatening (angry) and nonthreatening (happy) facial expressions on a touch screen. Children completed the emotion detection task either with or without their caregiver sitti…
Eyes, More Than Other Facial Features, Enhance Real-World Donation Behavior
Attentiveness to eyes predicts generosity in a reputation-relevant context
Audiovisual speech perception in infancy
Recent studies suggest that infants' audiovisual speech perception is influenced by articulatory experience (Mugitani et al., 2008; Yeung & Werker, 2013). The current study extends these findings by testing if infants' emerging ability to produce native sounds in babbling impacts their audiovisual speech perception. We tested 44 6-month-olds on their ability to detect mismatches between concurrently presented auditory and visual vowels and relate…
Infants’ emerging sensitivity to emotional body expressions
Sensitive responding to others' emotional body expressions is an essential social skill in humans. Using event-related brain potentials, it has recently been shown that the ability to discriminate between emotional body expressions develops between 4 and 8 months of age. However, it is not clear whether the perception of emotional body expressions in others evokes sensitive brain responses linked to motivational processes in infants. We therefore…
The development of social brain functions in infancy
One fundamental question in psychology is what makes humans such intensely social beings. Probing the developmental and neural origins of our social capacities is a way of addressing this question. In the last 10 years the field of social-cognitive development has witnessed a surge in studies using neuroscience methods to elucidate the development of social information processing during infancy. While the use of electroencephalography (EEG)/event…
Mapping Prefrontal Cortex Functions in Human Infancy
It has long been thought that the prefrontal cortex, as the seat of most higher brain functions, is functionally silent during most of infancy. This review highlights recent work concerned with the precise mapping (localization) of brain activation in human infants, providing evidence that prefrontal cortex exhibits functional activation much earlier than previously thought. A systematic evaluation of the activation patterns in these neuroimaging…
Mapping functional brain development
The authors review a viewpoint on human functional brain development, interactive specialization (IS), and its application to the emerging network of cortical regions referred to as the social brain. They advance the IS view in 2 new ways. First, they extend IS into a domain to which it has not previously been applied--the emergence of social cognition and mentalizing computations in the brain. Second, they extend the implications of the IS view …
Not all emotions are created equal
There is ample empirical evidence for an asymmetry in the way that adults use positive versus negative information to make sense of their world; specifically, across an array of psychological situations and tasks, adults display a negativity bias, or the propensity to attend to, learn from, and use negative information far more than positive information. This bias is argued to serve critical evolutionarily adaptive functions, but its developmenta…
Not all emotions are created equal
There is ample empirical evidence for an asymmetry in the way that adults use positive versus negative information to make sense of their world; specifically, across an array of psychological situations and tasks, adults display a negativity bias, or the propensity to attend to, learn from, and use negative information far more than positive information. This bias is argued to serve critical evolutionarily adaptive functions, but its developmenta…
Audiovisual speech perception in infancy
Recent studies suggest that infants' audiovisual speech perception is influenced by articulatory experience (Mugitani et al., 2008; Yeung & Werker, 2013). The current study extends these findings by testing if infants' emerging ability to produce native sounds in babbling impacts their audiovisual speech perception. We tested 44 6-month-olds on their ability to detect mismatches between concurrently presented auditory and visual vowels and relate…
Mapping functional brain development
The authors review a viewpoint on human functional brain development, interactive specialization (IS), and its application to the emerging network of cortical regions referred to as the social brain. They advance the IS view in 2 new ways. First, they extend IS into a domain to which it has not previously been applied--the emergence of social cognition and mentalizing computations in the brain. Second, they extend the implications of the IS view …
The development of social brain functions in infancy
One fundamental question in psychology is what makes humans such intensely social beings. Probing the developmental and neural origins of our social capacities is a way of addressing this question. In the last 10 years the field of social-cognitive development has witnessed a surge in studies using neuroscience methods to elucidate the development of social information processing during infancy. While the use of electroencephalography (EEG)/event…
Not all emotions are created equal
There is ample empirical evidence for an asymmetry in the way that adults use positive versus negative information to make sense of their world; specifically, across an array of psychological situations and tasks, adults display a negativity bias, or the propensity to attend to, learn from, and use negative information far more than positive information. This bias is argued to serve critical evolutionarily adaptive functions, but its developmenta…
Mapping functional brain development
The authors review a viewpoint on human functional brain development, interactive specialization (IS), and its application to the emerging network of cortical regions referred to as the social brain. They advance the IS view in 2 new ways. First, they extend IS into a domain to which it has not previously been applied--the emergence of social cognition and mentalizing computations in the brain. Second, they extend the implications of the IS view …
Mapping Prefrontal Cortex Functions in Human Infancy
It has long been thought that the prefrontal cortex, as the seat of most higher brain functions, is functionally silent during most of infancy. This review highlights recent work concerned with the precise mapping (localization) of brain activation in human infants, providing evidence that prefrontal cortex exhibits functional activation much earlier than previously thought. A systematic evaluation of the activation patterns in these neuroimaging…
Infants’ emerging sensitivity to emotional body expressions
Sensitive responding to others' emotional body expressions is an essential social skill in humans. Using event-related brain potentials, it has recently been shown that the ability to discriminate between emotional body expressions develops between 4 and 8 months of age. However, it is not clear whether the perception of emotional body expressions in others evokes sensitive brain responses linked to motivational processes in infants. We therefore…
The development of social brain functions in infancy
One fundamental question in psychology is what makes humans such intensely social beings. Probing the developmental and neural origins of our social capacities is a way of addressing this question. In the last 10 years the field of social-cognitive development has witnessed a surge in studies using neuroscience methods to elucidate the development of social information processing during infancy. While the use of electroencephalography (EEG)/event…
Audiovisual speech perception in infancy
Recent studies suggest that infants' audiovisual speech perception is influenced by articulatory experience (Mugitani et al., 2008; Yeung & Werker, 2013). The current study extends these findings by testing if infants' emerging ability to produce native sounds in babbling impacts their audiovisual speech perception. We tested 44 6-month-olds on their ability to detect mismatches between concurrently presented auditory and visual vowels and relate…
Attentiveness to eyes predicts generosity in a reputation-relevant context
Eyes, More Than Other Facial Features, Enhance Real-World Donation Behavior
Children’s emotion perception in context
From early in development, attention to emotional facial expressions is biased toward threat. We examined whether caregiver availability affects children's emotion perception and possibly reduces threat bias. In 3 experiments, 4- and 5-year-old children were asked to detect threatening (angry) and nonthreatening (happy) facial expressions on a touch screen. Children completed the emotion detection task either with or without their caregiver sitti…
Helping, fast and slow
Probing infants’ sensitivity to pupil size when viewing eyes
Sensitive responding to eye cues plays a key role in human social interactions. Pupil size provides subtle cues regarding a social interaction partner's arousal states. The current study assessed infants’ sensitivity to and preference for differences in pupil size. Specifically, we examined White 14‐month‐old infants’ pupillary responses when viewing own‐race and other‐race (Asian) eyes with dilating, constricting, and static medium‐sized pupils.…
Variability in Infants' Functional Brain Network Connectivity Is Associated With Differences in Affect and Behavior
Variability in functional brain network connectivity has been linked to individual differences in cognitive, affective, and behavioral traits in adults. However, little is known about the developmental origins of such brain-behavior correlations. The current study examined functional brain network connectivity and its link to behavioral temperament in typically developing newborn and 1-month-old infants ( M [age] = 25 days; N = 75) using function…
Maternal recognition of positive emotion predicts sensitive parenting in infancy
Research on parent-child relationships demonstrates the importance of maternal sensitivity for the development of children's emotion regulation, social competence, and health; thus, it is important to understand the emotional-cognitive capacities underlying maternal sensitivity. We followed 120 mothers and their full-term infants from the newborn period to 5 months postpartum. Mothers' emotion recognition during the newborn period was measured us…
Social Smiling and Laughter Are Linked to Enhanced Functional Brain Connectivity in Young Infants’ Default Mode Network
The current study used functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to investigate whether and how individual differences in positive social engagement among 5‐month‐old ( N = 109; N = 35 final sample) infants relate to variability in functional connectivity in the human brain's Default‐Mode Network (DMN). Neuroimaging results showed that on average infants displayed greater functional connectivity in the right than in the left hemisphere of the…
Childhood first
The Co-Evolution of the Prefrontal Cortex and Human Childhood
Understanding the origins of human cognition requires integrating evidence from brain evolution, life history, and development. This review synthesizes evidence from paleoneurology, neuroscience, and developmental science to propose a novel evo-devo hypothesis: that prefrontal cortex (PFC) evolution was driven by a co-evolutionary feedback loop between socio-ecological pressures and a prolonged childhood. Two key fossil assemblages provide critic…
Psychology (13 obras) · Cognitive psychology (11 obras) · Cognition (9 obras) · Developmental psychology (9 obras) · Neuroscience (8 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Child and Animal Learning Development (5 obras) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (4 obras) · Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (4 obras) · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (4 obras)