Search Results - "Leppänen, Jukka"

Tuning the developing brain to social signals of emotions by Nelson, Charles A, Leppänen, Jukka M

“…Key Points Most humans develop a capacity to recognize the emotional signals of different facial expressions. This capacity is mediated by a brain network that…”
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Infants' attention bias to faces as an early marker of social development by Peltola, Mikko J., Yrttiaho, Santeri, Leppänen, Jukka M.

“…Infants have a strong tendency to look at faces. We examined individual variations in this attentional bias in 7‐month‐old infants by using a face‐distractor…”
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Eye-tracking-based assessment of cognitive function in low-resource settings by Forssman, Linda, Ashorn, Per, Ashorn, Ulla, Maleta, Kenneth, Matchado, Andrew, Kortekangas, Emma, Leppänen, Jukka M

“…BackgroundEarly development of neurocognitive functions in infants can be compromised by poverty, malnutrition and lack of adequate stimulation. Optimal…”
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Early development of attention to threat-related facial expressions by Leppänen, Jukka M, Cataldo, Julia K, Bosquet Enlow, Michelle, Nelson, Charles A

“…Infants from an early age have a bias to attend more to faces than non-faces and after 5 months are particularly attentive to fearful faces. We examined the…”
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Attention to Faces Expressing Negative Emotion at 7 Months Predicts Attachment Security at 14 Months by Peltola, Mikko J., Forssman, Linda, Puura, Kaija, van IJzendoorn, Marinus H., Leppänen, Jukka M.

“…To investigate potential infant-related antecedents characterizing later attachment security, this study tested whether attention to facial expressions,…”
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Emotional information processing in mood disorders: a review of behavioral and neuroimaging findings by Leppanen, Jukka M

“…PURPOSE OF REVIEWA relatively long history of research has shown that mood disorders are associated with abnormalities in the processing of emotional stimuli…”
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Using Eye Tracking to Understand Infants' Attentional Bias for Faces by Leppanen, Jukka M

“…Infants have a natural tendency to look at adults' faces, possibly to help initiate vital interactions with caregivers during sensitive periods of development…”
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Associations between individual variations in visual attention at 9 months and behavioral competencies at 18 months in rural Malawi by Pyykkö, Juha, Ashorn, Ulla, Chilora, Eletina, Maleta, Kenneth, Ashorn, Per, Leppänen, Jukka M

“…Theoretical and empirical considerations suggest that individual differences in infant visual attention correlate with variations in cognitive skills later in…”
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Converging neural and behavioral evidence for a rapid, generalized response to threat-related facial expressions in 3-year-old children by Xie, Wanze, Leppänen, Jukka M., Kane-Grade, Finola E., Nelson, Charles A.

“…•Children's ERP and behavioral responses to facial expressions converge on an enhanced response to threat-related (i.e., fearful and angry) faces at 3 years of…”
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Developmental precursors of social brain networks: the emergence of attentional and cortical sensitivity to facial expressions in 5 to 7 months old infants by Yrttiaho, Santeri, Forssman, Linda, Kaatiala, Jussi, Leppänen, Jukka M

“…Biases in attention towards facial cues during infancy may have an important role in the development of social brain networks. The current study used a…”
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Evaluation of a community health worker home visit intervention to improve child development in South Africa: A cluster-randomized controlled trial by Rockers, Peter C, Leppänen, Jukka M, Tarullo, Amanda, Coetzee, Lezanie, Fink, Günther, Hamer, Davidson H, Yousafzai, Aisha K, Evans, Denise

“…Effective integration of home visit interventions focused on early childhood development into existing service platforms is important for expanding access in…”
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Affective-motivational brain responses to direct gaze in children with autism spectrum disorder by Kylliäinen, Anneli, Wallace, Simon, Coutanche, Marc N., Leppänen, Jukka M., Cusack, James, Bailey, Anthony J., Hietanen, Jari K.

“…Background:  It is unclear why children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to be inattentive to, or even avoid eye contact. The goal of this study was…”
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An ERP Study of Emotional Face Processing in the Adult and Infant Brain by Leppänen, Jukka M., Moulson, Margaret C., Vogel-Farley, Vanessa K., Nelson, Charles A.

“…To examine the ontogeny of emotional face processing, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from adults and 7-month-old infants while viewing pictures…”
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Association between working memory performance and parent and teacher ratings of working memory in 11-year-old children born preterm by Haveri, Laura, Munck, Petriina, Leppänen, Jukka M, Korpela, Satu, Haataja, Leena, Nyman, Anna H

“…Working memory (WM) difficulties are often observed in children born preterm. We examined whether performance-based measures of WM components are associated…”
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The Stability of Early Developing Attentional Bias for Faces and Fear From 8 to 30 and 60 Months in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study by Kataja, Eeva-Leena, Eskola, Eeva, Pelto, Juho, Korja, Riikka, Paija, Sasu-Petteri, Nolvi, Saara, Häikiö, Tuomo, Karlsson, Linnea, Karlsson, Hasse, Leppänen, Jukka M.

“…Most infants exhibit an attentional bias for faces and fearful facial expressions. These biases reduce toward the third year of life, but little is known about…”
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Regulatory variant of the TPH2 gene and early life stress are associated with heightened attention to social signals of fear in infants by Forssman, Linda, Peltola, Mikko J., Yrttiaho, Santeri, Puura, Kaija, Mononen, Nina, Lehtimäki, Terho, Leppänen, Jukka M.

“…Background Cross‐species evidence suggests that genetic and experiential factors act early in development to establish individual emotional traits, but little…”
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Signaled night awakening and its association with social information processing and socio-emotional development across the first two years by Mäkelä, Tiina E, Kylliäinen, Anneli, Saarenpää-Heikkilä, Outi, Paavonen, E Juulia, Paunio, Tiina, Leppänen, Jukka M, Peltola, Mikko J

“…Abstract Study Objectives Night awakening is common in infancy, and some infants continue to have signaled night awakenings throughout early childhood…”
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Widely applicable MATLAB routines for automated analysis of saccadic reaction times by Leppänen, Jukka M., Forssman, Linda, Kaatiala, Jussi, Yrttiaho, Santeri, Wass, Sam

“…Saccadic reaction time (SRT) is a widely used dependent variable in eye-tracking studies of human cognition and its disorders. SRTs are also frequently…”
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Robustness and Precision: How Data Quality May Influence Key Dependent Variables in Infant Eye-Tracker Analyses by Wass, Sam V., Forssman, Linda, Leppänen, Jukka

“…In recent years, eye‐tracking has become a popular method for drawing conclusions about infant cognition. Relatively little attention has been paid, however,…”
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The Emergence and Stability of the Attentional Bias to Fearful Faces in Infancy by Peltola, Mikko J., Hietanen, Jari K., Forssman, Linda, Leppänen, Jukka M.

“…Several studies have shown that at 7 months of age, infants display an attentional bias toward fearful facial expressions. In this study, we analyzed visual…”
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