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Liuzzi, M. T., Kryza-Lacombe, M., Christian, I. R., Owen, C., Redcay, E., Riggins, T., Dougherty, L. R., Wiggins, J. L. (2023).Irritability in early to middle childhood: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with resting state amygdala and ventral striatum connectivity. Developmental cognitive neuroscience,60,101206.
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Dziura, S. L., McNaughton, K. A., Giacobbe, E., Yarger, H. A., Hickey, A. C., Shariq, D., Redcay, E. (2023).Neural sensitivity to social reward predicts links between social behavior and loneliness in youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Developmental psychobiology,65(6),e22413.
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Xie, H., Moraczewski, D., McNaughton, K. A., Warnell, K. R., Alkire, D., Merchant, J. S., Kirby, L. A., Yarger, H. A., Redcay, E. (2023).Social reward network connectivity differs between autistic and neurotypical youth during social interaction bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology.
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McNaughton, K. A., Kirby, L. A., Warnell, K. R., Alkire, D., Merchant, J. S., Moraczewski, D., Yarger, H. A., Thurm, A.,Redcay, E. (2023).Social-interactive reward elicits similar neural response in autism and typical development and predicts future social experiences. Developmental cognitive neuroscience., 59, 101197.
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Smith, E., Xiao, Y., Xie, H., Manwaring, S. S., Farmer, C., Thompson, L., D'Souza, P., Thurm, A., Redcay, E. (2023) Posterior superior temporal cortex connectivity is related to social communication in toddlers. Infant behavior and development., 71, 101831.
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Dziura, S.L., Hosangadi, A,, Shariq, D., Merchant, J.S., Redcay, E. (2023). Partner similarity and social cognitive traits predict social interaction success among strangers. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci., 18(1),1-13.
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Yarger, H.A., Nordahl, C.W., & Redcay, E. (2022). Examining Associations Between Amygdala Volumes and Anxiety Symptoms in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7(9), 916–924.
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Merchant, J. S., Alkire, D., & Redcay, E. (2022). Neural similarity between mentalizing and live social interaction during the transition to adolescence. Human Brain Mapping, 43(13), 4074–4090.
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Barendse, M. E. A., Flannery, J., Cavanagh, C., Aristizabal, M., Becker, S. P., Berger, E., Breaux, R., Campione-Barr, N., Church, J. A., Crone, E. A., Dahl, R. E., Dennis-Tiwary, T. A., Dvorsky, M. R., Dziura, S. L., van de Groep, S., Ho, T. C., Killoren, S. E., Langberg, J. M., Larguinho, T. L., … Pfeifer, J. H. (2022). Longitudinal Change in Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Symptoms from before to during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Research on Adolescence: The Official Journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence.
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Alkire, D., McNaughton, K. A., Yarger, H. A., Shariq, D., & Redcay, E. (2022). Theory of mind in naturalistic conversations between autistic and typically developing children and adolescents. Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 13623613221103700.
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Xiao, Y., Alkire, D., Moraczewski, D., & Redcay, E. (2022). Developmental differences in brain functional connectivity during social interaction in middle childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 54, 101079.
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Xie, H., & Redcay, E. (2022). A tale of two connectivities: Intra- and inter-subject functional connectivity jointly enable better prediction of social abilities. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, 875828.
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Dziura, S. L., Merchant, J. S., Alkire, D., Rashid, A., Shariq, D., Moraczewski, D., & Redcay, E. (2021). Effects of social and emotional context on neural activation and synchrony during movie viewing. Human Brain Mapping, 42(18), 6053–6069.
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Leong, V., Bzdok, D., Paulus, F. M., Pelphrey, K., Redcay, E., & Schilbach, L. (2021). Editorial: Social Interaction in Neuropsychiatry. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 683158.
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Alkire, D., Warnell, K. R., Kirby, L. A., Moraczewski, D., & Redcay, E. (2021). Explaining Variance in Social Symptoms of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51(4), 1249–1265.
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Newman, R. S., Kirby, L. A., Von Holzen, K., & Redcay, E. (2021). Read my lips! Perception of speech in noise by preschool children with autism and the impact of watching the speaker’s face. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 13(1), 4.
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Smith, E. G., Condy, E., Anderson, A., Thurm, A., Manwaring, S. S., Swineford, L., Gandjbakhche, A., & Redcay, E. (2020). Functional near-infrared spectroscopy in toddlers: Neural differentiation of communicative cues and relation to future language abilities. Developmental Science, 23(6), e12948.
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Yarger, H. A., & Redcay, E. (2020). A conceptual model of risk and protective factors associated with internalizing symptoms in autism spectrum disorder: A scoping review, synthesis, and call for more research. Development and Psychopathology, 32(4), 1254–1272.
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Redcay, E., & Moraczewski, D. (2020). Social cognition in context: A naturalistic imaging approach. NeuroImage, 216, 116392.
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Moraczewski, D., Nketia, J., & Redcay, E. (2020). Cortical temporal hierarchy is immature in middle childhood. NeuroImage, 216, 116616.
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McNaughton, K. A., & Redcay, E. (2020). Interpersonal Synchrony in Autism. Current Psychiatry Reports, 22(3), 12.
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Warnell, K. R., & Redcay, E. (2019). Minimal coherence among varied theory of mind measures in childhood and adulthood. Cognition, 191, 103997.
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Chen, G., Xiao, Y., Taylor, P. A., Rajendra, J. K., Riggins, T., Geng, F., Redcay, E., & Cox, R. W. (2019). Handling Multiplicity in Neuroimaging Through Bayesian Lenses with Multilevel Modeling. Neuroinformatics, 17(4), 515–545.
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Redcay, E., & Schilbach, L. (2019). Using second-person neuroscience to elucidate the mechanisms of social interaction. Nature Reviews. Neuroscience, 20(8), 495–505.
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Geng, F., Redcay, E., & Riggins, T. (2019). The influence of age and performance on hippocampal function and the encoding of contextual information in early childhood. NeuroImage, 195, 433–443.
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Warnell, K. R., Maniscalco, S., Baker, S., Yi, R., & Redcay, E. (2019). Social and delay discounting in autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research: Official Journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 12(6), 870–877.
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Morales, S., Bowman, L. C., Velnoskey, K. R., Fox, N. A., & Redcay, E. (2019). An fMRI study of action observation and action execution in childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 37, 100655.
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Xiao, Y., Geng, F., Riggins, T., Chen, G., & Redcay, E. (2019). Neural correlates of developing theory of mind competence in early childhood. NeuroImage, 184, 707–716.
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Warnell, K. R., Pecukonis, M., & Redcay, E. (2018). Developmental relations between amygdala volume and anxiety traits: Effects of informant, sex, and age. Development and Psychopathology, 30(4), 1503–1515.
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Alkire, D., Levitas, D., Warnell, K. R., & Redcay, E. (2018). Social interaction recruits mentalizing and reward systems in middle childhood. Human Brain Mapping, 39(10), 3928–3942.
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Warnell, K. R., Sadikova, E., & Redcay, E. (2018). Let’s chat: Developmental neural bases of social motivation during real-time peer interaction. Developmental Science, 21(3), e12581.
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Kirby, L. A., Moraczewski, D., Warnell, K., Velnoskey, K., & Redcay, E. (2018). Social network size relates to developmental neural sensitivity to biological motion. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 30, 169–177.
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Moraczewski, D., Chen, G., & Redcay, E. (2018). Inter-subject synchrony as an index of functional specialization in early childhood. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 2252.
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Redcay, E., & Warnell, K. R. (2018a). Chapter One—A Social-Interactive Neuroscience Approach to Understanding the Developing Brain. In J. B. Benson (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior (Vol. 54, pp. 1–44). JAI.
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Redcay, E., & Warnell, K. R. (2018b). A Social-Interactive Neuroscience Approach to Understanding the Developing Brain. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 54, 1–44.
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Blankenship, S. L., Redcay, E., Dougherty, L. R., & Riggins, T. (2017). Development of hippocampal functional connectivity during childhood. Human Brain Mapping, 38(1), 182–201.
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Redcay, E., Velnoskey, K. R., & Rowe, M. L. (2016). Perceived communicative intent in gesture and language modulates the superior temporal sulcus. Human Brain Mapping, 37(10), 3444–3461.
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Rice, K., Anderson, L. C., Velnoskey, K., Thompson, J. C., & Redcay, E. (2016a). Reprint of “Biological motion perception links diverse facets of theory of mind during middle childhood.” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 149, 72–80.
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Rice, K., Moraczewski, D., & Redcay, E. (2016). Perceived live interaction modulates the developing social brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(9), 1354–1362.
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Rice, K., Anderson, L. C., Velnoskey, K., Thompson, J. C., & Redcay, E. (2016b). Biological motion perception links diverse facets of theory of mind during middle childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 146, 238–246.
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Riggins, T., Geng, F., Blankenship, S. L., & Redcay, E. (2016). Hippocampal functional connectivity and episodic memory in early childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 58–69.
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Rice, K., & Redcay, E. (2016). Interaction matters: A perceived social partner alters the neural processing of human speech. NeuroImage, 129, 480–488.
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Redcay, E., Ludlum, R. S., Velnoskey, K. R., & Kanwal, S. (2016). Communicative Signals Promote Object Recognition Memory and Modulate the Right Posterior STS. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(1), 8–19.
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Anderson, L. C., Rice, K., Chrabaszcz, J., & Redcay, E. (2015). Tracking the Neurodevelopmental Correlates of Mental State Inference in Early Childhood. Developmental Neuropsychology, 40(7–8), 379–394.
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Redcay, E., & Carlson, T. A. (2015). Rapid neural discrimination of communicative gestures. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(4), 545–551.
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Rice, K., & Redcay, E. (2015). Spontaneous mentalizing captures variability in the cortical thickness of social brain regions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(3), 327–334.
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Riggins, T., Blankenship, S. L., Mulligan, E., Rice, K., & Redcay, E. (2015). Developmental Differences in Relations Between Episodic Memory and Hippocampal Subregion Volume During Early Childhood. Child Development, 86(6), 1710–1718.
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Silk, J. S., Redcay, E., & Fox, N. A. (2014). Contributions of social and affective neuroscience to our understanding of typical and atypical development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 8, 1–6.
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Rice, K., Viscomi, B., Riggins, T., & Redcay, E. (2014). Amygdala volume linked to individual differences in mental state inference in early childhood and adulthood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 8, 153–163.
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Redcay, E., Dodell-Feder, D., Mavros, P. L., Kleiner, M., Pearrow, M. J., Triantafyllou, C., Gabrieli, J. D., & Saxe, R. (2013). Atypical brain activation patterns during a face-to-face joint attention game in adults with autism spectrum disorder. Human Brain Mapping, 34(10), 2511–2523.
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Redcay, E., Rice, K., & Saxe, R. (2013). Interaction versus observation: A finer look at this distinction and its importance to autism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(4), 435–435.
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Wagner, J. B., Hirsch, S. B., Vogel-Farley, V. K., Redcay, E., & Nelson, C. A. (2013). Eye-tracking, autonomic, and electrophysiological correlates of emotional face processing in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(1), 188–199.
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Redcay, E., Moran, J. M., Mavros, P. L., Tager-Flusberg, H., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Whitfield-Gabrieli, S. (2013). Intrinsic functional network organization in high-functioning adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 573.
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Dufour, N., Redcay, E., Young, L., Mavros, P. L., Moran, J. M., Triantafyllou, C., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Saxe, R. (2013). Similar brain activation during false belief tasks in a large sample of adults with and without autism. PloS One, 8(9), e75468.
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Redcay, E., Kleiner, M., & Saxe, R. (2012). Look at this: The neural correlates of initiating and responding to bids for joint attention. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 169.
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Redcay, E., Dodell-Feder, D., Pearrow, M. J., Mavros, P. L., Kleiner, M., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Saxe, R. (2010). Live face-to-face interaction during fMRI: A new tool for social cognitive neuroscience. NeuroImage, 50(4), 1639–1647.
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Redcay, E., & Courchesne, E. (2008). Deviant functional magnetic resonance imaging patterns of brain activity to speech in 2-3-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 64(7), 589–598.
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Pierce, K., & Redcay, E. (2008). Fusiform function in children with an autism spectrum disorder is a matter of “who.” Biological Psychiatry, 64(7), 552–560.
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Redcay, E. (2008). The superior temporal sulcus performs a common function for social and speech perception: Implications for the emergence of autism. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 32(1), 123–142.
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Redcay, E., Haist, F., & Courchesne, E. (2008). Functional neuroimaging of speech perception during a pivotal period in language acquisition. Developmental Science, 11(2), 237–252.
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Redcay, E., Kennedy, D. P., & Courchesne, E. (2007). FMRI during natural sleep as a method to study brain function during early childhood. NeuroImage, 38(4), 696–707.
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Courchesne, E., Pierce, K., Schumann, C. M., Redcay, E., Buckwalter, J. A., Kennedy, D. P., & Morgan, J. (2007). Mapping early brain development in autism. Neuron, 56(2), 399–413.
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Kennedy, D. P., Redcay, E., & Courchesne, E. (2006). Failing to deactivate: Resting functional abnormalities in autism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103(21), 8275–8280.
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Courchesne, E., Redcay, E., Morgan, J. T., & Kennedy, D. P. (2005). Autism at the beginning: Microstructural and growth abnormalities underlying the cognitive and behavioral phenotype of autism. Development and Psychopathology, 17(3), 577–597.
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Redcay, E., & Courchesne, E. (2005). When Is the Brain Enlarged in Autism? A Meta-Analysis of All Brain Size Reports. Biological Psychiatry, 58(1), 1–9.
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Courchesne, E., Redcay, E., & Kennedy, D. P. (2004). The autistic brain: Birth through adulthood. Current Opinion in Neurology, 17(4), 489–496.
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