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2025

The Critical Need for Research Examining Mental Health Risk and Protective Factors in Black Autistic Youth

Jones, D.R., Yarger, H.A., & Redcay, E. (2025). Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry S0890-8567(25)00305-3.

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Brain bases of real-time social interaction: A meta-analytic investigation of human neuroimaging studies

Merchant, J. S., Glaros, S., Edakoth, E., Harris, R., Tchangalova, N., & Redcay, E. (2025). Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 5, 10.52294/001c.138339.

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Neural similarity and interaction success in autistic and non-autistic adolescents.

McNaughton, K.A., Dziura, S., Lemay, E.P. Jr, Yarger, H.A., & Redcay, E. (2025).Sci Rep. 15(1), 7996.

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Caregiver-child neural synchrony: Magic, mirage, or developmental mechanism?.

Roche, E.C., Redcay, E., & Romeo, R.R. (2025). Dev Cogn Neurosc, 71, 101482.

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Synchrony Across Brains

Schilbach, L. & Redcay, E. (2025). Annu Rev Psychol, 76.

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2024

2023

Examining Adolescents’ Mental Health Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Yarger, H.A., Shariq, D., Hickey, A.C., Giacobbe, E., Dziura, S.L., & Redcay, E. (2023). Merrill Palmer Q (Wayne State Univ Press), 69.

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Partner similarity and social cognitive traits predict social interaction success among strangers.

Dziura, S.L., Hosangadi, A., Shariq, D., Merchant, J.S., & Redcay, E. (2023).Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 18(1), nsad045.

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Posterior superior temporal cortex connectivity is related to social communication in toddlers.

Smith, E., Xiao, Y., Xie, H., Manwaring, S.S., Farmer, C., Thompson, L., D'Souza, P., Thurm, A., & Redcay, E. (2023). Infant Behav Dev, 71, 101831.

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Irritability in early to middle childhood: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with resting state amygdala and ventral striatum connectivity.

Liuzzi, M. T., Kryza-Lacombe, M., Christian, I. R., Owen, C., Redcay, E., Riggins, T., Dougherty, L. R., & Wiggins, J. L. (2023). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101206.

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Neural sensitivity to social reward predicts links between social behavior and loneliness in youth during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dziura, S. L., McNaughton, K. A., Giacobbe, E., Yarger, H. A., Hickey, A. C., Shariq, D., & Redcay, E. (2023). Developmental Psychobiology, 65(6), e22413.

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Social reward network connectivity differs between autistic and neurotypical youth during social interaction.

Xie, H., Moraczewski, D., McNaughton, K. A., Warnell, K. R., Alkire, D., Merchant, J. S., Kirby, L. A., Yarger, H. A., & Redcay, E. (2023). bioRxiv.

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Social-interactive reward elicits similar neural response in autism and typical development and predicts future social experiences.

McNaughton, K. A., Kirby, L. A., Warnell, K. R., Alkire, D., Merchant, J. S., Moraczewski, D., Yarger, H. A., Thurm, A., & Redcay, E. (2023). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 59, 101197.

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2022

Examining Associations Between Amygdala Volumes and Anxiety Symptoms in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Yarger, H.A., Nordahl, C.W., & Redcay, E. (2022).Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7(9), 916–924.

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Neural similarity between mentalizing and live social interaction during the transition to adolescence

Merchant, J. S., Alkire, D., & Redcay, E. (2022).Human Brain Mapping, 43(13), 4074–4090.

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Longitudinal Change in Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Symptoms from before to during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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., Magis-Weinberg, L., Michalska, K.J., Mullins, J.L., Nadel, H., Porter, B.M., Prinstein, M.J., Redcay, E., Rose, A.J., Rote, W.M., Roy, A.K., Sweijen, S.W., Telzer, E.H., Teresi, G.I., Thomas, A.G. & Pfeifer, J.H. (2022).Journal of Research on Adolescence, 33: 74-91.

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Theory of mind in naturalistic conversations between autistic and typically developing children and adolescents

Alkire, D., McNaughton, K. A., Yarger, H. A., Shariq, D., & Redcay, E. (2022).Autism, 27(2), 472-488.

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Developmental differences in brain functional connectivity during social interaction in middle childhood

Xiao, Y., Alkire, D., Moraczewski, D., & Redcay, E. (2022)Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 54, 101079.

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2021

Effects of social and emotional context on neural activation and synchrony during movie viewing

Dziura, S. L., Merchant, J. S., Alkire, D., Rashid, A., Shariq, D., Moraczewski, D., & Redcay, E. (2021). Human Brain Mapping, 42(18), 6053–6069.

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Editorial: Social Interaction in Neuropsychiatry

Leong, V., Bzdok, D., Paulus, F. M., Pelphrey, K., Redcay, E., & Schilbach, L. (2021). Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 683158.

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Explaining Variance in Social Symptoms of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Alkire, D., Warnell, K. R., Kirby, L. A., Moraczewski, D., & Redcay, E. (2021). Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51(4), 1249–1265.

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Read my lips! Perception of speech in noise by preschool children with autism and the impact of watching the speaker’s face

Newman, R. S., Kirby, L. A., Von Holzen, K., & Redcay, E. (2021). Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 13(1), 4.

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2020

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy in toddlers: Neural differentiation of communicative cues and relation to future language abilities

Smith, E. G., Condy, E., Anderson, A., Thurm, A., Manwaring, S. S., Swineford, L., Gandjbakhche, A., & Redcay, E. (2020). Developmental Science, 23(6), e12948.

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Social cognition in context: A naturalistic imaging approach

Redcay, E., & Moraczewski, D. (2020). NeuroImage, 216, 116392.

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Cortical temporal hierarchy is immature in middle childhood

Moraczewski, D., Nketia, J., & Redcay, E. (2020). NeuroImage, 216, 116616.

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Interpersonal Synchrony in Autism

McNaughton, K. A., & Redcay, E. (2020). Current Psychiatry Reports, 22(3), 12.

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2019

Handling Multiplicity in Neuroimaging Through Bayesian Lenses with Multilevel Modeling

Chen, G., Xiao, Y., Taylor, P. A., Rajendra, J. K., Riggins, T., Geng, F., Redcay, E., & Cox, R. W. (2019). Neuroinformatics, 17(4), 515–545.

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Using second-person neuroscience to elucidate the mechanisms of social interaction

Redcay, E., & Schilbach, L. (2019). Nature Reviews. Neuroscience, 20(8), 495–505.

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Social and delay discounting in autism spectrum disorder

Warnell, K. R., Maniscalco, S., Baker, S., Yi, R., & Redcay, E. (2019). Autism Research: Official Journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 12(6), 870–877.

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An fMRI study of action observation and action execution in childhood

Morales, S., Bowman, L. C., Velnoskey, K. R., Fox, N. A., & Redcay, E. (2019). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 37, 100655.

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Neural correlates of developing theory of mind competence in early childhood

Xiao, Y., Geng, F., Riggins, T., Chen, G., & Redcay, E. (2019). NeuroImage, 184, 707–716.

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2018

Developmental relations between amygdala volume and anxiety traits: Effects of informant, sex, and age

Warnell, K. R., Pecukonis, M., & Redcay, E. (2018). Development and Psychopathology, 30(4), 1503–1515.

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Social interaction recruits mentalizing and reward systems in middle childhood

Alkire, D., Levitas, D., Warnell, K. R., & Redcay, E. (2018). Human Brain Mapping, 39(10), 3928–3942.

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Let’s chat: Developmental neural bases of social motivation during real-time peer interaction

Warnell, K. R., Sadikova, E., & Redcay, E. (2018). Developmental Science, 21(3), e12581.

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Social network size relates to developmental neural sensitivity to biological motion

Kirby, L. A., Moraczewski, D., Warnell, K., Velnoskey, K., & Redcay, E. (2018). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 30, 169–177.

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Inter-subject synchrony as an index of functional specialization in early childhood

Moraczewski, D., Chen, G., & Redcay, E. (2018). Scientific Reports, 8(1), 2252.

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Chapter One—A Social-Interactive Neuroscience Approach to Understanding the Developing Brain

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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A Social-Interactive Neuroscience Approach to Understanding the Developing Brain

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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2017

Development of hippocampal functional connectivity during childhood

Blankenship, S. L., Redcay, E., Dougherty, L. R., & Riggins, T. (2017). Human Brain Mapping, 38(1), 182–201.

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2016

Perceived communicative intent in gesture and language modulates the superior temporal sulcus

Redcay, E., Velnoskey, K. R., & Rowe, M. L. (2016). Human Brain Mapping, 37(10), 3444–3461.

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Reprint of “Biological motion perception links diverse facets of theory of mind during middle childhood.”

Rice, K., Anderson, L. C., Velnoskey, K., Thompson, J. C., & Redcay, E. (2016a). Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 149, 72–80.

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Perceived live interaction modulates the developing social brain

Rice, K., Moraczewski, D., & Redcay, E. (2016). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(9), 1354–1362.

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Biological motion perception links diverse facets of theory of mind during middle childhood

Rice, K., Anderson, L. C., Velnoskey, K., Thompson, J. C., & Redcay, E. (2016b). Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 146, 238–246.

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Hippocampal functional connectivity and episodic memory in early childhood

Riggins, T., Geng, F., Blankenship, S. L., & Redcay, E. (2016). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 58–69.

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Communicative Signals Promote Object Recognition Memory and Modulate the Right Posterior STS

Redcay, E., Ludlum, R. S., Velnoskey, K. R., & Kanwal, S. (2016). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(1), 8–19.

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2015 and older

Tracking the Neurodevelopmental Correlates of Mental State Inference in Early Childhood

Anderson, L. C., Rice, K., Chrabaszcz, J., & Redcay, E. (2015). Developmental Neuropsychology, 40(7–8), 379–394.

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Rapid neural discrimination of communicative gestures

Redcay, E., & Carlson, T. A. (2015). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(4), 545–551.

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Spontaneous mentalizing captures variability in the cortical thickness of social brain regions

Rice, K., & Redcay, E. (2015). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(3), 327–334.

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Developmental Differences in Relations Between Episodic Memory and Hippocampal Subregion Volume During Early Childhood

Riggins, T., Blankenship, S. L., Mulligan, E., Rice, K., & Redcay, E. (2015). Child Development, 86(6), 1710–1718.

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2014

Contributions of social and affective neuroscience to our understanding of typical and atypical development

Silk, J. S., Redcay, E., & Fox, N. A. (2014). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 8, 1–6.

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Amygdala volume linked to individual differences in mental state inference in early childhood and adulthood

Rice, K., Viscomi, B., Riggins, T., & Redcay, E. (2014). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 8, 153–163.

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2013

Atypical brain activation patterns during a face-to-face joint attention game in adults with autism spectrum disorder

Redcay, E., Dodell-Feder, D., Mavros, P. L., Kleiner, M., Pearrow, M. J., Triantafyllou, C., Gabrieli, J. D., & Saxe, R. (2013). Human Brain Mapping, 34(10), 2511–2523.

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Interaction versus observation: A finer look at this distinction and its importance to autism

Redcay, E., Rice, K., & Saxe, R. (2013). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(4), 435–435.

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Eye-tracking, autonomic, and electrophysiological correlates of emotional face processing in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

Wagner, J. B., Hirsch, S. B., Vogel-Farley, V. K., Redcay, E., & Nelson, C. A. (2013). Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(1), 188–199.

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Intrinsic functional network organization in high-functioning adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

Redcay, E., Moran, J. M., Mavros, P. L., Tager-Flusberg, H., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Whitfield-Gabrieli, S. (2013). Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 573.

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