Recent Publications
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Hilt, L.M., and Pollak, S.D. (2013). Characterizing the ruminative process in young adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology.
Hanson J.L., Suh, J., Nacewicz, B., Sutterer, M., Cayo, A., Stodola, D., Burghy, C., Wang, H., Avants, B., Yushkevich, P., Essex, M., Pollak, S.D., Davidson, R.J. (2012). Robust automated amygdala segmentation via multi-atlas diffeomorphic registration. Frontiers in Neuroscience. PMCID: PMC3509347
Hanson, J.L., Chung, M.K., Avants, B.B., Rudolph, K.D., Shirtcliff, E.A., Gee, J.C., Davidson, R.J., and Pollak, S.D. (2012). Structural variations in prefrontal cortex mediates the relationship between early childhood stress and spatial working memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 7917-7925. [PMCID: PMC3375595].
Hilt, L.M., and Pollak, S.D. (2012). Getting out of rumination: Comparison of three brief interventions in an adolescent sample. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 40, 1157-1165.
PMCID: PMC3432145
Strang, N.M., Hanson, J.A., and Pollak, S.D. (2012). The importance of biological methods in linking social experience with social and emotional development. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 77, 61-66.
Pollak, S.D. (2012). The role of parenting in the emergence of human emotion: New approaches to the old nature-nurture debate. Parenting: Science and Practice, 12, 232-242. PMCID: PMC3498449
Seltzer, L.J., Prososki, A.R., Ziegler, T.E., and Pollak, S.D. (2012). Instant messages versus human speech: Hormones and why we still need to hear each another. Evolution and Human Behavior. 33(1): 42-45. PMCID: PMC3277914
Roeber, B.J., Tober, C.L., Bolt, D.M., & Pollak, S.D. (2012). Gross motor development in children adopted from orphanage settings. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 54(6), 527-531. PMCID: PMC3439199
Desmarais, C., Roeber, B.J., Smith, M.E., & Pollak, S.D. (2012). Sentence comprehension in post-institutionalized school-age children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55, 45-54. PMCID: PMC3288705
Romens, S.E., & Pollak, S.D. (2012) Emotion regulation predicts attention bias in maltreated children at-risk for depression. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 53(2), 120-127. PMCID:PMC3258383
Hilt, L., Hanson, J., and Pollak, S.D. (2011). Emotion Dysregulation. In B. Brown and M. Prinstein (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence, vol. 3, Elsevier, pp. 160-169.
Romens, S.E., MacCoon, D.G., Abramson, L.Y., & Pollak, S.D. (2011). Cognitive style moderates attention to attribution-relevant stimuli. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 35(2), 134-141. PMCID: PMC3119562
Strang, N.M., Pruessner, J., & Pollak, S.D. (2011). Developmental changes in adolescents' neural response to challenge. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 560-569. PMCID: PMC3175365
Hanson, J.L., Chandra, A., Wolfe, B.L., & Pollak, S.D. (2011). Association between income and the hippocampus. Public Library of Science (PLoS) ONE, 6(5): e18712. PMCID: PMC3087752
Evans, J.L., Selinger, C., and Pollak, S.D. (2011). P300 as a measure of processing capacity in auditory and visual domains in Specific Language Impairment. Brain Research, 1389: 93-102. [NIHMSID: NIHMS288973]
Wiik, K.L., Loman, M.M., Van Ryzin, M.J., Armstrong, J.M., Essex, M.J., Pollak, S.D., and Gunnar, M.R. (2011). Behavioral and emotional symptoms of post-institutionalized children in middle childhood. Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, 52, 56-63. PMCID: PMC2978793
Wilbarger, J., Gunnar, M.R., Schneider, M., and Pollak, S.D. (2011). Sensory processing in internationally-adopted post-institutionalized children. Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, 51, 1105-1114. PMCID: PMC3119572
Hanson, J., Chandra, A., Moss, E., Bhattacharya, J. Wolfe, B., Pollak, S.D. (2012). Brain Development and Poverty: Preliminary Findings. In Biological Consequences of Socioeconomic Inequalities. B. Wolfe, T. Seeman, and W. Evans (Eds). NY: Sage.
Pollak, S.D. (2011). Early Social Experience and the Ontogenesis of Emotion Regulatory Behavior in Children. In The Origins of Altruism and Cooperation. R. W. Sussman and C.R. Cloninger (Eds.), pp. 333- 344. Springer.
Hanson, J.L., Chung, M.K., Avants, B.B., Shirtcliff, E.A., Gee, J.C., Davidson, R.J., and Pollak, S.D. (2010). Early stress is associated with alterations in the orbitofrontal cortex: A tensor-based morphometry investigation of brain structure and behavioral risk. Journal of Neuroscience, 60, 7466-7472. PMCID: PMC2893146
Seltzer, L., Ziegler, T. and Pollak, S.D. (2010). Social vocalizations can release oxytocin in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 277: 2661-2666. PMCID: PMC2982050
Järvinen-Pasley, A., Pollak, S.D., Yam, A., Hill, K.J., Grichanik, M., Mills, D., Reiss, A.L., Korenberg, J.R., and Bellugi, U. (2010). Atypical hemispheric asymmetry in the perception of negative human vocalizations in individuals with Williams Syndrome. Neuropsychologia, 48, 1047-1052. [PMCID: PMC2847456].
Shackman, J.E., Fatani, S., Camras, L.A., Berkowitz, M.J., Bachorowski, J-A., and Pollak, S.D. (2010). Emotion expression among abusive mothers is associated with their children's emotion processing and problem behaviors. Cognition and Emotion. 24, 1421-1430. NIHMSID: NIHMS299721.
Bauer, P.M., Hanson, J.L., Pierson, R.K., Davidson, R.J., and Pollak, S.D. (2009). Cerebellar volume and cognitive functioning in children who experienced early deprivation. Biological Psychiatry, 66(12), 1100-1106. PMCID: PMC2878609
Pollak, S.D., Nelson, C.A., Schlaak, M.F., Roeber, B.J., Wewerka, S.S., Wiik, K.L., Frenn, K.A., Loman, M.M., and Gunnar, M.R. (2010). Neurodevelopmental effects of early deprivation in post-institutionalized children. Child Development, 81(1), 224-236. PMCID: PMC2846096
Loman, M. M., Wiik, K.L., Frenn, K.A., Pollak, S.D., and Gunnar, M.R. (2009). Post-institutionalized children's development: Growth, cognitive, and language outcomes. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. 30, 426-434. PMCID: PMC2890219.
Eatough, E., Shirtcliff, E.A., Hanson, J., and Pollak, S.D. (2009). Hormonal reactivity to MRI scanning in adolescents. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34, 1242-1246. PMCID: PMC2747582
Shirtcliff, E.A., Dahl, R., and Pollak, S.D. (2009). Pubertal Development: Correspondence Between Hormonal and Physical Development. Child Development, 80, 327-337. PMCID: PMC2727719
Pollak, S.D. (2009). The emergence of emotion: Experience, development, and biology. In D. Cicchetti and M.R. Gunnar (Eds.). Meeting the Challenge of Translational Research in Child Psychology: Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 35. New York: Wiley, pp. 189-238.
Shirtcliff, E.A., Coe, C.L., and Pollak, S.D. (2009). Early childhood stress is associated with elevated antibody levels to Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 106, 2963-2967. PMCID: PMC2634803
Seltzer, L.J., & Pollak, S.D. (2009). Attachment and neuroendocrine profiles in infants and adult primates. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 41-42. PMCID: PMC2903225
Pollak, S.D., Messner, M., Kistler, D.J., Cohn, J.F. (2009). Development of perceptual expertise in emotion recognition. Cognition, 110, 242-247. PMCID: PMC2673797
Sanchez, M.M., and Pollak, S.D. (2009). Socio-emotional development following early abuse and neglect: Challenges and insights from translational research. de Haan, M., and Gunnar, M.R. (Eds). Handbook of Developmental Social Neuroscience. NY: Guilford Press, pp. 497-520.
Schuh, J.M., Eigsti, I.M., Evans, J., Pollak, S., & Miller, J. (2008). Is exposure enough? Narrative development in internationally adopted children. BUCLD 32: Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 438-439). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Goldsmith, H.H., Pollak, S.D., and Davidson, R.J. (2008). Developmental neuroscience perspectives on emotion regulation. Child Development Perspectives, 2 (3), 132-140. PMCID: PMC2756715
Perlman, S.B., Kalish, C.W., and Pollak, S.D. (2008). The role of maltreatment experience in children's understanding of the antecedents of emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 22 (4), 651-670.
Shackman, J.E., Wismer Fries, A.B., and Pollak, S.D. (2008). Environmental Influences on brain-behavioral: Evidence from child abuse and neglect. In Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Edition (C.A. Nelson and M. Luciana, Eds). MIT Press, pp. 869-882.
Pollak, Seth D. (2008). Mechanisms linking early experience and the emergence of emotions: Illustrations from the study of maltreated children. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 370-375.
Chung, M.K., Qiu, A., Nacewicz, B.M., Pollak, S.D., & Davidson, R.J. (2008). Tiling manifolds with orthonormal basis. In X. Pennec & S. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of the MICCAI 2008 Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy, 1-13.
Chung, M.K., Nacewicz, B.M., Wang, S., Dalton, K.M., Pollak, S., and Davidson, R.J. (2008). Amygdala surface modeling with weighted spherical harmonics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 5128:177-184.
Wismer Fries, A.B., Shirtcliff, E.A., and Pollak, S.D. (2008). Neuroendocrine dysregulation following early social deprivation in children. Developmental Psychobiology, 50, 588-599. PMCID: PMC2673795
Shackman, J.E., Shackman, A.J., and Pollak, S.D. (2007). Physical abuse amplifies attention to threat and increases anxiety in children. Emotion, 7, 838-852. PMID: 18039053
Gunnar, M.R., and Pollak, S.D. (2007). Supporting parents so that they can support their internationally-adopted children: The larger challenge lurking behind the fatality statistics. Child Maltreatment, 12, 381-382. PMCID: PMC2702774
Wismer Fries, A.B., and Pollak, S.D. (2007). Human emotions and the developing brain. In Human Behavior, Learning, and the Developing Brain (D. Coch, K.W. Fisher, and G. Dawson, Eds). Guilford, pp.329-361.
Saffran JR, Pollak SD, Seibel RL, Shkolnik A. (2007). Dog is a dog is a dog: infant rule learning is not specific to language. Cognition, 105, 669-680. PMCID: PMC2066190.
Camras, L.A., Perlman, S.B., Wismer Fries, A.B., and Pollak, S.D. (2006). Post-institutionalized Chinese and eastern European children: Heterogeneity in the development of emotion understanding. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 30, 193-199.
Pollak, S.D. (2005). Early adversity and mechanisms of plasticity: Integrating affective neuroscience with developmental approaches to psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 17: 735-752. PMID: 16262990
Pollak, S.D., Vardi, S., Bechner, A.M.P., and Curtin, J.J. (2005). Physically abused children's regulation of attention in response to hostility. Child Development, 76(5): 968-977. PMID: 16149995
Shackman, J.S. and Pollak, S.D. (2005). Experimental influences on multimodal perception of emotion. Child Development, 76(5): 1116-1126. PMID: 16150006
Wismer Fries, A.B., Ziegler, T.E., Kurian, J.R., Jacoris, S. and Pollak, S.D. (2005). Early experience in humans is associated with changes in neuropeptides critical for regulating social behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102:17237-17240. PMCID: PMC1287978
Wismer Fries, A.B. and Pollak, S.D. (2004). Emotion understanding in postinstitutionalized Eastern European children. Development and Psychopathology, 16:355-369. PMCID: PMC1373673
Pollak, S.D., and Tolley-Schell, S.A. (2004). Attention, emotion and the development of psychopathology. In M. Posner (Ed.), Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention. NY: Guilford Press.
Pollak S.D., Holt, L.L., and Wismer Fries, A.B. (2004). Hemispheric asymmetries in children's perception of nonlinguistic human affective sounds. Developmental Science, 7:10-18. PMID: 15323113
Pollak, S.D. (2003). Experience-dependent affective learning and risk for psychopathology in children. In J.A. King, C.F. Ferris, and I.I. Lederhendler (Eds)., Roots of Mental Illness in Children. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York Academy of Sciences: NY, pp. 102-111.
Pollak, S.D. and Tolley-Schell, S.A.(2003). Selective attention to facial emotion in physically abused children. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 323-338. PMID: 12943012
Pollak, S.D., & Sinha, P. (2002). Effects of Early Experience on Children's Recognition of Facial Displays of Emotion Developmental Psychology, 38, 784-791. PMID: 12220055
Pollak, S.D. & Kistler, D.J. (2002). Early experience is associated with the development of categorical representations for facial expressions of emotion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 99, 9072-9076. PMCID: PMC124425
Pollak, S.D., Klorman, R., Brumaghim, J., & Cicchetti, D. (2001). P3b reflects maltreated children's reactions to facial displays of emotion. Psychophysiology, 38, 267-274. PMID: 11347872
Pollak, S.D. and Wismer Fries, A.B. (2001). Perceptual asymmetries reflect developmental changes in the neuropsychological mechanisms of emotion perception. Emotion 1, 84-98. PMID: 12894813
Pollak, S.D., Cicchetti, D., Hornung, K., & Reed, A. (2000). Recognizing emotion in faces: Developmental effects of child abuse and neglect. Developmental Psychology, 36, 679-688. PMID: 9886228
Pollak, S.D., Cicchetti, D., and Klorman, R. (1998). Stress, Memory, and Emotion: Developmental considerations from the study of child maltreatment. Development and Psychopathology, 10, 811-828.
Pollak, S.D., Cicchetti, D., Klorman, R., & Brumaghim, J. (1997). Cognitive brain event-related potentials and emotion processing in maltreated children. Child Development, 68, 773-787.