Publications

Dhima, A., Kalanadhabhatta, M., & Grabell, A.S. (2025). Machine Learning to Classify Simulated Psychotherapy States in Preschool Children from fNIRS.

Kalanadhabhatta, M., Rahman, T., Grabell, A.S., and Deepak Ganesan, D. (2025). Tandem: At-Home Behavior Assessment Using Multimodal Signals from the Parent-Child Dyad. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 9, 4, Article 182. (Link to PDF)

Bivins, Z., & Grabell, A.S. (2024). Early childhood emotion regulation strategy articulation, its neurophysiological correlates, and association with psychopathology. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 10(4), 417–434.

Do, T., Pecukonis, M., Parker, M., Grabell, A.S. (2026). Wearable technology and early socio-emotional processes in youth with autism: A systematic review. Research in Autism,137, 202976, ISSN 3050-6565. (Link to PDF)

Kalanadhabhatta, M., Santana, A.M., Mayorga, L., Rahman, T., Ganesan, D., & Grabell, A.S. 2024. Multi-stakeholder Perspectives on Mental Health Screening Tools for Children. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (Link to PDF)

Mateo Santana, A., & Grabell, A. S. (2023). Incongruent affect in early childhood: Neurobiological markers and links to psychopathology. Emotion, 23(6), 1562–1574

Kalanadhabhatta, M., Rastikerdar, M.M., Rahman, T., Grabell, A.S., & Ganesan, D. (2024). Playlogue: Dataset and Benchmarks for Analyzing Adult-Child Conversations During Play. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 8, 4. Article 173. (Link to PDF)

Li, Y., Grabell, A. S., & Perlman, S. B. (2023). Irritability Moderates the Association between Cognitive Flexibility Task Performance and Related Prefrontal Cortex Activation in Young Children. Brain Sciences, 13(6), 882.

Thomsen, K. N., Mateo Santana, A., & Grabell, A. S. (2023). Examining Early Childhood Dimensions of Emotional Awareness Using a Novel Coloring Task. Child & Family Behavior Therapy, 45(1), 76–95.

Grabell, A. S., Santana, A. M., Thomsen, K. N., Gonzalez, K., Zhang, Z., Bivins, Z., & Rahman, T. (2022). Prefrontal modulation of frustration-related physiology in preschool children ranging from low to severe irritability. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101112.

Kalanadhabhatta, M., Santana, A.M., Ganesan, D., Rahman, T., & Grabell, A.S. (2022) Extracting Multimodal Embeddings via Supervised Contrastive Learning for Psychological Screening. 2022 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Nara, Japan, 2022, pp. 1-8. (Link to PDF)

Kalanadhabhatta, M., Santana, A.M., Zhang, Z., Ganesan, D., Grabell, A.S., & Rahman,T. (2022). EarlyScreen: Multi-scale Instance Fusion for Predicting Neural Activation and Psychopathology in Preschool Children. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 6, 2, Article 60. (Link to PDF)

Grabell, A. S., Huppert, T. J., Jones, H. M.*, Wilett, A. E.*, Bemis. L. M., & Perlman, S. B. (accepted). Using facial muscular movements to understand young children’s emotion regulation and concurrent neural activation. Developmental Science.

Shuster, M. M., Camras, L. A., Grabell, A.S., & Perlman, S. B. (2020). Faces in the wild: A naturalistic study of children’s facial expressions in response to an Internet prank. Cognition and Emotion, 34(2), 359–366.

Grabell, A. S., Huppert, T. J., Fishburn, F. A., Li, Y., Hlutkowsky, C. O., Jones, H. M., Wakschlag, L. S., & Perlman, S. B. (2019). Neural correlates of early deliberate emotion regulation: Young children’s responses to interpersonal scaffolding. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 40, 100708.

Grabell, A. S., Li, Y, Barker, J. W., Wakschlag, L. S., Huppert, T. J., & Perlman, S. B. (2017).
Evidence of Non-Linear Associations Between Frustration-Related Prefrontal Cortex
Activation and the Normal:Abnormal Spectrum of Irritability in Young Children.
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1-11. (Link to PDF)

Grabell, A. S., Olson, S. L., Tardif, T., Thompson, M. C.*, & Gehring, W. J. (2017). Comparing Self-Regulation-Associated Event Related Potentials in Preschool Children with and without High Levels of Disruptive Behavior. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 45(6), 1119-1132. (Link to PDF)

Li, Y., Grabell, A. S., Wakschlag, L. S., Huppert, T. J., & Perlman, S. B. (2017). The neural
substrates of cognitive flexibility are related to individual differences in preschool
irritability: a fNIRS investigation. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 138-144. (Link to PDF)

Waller, R., Hyde, L. W., Grabell, A. S., Alves, M. L., & Olson, S. L. (2015). Differential
associations of early callous‐unemotional, oppositional, and ADHD behaviors: multiple
domains within early‐starting conduct problems?. Journal of Child Psychology and
Psychiatry, 56(6), 657-666. (Link to PDF)

Grabell, A. S., Olson, S. L., Kessler, D. A., Felt, B. T., Miller, A. L. & Tardif, T. (2015). The
impact of culture on physiological processes of emotion regulation: a comparison of US
and Chinese preschoolers. Developmental Science, 18(3), 420-435. (Link to PDF)

Olson, S.L. & Grabell, A.S. (2014). Defiant behavior during infancy and early childhood. In: J.D. Wright (Ed). International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier.

Choe, D. E., Lane, J. D., Grabell, A. S. & Olson, S. L. (2013). Developmental Precursors of
Young School-age Children’s Hostile Attribution Bias. Developmental Psychology,
49(12) 2245-2256. (Link to PDF)

Miller, L. E., Grabell, A. S., Thomas, A., Bermann, E. A., & Graham-Bermann, S. A. (2012).
The associations between community, television, and intimate partner violence, parentchild aggression and aggression in sibling relationships of a sample of preschoolers. Psychology of Violence. Special Issue on Co-Occurrence of Different Forms of Violence, 2(2), 165-178 (Link to PDF)

Olson, S. L., Tardif, T. Z., Miller, A., Felt, B., Grabell, A. S., Kessler, D., Wang, L., Karasawa,
M., & Hirabayashi, H. (2011). Inhibitory control and harsh discipline as predictors of
externalizing problems in young children: a comparative study of U.S., Chinese, and
Japanese preschoolers. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 39(8), 1163-1175. (Link to PDF)

Grabell, A. S., & Knight, R. A. (2009). Examining childhood abuse patterns and sensitive
periods in juvenile sexual offenders. Sexual Abuse: Journal of Research and Treatment,
21, 208-222. (Link to PDF)