Koraly Perez-Edgar

McCourtney Professor of Child Studies

Koraly Perez-Edgar

Research Summary

Early temperament and influences on developmental trajectories. Biological substrates and cognitive mechanisms.

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Most Recent Publications

The neurodevelopmental pathways from temperamental fear to anxiety

Eunkyung Shin, K Perez-Edgar, on p. 20

Investment, Integration, and Innovation: Fostering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion across the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (HBCD) Consortium

Y Si, Tracy Murray, Natalie Slopen, Gretchen Bandoli, Kathy Cole, Koraly Perez-Edgar, The HBCD Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workgroup, The HBCD Design Workgroup and Biostatics Workgroup, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Behaviorally inhibited preschoolers experience stronger connectivity among social-related neural regions while interacting with a stranger

Caitlin Aloisio, L Taraban, T Huppert, H Santosa, K Mowatt, Jennifer Silk, Koraly Perez-Edgar, Judith Morgan, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Do you see what I mean?: Using mobile eye tracking to capture parent-child dynamics in the context of anxiety risk

Leigha A. Macneill, Xiaoxue Fu, Kristin A. Buss, Koraly Elisa Perez-Edgar, Development and Psychopathology on p. 1-16

Attention orienting to reward and threat and the reciprocal impacts with learning about reward and threat-associated cues

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Evin Aktar,

Family stressors and adolescents’ anxiety and depressive symptoms during COVID-19

Francis Lobo, Anna Zhou, Nora Tucker, S Myruski, Koraly Perez-Edgar, K Buss, Journal of Child & Family Studies

Temperament Mechanisms in Developmental Psychopathology

K Buss, Koraly Perez-Edgar, 2025,

Do maternal and paternal social trait anxiety explain individual differences in offspring stress reactions during a social performance task?

Evin Aktar, M Nikolić, Xiaoxue Fu, Koraly Perez-Edgar, 2025, Personality and Individual Differences

How will developmental neuroimaging contribute to the prediction of neurodevelopmental or psychiatric disorders? Challenges and opportunities

Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Mary Dozier, Rebecca Saxe, Katherine E. MacDuffie, 2025, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Kelley Gunther, Alicia Vallorani, 2025, Current Directions in Psychological Science

Most-Cited Papers

A developmental neuroscience perspective on affect-biased attention

Santiago Morales, Xiaoxue Fu, Koraly E. Pérez-Edgar, 2016, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 26-41

Association between attention bias to threat and anxiety symptoms in children and adolescents

Rany Abend, Leone de Voogd, Elske Salemink, Reinout W. Wiers, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Amanda Fitzgerald, Lauren K. White, Giovanni A. Salum, Jie He, Wendy K. Silverman, Jeremy W. Pettit, Daniel S. Pine, Yair Bar-Haim, 2018, Anxiety on p. 229-238

Digital disruption? Maternal mobile device use is related to infant social-emotional functioning

Sarah Myruski, Olga Gulyayeva, Samantha Birk, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Kristin A. Buss, Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, 2018, Developmental Science

Frontolimbic functioning during threat-related attention: Relations to early behavioral inhibition and anxiety in children

Xiaoxue Fu, Bradley C. Taber-Thomas, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, 2017, Biological Psychology on p. 98-109

Neural correlates of attention biases, behavioral inhibition, and social anxiety in children: An ERP study

Nhi Thai, Bradley C. Taber-Thomas, Koraly E. Pérez-Edgar, 2016, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 200-210

Maternal anxiety predicts attentional bias towards threat in infancy

Santiago Morales, Kayla M. Brown, Bradley C. Taber-Thomas, Vanessa LoBue, Kristin A. Buss, Koraly E. Pérez-Edgar, 2017, Emotion on p. 874-883

Threat-related attention bias in socioemotional development: A critical review and methodological considerations

Xiaoxue Fu, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, 2019, Developmental Review on p. 31-57

Developmental Relations Among Behavioral Inhibition, Anxiety, and Attention Biases to Threat and Positive Information

Lauren K. White, Kathryn A. Degnan, Heather A. Henderson, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Olga L. Walker, Tomer Shechner, Ellen Leibenluft, Yair Bar-Haim, Daniel S. Pine, Nathan A. Fox, 2017, Child Development on p. 141-155

Attention biases towards and away from threat mark the relation between early dysregulated fear and the later emergence of social withdrawal

Santiago Morales, Koraly E. Pérez-Edgar, Kristin A. Buss, 2015, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology on p. 1067-1078

Temperament and Parenting Styles in Early Childhood Differentially Influence Neural Response to Peer Evaluation in Adolescence

Amanda E. Guyer, Johanna M. Jarcho, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Kathryn A. Degnan, Daniel S. Pine, Nathan A. Fox, Eric E. Nelson, 2015, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology on p. 863-874