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Crynodeb ymchwil
Fy mhrif ddiddordebau ymchwil yw rôl profiadau cynnar (perthnasoedd rhwng rhieni a babanod, gwahaniaethau amgylcheddol ac unigol ) sy'n hyrwyddo datblygiad iach yr ymennydd ac wrth nodi ffactorau a allai roi unigolyn mewn perygl o gael seicopatholeg. Mae gen i ddiddordeb mewn datblygiad babanod, plant ac oedolion ac rwy'n defnyddio technegau ymddygiadol a niwroddelweddu amrywiol, gan gynnwys olrhain llygaid, electroencecephalogram (EEG), a sbectrosgopeg bron isgoch swyddogaethol (fNIRS).
Cyhoeddiad
2026
- Frewin, K. L. et al. 2026. Electrophysiological evidence of infants’ understanding of verbs. Cortex: A Journal devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior 196 , pp.41-60. (10.1016/j.cortex.2025.12.009)
- Gerson, S. A. et al. 2026. Doll play improves false belief reasoning: Evidence from a randomized-control trial. PLoS ONE 21 (3) e0343698. (10.1371/journal.pone.0343698)
- Rapuc, S. et al., 2026. Cognitive development at late infancy and school age in children cooled for neonatal encephalopathy. Pediatric Research 99 , pp.315-322. (10.1038/s41390-025-04152-4)
- Rayson, H. et al., 2026. Functional heterogeneity of beta bursts in childhood reveals a dimensional neural signature of motor skill. Imaging Neuroscience 4 1376. (10.1162/imag.a.1376)
2025
- Hashmi, S. et al., 2025. Does children's play and associated neural activity differ according to individual differences in social skills, social understanding, and social contexts?. Cognitive Development 76 101623. (10.1016/j.cogdev.2025.101623)
- Mitev, K. et al., 2025. The who, when, and why of pacifier use. Pediatric Research 97 , pp.2282-2287. (10.1038/s41390-024-03540-6)
- Frewin, K. L. et al. 2025. Parent-reported relations between vocabulary and motor development in infancy: Differences between verbs and nouns. Infancy 30 (1) e12638. (10.1111/infa.12638)
- Thomas, K. S. et al. 2025. Neural correlates of emotion regulation and associations with disordered eating during preadolescence. Developmental Psychobiology 67 (1) e70009. (10.1002/dev.70009)
2024
- Keating, J. et al. 2024. Embracing neurodiversity in doll play: Investigating neural and language correlates of doll play in a neurodiverse sample. European Journal of Neuroscience 60 (3), pp.4097-4114. (10.1111/ejn.16144)
- Marshall, T. E. et al., 2024. Disordered eating behaviours and basic psychological need satisfaction: the mediating role of anxiety symptoms in preadolescents. Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health 34 (1-3), pp.42-52. (10.2989/17280583.2023.2277763)
- Keating, J. et al. 2024. Exploring the presence and impact of sensory differences in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. Research in Developmental Disabilities 148 104714. (10.1016/j.ridd.2024.104714)
- Thomas, K. S. et al. 2024. Associations between disordered eating, internalizing symptoms, and behavioral and neural correlates of response inhibition in preadolescence. Developmental Psychobiology 66 (3) e22477. (10.1002/dev.22477)
2023
- Keating, J. et al. 2023. Possible disrupted biological movement processing in Developmental Coordination Disorder. Cortex 168 , pp.1-13. (10.1016/j.cortex.2023.06.018)
2022
- Thomas, K. S. et al. 2022. Neural correlates of executive functioning in anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16 841633. (10.3389/fnhum.2022.841633)
- Birch-Hurst, K. et al. 2022. Altering facial movements abolishes neural mirroring of facial expressions. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience 22 , pp.316-327. (10.3758/s13415-021-00956-z)
- Hashmi, S. et al. 2022. Doll play prompts social thinking and social talking: representations of internal state language in the brain. Developmental Science 25 (2) e13163. (10.1111/desc.13163)
2021
- Aanestad, E. et al., 2021. What is happening in children’s brains when they are playing pretend?. Frontiers for Young Minds (10.3389/frym.2021.644083)
- Thomas, K. S. , Williams, M. O. and Vanderwert, R. E. 2021. Disordered eating and internalizing symptoms in preadolescence. Brain and Behavior 11 (1) e01904. (10.1002/brb3.1904)
2020
- Hashmi, S. et al. 2020. Exploring the benefits of doll play through neuroscience. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14 560176. (10.3389/fnhum.2020.560176)
- Rychlowska, M. and Vanderwert, R. 2020. The pacified face: early embodiment processes and the use of dummies. Frontiers in Psychology 11 387. (10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00387)
2018
- Crespo-Llado, M. M. et al., 2018. Eight-month-old infants' behavioral responses to peers' emotions as related to the asymmetric frontal cortex activity. Scientific Reports 8 17152. (10.1038/s41598-018-35219-4)
- Bimbi, M. et al., 2018. Simultaneous scalp recorded EEG and local field potentials from monkey ventral premotor cortex during action observation and execution reveals the contribution of mirror and motor neurons to the mu-rhythm. NeuroImage 175 , pp.22-31. (10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.03.037)
- Crespo-Llado, M. M. , Vanderwert, R. and Geangu, E. 2018. Individual differences in infants' neural responses to their peers' cry and laughter. Biological Psychology 135 , pp.117-127. (10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.03.008)
- Festante, F. et al., 2018. EEG beta desynchronization during hand goal-directed action observation in newborn monkeys and its relation to the emergence of hand motor skills. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 30 , pp.142-149. (10.1016/j.dcn.2018.02.010)
2017
- Bowman, L. C. et al., 2017. The mu-rhythm can mirror: insights from experimental design, and looking past the controversy. Cortex 96 , pp.121-125. (10.1016/j.cortex.2017.03.025)
- Stamoulis, C. et al., 2017. Neuronal networks in the developing brain are adversely modulated by early psychosocial neglect. Journal of Neurophysiology jn.00014.2017. (10.1152/jn.00014.2017)
2016
- Fox, N. A. et al., 2016. Assessing human mirror activity with EEG mu rhythm: a meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin 142 (3), pp.291-313. (10.1037/bul0000031)
- Vanderwert, R. E. et al. 2016. Normalization of EEG activity among previously institutionalized children placed into foster care: A 12-year follow-up of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 17 , pp.68-75. (10.1016/j.dcn.2015.12.004)
- Cannon, E. N. et al., 2016. Relations between infants' emerging reach-grasp competence and event-related desynchronization in EEG. Developmental Science 19 (1), pp.50-62. (10.1111/desc.12295)
2015
- Stamoulis, C. et al., 2015. Early psychosocial neglect adversely impacts developmental trajectories of brain oscillations and their interactions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 27 (12), pp.2512-2528. (10.1162/jocn_a_00877)
- Ehrlich, K. B. et al., 2015. Hypervigilance to rejecting stimuli in rejection sensitive individuals: behavioral and neurocognitive evidence. Personality and Individual Differences 85 , pp.7-12. (10.1016/j.paid.2015.04.023)
- Vanderwert, R. et al. 2015. Looking to the eyes influences the processing of emotion on face-sensitive event-related potentials in 7-month-old infants. Developmental Neurobiology 75 (10), pp.1154-1163. (10.1002/dneu.22204)
- Ravicz, M. M. et al., 2015. Infants' neural responses to facial emotion in the prefrontal cortex are correlated with temperament: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. Frontiers in Psychology 6 922. (10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00922)
- Vanderwert, R. E. et al. 2015. Early social experience affects neural activity to affiliative facial gestures in newborn nonhuman primates. Developmental Neuroscience 37 (3), pp.243-252. (10.1159/000381538)
2014
- Coude, G. et al., 2014. Frequency and topography in monkey electroencephalogram during action observation: possible neural correlates of the mirror neuron system. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences 369 (1644) 20130415. (10.1098/rstb.2013.0415)
- Cannon, E. N. et al., 2014. Action experience, more than observation, influences mu rhythm desynchronization. PLoS ONE 9 (3) e92002. (10.1371/journal.pone.0092002)
- Vanderwert, R. and Nelson, C. A. 2014. The use of near-infrared spectroscopy in the study of typical and atypical development. NeuroImage 85 , pp.264-271. (10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.009)
2013
- Vanderwert, R. , Fox, N. A. and Ferrari, P. F. 2013. The mirror mechanism and mu rhythm in social development. Neuroscience Letters 540 , pp.15-20. (10.1016/j.neulet.2012.10.006)
- McDermott, J. M. et al., 2013. Psychosocial deprivation, executive functions, and the emergence of socio-emotional behavior problems. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7 167. (10.3389/fnhum.2013.00167)
- Suway, J. et al., 2013. Modification of threat-processing in non-anxious individuals: a preliminary, behavioral and ERP study. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 44 (3), pp.285-292. (10.1016/j.jbtep.2012.11.006)
2012
- Vanderwert, R. et al. 2012. Spectral characteristics of the newborn rhesus macaque EEG reflect functional cortical activity. Physiology & Behavior 107 (5), pp.787-791. (10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.06.010)
- Ferrari, P. F. et al., 2012. Distinct EEG amplitude suppression to facial gestures as evidence for a mirror mechanism in newborn monkeys. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 24 (5), pp.1165-1172.
2010
- Vanderwert, R. et al. 2010. Timing of intervention affects brain electrical activity in children exposed to severe psychosocial neglect. PLoS ONE 5 (7) e11415. (10.1371/journal.pone.0011415)
2009
- Reeb-Sutherland, B. C. et al., 2009. Attention to novelty in behaviorally inhibited adolescents moderates risk for anxiety. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 50 (11), pp.1365-1372. (10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02170.x)
Erthyglau
- Frewin, K. L. et al. 2026. Electrophysiological evidence of infants’ understanding of verbs. Cortex: A Journal devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior 196 , pp.41-60. (10.1016/j.cortex.2025.12.009)
- Gerson, S. A. et al. 2026. Doll play improves false belief reasoning: Evidence from a randomized-control trial. PLoS ONE 21 (3) e0343698. (10.1371/journal.pone.0343698)
- Rapuc, S. et al., 2026. Cognitive development at late infancy and school age in children cooled for neonatal encephalopathy. Pediatric Research 99 , pp.315-322. (10.1038/s41390-025-04152-4)
- Rayson, H. et al., 2026. Functional heterogeneity of beta bursts in childhood reveals a dimensional neural signature of motor skill. Imaging Neuroscience 4 1376. (10.1162/imag.a.1376)
- Hashmi, S. et al., 2025. Does children's play and associated neural activity differ according to individual differences in social skills, social understanding, and social contexts?. Cognitive Development 76 101623. (10.1016/j.cogdev.2025.101623)
- Mitev, K. et al., 2025. The who, when, and why of pacifier use. Pediatric Research 97 , pp.2282-2287. (10.1038/s41390-024-03540-6)
- Frewin, K. L. et al. 2025. Parent-reported relations between vocabulary and motor development in infancy: Differences between verbs and nouns. Infancy 30 (1) e12638. (10.1111/infa.12638)
- Thomas, K. S. et al. 2025. Neural correlates of emotion regulation and associations with disordered eating during preadolescence. Developmental Psychobiology 67 (1) e70009. (10.1002/dev.70009)
- Keating, J. et al. 2024. Embracing neurodiversity in doll play: Investigating neural and language correlates of doll play in a neurodiverse sample. European Journal of Neuroscience 60 (3), pp.4097-4114. (10.1111/ejn.16144)
- Marshall, T. E. et al., 2024. Disordered eating behaviours and basic psychological need satisfaction: the mediating role of anxiety symptoms in preadolescents. Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health 34 (1-3), pp.42-52. (10.2989/17280583.2023.2277763)
- Keating, J. et al. 2024. Exploring the presence and impact of sensory differences in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. Research in Developmental Disabilities 148 104714. (10.1016/j.ridd.2024.104714)
- Thomas, K. S. et al. 2024. Associations between disordered eating, internalizing symptoms, and behavioral and neural correlates of response inhibition in preadolescence. Developmental Psychobiology 66 (3) e22477. (10.1002/dev.22477)
- Keating, J. et al. 2023. Possible disrupted biological movement processing in Developmental Coordination Disorder. Cortex 168 , pp.1-13. (10.1016/j.cortex.2023.06.018)
- Thomas, K. S. et al. 2022. Neural correlates of executive functioning in anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16 841633. (10.3389/fnhum.2022.841633)
- Birch-Hurst, K. et al. 2022. Altering facial movements abolishes neural mirroring of facial expressions. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience 22 , pp.316-327. (10.3758/s13415-021-00956-z)
- Hashmi, S. et al. 2022. Doll play prompts social thinking and social talking: representations of internal state language in the brain. Developmental Science 25 (2) e13163. (10.1111/desc.13163)
- Aanestad, E. et al., 2021. What is happening in children’s brains when they are playing pretend?. Frontiers for Young Minds (10.3389/frym.2021.644083)
- Thomas, K. S. , Williams, M. O. and Vanderwert, R. E. 2021. Disordered eating and internalizing symptoms in preadolescence. Brain and Behavior 11 (1) e01904. (10.1002/brb3.1904)
- Hashmi, S. et al. 2020. Exploring the benefits of doll play through neuroscience. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14 560176. (10.3389/fnhum.2020.560176)
- Rychlowska, M. and Vanderwert, R. 2020. The pacified face: early embodiment processes and the use of dummies. Frontiers in Psychology 11 387. (10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00387)
- Crespo-Llado, M. M. et al., 2018. Eight-month-old infants' behavioral responses to peers' emotions as related to the asymmetric frontal cortex activity. Scientific Reports 8 17152. (10.1038/s41598-018-35219-4)
- Bimbi, M. et al., 2018. Simultaneous scalp recorded EEG and local field potentials from monkey ventral premotor cortex during action observation and execution reveals the contribution of mirror and motor neurons to the mu-rhythm. NeuroImage 175 , pp.22-31. (10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.03.037)
- Crespo-Llado, M. M. , Vanderwert, R. and Geangu, E. 2018. Individual differences in infants' neural responses to their peers' cry and laughter. Biological Psychology 135 , pp.117-127. (10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.03.008)
- Festante, F. et al., 2018. EEG beta desynchronization during hand goal-directed action observation in newborn monkeys and its relation to the emergence of hand motor skills. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 30 , pp.142-149. (10.1016/j.dcn.2018.02.010)
- Bowman, L. C. et al., 2017. The mu-rhythm can mirror: insights from experimental design, and looking past the controversy. Cortex 96 , pp.121-125. (10.1016/j.cortex.2017.03.025)
- Stamoulis, C. et al., 2017. Neuronal networks in the developing brain are adversely modulated by early psychosocial neglect. Journal of Neurophysiology jn.00014.2017. (10.1152/jn.00014.2017)
- Fox, N. A. et al., 2016. Assessing human mirror activity with EEG mu rhythm: a meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin 142 (3), pp.291-313. (10.1037/bul0000031)
- Vanderwert, R. E. et al. 2016. Normalization of EEG activity among previously institutionalized children placed into foster care: A 12-year follow-up of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 17 , pp.68-75. (10.1016/j.dcn.2015.12.004)
- Cannon, E. N. et al., 2016. Relations between infants' emerging reach-grasp competence and event-related desynchronization in EEG. Developmental Science 19 (1), pp.50-62. (10.1111/desc.12295)
- Stamoulis, C. et al., 2015. Early psychosocial neglect adversely impacts developmental trajectories of brain oscillations and their interactions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 27 (12), pp.2512-2528. (10.1162/jocn_a_00877)
- Ehrlich, K. B. et al., 2015. Hypervigilance to rejecting stimuli in rejection sensitive individuals: behavioral and neurocognitive evidence. Personality and Individual Differences 85 , pp.7-12. (10.1016/j.paid.2015.04.023)
- Vanderwert, R. et al. 2015. Looking to the eyes influences the processing of emotion on face-sensitive event-related potentials in 7-month-old infants. Developmental Neurobiology 75 (10), pp.1154-1163. (10.1002/dneu.22204)
- Ravicz, M. M. et al., 2015. Infants' neural responses to facial emotion in the prefrontal cortex are correlated with temperament: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. Frontiers in Psychology 6 922. (10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00922)
- Vanderwert, R. E. et al. 2015. Early social experience affects neural activity to affiliative facial gestures in newborn nonhuman primates. Developmental Neuroscience 37 (3), pp.243-252. (10.1159/000381538)
- Coude, G. et al., 2014. Frequency and topography in monkey electroencephalogram during action observation: possible neural correlates of the mirror neuron system. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences 369 (1644) 20130415. (10.1098/rstb.2013.0415)
- Cannon, E. N. et al., 2014. Action experience, more than observation, influences mu rhythm desynchronization. PLoS ONE 9 (3) e92002. (10.1371/journal.pone.0092002)
- Vanderwert, R. and Nelson, C. A. 2014. The use of near-infrared spectroscopy in the study of typical and atypical development. NeuroImage 85 , pp.264-271. (10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.009)
- Vanderwert, R. , Fox, N. A. and Ferrari, P. F. 2013. The mirror mechanism and mu rhythm in social development. Neuroscience Letters 540 , pp.15-20. (10.1016/j.neulet.2012.10.006)
- McDermott, J. M. et al., 2013. Psychosocial deprivation, executive functions, and the emergence of socio-emotional behavior problems. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7 167. (10.3389/fnhum.2013.00167)
- Suway, J. et al., 2013. Modification of threat-processing in non-anxious individuals: a preliminary, behavioral and ERP study. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 44 (3), pp.285-292. (10.1016/j.jbtep.2012.11.006)
- Vanderwert, R. et al. 2012. Spectral characteristics of the newborn rhesus macaque EEG reflect functional cortical activity. Physiology & Behavior 107 (5), pp.787-791. (10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.06.010)
- Ferrari, P. F. et al., 2012. Distinct EEG amplitude suppression to facial gestures as evidence for a mirror mechanism in newborn monkeys. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 24 (5), pp.1165-1172.
- Vanderwert, R. et al. 2010. Timing of intervention affects brain electrical activity in children exposed to severe psychosocial neglect. PLoS ONE 5 (7) e11415. (10.1371/journal.pone.0011415)
- Reeb-Sutherland, B. C. et al., 2009. Attention to novelty in behaviorally inhibited adolescents moderates risk for anxiety. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 50 (11), pp.1365-1372. (10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02170.x)
Ymchwil
Pynciau ymchwil a phapurau cysylltiedig
Mae fy ymchwil gyfredol yn canolbwyntio ar ddylanwad heddychwyr (dymis) ar allu babanod i reoleiddio emosiynau, prosesu emosiynau mewn eraill, a deall penderfyniadau rhieni i ganiatáu i'w babanod ddefnyddio heddychwyr. Mae pacifiers yn ddadleuol ymhlith ymarferwyr sydd wedi nodi nifer o effeithiau negyddol posibl ar iechyd ar y baban. Fodd bynnag, ychydig iawn o ymchwil sydd wedi archwilio effeithiau seicolegol defnyddio pacifier ar naill ai'r baban neu'r teulu cyfan. Rydym yn gwybod y gall rhianta baban ifanc fod yn gyfnod llawn straen a gall heddychwyr helpu i leihau rhywfaint o'r gofid hwnnw. Ar hyn o bryd rydym wrthi'n casglu a dadansoddi data o dair astudiaeth yn ymwneud â materion sy'n ymwneud â defnyddio pacifier mewn babanod.
Mae fy niddordebau ymchwil eraill yn cynnwys deall sut mae profiadau niweidiol yn ystod plentyndod yn effeithio ar ddatblygiad a swyddogaeth niwral, sut mae rhagfarnau cymdeithasol sy'n dod i'r amlwg mewn babandod yn cyfrannu at risg neu wytnwch iechyd meddwl yn ystod llencyndod, a sut y gall datblygiad modur effeithio ar sut rydym yn deall ein hamgylchedd cymdeithasol (gan gynnwys ein teuluoedd a'n cyfoedion).
Cyllid
"Llofnod niwral DCD" Sefydliad Waterloo
"Datblygu MEG gwisgadwy, tymheredd ystafell a goddefgar i oedolion a phlant ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd" Ymddiriedolaeth Wellcome ISSF3
"Manteision chwarae dol" OxyInsight
"Goblygiadau defnyddio pacifier ar gyfer datblygu cymhwysedd emosiynol." Grant Ymchwil Bach yr Academi Brydeinig/Leverhulm
Ph.D. Myfyrwyr
Kai Thomas
Kelsey Frewin
Charlotte Findlay
Addysgu
Modiwlau a addysgir
Cerrynt
Anhwylderau niwroddatblygiadol 2: gwybyddiaeth ac emosiwn (MSc mewn Anhwylderau Seicolegol Plant)
Dulliau Ymchwil mewn Seicoleg Ddatblygiadol (Blwyddyn Olaf)
Seicoleg Ddatblygiadol Ymarferol (Ail Flwyddyn)
Cyn
Seicopatholeg Datblygiadol (Blwyddyn Olaf)
Bywgraffiad
Addysg israddedig
2003
B.A.: Seicoleg a Mathemateg
Coleg Sant Olaf, Minnesota, UDA
Addysg ôl-raddedig
2012
PhD: Gwyddoniaeth Datblygiadol
Prifysgol Maryland, Parc y Coleg, UDA
Cyflogaeth
2012-2015
Cymrawd Ymchwil Ôl-ddoethurol
Labordai Niwrowyddoniaeth Gwybyddol
Ysbyty Plant Boston / Ysgol Feddygol Harvard, Massachusetts, UDA
2008-2012
Gwirfoddolwr Arbennig
Sefydliad Cenedlaethol Iechyd Plant a Datblygiad Dynol
Sefydliadau Iechyd Cenedlaethol , Maryland, UDA
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
Diddordebau ymchwil ôl-raddedig
Os oes gennych ddiddordeb mewn gwneud cais am PhD, neu am ragor o wybodaeth am fy ymchwil ôl-raddedig, cysylltwch â mi'n uniongyrchol (manylion cyswllt ar gael ar y dudalen 'Trosolwg'), neu gyflwyno cais ffurfiol.
Myfyrwyr presennol
Kai Thomas
- Pwnc: Deall ffactorau risg ar gyfer bwyta anhrefnus
