Anna Vannucci

Awesome paper on the role of early experience in infant learning!

Interpersonal early adversity demonstrates dissimilarity from early socioeconomic disadvantage in the course of human brain development: A meta-analysis It has been established that early-life adversity impacts brain development, but the role of development itself has largely been ignored. We take a de…

These findings align with our 2023 meta-analysis from Nim Tottenham's lab! You should check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wish I could be there!!

Incredible game-changing study led by @tristansyates.bsky.social!

should do this at the predoctoral level for seeking postdoctoral positions.

Situating affective neural predictions within a neurodevelopmental framework has great potential to uncover mechanisms of attachment and ultimately build toward a more complete understanding of the links between early caregiving experiences and emotional well-being.

Neural circuitry involving functional connections between subcortical and midline cortical regions is well positioned to generate predictive inferences from attachment schemas that have implications for emotion regulation.

We suggest that these interpersonal-affective memories, referred to here as “attachment schemas,” are represented by cortical-subcortical (re)activations.

Early caregiving experiences, both positive and adverse, have strong links to emotion regulation. Here, we offer the view that the content represented in emotion-regulation neurobiology in part reflects consolidated interpersonal-affective memories abstracted from these experiences.

Thrilled to share our new perspective on "Attachment as Prediction" published in Current Directions for Psychological Science!

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Developmentally distinct architectures in top–down pathways controlling threat avoidance - Nature Neuroscience Through circuit dissection in juvenile, adolescent and adult mice, Klune, Goodpaster and colleagues reveal multiple developmental switches in mPFC–NAc and mPFC–BLA pathways that underlie developmental...

Multiple developmental switches in mPFC-NAc and mPFC-BLA pathways that underlie developmental transitions in threat avoidance behavior revealed by circuit dissection in juvenile, adolescent and adult mice mice 🧪🧠

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Viewing Different Views of the World Through a Scientific Lens Researchers like Emily Finn are working to understand differing views of the world through behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational tools.

"...how can the same sensory information evoke such wildly different interpretations across people, or even within the same person across time?"
Learn how @esfinn.bsky.social, a #CNS2025 Young Investigator Award co-recipient, is working to answer that in a new Q&A:
#scicomm

Daedalus Home Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

New Daedalus issue on the science of caregiving. In our paper, we ask, how might infants experience caregiving? Writing this paper with Christina Steele,
@alisongopnik.bsky.social and @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social was incredibly fun. Our paper and the other awesome pieces here:

www.amacad.org/daedalus

Contribution of an under-recognized adversity to child health risk: large-scale, population-based ACEs screening Background and Objectives Whereas adverse early life experiences (ACEs) correlate with cognitive, emotional and physical health at the population level, existing ACEs screens are only weakly predictiv...

Found in translation! from clinic to the lab-and now back! Our California initiative for precision medicine-funded study in >30,000 kids shows unpredictable signals from parents & environment impact mental health outcomes: they are a major risk factor for depression www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Daedalus Home Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

I am so proud and pleased to coedit this special issue of Daedalus on a social science of caregiving, a remarkable range of essays on care from birth to death (and beyond) from biology, psychology, economics, religion, policy etc. Very timely scientifically and practically
www.amacad.org/daedalus

Could not DM also, but interested in connecting.

Investigative Approaches to Resilient Emotion Regulation Neurodevelopment in a South African Birth Cohort Understanding the neurobiology of resilient emotion regulation following adversities is critical for addressing mental health problems globally. Yet, …

Including diverse populations with a broad range of experiences in our science is essential to advance our understanding of neurodevelopment and resilience. This is one of the arguments our team makes in our in press paper 1/4 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So proud and amazed by you @tristansyates.bsky.social !!!!

We're hiring a lab manager to start this summer in the @logicemotionlab.bsky.social! Submit CV, cover letter, and reference contact info by Feb 17th for priority review. Description of the lab's research focus, mission, and values are on our website! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/20420/r...

loving this oded - congrats!

Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex - Nature Reviews Neuroscience A computational account of how schemas are learned through experience is lacking. In this Perspective, Bein and Niv synthesize schema theory and reinforcement learning research to derive computational...

Excited to share this perspective with @yaelniv.bsky.social about how schemas might be learned and instantiated via reinforcement learning, latent cause inference, and dimensionality reduction, and what's the medial prefrontal cortex might be doing for all of these www.nature.com/articles/s41...

well said!

Consistent parent strategies (example - setting routines) later in life were also very important for predicting resilience following early adversity

Emotional aspects of early adversity were the most telling indicators of mental health risk

New paper out in #nature #mentalhealth from my work applying machine learning to identify which early adversities are most important for predicting mental health risk in children - results might surprise you!

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Emotional abuse was the most telling indicator of mental health risk