Koraly Perez-Edgar
McCourtney Professor of Child Studies

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270 Moore
University Park, PA - She/Her
- kxp24@psu.edu
- 814-865-9272
Research Summary
Early temperament and influences on developmental trajectories. Biological substrates and cognitive mechanisms.
Huck Affiliations
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Most Recent Publications
The neurodevelopmental pathways from temperamental fear to anxiety
Eunkyung Shin, K Perez-Edgar, on p. 20
Attention orienting to reward and threat and the reciprocal impacts with learning about reward and threat-associated cues
Koraly Perez-Edgar, Evin Aktar,
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
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
The roles of parental verbal communication and child characteristics in the transmission and maintenance of social fears
Selin Zeytinoglu, Lauren White, Santiago Morales, Kathryn Degnan, Heather Henderson, Koraly Perez-Edgar, Daniel Pine, Nathan Fox, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
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
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
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
Implementing mobile eye tracking in psychological research: A practical guide
Xiaoxue Fu, John M. Franchak, Leigha A. MacNeill, Kelley E. Gunther, Jeremy I. Borjon, Julia Yurkovic-Harding, Samuel Harding, Jessica Bradshaw, Koraly E. Pérez-Edgar, 2024, Behavior Research Methods on p. 8269-8288
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
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
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
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
News Articles Featuring Koraly Perez-Edgar
Jan 03, 2025
Fourth annual Big Ten Neuroscience Symposium to convene at Penn State
The Penn State Neuroscience Institute, through the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and the Penn State College of Medicine, will host the Big Ten Neuroscience Annual Meeting on July 21 and 22 at the Nittany Lion Inn in State College.
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