Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science
Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Li, X., Chen, H., Hu, Y., Larsen, R. J., Sutton, B. P., Mcelwain, N. L., & Gao, W. (2023). Functional neural network connectivity at 3 months predicts infant-mother dyadic flexibility during play at 6 months. Cerebral Cortex, [bhad117]. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad117
Li, X., Frantz, K. M. T., & McElwain, N. L. (2022). Interactive Contribution of Observed Mother-Youth Emotional Climate and Youth Physiology: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Understanding Youth Coping With Peer Stress. Journal of Early Adolescence, 42(8), 1073-1101. https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316221096079
Li, X., Jorgensen, N. A., Mcelwain, N. L., & Telzer, E. H. (2022). Toddler-mother attachment moderates adolescents' behavioral and neural evaluation of trustworthiness. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17(9), 828-836. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsac009
McElwain, N. L., Hu, Y., Li, X., Fisher, M. C., Baldwin, J. C., & Bodway, J. M. (2022). Zoom, Zoom, Baby! Assessing Mother-Infant Interaction During the Still Face Paradigm and Infant Language Development via a Virtual Visit Procedure. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, [734492]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.734492
Ravindran, N., McElwain, N. L., Berry, D. J., & Kramer, L. F. (2022). Dynamic Fluctuations in Maternal Cardiac Vagal Tone Moderate Moment-to-Moment Associations Between Children’s Negative Behavior and Maternal Emotional Support. Developmental psychology, 58(2), 286-296. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001299