I am a developmental cognitive neuroscientist who leads the BabyDevLab at the University of East London. I am a previous holder of research fellowships from the British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council, and a current holder of a 5-year research fellowship from the European Research Council. My research examines stress and attention during early life. I am also active in running training for Early Years practitioners, and as a media spokesperson with expertise in early childhood. More details can be found on my personal website: drsamwass.com/
Recently I’ve been working on a few papers looking in our naturalistic data at the relationship between vocal communication and autonomic arousal in infant-caregiver dyads.… Read More »Early vocal behaviour and interpersonal arousal coupling
The following is an automatic (and unchecked) transcription of this talk: So hi, I’m Sam. And this is the title is interpersonal entrainment during early… Read More »Video: Interpersonal neural entrainment during early social interaction
The following is an automatically generated (and unchecked) transcription of this talk: So hi, I’m Sam. And the title of this is understanding early self… Read More »Video – Understanding early self-regulation: when does self-regulation become dys-regulation?
The following is an automatically generated (and unchecked) transcription of this talk: Hi, so I’m Sam. And the title of this talk is understanding parent… Read More »Video – understand parent-child co-regulation: when does arousal synchrony become arousal contagion?
This is a post about an article first-authored by my PhD student Emily Phillips, with Louise Goupil, Ira Marriott Haresign, Megan Whitehorn and Vicky Leong.… Read More »Proactive or reactive? Neural oscillatory insight into the leader-follower dynamics of early infant-caregiver interaction
This is a post about an article first-authored by my PhD student Celia Smith, with Tony Charman and Emily Jones. You can read the full… Read More »Stress contagion in high-risk families
This is a post about an article that was first-authored by my PhD student Ira, for a special edition on EEG methods coming out soon… Read More »Unlocking the time dimension in connectivity research
This is a post about a paper that is coming out soon in Development and Psychopathology. You can read the actual article here. The idea… Read More »Allostasis and Metastasis – the yin and yang of childhood self-regulation