Publications

Werchan, D. M., Hume, A., Zhang, M., Vo, T., & Brito, N. H. (2025). From focus to function: Longitudinal insights into infant attention and emerging executive functions via remote webcam eye tracking. Developmental Psychology.

Lemus, A., Perez, G., Melvin, S. A., Metser, M., Thomason, M. E., & Brito, N. H. (2025). Stress and resilience factors characterizing pandemic experiences of low-income pregnant and postpartum Latine mothers. Journal of Latinx Psychology.

Aitken, A., Hume, A., Werchan, D., Zhang, M., & Brito, N. (2023). Maternal Heart Rate Variability at 3-Months Postpartum: Associations with Mental Health and Infant Neurophysiological Function.

Dikker, S., Brito, N. H., & Dumas, G. (2024). It takes a village: A multi-brain approach to studying multigenerational family communication. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Werchan, D. M., Hendrix, C. L., Hume, A. H., Zhang, M., Thomason, M. E., & Brito, N. H. (2023). Effects of prenatal psychosocial stress and COVID-19 infection on infant attention and socioemotional development. Pediatric Research.

Brandes-Aitken, A., Pini, N., Weatherhead, W., & Brito, N. H. (2023). Maternal hair cortisol predicts periodic and aperiodic infant frontal EEG activity longitudinally across infancy. Developmental Psychobiology.

Brandes-Aitken, A., Metser, M., Braren, S. H., Vogel, S. C., & Brito, N. H. (2023). Neurophysiology of sustained attention in early infancy: Investigating longitudinal relations with recognition memory outcomes. Infant Behavior and Development.

Querdasi, F. R., Vogel, S. C., Thomason, M. E., Callaghan, B. L., & Brito, N. H. (2023). A comparison of the infant gut microbiome before versus after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports.

Werchan, D. M., Brandes-Aitken, A., & Brito, N. H. (2022). Signal in the noise: Dimensions of predictability in the home auditory environment are associated with neurobehavioral measures of early infant sustained attention. Developmental Psychobiology.

Werchan, D. M., Thomason, M. E., & Brito, N. H. (2022). OWLET: An automated, open-source method for infant gaze tracking using smartphone and webcam recordings. Behavior Research Methods.

Hendrix, C. L., Werchan, D., Lenniger, C., et al. (2022). Geotemporal analysis of perinatal care changes and maternal mental health: an example from the COVID-19 pandemic. Archives of Women's Mental Health.

Shuffrey, L. C., Thomason, M. E., & Brito, N. H. (2022). Improving perinatal maternal mental health starts with addressing structural inequities. JAMA Psychiatry.

Werchan, D. M., Hendrix, C. L., Ablow, J. C., et al. (2022). Behavioral coping phenotypes and associated psychosocial outcomes of pregnant and postpartum women during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports, 12, 1209.

Uy, J. P., Schwartz, C., Chu, K. A., Towner, E., Lemus, A., Brito, N. H., & Callaghan, B. L. (2022). Parenting under pressure: Parental transmission and buffering of child fear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Developmental Psychobiology.

Thomason, M. E., Hendrix, C. L., Werchan, D., & Brito, N. H. (2022). Perceived discrimination as a modifier of health, disease, and medicine: empirical data from the COVID-19 pandemic. Translational Psychiatry.

Scott, L. S., & Brito, N. H. (2022). Supporting Healthy Brain and Behavioral Development During Infancy. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Lemus, A., Vogel, S. C., Greaves, A. N., & Brito, N. H. (2022). Maternal anxiety symptoms associated with increased behavioral synchrony in the early postnatal period. Infancy.

Brito, N. H., Werchan, D., Brandes-Aitken, A., Yoshikawa, H., Greaves, A., & Zhang, M. (2022). Paid maternal leave is associated with infant brain function at 3 months of age. Child Development.

Kozak, K., Greaves, A., Waldfogel, J., Angal, J., Elliott, A. J., Fifer, W. P., & Brito, N. H. (2021). Paid Maternal Leave is Associated with Better Language and Socioemotional Outcomes During Toddlerhood.

Nketia, J., Amso, D., & Brito, N. H. (2021). Towards a more inclusive and equitable developmental cognitive neuroscience. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Gustafsson, H. C., et al. (2021). Innovative methods for remote assessment of neurobehavioral development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Darcy-Mahoney, A., Brito, N. H., Baralt, M., Buerlein, J., Patel, S., & Lu, M. (2021). Innovating Maternal and Child Health: Incentive Prizes to Improve Early Childhood Development. Maternal and Child Health.

Thomason, M., et al. (2021). Miswiring the brain: Human prenatal D9-tetrahydrocannabinol use associated with altered fetal hippocampal brain network connectivity. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Braren, S. H., Perry, R. E., Brandes-Aitken, A., Ribner, A., Brito, N. H., Blair, C., et al. (2021). Prenatal Mother-Father Cortisol Linkage Predicts Infant Executive Functions at 24-months. Developmental Psychobiology.

Brandes-Aitken, A., Braren, S., Vogel, S., Perry, R. E., Brito, N. H., & Blair, C. (2021). Within-Person Changes in Basal Cortisol and Caregiving Modulate Executive Attention across Infancy. Development and Psychopathology.

Brito, N. H., Greaves, A., Leon-Santos, A., Fifer, W. P., & Noble, K. G. (2020). Associations between Bilingualism and Memory Generalization During Infancy: Does Socioeconomic Status Matter? Bilingualism: Language & Cognition.

Troller-Renfree, S. V., Brito, N. H., Desai, P. M., Meyer, J. S., & Noble, K. G. (2020). Infants of mothers with higher physiological stress show alterations in brain function. Developmental Science.

Brito, N. H., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Leon-Santos, A., Isler, J., Fifer, W. P., & Noble, K. G. (2020). Associations among the home language environment and neural activity during infancy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 43, 100780.

Baralt, M., Darcy-Mahoney, A., & Brito, N. H. (2020). Háblame Bebé: A phone application intervention to support Hispanic children's early language environments and bilingualism. Child Language Teaching & Therapy.

Vogel, S., Brito, N. H., & Callaghan, B. (2020). Early life stress and the development of the infant gut microbiome: Implications for mental health and neurocognitive development. Current Psychiatry Reports.

Barr, R., Rusnak, S., Brito, N. H., & Nugent, C. (2019). Actions speak louder than words: Differences in memory flexibility between monolingual and bilingual 18-month-olds. Developmental Science, e12881.

Brito, N. H., Elliott, A. J., Isler, J. R., Rodriguez, C., Friedrich, C., Shuffrey, L., & Fifer, W. P. (2019). Neonatal EEG as a Biomarker for Later Neurodevelopmental Disorder Risk during Toddlerhood. Developmental Psychobiology.

Brito, N. H., Fifer, W. P., Amso, D., Barr, R. F., Bell, M. A., Calkins, S., et al. (2019). Beyond the Bayley: Neurocognitive Assessments of Development during Infancy and Toddlerhood. Developmental Neuropsychology.

Brito, N. H., & Noble, K. G., for the Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition, and Genetics Study. (2018). The independent and interacting effects of socioeconomic status and dual language use on brain structure and cognition. Developmental Science.

Perzanowski, M., et al. (2018). Associations between parasympathetic activity in the month after birth and wheeze at age 2-3 years. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Brito, N. H. (2017). Influence of the home linguistic environment on early language development. Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Science.

Brito, N. H., Piccolo, L., & Noble, K. G. (2017). Associations between cortical thickness and neurocognitive skills during childhood vary by family socioeconomic factors. Brain & Cognition, 116, 54-62.

Brito, N. H., Fifer, W. P., Myers, M., Elliott, A. J., & Noble, K. G. (2016). Associations among family socioeconomic status, EEG power at birth, and cognitive skills during infancy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 144-151.

Melvin, S., Brito, N. H., et al. (2016). Contributions of the home environment to early disparities in language development. Infancy, 22, 42-55.

Brito, N. H., Murphy, E., Vaidya, C., & Barr, R. (2016). Do bilingual advantages in attentional control influence memory encoding during a divided attention task? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(3), 621-629.

Noble, K. G., Houston, S. M., Brito, N. H., et al. (2015). Family income, parental education and brain development in children and adolescents. Nature Neuroscience, 18, 773-778.

Noble, K. G., Engelhardt, L. E., Brito, N. H., et al. (2015). Socioeconomic disparities in neurocognitive development in the first two years of life. Developmental Psychobiology, 57(5), 535-551.

Brito, N. H., Sebastián-Gallés, N., & Barr, R. (2015). Differences in language exposure and its effects on memory flexibility in monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual infants. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 18(4), 670-682.

Brito, N. H., & Noble, K. G. (2014). Socioeconomic status and structural brain development. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8, 276.

Brito, N. H., Grenell, A., & Barr, R. (2014). Specificity of the Bilingual Advantage for Memory: Examining Recognition, Generalization, and Working Memory in Monolingual, Bilingual, and Trilingual Toddlers. Frontiers in Psychology.

Barr, R., Morin, M., Brito, N., Richeda, B., Rodriguez, J., & Shauffer, C. (2014). Delivering Services to Incarcerated Teen Fathers: A Pilot Intervention to Increase the Quality of Father-infant Interactions during Visitation. Psychological Services, 11(1), 10–21.

Brito, N., & Barr, R. (2014). Flexible Memory Retrieval in Bilingual 6-month-old Infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 56(5), 1156–1163.

Brito, N., Ryan, R. M., & Barr, R. (2014). Methods for assessing parent-child interactions in large-scale studies. In O. Saracho & B. Spodek (Eds.), Handbook of research method on early childhood education, Volume II, p. 147–189. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Barr, R., Brito, N., & Simcock, G. (2013). Revisiting the Effect of Reminders on Infants' Memories: Does the encoding format matter? Developmental Psychology, 49(11), 2112-2119.

Barr, R., & Brito, N. (2013). From specificity to flexibility: Early developmental changes in memory generalization. In P. Bauer & R. Fivush (Eds.), Wiley-Blackwell Handbook on the Development of Children's Memory.

Brito, N., & Barr, R. (2012). Influence of Bilingualism on Memory Generalization during Infancy. Developmental Science, 15(6), 812–816.

Brito, N., Barr, R., McIntyre, P., & Simcock, G. (2012). Long-term Transfer of Learning from Books and Video during Toddlerhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111(1), 108–119.

Brito, N., Barr, R., Rodriguez, J., & Shauffer, C. (2012). Increasing the Quality of Father Child Interactions within the Juvenile Justice System. Zero-to-Three: Parenting from a Distance Special Issue.

Barr, R., Brito, N., Zocca, J., Reina, S., Rodriguez, J., & Shauffer, C. (2011). The Baby Elmo Program: Improving teen father-child interactions within the juvenile justice facilities. Child and Youth Services Review, 33(9), 1555–1562.