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Publications
Morningstar, M., Nault, D.R.†, Lundell-Creagh, R., & daSilva, E.B. (In press). Expresser effects in research on emotion communication: Expanding our understanding of inter-individual differences in nonverbal expression of emotion. Affective Science.
Nault, P., & Morningstar, M. (2025). Hostile attribution biases and evaluation of responses to peer provocation in early adolescents. Social Development, 34, e12813. doi: 10.1111/sode.12813 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., & Burns, J.A. (2025). Probing puberty as a source of developmental change in neural response to emotional faces in early adolescence. Developmental Psychobiology, 67(2), e70037. doi: 10.1002/dev.70037 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Billetdeaux, K.A., Mattson, W.I., Gilbert, A.C., Nelson, E.E., & Hoskinson, K.R. (2024). Neural response to vocal emotional intensity in youth. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 25, 454-470. doi: 10.3758/s13415-024-01224-6 [PDF]
Morningstar, M. (2024). A louder call for the integration of multiple nonverbal channels in the study of affect. Affective Science, 5(3), 201-208. doi: 10.1007/s42761-024-00265-x [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Hughes, C., French, R.C., Grannis, C., Mattson, W.I., & Nelson, E.E. (2024). Functional connectivity during facial and vocal emotion recognition: Preliminary evidence for dissociations in developmental change by nonverbal modality. Neuropsychologia, 202, 108946. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108946 [PDF]
Nault, D.R., Bonar, R.J.T., Ilyaz, E., Dirks, M.A., & Morningstar, M. (2024). Fast and friendly: The role of vocal cues in adolescents’ responses to and perceptions of peer provocation. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 34, 1054-1068. doi: 10.1111/jora.12992 [PDF]
Ilyaz, E., Feng, X., Fu, X., Nelson, E.E., & Morningstar, M. (2024). Vocal emotional expressions in mothers with and without a history of major depressive disorder. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 48, 513-537. doi: 10.1007/s10919-024-00462-z [PDF]
Fu, X., Bolton, S.H., Morningstar, M., Mattson, W.I., Feng, X., & Nelson, E.E. (2024). Young children of mothers with a history of depression show attention bias to sad faces: An eye-tracking study. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 52, 1469-1483. doi: 10.1007/s10802-024-01205-w [PDF]
Stroud, L.R., Morningstar, M., Vergara-Lopez, C., Bublitz, M.H., Lee, S.Y., Sanes, J.N., Dahl, R.E., Silk, J.S., Nelson, E.E., & Dickstein, D.P. (2023). Neural activation to peer acceptance and rejection in relation to concurrent and prospective depression risk in adolescent girls. Biological Psychology, 181, 108618. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108618 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Thomas, P., Anderson, A.M., Mattson, W.I., Nahata, L., Leibowitz, S.F., Chen, D., Strang, J.F., & Nelson, E.E. (2023). Exogenous testosterone administration is associated with differential neural response to unfamiliar peer’s and own caregiver’s voice in transgender adolescents. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 59, 101194. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101194 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Mattson, W.I., & Nelson, E.E. (2022). Longitudinal change in neural response to vocal emotion in adolescence. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17(10), 890-903. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsac021 [PDF]
Sandre, A., Morningstar, M., Farrell-Reeves, A., Dirks, M.A., & Weinberg, A. (2022). Adolescents and young adults differ in their neural response to and recognition of peer- and adult-age emotional faces. Psychophysiology, 59(9), e14060. doi: 10.1111/psyp.14060 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Grannis, C., Mattson, W.I., & Nelson, E.E. (2022). Functional patterns of neural activation during vocal emotion recognition in youth with and without refractory epilepsy. NeuroImage: Clinical, 34, 102966. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.102966 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Gilbert, A.C., Burdo, J., Leis, M., & Dirks, M.A. (2021). Recognition of vocal socioemotional expressions at varying levels of emotional intensity. Emotion, 21(7), 1570-1575. doi: 10.1037/emo0001024 [PDF]
Grannis, C., Leibowitz, S., Ghan, S., Nahata, L., Morningstar, M., Mattson, W.I., Chen, D., Strang, J.F., & Nelson, E.E. (2021). Testosterone treatment, internalizing symptoms, and body image dissatisfaction in transgender youth. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 132, 105358. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105358 [PDF]
Hung, A., Morningstar, M., Mattson, W.I., Saygin, Z.M., & Nelson, E.E. (2021). Atypical age-related changes in the structure of the mentalizing network in children with refractory focal epilepsy. Epilepsy Research, 175, 106701. doi: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2021.106701 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., French, R.C., Mattson, W.I., Englot, D.J., & Nelson, E.E. (2021). Social brain networks: Resting-state and task-based connectivity in youth with and without epilepsy. Neuropsychologia, 157, 107882. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107882 [PDF]
Woodard, K., Plate, R.C., Morningstar, M., Wood, A., & Pollak, S.D. (2021). Categorization of vocal emotion cues depends on distributions of input. Affective Science, 2, 301-310. doi: 10.1007/s42761-021-00038-w [PDF]
Davis, S.K., Morningstar, M., & Qualter, P. (2021; ePub 2020). Ability EI predicts recognition of dynamic facial emotions, but not beyond the effects of crystallized IQ. Personality and Individual Differences, 169, 109968. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.109968 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Mattson, W.I., Singer, Jr., S., Venticinque, J., & Nelson, E.E. (2020). Children and adolescents’ neural response to emotional faces and voices: Age-related changes in common regions of activation. Social Neuroscience, 15(6), 613-629. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2020.1832572 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Hung, A., Grannis, C., French, R.C., Mattson, W.I., Ostendorf, A.P., Gedela, S., Englot, D.J., & Nelson, E.E. (2020). Blunted neural response to emotional faces in the fusiform and superior temporal gyrus may be marker of emotion recognition deficits in youth with epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 112, 107432. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107432 [PDF]
Davis, S.K., Morningstar, M., Dirks, M.A., & Qualter, P. (2020). Ability emotional intelligence: What about recognition of emotion in voices? Personality and Individual Differences, 160, 109938. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.109938 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Hung, A., Mattson, W.I., Gedela, S., Ostendorf, A.P., & Nelson, E.E. (2020). Internalizing symptoms in intractable pediatric epilepsy: Structural and functional brain correlates. Epilepsy & Behavior, 103, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2019.106845 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Nowland, R., Dirks, M.A., & Qualter, P. (2020; ePub 2019). Loneliness and the recognition of vocal socio-emotional expressions in adolescence. Cognition & Emotion, 34(5), 970-976. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2019.1682971 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Mattson, W.I., Venticinque, J., Singer, Jr., S., Selvaraj, B., Hu, H.H., & Nelson, E.E. (2019). Age-related differences in neural activation and functional connectivity during the processing of vocal prosody in adolescence. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 19(6), 1418-1432. doi: 10.3758/s13415-019- 00742-y [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Grannis, C., Mattson, W.I., & Nelson, E.E. (2019). Associations between adolescents’ social re-orientation towards peers over caregivers and neural response to teenage faces. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 13, 108. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00108 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Garcia, D., Dirks, M.A., & Bagner, D.M. (2019). Changes in parental prosody mediate effect of parent-training intervention on child language outcomes. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 87(3), 313-318. doi: 10.1037/ccp0000375 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Dirks, M.A., Rappaport, B.I., Pine, D.S., & Nelson, E.E. (2019; ePub 2017). Associations between anxious and depressive symptoms and the recognition of vocal socio-emotional expressions in youth. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 48(3), 491-500. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2017.1350963 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Venticinque, J., & Nelson, E.E. (2019; ePub 2018). Differences in adult and adolescent listeners’ ratings of valence and arousal in emotional prosody. Cognition & Emotion, 33(7), 1497-1504. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1561422 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Nelson, E.E., & Dirks, M.A. (2018). Maturation of vocal emotion recognition: Insights from the developmental and neuroimaging literature. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 90, 221-230. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.04.019 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Ly, V.Y., Feldman, L., & Dirks, M.A. (2018). Mid-Adolescents’ and Adults’ Recognition of Vocal Cues of Emotion and Social Intent: Differences by Expression and Speaker Age. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 42(2), 237-251. doi: 10.1007/s10919-018-0274-7 [PDF]
Morningstar, M., Dirks, M.A., & Huang, S. (2017). Vocal Cues Underlying Youth and Adult Portrayals of Socio-Emotional Expressions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 41(2), 155-183. doi: 10.1007/s10919-017-0250-7 [PDF]