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Sarah Maylott

@semaylott.bsky.social
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PhD in developmental psych | Postdoc at Duke University | K99/R00 fellow | Interested in prenatal and infant development

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Anna Zhou @annamzhou.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Do individual differences in fetal physiology shape later sensitivity to early environments? Excited to share our new paper: interactions between fetal heart rate variability and postnatal parenting stress were associated with toddler externalizing behaviors! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Lower fetal heart rate variability and parenting stress associate with toddler psychopathology risk - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Lower fetal heart rate variability and parenting stress associate with toddler psychopathology risk
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Anna Zhou @annamzhou.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
New paper, led by @semaylott.bsky.social, is out! Associations between maternal biobehavior and patterns of newborn neurobehavior emerged even among medically low-risk infants, underscoring the importance of emotional wellbeing in pregnancy 🤰 doi.org/10.1002/dev....
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Neurobehavioral Profiles in Low‐Risk Infants: Associations With Prenatal Maternal Biobehavior and Birth Characteristics
Newborn neurobehavior is a critical indicator of early childhood development. Therefore, we examined perinatal predictors of neurobehavioral patterns among healthy, medically low-risk infants. Partic...
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Liz Simpson @simpson.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
First human newborn paper from my NSF CAREER Award! Automated detection of mouth opening in newborn infants - with our amazing @umiamipsych.bsky.social team: Guangyu Zung, Yeojin Amy Ahn, @tiffany6390.bsky.social, @semaylott.bsky.social, Arushi Malik, @dmessinger.bsky.social doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Automated detection of mouth opening in newborn infants - Behavior Research Methods
Automated behavioral measurement using machine learning is gaining ground in psychological research. Automated approaches have the potential to reduce the labor and time associated with manual behavio...
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Liz Simpson @simpson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
New paper by PhD student, Arushi Malik! Stability of individual differences in social and nonsocial visual attention from newborn to 14 months #OpenAccess w/ wonderful team @tiffany6390.bsky.social, @shuoz.bsky.social, @semaylott.bsky.social, @dmessinger.bsky.social, et al. doi.org/10.1002/dev....
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Liz Simpson @simpson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Training improves avoidance of natural sick faces: Changes in visual attention and approach decisions #OpenAccess led by @tiffany6390.bsky.social in collab with @semaylott.bsky.social @shuoz.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.3390/visi...
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Kira Wright @kirawright.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Check out my first, first author publication! 🎉 We found prenatal resting RSA is directly associated with toddler vocab development! Also, postpartum stress mediated the association between prenatal emotion dysregulation and toddler vocab development. dx.doi.org/10.1002/dev....
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Examining the Relation Between Prenatal Emotion Dysregulation and Toddler Vocabulary Development: A Biobehavioral Approach
Early language is shaped by parent–child interactions and has been examined in relation to maternal psychopathology and parenting stress. Minimal work has examined the relation between maternal emoti...
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Anna Zhou @annamzhou.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Our new paper is out! We found that changes in maternal emotion dysregulation from pregnancy to 18-months postpartum are nonlinear, and that experiences during pregnancy and childbirth set the stage for postnatal maternal mental health🤰🏼 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kexhbXYiy...
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Liz Simpson @simpson.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Maternal Stress: The First 14 Months Postpartum - by Maylott, Patel-Syed, Lebowitz, @tiffany6390.bsky.social, & me doi.org/10.1080/1529...
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