RESEARCH FOCUS
Developmental Social Neuroscience with a specific focus on infancy
- face, voice, and emotion processing
- role of prefrontal cortex in the early development of social cognition
- individual differences in social perception
- Methods: EEG, ERPs, NIRS, and most recently genetic analysis
PUBLICATIONS
FACE, GAZE, AND VOICE PROCESSING
Grossmann, T., Parise, E., & Friederici, A.D. (in press). The detection of communicative signals directed at the self in infant prefrontal cortex. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Grossmann, T., Oberecker, R., Koch, S.P., & Friederici, A.D. (2010). Developmental origins of voice processing in the human brain. Neuron, 65, 852-858. [Commentary in Neuron by Pascal Belin and Marie-Helene Grosbras ]
Grossmann, T., & Johnson, M.H. (2010). Selective prefrontal cortex responses to joint attention in early infancy. Biology Letters, 6, 540-543.
Grossmann, T., & Farroni, T. (2009). Decoding social signals in the infant brain: A look at eye gaze perception. In M. de Haan & M. Gunnar (Eds.), Handbook of Developmental Social Neuroscience, pp. 87-106.
Grossmann, T., Johnson, M. H., Lloyd-Fox, S., Blasi, A., Deligianni, F., Elwell, C., & Csibra, G. (2008). Early cortical specialization for face-to-face communication in human infants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 275, 2803-2811.
Grossmann, T., & Vaish, A. (2008). Reading faces in infancy: Developing a multiple-level-analysis of a social stimulus. In T. Striano & V. M. Reid (Eds.), Social cognition: Development, neuroscience, and autism, pp. 167-180.
Grossmann, T., Johnson, M. H., Farroni, T., & Csibra, G. (2007). Social perception in the infant brain: Gamma oscillatory activity in response to eye gaze. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 2, 284-291.
EMOTION PROCESSING:
Grossmann, T., Johnson, M.H., Vaish, A., Hughes, D., Quinque, D., Stoneking, M., & Friederici, A. D. (in press). Genetic and neural dissociation of individual responses to emotional expressions in human infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Grossmann, T. (2010). The development of emotion perception in face and voice during infancy. Restorative Neurology & Neuroscience, 28, 219-236.
Vaish, A., Grossmann, T., & Woodward, A. (2008). Not all emotions are created equal: The negativity bias in early social-emotional development. Psychological Bulletin, 134, 383-403.
Kobiella, A., Grossmann, T., Striano, T., Reid, V. M. (2008). The discrimination of angry and fearful facial expressions in 7-month-old infants: An event-related potential study. Cognition & Emotion, 22, 134-146.
Grossmann, T., Striano, T., & Friederici, A. D. (2007). Developmental changes in infants’ processing of happy and angry facial expressions: A neurobehavioral study. Brain & Cognition, 64, 30-41.
Striano, T., Kopp, F., Grossmann, T., & Reid, V.M. (2006). Eye contact influences neural processing of emotional expressions in 4-month-old infants. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1, 87-94.
Grossmann, T., Striano, T., & Friederici, A.D. (2006). Crossmodal integration of emotional information from face and voice in the infant brain. Developmental Science, 9, 309-315.
Grossmann, T., Striano, T., & Friederici, A.D. (2005). Infants’ electric brain responses to emotional prosody. NeuroReport, 16, 1825-1828.
THEORETICAL REVIEWS (Developmental Social Neuroscience):
Grossmann, T., & Johnson, M. H. (forthcoming). The early development of the brain bases for social cognition. To appear in K. Ochsner & S. Kosslyn (Eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Johnson, M. H., Grossmann, T., & Cohen Kadosh, K. (2009). Mapping functional brain development: Building a social brain through Interactive Specialization. Developmental Psychology, 45, 151-159.
Johnson, M. H., Grossmann, T., Farroni, T. (2008). The social cognitive neuroscience of infancy: Illuminating early development of social brain functions. R. Kail (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 36, pp. 331-364.
Grossmann, T., & Johnson, M. H. (2007). The development of the social brain in infancy. European Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 909-919.
METHODS:
Grossmann, T. (2008). Shedding light on infant brain function: The use of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in the study of face perception. Acta Paediatrica, 97, 1156-1158.
Csibra, G., Kushnerenko, E., & Grossmann, T. (2008). Electrophysiological methods in studying infant cognitive development. In C. A. Nelson & M. Luciana (Eds.), Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (2nd Edition), pp. 247-262.
OTHER INTERESTS
PERCEPTUAL LEARNING AND VISUAL CATEGORIZATION:
Grossmann, T., Gliga, T., Johnson, M. H., & Mareschal, D. (2009). The neural basis of perceptual category learning in human infants. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 2276-2286.
NEUROCOGNITION OF MUSIC:
Koelsch, S., Grossmann, T., Gunter, T.C., Hahne, A., Schröger, E., & Friederici, A.D. (2003). Children processing music: Electric brain responses reveal musical competence and gender differences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 683-693.
Koelsch, S., Maess, B., Grossmann, T., & Friederici, A.D. (2003). Electric brain responses reveal gender differences in music processing. NeuroReport, 14, 709-713.
Koelsch, S., & Grossmann, T. (2003). Neurophysiologie der Musikwahrnehmung bei Kindern. In H.G. Bastian & G. Kreutz (Eds.), Musik und Humanität. Mainz: Schott, pp. 134-153.
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