Emotional cognition-—how we perceive, interpret, and respond to emotional cues—is a critical neural process for social functioning, however we don’t know how it develops. In these projects, I’m interested in 1) characterizing emotion cognition in the brain across childhood and 2) mapping how individual differences in emotion cognition neurodevelopment are associated with depression and anxiety risk.
Emotion perception and inference
Camacho, M.C., Nielsen, A.N., Balser, D.*, Furtado, E.*, Steinberger, D., Fruchtman, L., Culver, J.P., Sylvester, C.M., & Barch D.M. (2023). Evidence for large-scale encoding of functional emotion perception that becomes increasingly similar between individuals across childhood and adolescence. Nature Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01358-9
Camacho, M.C.#, Williams, E.M.#, Balser, D., Kamojjala, R., Sekar, N., Steinberger, D., Yarlagadda, S., Perlman, S.B., & Barch, D.M. (2022). EmoCodes: A standardized coding system for socio-emotional content in complex video stimuli. Affective Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-021-00100-7
Camacho, M.C., Karim, H.T., & Perlman, S.B. (2019). Neural Architecture Supporting Active Emotion Processing in Children: A Multivariate Approach. NeuroImage. 188, 171–180. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.12.013
Donohue, M.R., Camacho, M.C., Drake, J.E., Schwarzlose, R.F., Brady, R.G., Hoyniak, C.P., Hennefield, L., Wakschlag, L.S., Rogers, C.E., Barch, D.M., & Luby, J. (accepted). Less attention to emotional faces is associated with low empathy and prosociality in 12-to 20-month old infants. Infancy.
Neural correlates of affect and psychopathology
Camacho, M.C., Balser, D.*, Furtado, E.J.*, Rogers, C.E., Schwarzlose, R.F., Sylvester, C.M., & Barch, D.M. (accepted). Higher inter-subject variability in neural response to narrative social stimuli among youth with higher social anxiety. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Camacho, M.C., Williams, E.M., Ding, K., & Perlman, S.B. (2021). Multimodal Examination of Emotion Processing Systems Associated with Negative Affectivity across Early Childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 48, 100917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100917
Camacho, M.C., King, L.S., Ojha, A., Sisk, L.M., Garcia, C.M., Cichocki, A.C., Humphreys, K.L., & Gotlib, I.H. (2020). Cerebral Blood Flow in 5- to 8-Month-Olds: Regional Tissue Maturity is Associated with Infant Affect. Developmental Science. 23(5), e12928. http://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12928
Ravi, S.#, Camacho, M.C.#, Fleming, B., Scudder, M.R., & Humphreys, K.L. (2023). Concurrent and prospective associations between frontoparietal and default mode network connectivity and negative affectivity in infancy. Biological Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108717