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Infant Health and Development

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Ilana Gabanyi
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2
Sukhpreet K. Tamana
University of British Columbia
3
Courtney Hoskinson
University of British Columbia
4
Yaara Endevelt–Shapira
Weizmann Institute of Science
5
Sarah‐Jane Leigh
UNSW Sydney
6
Mustaqeem Khan
Zayed University
7
Gil B. Carvalho
University of Southern California
8
Trinh Nguyen
University of Vienna
9
Asma Fikree
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
10
Narmin Nezamdoost-Sani
Urmia University

Rising Stars Papers

1
MemoCMT: multimodal emotion recognition using cross-modal transformer-based feature fusion
Scientific Reports|2025
66 cit.
2
VD-Net: An Edge Vision-Based Surveillance System for Violence Detection
IEEE Access|2024
47 cit.
3
Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking parent–child neural synchrony to parents’ and children's attachment representations
Developmental Science|2024
40 cit.
4
Antibiotics taken within the first year of life are linked to infant gut microbiome disruption and elevated atopic dermatitis risk
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology|2024
36 cit.
5
Joint Multi-Scale Multimodal Transformer for Emotion Using Consumer Devices
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics|2025
26 cit.
6
Drone-HAT: Hybrid Attention Transformer for Complex Action Recognition in Drone Surveillance Videos
Unknown Journal|2024
21 cit.
7
Mother–infant social and language interactions at 3 months are associated with infants’ productive language development in the third year of life
Infant Behavior and Development|2024
19 cit.
8
STT-Net: Simplified Temporal Transformer for Emotion Recognition
IEEE Access|2024
16 cit.
9
Skin-Former: Mobile-Friendly Transformer for Skin Lesion Diagnosis
Unknown Journal|2024
9 cit.
10
Action Knowledge Graph for Violence Detection Using Audiovisual Features
Unknown Journal|2024
6 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Sophie Neuner
Johns Hopkins University
2
Jai S. Polepalli
National University of Singapore
3
Kevin T. Beier
University of California, Irvine
4
Alexandre Charlet
Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives
5
Daniel Abazia
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
6
Anita Kochanoff
Arizona State University
7
Le-Hai Zhang
Qilu Hospital of Shandong University
8
Samuel A. Mehr
Harvard University
9
Steven D. Townsend
Vanderbilt University
10
Lindsay J. Hall
University of Birmingham

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures
Nature Human Behaviour|2022
173 cit.
2
Maternal gut microbiota Bifidobacterium promotes placental morphogenesis, nutrient transport and fetal growth in mice
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences|2022
69 cit.
3
Particular genomic and virulence traits associated with preterm infant-derived toxigenic Clostridium perfringens strains
Nature Microbiology|2023
69 cit.
4
Universality, domain-specificity and development of psychological responses to music
Nature Reviews Psychology|2023
57 cit.
5
An analgesic pathway from parvocellular oxytocin neurons to the periaqueductal gray in rats
Nature Communications|2023
56 cit.
6
How games can make behavioural science better
Nature|2023
54 cit.
7
Universal interpretations of vocal music
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2023
38 cit.
8
Modified viral-genetic mapping reveals local and global connectivity relationships of ventral tegmental area dopamine cells
eLife|2022
32 cit.
9
An extended amygdala-midbrain circuit controlling cocaine withdrawal-induced anxiety and reinstatement
Cell Reports|2022
31 cit.
10
Children infer the behavioral contexts of unfamiliar foreign songs.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General|2022
29 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2
John F. Cryan
University College Cork
3
Erika Isolauri
University of Turku
4
Timothy G. Dinan
APC Microbiome Institute
5
Tracy L. Spinrad
Arizona State University
6
Jack L. Feldman
University of California, Los Angeles
7
T. Berry Brazelton
University of Rochester
8
Kenton M. Sanders
University of Nevada, Reno
9
Carola Severi
Sapienza University of Rome
10
William P. Fifer
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Ingestion of <i>Lactobacillus</i> strain regulates emotional behavior and central GABA receptor expression in a mouse via the vagus nerve
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2011
3.8k cit.
2
The gut-brain axis: interactions between enteric microbiota, central and enteric nervous systems.
PubMed|2015
2.6k cit.
3
Parental Socialization of Emotion
Psychological Inquiry|1998
2.6k cit.
4
Probiotics in primary prevention of atopic disease: a randomised placebo-controlled trial
The Lancet|2001
2.4k cit.
5
Of Human Bonding: Newborns Prefer Their Mothers' Voices
Science|1980
2.3k cit.
6
Pre-Bötzinger Complex: a Brainstem Region that May Generate Respiratory Rhythm in Mammals
Science|1991
2.2k cit.
7
The microbiome-gut-brain axis during early life regulates the hippocampal serotonergic system in a sex-dependent manner
Molecular Psychiatry|2012
1.9k cit.
8
The Infant's Response to Entrapment between Contradictory Messages in Face-to-Face Interaction
Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry|1978
1.9k cit.
9
Cultural learning
Behavioral and Brain Sciences|1993
1.8k cit.
10
Transferring the blues: Depression-associated gut microbiota induces neurobehavioural changes in the rat
Journal of Psychiatric Research|2016
1.7k cit.

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