1. Tan, J. X. Y., Hamm, J. M., & Liu, P. (2025). Age and anxiety symptoms jointly moderated the curvilinear changes in trial-level ERN following repeated errors on a Go/No-Go task during early adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 1–8. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001925 

(Impact factor 4.357, JCR Q1 in Developmental Psychology)

2. Liu, P., & Tan, J. X. Y. (2025). Late positive potentials elicited by negative self-referential processing predict increases in social anxiety, but not depressive, symptoms from age 11 to age 12. Development and Psychopathology, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001548 (Impact factor 4.357, JCR Q1 in Developmental Psychology)

3. Tan, J. X. Y., & Liu, P. (2024). Emotion regulation moderates the prospective association between ERN and anxiety in early adolescence: An age-specific moderation of cognitive reappraisal but not expressive suppression. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-024-01263-0 (Impact factor 3.0, JCR Q1 in Clinical Psychology)

4. Liu, P., & Tan, J. X. Y. (2024). Late positive potential elicited by monetary reward feedback predicts changes of disordered eating behaviors from age 11 to age 12 in community-dwelling girls. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 57, 2106-2116 http://doi.org/10.1002/eat.24253 (Impact factor 4.7, JCR Q1 in Psychology)

5. Liu, P., & Tan, J. X. Y. (2024). Reward positivity moderates the association between pubertal status and social anxiety symptoms in preadolescence. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 202, 112390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112390 (Impact factor: 3.0, JCR Q2 in Psychology) 

6. Liu, P., & Tan, J. X. Y. (2024). ERP correlates of self-referential processing moderate the association between pubertal status and disordered eating in preadolescence. Psychophysiology, 61, e14534. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14534 (Impact factor 4.348, JCR Q1 in Psychology) 

7. Liu, P., Yang, X., & Tan, J. X. Y. (2024). Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 19(1), nsae011. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsae011 (Impact factor 4.2, JCR Q1 in Psychology)

8. Zhang, J.*, Zhang, W., Guan, W., & Liu, P.* (2024). Induced emotion counter-regulation affects attentional inhibition of emotional information: ERP evidence from a randomized manipulation approach. Cerebral Cortex, 34(2), bhae004. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae004 (Impact factor 4.861, JCR Q2 in Neuroscience) 

      *equal contribution & co-corresponding authors

9. Daoust, A. R., Green, H., Vandermeer, M. R. J., Liu, P., Stanton, K., Harkness, K. L., & Hayden, E. P. (2023). Total Cortisol Output During an Acute Stressor Predicts Youths' Internalizing Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Biological Psychology, 184, 108714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108714 (Impact factor 3.111, JCR Q1 in Behavioral Sciences)

10. Tan, J. X. Y., & Liu, P. (2023). Beyond the RewP: The reward feedback-elicited LPP and its potential associations with perceived stress and internalizing symptoms in late childhood. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 193, 112237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2023.08.010  (Impact factor: 3.0, JCR Q2 in Psychology)

11. Mohamed Ali, O., Vandermeer, M. R. J., Liu, P., Joanisse, M. F., Barch, D. M., & Hayden, E. P. (2023). Associations between childhood irritability and neural reactivity to maternal feedback in adolescence. Biological Psychology, 182, 108645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108645 (Impact factor 3.111, JCR Q1 in Behavioral Sciences)

12. Liu, P., & Tan, J. X. Y. (2023). Incremental validity of ERP correlates of self-referential processing in predicting emerging depressive symptoms in late childhood: Evidence from a community-dwelling sample. Psychophysiology, 60, e14382. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14382 (Impact factor 4.348, JCR Q1 in Psychology)

13. Liu, P., & Tan, J. X. Y. (2023). Behavioral and ERP indices of self-schematic processing show differential associations with emerging symptoms of depression and social anxiety in late childhood: Evidence from a community-dwelling sample. Biological Psychology, 180, 108594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108594 (Impact factor 3.111, JCR Q1 in Behavioral Sciences)

14. Green, H. E., Daoust, A. R., Vandermeer, M. R. J., Liu, P., Stanton, K., Harkness, K., Hayden, E. P. (2023). Characterizing and predicting Canadian adolescents’ internalizing symptoms in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000381 (Impact factor 1.3, JCR Q3 in Multidisciplinary Psychology)

15. Zhang, J.*, Guan, W., Chen, X., Zhao, Y., & Liu, P.* (2023). Automatic emotion regulation prompts response inhibition to angry faces in sub-clinical depression: An ERP study. Biological Psychology, 178, 108515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108515 (Impact factor 3.111, JCR Q1 in Behavioral Sciences)

*equal contribution & co-corresponding authors

16. Mullen, J. N., Liu, P., McDonnell, C. G., Stanton, K., Kotelnikova, Y., Johnson, S. L., Hayden, E. P. (2023). Assessing the dominance behavioral system in early childhood using observational methods. Current Issues in Personality Psychology, 11(3), 216-227. https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp/156767 (Impact factor 1.0, JCR Q4 in Social Psychology)

17. Daoust, A. R., Stanton, K., Vandermeer, M. R. J., Liu, P., Harkness, K. L., & Hayden, E. P. (2022). Development and Preliminary Validation of the Pandemic Avoidance and Concern Scales (PACS). Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 44(4), 1029–1042. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-022-09995-3 (Impact factor 1.3, JCR Q3 in Clinical Psychology)

18. Vandermeer, M. R. J., Liu, P., Mohamed Ali, O., Daoust, A. R., Joanisse, M. F., Barch, D. M., & Hayden, E. P. (2022). Children's neural reactivity to maternal praise and criticism: Associations with early depressive symptoms and maternal depression. Development and Psychopathology, 36(1), 12-27. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579422000840 (Impact factor 4.357, JCR Q1 in Developmental Psychology)

19. Bas-Hoogendam, J. M., Bernstein, R., Benson, B. E., Buss, K. A., Gunther, K. E., Pérez-Edgar, K., Salum, G. A., Jackowski, A. P., Bressan, R. A., Zugman, A., Degnan, K. A., Filippi, C. A., Fox, N. A., Henderson, H. A., Tang, A., Zeytinoglu, S., Harrewijn, A., Hillegers, M. H. J., White, T., … Liu, P., …Pine, D. S. (2022). Structural Brain Correlates of Childhood Inhibited Temperament: An ENIGMA-Anxiety Mega-analysis. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 61(9), 1182-1188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2022.04.023 (Impact factor 9.2, JCR Q1 in Developmental Psychology)

(Editor’s Best of 2022)

20. Pell, M. D., Sethi, S., Rigoulot, S., Rothermich, K., Liu, P., & Jiang, X. (2022). Emotional voices modulate perception and predictions about an upcoming face. Cortex, 149, 148–164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.12.017 (Impact factor: 4.027)

21. Liu, P., Vandermeer, M. R. J., Mohamed Ali, O., Daoust, A. R., Joanisse, M. F., Barch, D. M., Hayden, E. P. (2022). Maternal depression, child temperament, and early life stress predict never-depressed preadolescents’ functional connectivity during a negative mood induction. Clinical Psychological Science, 10(1), 141-160. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026211016419 (Impact factor: 3.74)

(A presentation of this paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j74xLmPvTU) 

22. Zhang, J., Chen, X., Feng, C., & Liu, P. (2022). The effect of automatic emotion regulation goal on selective attention: Evidence from ERPs. Journal of Psychological Science, 45(2), 287-294. http://www.psysci.org/CN/Y2022/V45/I2/287  (in Chinese)

23. Liu, P., Hayden, E., Dougherty, L., Leung, H., Goldstein, B., & Klein, D. (2021). The development of depressogenic self-schemas: Associations with children's regional grey matter volume in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Development and Psychopathology, 35(3), 1000-1010 https://doi:10.1017/S0954579421000341 (Impact factor 4.357, JCR Q1 in Developmental Psychology)

24. Liu, P., Rigoulot, S., Jiang, X., Zhang, S., & Pell, M. D. (2021). Unattended emotional prosody affects visual processing of facial expressions in Mandarin-speaking Chinese: A comparison with English-speaking Canadians. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 52(3), 275–294. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022121990897 (Impact factor 2.4, JCR Q2 in Social Psychology)

25. Liu, P., Kryski, K. R., Smith, H. J., Kotelnikova, Y., Singh, S., & Hayden, E. P. (2021). Dynamic relationships between children’s higher‐order regulation and lower‐order reactivity predict development of attention problems. Social Development, 30, 274-292. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12469 (Impact factor 2.042, JCR Q3 in Developmental Psychology)

26. Liu, P., Vandemeer, M. R. J., Joanisse, M. F., Barch, D. M., Dozois, D. J. A., & Hayden, E. P. (2020). Depressogenic self-schemas are associated with smaller regional grey matter volume in never-depressed preadolescents. NeuroImage: Clinical, 28, 102422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102422 (Impact factor  4.350, JCR Q2 in Neuroimaging)

27. Vandermeer, M. R. J., Liu, P., Mohamed Ali, O., Daoust, A. R., Joanisse, M. F., Barch, D. M., & Hayden, E. P. (2020). Orbitofrontal cortex grey matter volume is related to children’s depressive symptoms. NeuroImage: Clinical, 28, 102395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102395 (Impact factor 4.350, JCR Q2 in Neuroimaging)

28. Liu, P., Vandermeer, M. R. J., Joanisse, M. F., Barch, D. M., Dozois, D. J. A., & Hayden, E. P. (2020). Neural activity during self-referential processing in children at risk for depression. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 5(4), 429-437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2019.12.012 (Impact Factor 5.335, JCR Q1 in Neurosciences)

29. Liu, P., Kryski, K. R., Smith, H. J., Joanisse, M. F., & Hayden, E. P. (2020). Transactional relations between early child temperament, structured parenting, and child outcomes: A three-wave longitudinal study. Development and Psychopathology, 32(3), 923-933. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579419000841 (Impact factor 4.357, JCR Q1 in Developmental Psychology)

30. Liu, P., Cole, P. M., Gilmore, R. O., Pérez-Edgar, K., Vigeant, M. C., Moriarty, P., & Scherf, K. S. (2019). Young children's neural processing of their mother’s voice: An fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 122, 11-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.12.003 (Impact factor 3.054, JCR Q2 in Experimental Psychology)

31. Liu, P., Bai, X., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019). Spatial correspondence of high-density EEG and fMRI measures of attention bias-related brain activities in 9-12-year-old children: an EEG source localization study. Neuroimage. 184, 599-608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.09.070 (Impact factor 5.812, JCR Q1 in Neurosciences)

32. Liu, P., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2019). Developmental pathways from early Behavioral Inhibition to later anxiety: An integrative review of developmental psychopathology research and translational implications. Adolescent Research Review, 4(1), 45-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40894-018-0092-5 (Impact factor 5.052, JCR Q1 in Developmental Psychology)

33. Liu, P., Taber-Thomas, B. C., Fu, X., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2018). Biobehavioral Markers of Attention Bias Modification in Temperamental Risk for Anxiety: A Randomized Control Trial. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 57(2), 103-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2017.11.016 (Impact factor 9.2, JCR Q1 in Developmental Psychology)

34. Liu, P., Rigoulot, S., & Pell, M. D. (2017). Cultural immersion alters emotion perception: Neurophysiological evidence from Chinese immigrants to Canada, Social Neuroscience, 12(6): 685-700. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2016.1231713  (Impact factor 2.0, JCR Q3 in Psychology)

35. Pell, M. D., Rothermich, K., Liu, P., Paulmann, S., Sethi, S., & Rigoulot, S. (2015). Preferential decoding of emotion from human non-linguistic vocalizations versus speech prosody. Biological Psychology, 111(8), 14-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.08.008 (Impact factor 3.111, JCR Q1 in Behavioral Sciences)

36. Liu, P., Rigoulot, S., & Pell, M. D. (2015). Early cultural effects on emotion processing across faces and voice: evidence from MMN component. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 311. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00311 (Impact factor 3.209, JCR Q2 in Psychology)

37. Liu, P., Rigoulot, S., & Pell, M. D. (2015). Culture modulates the brain response to human expressions of emotion: electrophysiological evidence. Neuropsychologia, 67(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.11.034 (Impact factor 3.054, JCR Q2 in Experimental Psychology)

38. Liu, P., & Pell, M. D. (2012). Recognizing vocal emotions in Mandarin Chinese: A validated database of Chinese vocal emotional stimuli. Behavior Research Methods, 44(4), 1042-1051. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-012-0203-3 (Impact factor 4.712, JCR Q1 in Experimental Psychology) 

(The database can be downloaded here)

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