Publications & CV

Assistant Professor
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York
2023-pres

Goldberg Post-doctoral Fellow

Ph.D.

Post-baccalaureate Research Assistant

B.A. With Honors in Psychology

Peer-Reviewed Articles in Refereed Journals

Electronic copies of these publications are available for individual, non-commercial use only
*denotes senior authorship where I provided mentorship, funding, and was in charge of all aspects of overseeing the manuscript.
†denotes a trainee or mentored student

1. Hart, E. R., Sperber, J. F., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Ortells-Faci, P., Halpern-Meekin, S., Sandre, A., & Noble, K. G. (2024). Mothers with low incomes view both individual and structural interventions as potentially helpful for supporting early child development. Scientific Reports, 14, 1-19. Journal Link | Preregistration and Open Data

2. Drexler, C. L., Valadez, E. A., Morales, S., Troller-Renfree, S. V., White, L. K., Degnan, K. A., Henderson, H. A., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (2024). Longitudinal relations among temperament, cognitive control, and anxiety: From toddlerhood to late adolescence. Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1037/dev0001802. 

3. Sandre, A., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Giebler, M.A, Meyer, J., & Noble, K.G. (2024). Prenatal family income, but not parental education, is associated with resting brain activity in one-month-old infants. Scientific Reports.

4. Tan, E., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Morales, S., Buzzell, G.A., McSweeney, M., Antúnez, M., & Fox, N.A. (in press). Theta activity and cognitive functioning: Integrating evidence from resting-state and task-related developmental electroencephalography (EEG) research. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Journal Link

5. †Adams, E. J., Scott, M. E., †Amarante, M., †Ramírez, C. A., Rowley, S. J., Noble, K. G., & *Troller-Renfree, S. V.* (2024). Fostering inclusion in EEG measures of pediatric brain activity. Npj Science of Learning, 9(1), 27. doi: 10.1038/s41539-024-00240-y.  Journal Link

6. Morales, S., Bowers, M.E., Suffrey, L., Ziegler, K., Troller-Renfree, S.V.,.... Elliot, A.J. (2024). Maternal Education Prospectively Predicts Child Neurocognitive Function: An ECHO Study. Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1037/dev0001642

7. Troller-Renfree, S.V., Hart, E.R., Sperber, J.F., Costanzo, M. A., Gennetian, L. A., Meyer, J.S., Fox, N.A., & Noble K.G. (2023). Associations between maternal stress and infant brain activity among families residing in poverty in the U.S. Biological Psychology.  Journal Link

8. Debnath, R., Troller-Renfree., S.V., Zeanah, C.H., Nelson, C.A., & Fox, N.A. (2023). Effects of institutional rearing and foster care intervention on error monitoring and externalizing behaviors in adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 63, 101295. Preprint | Journal Link

9. Hart, E. R., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Sperber, J. F., & Noble, K. G. (2023). Relations among socioeconomic status, perceived stress, and the home language environment. Journal of Child Language Development, 1-18. doi:10.1017/S0305000923000156. Journal Link

10. Sperber, J.F., Hart, E.R., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Watts, T.W., Noble, K.G. (2022). The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on infant development and maternal mental health in the first 2 years of life. Infancy.  doi: 10.1111/infa.12511. PMID: 36240072.  Journal Link

11. Finkel, M.A.,Troller-Renfree, S.V., & Noble K.G. (2022). Co-Rooming Accounts for Socioeconomic Disparities in Infant Sleep Quality among Families Living in Urban Environments. Children, 9(10), 1429.  Journal Link

12. Troller-Renfree, S. V., Costanzo, M. A., Duncan, G. J., Magnuson, K., Gennetian, L. A., Yoshikawa, H.,  Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Nathan A. Fox, & Noble, K. G. (2022). Reply to Assari and Lantz: Heterogeneity in BFY impacts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(35), e2201864119. Journal Link

13. Valadez, E. A., Morales, S., Buzzell, G. A., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Henderson, H. A., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (in press). Development of proactive control and anxiety among behaviorally inhibited adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Journal Link

14. Troller-Renfree, S.V., Costanzo, M.A., Duncan, G.J., Magnuson, K., Gennetian, L.A., Yoshikawa, H., Halpern-Meekin, S., Fox, N.A., and Noble, K.G. (2022). The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(5), e2115649119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2115649119. Journal Link | Academic Talk

15. Troller-Renfree, S.V., Hart, E.R., Sperber, J.F., Fox, N.A., & Noble, K.G. (in press). Associations among stress and language and socioemotional development in a low-income sample.  Development and Psychopathology, 1-9. doi:10.1017/S0954579421001759. Journal Link

16. Wiltshire C.A., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Giebler, M.E., & Noble, K.G. (2021).  Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age. Infant Behavior and Development, 65.  doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101644 - Journal Link

17. Troller-Renfree, S.V., Morales, S., Leach, S.C., Bowers, M.E., Debnath, R., Fifer, W.P., Fox, N.A., & Noble, K.G. (2021). Feasibility of Assessing Brain Activity using Mobile, In-home Collection of Electroencephalography: Methods and Analysis. Developmental Psychobiology, 1-11. doi: 10.1002/dev.22128 - Preprint | Journal Link

18. Morales, S., Zeytinoglu, S., Buzzell, G.A.,  Valadez, E.A.,  Troller-Renfree, S.V.,  Bowers, M.E., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Degnan, K.A.,  Almas, A.N., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (2021). Neurocognitive Profiles in Adolescence Predict Subsequent Anxiety Trajectories during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.06.004. - Journal Link

19. Valadez, E.A., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Buzzell, G.A., Henderson, H.A., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (2021).  Behavioral Inhibition and Dual Mechanisms of Anxiety Risk: Disentangling Neural Correlates of Proactive and Reactive Control. JCPP Advances, 1(2). doi: 10.1002/jcv2.12022.  Preprint | Journal Link

20. Filippi, C., Subar, A., Ravi, S., Haas, S., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Fox, N.A., Leibenluft, E., & Pine, D.S. (2021).  Developmental changes in the association between cognitive control and anxiety. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. doi: 10.1007/s10578-021-01150-5 - Journal Link

21. Barker, T.V., Buzzell, G.A., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Bowman, L.C., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (2021). The Influence of Social Motivation on Neural Correlates of Cognitive Control in Girls. Developmental Psychobiology. doi: 10.1002/dev.22086  - Journal Link

22. Buzzell, G.A., Morales, S., Bowers, M.E., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Pine, D.S., Henderson, H.A., & Fox, N.A. (2021). A two-pathway model for the development of social anxiety. Developmental  Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.13040. - Journal Link 

23. Finkel, M.A.,Troller-Renfree. S.V., & Noble K.G. (2020). Higher utilization of social services is associated with higher language scores in children from deeply impoverished families. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 8607. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17228607. - Journal Link

24. Troller-Renfree, S.V., Brito, N.H., Desai, P.M., Leon‐Santos, A.G., Wiltshire, C.A., Motton, S.N.,  Meyer, J.S., Isler, J., Fifer, W.P., & Noble, K.G. (2020). Infants of high-stress mothers show alterations in brain function. Developmental Science, 00:e12976. doi: 10.1111/desc.12976 . - Journal Link

25.  Brito, N.H., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Isler, J., Fifer, W.P., & Noble, K.G. (in press). Associations between the home linguistic environment and neural activity during infancy are impacted by household chaos. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100780. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. -Journal Link

26. Troller-Renfree, S.V., Buzzell, G.A., & Fox, N.A. (2020). Changes in working memory facilitate the transition from reactive to proactive cognitive control during childhood. Developmental Science, 00:e12959. doi: /10.1111/desc.12959. - Link to Preprint | Journal Link

27. Buzzell, G., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Wade, M., Debnath, R., Morales, S., Zeanah, C.H., Nelson, C.A., & Fox, N.A. (2020). Mediofrontal theta oscillations are disrupted  by neglect and confer transdiagnostic risk for psychopathology. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 43, 100777-100777. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100777. - Journal Link

28. Bowers, M.E., Buzzell, G.A.,  Salo, V.,  Troller-Renfree, S.V., Hodgkinson, C.A., Goldman, D., Gorodetsky, E., Martin McDermot, J.,  Henderson, H.A.,  & Fox, N.A. (2020). Relations between catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met genotype and inhibitory control development in childhood.  Developmental Psychobiology, 62, 181– 190. doi: 10.1002/dev.21901. -  PDF Link | Research Gate | Self-Archive Link

29. Bowers, M.E., Reider, L.B., Morales, S., Buzzell, G.A., Miller, N., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Pine, D.S., Henderson, H.A., & Fox, N.A. (2019). Differences in Parent and Child Report on the Screen for Child Anxiety-Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): Implications for Investigations of Social Anxiety in Adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.  doi: 10.1007/s10802-019-00609-3.  PDF Link | Research Gate

30. Vraga, E.K., Bode, L., Smithson, A., & Troller-Renfree, S.V. (2019). Accidentally attentive: Comparing visual, close-ended, and open-ended measures of attention on social media. Computers in Human Behavior.  doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2019.05.017. - PDF Link | Research Gate

31. Troller-Renfree, S.V., Buzzell, G., Salo, V., Bowers, M., Forman-Alberti, A., Smith, E., Papp, L., McDermott, J.M., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (2019).  Development of inhibitory control during childhood and its relations to early temperament and later social anxiety: Unique insights provided by latent growth modeling and signal detection theory.  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/tj4hn.  - PDF Link I Link to Preprint

32. Buzzell, G. A., Barker, T.V., Troller-Refree, S.V., Bernat, E.M., Bowers, M.E., Morles, S., Bowman, L.C., Henderson, H. A., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (2019). Adolescent cognitive control, theta oscillations, and social motivation. NeuroImage 198, 13-30. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.04.077. - PDF Link | Link to Preprint

33. Troller-Renfree, S.V., Buzzell, G.A. Pine, D.S., Henderson, H. & Fox, N.A. (2019).  Consequences of not planning ahead: reduced proactive control moderates longitudinal relations between behavioral inhibition and anxiety.  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2018.06.040. -  PDF Link I Link to Preprint

34. Morales, S., Miller N.V., Troller-Renfree, S.V., White, L.K., Degnan, K.A., Henderson, H.A.,   Fox, N.A (2019). Attention bias to reward predicts behavioral problems and moderates early risk to externalizing and attention problems. Development and Psychopathology, 32(2), 397-409. doi: 10.1017/S0954579419000166. PDF Link I Research Gate

35. Lamm, C., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Zeanah, C.H., Nelson, C.A., Fox, N.A. (2018). Impact of early institutionalization on attention mechanisms underlying the inhibition of a planned action. Neuropsychologia. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.06.008 - PDF Link | Research Gate

36. Barker, T.V., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Bowman, L.C., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (2018). Social influences of error monitoring in adolescent girls.  Psychophysiology, e13089-e13089. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13089 - PDF Link | Research Gate

37. Troller-Renfree, S., Zeanah, C.H., Nelson, C.A., & Fox, N.A. (2018).  Neural and cognitive markers of psychopathology: Insights from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Child Development Perspectives, 12(1), 28-33. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12251 - PDF Link | Research Gate

38. Buzzell, G. A., Troller-Renfree, S., Barker, T. V., Bowman, L. C., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Henderson, H. A., Kagan, J., Pine D. S. & Fox, N. A. (2017).  A Neurobehavioral Mechanism Linking Behaviorally Inhibited Temperament and Later Adolescent Social Anxiety. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 56(12), 1097-1105. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2017.10.007 - PDF Link| Research Gate

39. Montoya, L., Westerlund, A., Troller-Renfree, S., Righi, G., & Nelson, N.A. (2017).  The effect of heterogeneous race exposure during infancy.  Cognitive Development, 42, 74-83. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2017.02.014 - PDF Link| Research Gate

40. Bode, L., Vraga, E. K., & Troller-Renfree, S. (2017).  Skipping politics: Measuring avoidance of political content in social media. Research & Politics, 4(2). doi: 10.1177/2053168017702990 - PDF Link| Research Gate

41. Troller-Renfree, S., McLaughlin, K. A., Sheridan, M. A., Nelson, C. A., Zeanah, C. H., & Fox, N. A. (2017). The beneficial effects of a positive attention bias amongst children with a history of psychosocial deprivation.  Biological Psychology, 122, 110-120. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.04.008 - PDF Link| Research Gate

42. Vraga, E. K., Bode, L., Smithson, A., & Troller-Renfree, S. (2016).  Blurred lines: Defining social, news, and political posts on Facebook. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 13, 272-294. doi:10.1080/19331681.2016.1160265 - PDF Link | Research Gate

43. Troller-Renfree, S., Nelson, C. A., Zeanah, C. H., & Fox, N.A. (2016).  Deficits in error monitoring are associated with externalizing but not internalizing symptoms amongst children with a history of institutionalization.  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57, 1145–1153. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12604 - PDF Link | Research Gate

44. Nozadi, S., Troller-Renfree, S., White, L.K., Frenkel, T., Degnan, K.A., Pine, D.S., Bar-Hiem,   Y., & Fox, N.A. (2016).  The moderating role of attention biases to threat on the link between behavioral inhibition and anxiety in children. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 7(3), 451-465. doi:10.5127/jep.052515 - PDF Link | Research Gate

45. Sylvester, C.M., Barch, D.M., Harms, M.P., Belden, A.C., Oakberg, T.J., Gold, A.L., White, L.K., Benson, B.E., Troller-Renfree, S., Degnan, K.A., Henderson, H.A., Luby, J.L., Fox, N.A., & Pine, D.S. (2016).  Early childhood behavioral inhibition predicts cortical thickness in adulthood. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 55(2), 122-129. doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2015.11.007 - PDF Link | Research Gate

46. Vraga, E. K., Bode, L., & Troller-Renfree, S. (2016). Beyond self-reports: Using eye tracking to measure topic and style differences in attention to social media content. Communication Methods and Measures, 10(2-3), 149-164. doi:10.1080/19312458.2016.115044 - PDF Link | Research Gate

47. Troller-Renfree, S., McDermott, J.M., Nelson, C.A., Zeanah, C.H., & Fox, N.A. (2015). The effects of early foster care intervention on attention biases in previously institutionalized children in Romania. Developmental Science, 18(5), 713-22. doi:10.1111/desc.12261 - PDF Link| Research Gate

48. Barker, T.V., Troller-Renfree, S., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (2015). Individual differences in social anxiety differentially affect the salience of errors in social contexts. Cognitive, affective, and behavioral neuroscience, 1-13. doi:10.3758/s13415-015-0360-9 - PDF Link | Research Gate

49. Troller-Renfree, S., Barker, T.V., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (2015). Cognitive functioning of socially anxious adults: Insights from the NIH Toolbox Cognitive Battery. Frontiers in psychology, 6, 764. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00764 - PDF Link | Research Gate

50. Righi, G., Westerlund, A., Congdon, E., Troller-Renfree, S., & Nelson, C.A. (2014). Infants’ experience-dependent processing of male and female faces: Insights from eye tracking and event-related potentials. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 8, 144-152. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2013.09.005 - PDF Link | Research Gate

51. McDermott, J.E., Troller-Renfree, S., Vanderwert, R., Nelson, C.A., Zeanah, C.H., and Fox, N.A. (2013). Psychosocial deprivation, executive functions and the emergence of socio-emotional behavior problems. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7(167), 1-11. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00167 - PDF Link | Research Gate

Book Chapters

1. Buzzell, G., Troller-Renfree, S., Morales, S. M., & Fox, N.A. (2018).  Relations between Behavioral Inhibition, Cognitive Control, and Anxiety: Novel Insights Provided by Parsing Subdomains of Cognitive Control. In N. Fox & K. Perez-Edgar (Eds.), Behavioral Inhibition: Integrating Theory, Research, and Clinical Perspectives.  New York, NY:  Springer.

2. Troller-Renfree, S. & Fox, N.A. (2016).   Sensitive Periods of Development:  Implications for Risk and Resilience. In J. Luby (Ed.), Handbook of Preschool Mental Health (pp. 1-25). New York, NY:  The Guilford Press.

Current

1. National Institute of Child Development (NICHD): K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award (amount $1,022,893). Principal Investigator – Troller-Renfree; Primary Mentor: Kimberly G. Noble, Mentor: William Fifer; Collaborators: Jerrold Meyer, Catherine Monk, Charles Nelson, Stephanie Rowley, & Nim Tottenham. Impact Score: 18

2. 1R01HD087384 (NICHD):   Household Income and Child Development in the First Three Years of Life.  Role: Co-Investigator ( PIs: Duncan, Magnuson, Noble)

Past

1. National Science Foundation: Graduate Research Fellowship (amount $105,000), DGE1322106. Fellow – Troller-Renfree, 05/13-04/18.

2. Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) SECC Dissertation Funding Award (amount $2000).  Principal Investigator – Troller-Renfree, 9/2017-5/2018.

3. Support Program for Advancing Research and Collaboration (SPARC) Grant (amount $1000). Principal Investigator – Troller-Renfree, 01/17-12/17.

4. National Institute of Mental Health: Early Experience, Stress and Neurobehavioral Development Center SEED Grant (amount $20,000).  Principal Investigator – Troller-Renfree, Co-I Roos, 01/13-01/14.

2020 - pres     National Institute of Child Development (NICHD): K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award

2024     Priscilla Wohlstetter Faculty Mentoring Award (link)

2023     Rising Star of the Association for Psychological Science

2020                                Goldberg Postdoctoral Fellowship, Teachers College, Columbia University

2013-2018                  National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)

2017                                Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) SECC Dissertation Funding Award

2017                                Charles Beaumont Dissertation Award in Human Development

2013, 2015, 2017    Society for Research in Child Development Student Travel Award                                       

2016                                Support Program for Advancing Research and Collaboration (SPARC) Grant                         

2015                                National Science Foundation Trainee (NSF Grant 1439258, PI: Megan Gunnar)                    

2015                                International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Travel Award                                  

2013                                National Institute of Mental Health Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science Center Travel Grant  

2012                               NIMH Center on Early Experience Stress and Neurobehavioral Development SEED Grant

2012-2014                 Early Experience, Stress and Neurobehavioral Development Center Trainee                          

2012-2014                 NICHD Social Development Trainee (Grant T32HD007542)

 2009                              University of Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship

2009                               College of Letters and Science Senior Honors Thesis Research Grant                                    

• Preregistration for Baby's First Years study

• Preregistration for examination of prenatal maternal  stress & infant EEG at 1mo

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