Recent Research Grants, Publications, and Presentations

Grants

• Schmidt, L.A. Neural regulation of infant emotion: A developmental approach. Research Project Grant received 2000 (203710-2000) from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). (2000-2004).
• Murphy, K. (PI) with seven other co-applicants including Schmidt, L.A. High resolution brain imaging equipment. Major Equipment Grant received 2000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). (2000).
• Schmidt, L.A. Developmental perspectives on childhood shyness. Research Project Grant received 1999 (410-99-1206) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). (1999-2002). 
• Schmidt, L.A. Origins and development of behavioral inhibition in children. Research Project Grant received 1999 (203710-1999) from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). (1999-2000).
• Trainor, L.J. (PI). & Schmidt, L.A. (Collaborator). Developmental perspectives on the communication of emotion through speech and music. Research Project Grant received 1998 (410-98-1274) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). (1998-2001).

Books

Schmidt, L.A., & Schulkin, J. (Eds.) (1999). Extreme Fear, Shyness, and Social Phobia: Origins, Biological Mechanisms, and Clinical Outcomes. New York: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

• Schmidt, L.A., Polak, C.P., & Spooner, A.L. (In press). Biological and environmental contributions to childhood shyness: A diathesis-stress model. In W.R. Crozier & L.E. Alden (Eds.), International Handbook of Social Anxiety: Research and Interventions Relating to the Self and Shyness. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• Schmidt, L.A., & Tasker, S.L. (2000). Childhood shyness: Determinants, development, and 'depathology'. In W.R. Crozier (Ed.), Shyness: Development, Consolidation, and Change (pp. 30-46). New York: Routledge Publishers.

Programmatic Empirical Papers

• Schmidt, L.A., & Trainor, L.J. (In press). Frontal brain electrical activity (EEG) distinguishes valence and intensity of musical emotions. Cognition and Emotion.
• Goldberg, J.O., & Schmidt, L.A. (In press). Shyness, sociability, and social dysfunction in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research.
• Addison, T.L., & Schmidt, L.A. (1999). Are women who are shy reluctant to take risks?: Behavioral and psychophysiological correlates. Journal of Research in Personality, 33, 352-357.
• Schmidt, L.A. (1999). Frontal brain electrical activity in shyness and sociability. Psychological Science, 10, 316-320.  Reprinted in:  J.T. Cacioppo, G.G. Bernston, R. Adolphs, C.S. Carter, R.J. Davidson, M.K. McClintock, B.S., McEwen, M.J. Meaney, D.L. Schacter, E.M. Sternberg, S.S. Suomi, & S.E. Taylor (Eds.),  Foundations in Social Neuroscience.  MIT Press, Spring 2001.
• Schmidt, L.A., Fox, N.A., Schulkin, J., & Gold, P.W. (1999). Behavioral and psychophysiological correlates of self-presentation in temperamentally shy children. Developmental Psychobiology, 35, 119-135.

Position and Review Papers

• Schmidt, L.A., & Schulkin, J. (2000). Toward a computational affective neuroscience. [Special Issue].  Brain and Cognition, 42, 95-98.
• Segalowitz, S.J., Davies, P., Schmidt, L.A., & Tasker, S.L. (In press). What EEGs tell us that other techniques can not. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Paper and Poster Presentations

• Trainor, L.J., Tsang, C.D., Santesso, D.L., Tasker, S.L., & Schmidt, L.A. (2000, November). Frontal brain electrical activity (EEG) distinguishes valence and intensity of emotions induced by music. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• Sniderman, C.E., & Schmidt, L.A. (2000, July). Stability of frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) measures and cognitive and affective development in children. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• Sniderman, C.E., Schmidt, L.A., Trainor, L.J., Spooner, A.L., Tasker, S.L., & Galay, L.A. (2000, July). Asymmetrical anterior brain electrical activity (EEG) in response to affective musical stimuli in 9 month-olds. Poster presented at the 12^th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Infant Studies, Brighton, United Kingdom.
• Tsang, C.D., Trainor, L.J., Santesso, D.L., Tasker, L.A., & Schmidt, L.A. (2000, May). Emotional processing in the brain: Effects of mode and tempo on frontal electrical activity (EEG). Poster presented at the Biological Foundations of Music, A New York Academy of Sciences Conference, Rockefeller University, New York, New York.
• Goldberg, J.O., Lambert, J., Schmidt, L.A., & Cook, P.E. (1999, April). Shyness, sociability, and social dysfunction in schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 11^th Annual Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences Research Day, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• Schmidt, L.A. (1999, August). Frontal brain activity (EEG) in distinguishing subtypes of shyness. In L.A. Schmidt & J.M. Cheek (Chairs), Shyness: From temperament to self-concept. Symposium conducted at the 107^th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

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