Education & Training
- Ph.D.: Duke University, 2019
Major Awards
- NARSAD Young Investigator Award, 2016
- Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS), NIMH, 2015
Research Interests
Dr. Perlman’s multi-modal research program bridges the fields of social and cognitive development and social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience to form a field known as Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. She employs multiple methodological techniques including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), psychophysiological measures, eye tracking, and other behavioral and questionnaire measures to conduct cognitive and neural analyses of mechanisms underlying the development of emotion and its effects on social interactions. Her research focuses on the infancy and early childhood periods and seeks to use innovative measures to determine which children are at greatest risk for psychopathology.
Recent Publications
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Constructing the “Family Personality”: Can Family Functioning Be Linked to Parent–Child Interpersonal Neural Synchronization?
Thompson, K. I., Schneider, C. J., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Jeyaram, S., Mata-Centeno, B., Furtado, E., Vachhani, S., Pérez-Edgar, K. & Perlman, S. B., Jun 2025, In: Journal of Personality. 93, 3, p. 755-766 12 p.
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A network approach to the investigation of childhood irritability: probing frustration using social stimuli
Thompson, K. I., Schneider, C. J., Lopez-Roque, J. A., Wakschlag, L. S., Karim, H. T. & Perlman, S. B., Jul 2024, In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines. 65, 7, p. 959-972 14 p.
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Setting boundaries: Development of neural and behavioral event cognition in early childhood
Benear, S. L., Popal, H. S., Zheng, Y., Tanrıverdi, B., Murty, V. P., Perlman, S. B., Olson, I. R. & Newcombe, N. S., Nov 2023, In: Developmental Science. 26, 6, e13409.
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Irritability Moderates the Association between Cognitive Flexibility Task Performance and Related Prefrontal Cortex Activation in Young Children
Li, Y., Grabell, A. S. & Perlman, S. B., Jun 2023, In: Brain Sciences. 13, 6, 882.
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Review: Defining Positive Emotion Dysregulation: Integrating Temperamental and Clinical Perspectives
Vogel, A. C., Brotman, M. A., Roy, A. K. & Perlman, S. B., Mar 2023, In: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 62, 3, p. 297-305 9 p.