Education & Training
- BA: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 2002
- MA: Duke University, Durham, NC, 2006
- PhD: Duke University, Durham, NC, 2009
- PostDoctoral: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2011
Major Awards
- Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS), NIMH, 2015
- NARSAD Young Investigator Award, 2016
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.
Key Publications
- Camacho MC, Karim HT, Perlman SB, (2019 03). Neural architecture supporting active emotion processing in children: A multivariate approach. Neuroimage. 188: 171-180.
Read publication »Neural architecture supporting active emotion processing in children: A multivariate approach. - Quiñones-Camacho LE, Fishburn FA, Camacho MC, Hlutkowsky CO, Huppert TJ, Wakschlag LS, Perlman SB, (2019 Nov). Parent-child neural synchrony: a novel approach to elucidating dyadic correlates of preschool irritability. J Child Psychol Psychiatry.
Read publication »Parent-child neural synchrony: a novel approach to elucidating dyadic correlates of preschool irritability. - Fishburn FA, Hlutkowsky CO, Bemis LM, Huppert TJ, Wakschlag LS, Perlman SB, (2019 01). Irritability uniquely predicts prefrontal cortex activation during preschool inhibitory control among all temperament domains: A LASSO approach. Neuroimage. 184: 68-77.
Read publication »Irritability uniquely predicts prefrontal cortex activation during preschool inhibitory control among all temperament domains: A LASSO approach. - Karim HT, Perlman SB, (2017 10). Neurodevelopmental maturation as a function of irritable temperament: Insights From a Naturalistic Emotional Video Viewing Paradigm. Hum Brain Mapp. 38(10): 5307-5321.
Read publication »Neurodevelopmental maturation as a function of irritable temperament: Insights From a Naturalistic Emotional Video Viewing Paradigm. - Perlman SB, Huppert TJ, Luna B, (2016 06). Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Evidence for Development of Prefrontal Engagement in Working Memory in Early Through Middle Childhood. Cereb. Cortex. 26(6): 2790-9.
Read publication »Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Evidence for Development of Prefrontal Engagement in Working Memory in Early Through Middle Childhood. - Perlman SB, (2012 Dec). Neuroimaging in child clinical populations: considerations for a successful research program. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 51(12): 1232-5.
Read publication »Neuroimaging in child clinical populations: considerations for a successful research program.
Funded Research Projects
R01 MH107540-04S1
National Institutes of Health-NIMH
Leveraging cognitive neuroscience to elucidate the neurodevelopmental phenotype of prenatal opioid exposure: Multi-level mechanisms of irritability pathways
1 R21 MH115088-01
National Institutes of Health-NIMH
Dyadic Synchrony as a Mechanism of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT): A Neuroscience-Based Approach
R01 MH107540
National Institutes of Health-NIMH
From Irritability to Impairment: How Neurodevelopment of Executive Function and Parent-Child
Neural Synchrony Influence the Transition from Normal to Abnormal
R01 MH107540-02S1
National Institutes of Health-NIMH
Investigating Compatibility of fNIRS and fMRI in Early and Middle Childhood