Selected BABL Publications

For a complete list of publications from the BABL, please click here and here. 

2025

1. Rutherford, H. J., Ayala, K., Falcioni, L., Eilbott, J., & Voegtline, K. (2025). A Role for Fetal Movement in Shaping Maternal Neurodevelopment. Developmental Psychobiology, 67(5), e70073.​

2. Patrick, M. M., Xu, N., Rutherford, H. J., & Groh, A. M. (2025). The significance of mothers’ neural responding to infant emotional cues for caregiving behaviors: The moderating role of infant temperamental distress. Developmental Psychology.

3. Rutherford, H. J., Wall, K. M., Goldman, L. W., Shin, J. Y., Novak, E. H., Lowell, A., ... & Givrad, S. (2025). Operationalizing psychological trauma in pregnancy: A systematic review. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

4. Orchard, E. R., & Rutherford, H. J. (2025). Birthing a new maternal cognition literature: 10 recommendations for future research. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 28(1), 77-80.

5. Orchard, E. R., Chopra, S., Ooi, L. Q., Chen, P., An, L., Jamadar, S. D., ... & Holmes, A. J. (2025). Protective role of parenthood on age-related brain function in mid-to late-life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(9), e2411245122.

6. Levy, J. C., Yatziv, T., Bunderson, M., Bartz, C., Vancor, E. A., & Rutherford, H. J. (2025). Anxiety and neural correlates of attention and self-regulation in pregnancy: a resting-state EEG study. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 28(1), 43-53.

7. McGlade, D., Rutherford, H., McCrory, E., & Steinbeis, N. (2025). Parental reflective functioning and internalizing symptoms predict altruistic prosocial behaviour in children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.

8. Ayala, K., Falcioni, L., Eilbott, J., Lamore, J., Voegtline, K., & Rutherford, H. J. (2025). Associations between fetal movement and maternal-fetal attachment in late pregnancy. Early Human Development, 106351.

9. Givrad, S., Wall, K. M., Goldman, L. W., Shin, J. Y., Novak, E. H., Lowell, A., ... & Rutherford, H. J. (2025). A systematic review on the assessment of pregnancy-specific psychological trauma during pregnancy: A call to action. AJOG global reports, 5(1), 100451.

10. Wall, K., Penner, F., Goldman, L. W., Shin, J. Y., Novak, E., Lowell, A., ... & Rutherford, H. J. (2025). Global variation in the assessment of psychological trauma in pregnancy. Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 12, e10.

11. Malcorps, S., Vliegen, N., Rutherford, H. J., & Luyten, P. (2025). Mentalizing Under Maternal Stress (MUMS): Using a baby simulator to investigate the impact of child-focused distress on maternal mentalizing and arousal. Development and Psychopathology.

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2024​

1. Wall, K. M., Penner, F., Dell, J., Lowell, A., Potenza, M. N., Mayes, L. C., & Rutherford, H. J. (2024). Maternal psychological risk and the neural correlates of infant face processing: A latent profile analysis. Developmental psychobiology, 66(1), e22445.

2. McCurdy, L. Y., Yip, S. W., Worhunsky, P. D., Zhai, Z. W., Kim, S., Strathearn, L., ... & Rutherford, H. J. (2024). Neural correlates of altered emotional responsivity to infant stimuli in mothers who use substances. Journal of psychiatric research, 171, 126-133.

3. Ayala, K., Huynh, C., Voegtline, K., & Rutherford, H. J. (2024). Made to move: A review of measurement strategies to characterize heterogeneity in normal fetal movement. Infant Behavior and Development, 75, 101949.

4. Martin, R. C., Sandoval, I. K., Penner, F., Mayes, L. C., Potenza, M. N., Krishnan-Sarin, S., & Rutherford, H. J. (2024). Parental Tobacco Smoking and Caregiving in the Perinatal and early infancy periods. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 33(8), 2583-2595.

5. Penner, F., Bunderson, M., Bartz, C., Brooker, R. J., & Rutherford, H. J. (2024). Emotion regulation strategies and perceived stress during pregnancy in expectant mothers and fathers. Journal of reproductive and infant psychology, 42(3), 410-423.

6. Ayala, K., Voegtline, K., & Rutherford, H. J. (2024). Does fetal movement shape the maternal brain?. Developmental Psychobiology, 66(2), e22467.

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2023

1. Sandoval, I. K., Ngoh, G., Wu, J., Crowley, M. J., & Rutherford, H. J. (2023). EEG coherence before and after giving birth. Brain Research, 148468.

2. Rutherford, H. J., Yatziv, T., Vess, M., & Brooker, R. J. (2023). Envisioning motherhood: Mental‐state language in caregiving narratives across the perinatal period. Infant Mental Health Journal, 44(2), 218-227.

3. Penner, F., Wall, K. M., Guan, K. W., Huang, H. J., Richardson, L., Dunbar, A. S., ... & Rutherford, H. J. (2023). Racial disparities in EEG research and their implications for our understanding of the maternal brain. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 23(1), 1-16.

4. Orchard, E. R., Rutherford, H. J., Holmes, A. J., & Jamadar, S. D. (2023). Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

2022

1. Wall, K. M., Dell, J., Lowell, A., Potenza, M. N., Mayes, L. C., & Rutherford, H. J. (2022). Current Substance Use and Maternal Neural Responses to Infant Faces and Cries. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 1-16.

2. Yatziv, T., Simchon, A., Manco, N., Gilead, M., & Rutherford, H. J. (2022). Parental mentalizing during a pandemic: use of mental-state language on parenting social media before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinical Psychological Science, 10(6), 1129-1150.

3. Penner, F., Bunderson, M., Bartz, C., Brooker, R. J., & Rutherford, H. J. (2022). Emotion regulation strategies and perceived stress during pregnancy in expectant mothers and fathers. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 1-14.

4. Ngoh, G., Wu, J., Potenza, M. N., Mayes, L. C., & Rutherford, H. J. (2022). Exploring resting frontal EEG and reflective functioning in maternal substance use. Infant Mental Health Journal, 43(4), 519-532.

5. Peoples, S. G., Lowell, A. F., Bunderson, M., Bartz, C., Yip, S. W., & Rutherford, H. J. (2022). The effects of prenatal stress on neural responses to infant cries in expectant mothers and fathers. Developmental Psychobiology, 64(5), e22280.

6. Penner, F., & Rutherford, H. J. (2022). Emotion regulation during pregnancy: a call to action for increased research, screening, and intervention. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 25(2), 527-531.

2021​

1. Lowell, A. F., Dell, J., Potenza, M. N., Strathearn, L., Mayes, L. C., & Rutherford, H. J. (2021). Adult attachment is related to maternal neural response to infant cues: an ERP study. Attachment & Human Development, 1-18.

2. Rutherford, H. J., Bunderson, M., Bartz, C., Haitsuka, H., Meins, E., Groh, A. M., & Milligan, K. (2021). Imagining the baby: Neural reactivity to infant distress and mind-mindedness in expectant parents. Biological Psychology

3. Rutherford, H. J., Kim, S., Yip, S. W., Potenza, M. N., Mayes, L. C., & Strathearn, L. (2021). Parenting and Addictions: Current Insights From Human Neuroscience. Current Addiction Reports, 1-9.

4. Yatziv, T., Vancor, E. A., Bunderson, M., & Rutherford, H. J. (2021). Maternal Perinatal Anxiety and Neural Responding to Infant Affective Signals: Insights, Challenges, and a Road Map for Neuroimaging Research. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

 

2020

1. Bunderson, M., Diaz, D., Maupin, A., Landi, N., Potenza, M. N., Mayes, L. C., & Rutherford. H. J. V. (2020) Prior reproductive experience modulates neural responses to infant faces across the postpartum period, Social Neuroscience

2. Martin, R. C. B., Bridgett, D. J., Mayes, L. C., & Rutherford, H. J. V. (2020). Maternal working memory, emotion regulation, and responsivity to infant distress. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 71, 1012

3. Bunderson, M., Armstrong, K., Mayes, L. C., McCrory, E. J., Thompson-Booth, C., & Rutherford, H. J. (2020). Facial recognition during early motherhood: Investigating the persistence of age and affect biases. Acta Psychologica, 210, 103136.

4. Lowell, AF, Maupin, AN, Landi, N, Potenza, MN, Mayes, LC, & Rutherford, HJV. Substance use and mothers’ neural responses to infant cues. Infant Mental Health Journal, 41 (2), 2020.

5. Rutherford, HJV, Yip, SW, Worhunsky, PD, Kim, S, Strathearn, L, Potenza, MN, & Mayes, LC. Differential responses to infant faces in relation to maternal substance use: An exploratory study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 207, 107805, 2020.

 

2019

1. Rutherford, HJV, Potenza, MN, Mayes, LC, & Scheinost, D. The application of connectome-based predictive modeling to the maternal brain: Implications for mother–infant bonding. Cerebral cortex, bhz185, 2019.

2. Schultheis, AM, Mayes, LC, & Rutherford, HJV Associations between Emotion Regulation and Parental Reflective Functioning. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 1-11, 2019.

3. Byrne, SP, Mayo, A, O'Hair, C, Zankman, M, Austin, GM, Thompson-Booth, C, McCrory, EJ, Mayes, LC, & Rutherford, HJV. Facial emotion recognition during pregnancy: Examining the effects of facial age and affect. Infant Behavior and Development, 54, 108-113, 2019.

4. Maupin, AN, Rutherford, HJV, Landi, N, Potenza, MN, & Mayes, LC. Investigating the association between parity and the maternal neural response to infant cues. Social Neuroscience, 14(2), 214-225, 2019.

5. Rutherford, HJV & Mayes, LC. Parenting stress: A novel mechanism of addiction vulnerability. Neurobiology of Stress, 100172, 2019.

6. McKay, ER, Rosinski, L, Mayes, LC, Rutherford, HJV, & Bridgett, DJ. Maternal positive responses to a distressed infant simulator predict subsequent negative affect in infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 101299, 2019.

7. Rutherford, HJV. The infant simulator: A novel approach for the measurement of parenting. Infant Behavior and Development, 56, 101348, 2019.

8. Rutherford, HJV, Maupin, AN, Mayes, LC. Parity and neural responses to social and non-social stimuli in pregnancy. Social Neuroscience, 14(5), 545-548.

9. Rutherford, HJV, Xu, J, Worhunsky, PD, Zhang, R, Yip, SW, Morie, KP, Calhoun, VD, Kim, S, Strathearn, L, Mayes, LC, & Potenza, MN. Gradient Theories of Brain Activation: a Novel Application to Studying the Parental Brain. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports 6 (3), 119-125.

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2018

1. Rutherford, HJV, Crowley, MJ, Gao, L, Francis, B, Schultheis, A, & Mayes, LC. Prenatal neural responses to infant faces predict postpartum reflective functioning. Infant Behavior and Development, 2018.

2. O’Hara, C, Armstrong, K, & Rutherford, HJV. The potential utility for massage therapy during pregnancy to decrease stress and tobacco use. International Journal of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork: Research, Education, & Practice, 2018.

3. Rutherford, HJV, Byrne, SP, Crowley, MJ, Bornstein, J, Bridgett, DJ, & Mayes, LC. Executive functioning predicts reflective functioning in mothers. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27 (3), 944-952, 2018.

4. Maupin, AN, Rutherford, HJV, Landi, N, Potenza, MN, & Mayes, LC. Investigating the association between parity and the maternal neural response to infant cues. Social Neuroscience, 1-12, 2018.

 

2017

1. Rutherford, HJV, Byrne, SP, Austin, GM, Lee, JD, Crowley, MJ, & Mayes, LC. Anxiety and neural responses to infant and adult faces during pregnancy. Biological Psychology, 125, 115-120, 2017.

2. Rutherford, HJV, Maupin, AN, Landi, N, Potenza, MN, & Mayes, LC. Current tobacco-smoking and neural responses to infant cues in mothers. Parenting: Science and Practice, 2017.

3. Rutherford, HJV, Maupin, AN, Landi, N, Potenza, MN, & Mayes, LC. Parental reflective functioning and the neural correlates of processing infant affective cues. Social Neuroscience, 2017.

4. Rutherford HJV & Joormann J. The role of attentional bias in prenatal and postpartum depression. Women’s Health Research, 1(1):1-0, 2017.

5. Rutherford HJV & Mayes LC. Parenting and addiction: Neurobiological insights. Current Opinion in Psychology, 2017.

6. Rutherford, HJV, Guo, XM, Graber, KM, Hayes, NJ, Pelphrey, KA, & Mayes, LC. Intranasal oxytocin and the neural correlates of infant face processing in non-parent women. Biological Psychology, 2017.

 

2016

1. Ferrey, AE, Santascoy, NA, McCrory, EJ, Thompson-Booth, C, Mayes, LC, & Rutherford, HJV. Motivated attention and reward in parenting. Parenting: Science and Practice, 2016.

2. Rutherford, HJV, Graber, KM, & Mayes, LC. Depression symptomatology and the neural correlates of infant face and cry perception during pregnancy. Social Neuroscience, 11(4), 467-474, 2016.

3. Rutherford, HJV, Booth, CR, Crowley, MJ, & Mayes, LC. Investigating the relationship between working memory and emotion regulation in mothers. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 28(1), 52-59, 2016.