General Research Area: Developmental psychophysiology; physiological basis for individual differences in cognitive and affective processing.

Areas of Student Supervision: Psychophysiology; physiological mechanisms related to individual differences in emotional and behavioral regulation, psychopathology.

Recent Publications:

Porges, S.W. (1995). Orienting in a defensive world: Mammalian modifications of our evolutionary heritage. A Polyvagal Theory. Psychophysiology,32, 301-318.

Porges, S. W. ( 1997). Emotion: An evolutionary by-product of the neural regulation of the autonomic nervous system. In C. S. Carter, B. Kirkpatrick, & I. I. Lederhendler (Eds.), The integrative neurobiology of affiliation, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Laboratory for Developmental Assessment

The Listening Project

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