3-123 - New Methodological Approaches and Applications in the Study of Children’s Multisystem Physiology

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Components of the stress response system operate in an integrated manner that, under optimal conditions, facilitate coordinated physiological responses to maintain homeostasis (McEwen, 2007). Despite well-developed theoretical models of multisystem functioning (e.g., doctrine of autonomic space, Berntson et al., 1994; adaptive calibration model, Del Guidice et al. 2011), empirical studies of cross-system functioning have been scarce, particularly from a developmental perspective. In addition to the challenges of collecting physiological data from young children repeatedly over time, one of the barriers to understanding multisystem functioning has been a limitation in analytic methods that are able to capture and model the complexities of such data. Understanding the interactive activity of multiple systems can offer a more comprehensive understanding of psychophysiological relations with children’s developmental and behavioral outcomes, and may help resolve discrepancies that often arise when stress systems are studied in isolation of each other. This symposium includes four papers that discuss how advanced research paradigms and statistical approaches (including those from disciplines complementary to, but outside of, the field of developmental psychology) are capable of modeling multisystem physiological data over time and at multiple time scales. We illustrate these data analytic techniques with empirical studies of children across several developmental periods, in the context of varied types of multisystem physiological coordination, and provide examples of how multisystem activity has implications for children’s behavioral and neurocognitive outcomes.

Sub Unit

• Biological Processes: Psychophysiology

Chairs

• Danielle Roubinov, University of California, San Francisco

• Lisa Gatzke-kopp, Penn State University

Individual Presentations

• Autonomic Coordination in Children is Dynamic, and Modulated by Cortical Engagement - Presenting Author: Lisa Gatzke-kopp, Penn State University; Non-Presenting Author: Lizbeth Benson, The Pennsylvania State University; Non-Presenting Author: Patrick Ryan, Penn State University; Non-Presenting Author: Nilam Ram, Penn State University

• Latent Profile and Transition Analysis of Parasympathetic, Sympathetic, and Adrenocortical Activity within Kindergarten Children - Presenting Author: Danielle Roubinov, University of California, San Francisco; Non-Presenting Author: Thomas Boyce, University of California, San Francisco; Non-Presenting Author: Matthew Lee, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Non-Presenting Author: Nicole R. Bush, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics

• Contributions of Autonomic Activity to Neural Indices of Attention and Inhibitory Control in Preschool-age Children - Presenting Author: Ryan Giuliano, University of Manitoba; Non-Presenting Author: Leslie Elizabeth Roos, University of Manitoba; Non-Presenting Author: Christina Karns, University of Oregon; Non-Presenting Author: Theodore Bell, University of Oregon; Non-Presenting Author: Elizabeth A. Skowron, University of Oregon; Non-Presenting Author: Eric Pakulak, University of Oregon

• Developmental Change in Psychophysiological Systems: Lessons from Computational Biology - Presenting Author: Nilam Ram, Penn State University; Non-Presenting Author: Xiao Yang, Penn State University; Non-Presenting Author: Lisa Gatzke-kopp, Penn State University