Graduate

Heather A. Henderson

Heather A. Henderson

Associate Professor, Child Division
University of Maryland, 2002

Temperamental contributions to children's social behavior; affective and cognitive influences on self-regulation in typically and atypically developing children; developmental psychophysiology.

Teaching

Selected Publications

Hileman, C., Henderson, H. A., Mundy, P. C., Newell, L., & Jaime, M. (2011). Developmental and individual differences on the P1 and N170 ERP components in children with and without autism. Developmental Neuropsychology, 36, 214-236.

Henderson, H. A. (2010). Electrophysiological correlates of cognitive control and the regulation of shyness in children. Developmental Neuropsychology, 35, 177-193.

Hane, A. A., Henderson, H. A., Fox, N. A. & Reeb-Sutherland, B.C. (2010). Ordinary variations in human maternal caregiving in infancy and biobehavioral development in early childhood: A follow-up study. Developmental Psychobiology, 52, 558-567.

Mundy, P., Gwaltney, M., Henderson, H. (2010). Self-referenced processing, neurodevelopment and joint attention in autism. Autism, 14, 408-429.

Henderson, H. A., Zahka, N. E., Kojkowski, N. M., Inge, A. P., Schwartz, C. B., Hileman, C. M., Coman, D. C., & Mundy, P. C. (2009). Self-referenced memory, social cognition, and symptom presentation in autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50, 853-861.

Schwartz, C. B., Henderson, H. A., Inge, A. P., Zahka, N. E., Coman, D. C., Kojkowski, N. M., Hileman, C. M., & Mundy, P. (2009). Temperament as a predictor of symptomotology and adaptive functioning in adolescents with high functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 842-855.

Degnan, K. A., Henderson, H. A., Fox, N. A., & Rubin, K. H. (2008). Predicting social wariness in middle childhood: The moderating roles of child care history, maternal personality, and maternal behavior. Social Development, 17, 471-487.

Henderson, H. A., & Wachs, T. D. (2007). Temperament theory and the study of cognition-emotion interactions across development. Developmental Review, 27, 396-427.

Mundy, P. C., Henderson, H. A., Inge, A. P., & Coman, D. C. (2007). The modifier model of autism and social development in higher functioning children with autism. Research & Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 32, 124-139.

Henderson, H. A., & Fox, N. A. (2007). Considerations in studying emotion in infants and children. In J.A. Coan & J.J.B. Allen (Eds.), The Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment (pp. 827-864). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Henderson, H. A., Schwartz, C. B., Mundy, P., Burnette, C., Sutton, S. K., Zahka, N., & Pradella, A. (2006). Response monitoring, the error-related negativity, and differences in social behavior in autism. Brain and Cognition, 61, 96-109.