Publications*

2024

2023

2022

  • Published Abstracts
    • Ahn, Y.A., Onal Itrugrul, I., Chow, S.M., Cohn, J.F., & Messinger, D.S. (2022), Automated measurement of infant and mother duchenne facial expressions in the Face-to-Face/Still-Face. In New Direction in Face-to-Face Communication, International Conference on Infant Studies. Ottawa.
    • Cicconet, M., Jones, J., Barone, B., Kellogg, L., Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Cohn, J.F., & Aafjes, M. (February 2022). Depression ClinRO inference using momentary multimodal behavioral and physiological digital biomarkers from decentralized data collection. International Society Conference for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology, Washington, DC.  Distinguished Paper Awardee.
    • Cohn, J.F. (March 2022). Behavioral outputs of brain activity. NIH Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization Workshop. 
    • Darzi, A., Hinduja, S., Provenza, N. R., Jeni, L. A., Borton, D. A., Gadot, R., Sheth, S. A., Goodman, W. K., & Cohn, J. F. (June 2022). Behavioral biomarkers of OCD symptom severity and DBS energy. 8th Annual BRAIN Investigator’s Meeting, Washington, DC.
    • Jones, J., Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Cohn, J. F., & Aafjes, M. (October 2022). Real-time AI-rater monitoring to improve CLINROs (clinician reported outcomes). International Conference on CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology, Boston.

2021

  • Journal articles
    • Allawala, A. B., Bijanki, K. R., Goodman, W., Cohn, J. F., Viswanathan, A., Yoshor, D., Borton, D. A., Pouratian, N., & Sheth, S. A. (2021). A novel framework for network-targeted neuropsychiatric deep brain stimulation. Neurosurgery.
    • Niinuma, K., Jeni, L. A., Ertugrul, I. O., & Cohn, J. F. (2021). Systematic evaluation of design choices for deep facial action coding across pose. Frontiers in Computer Science. 
    • Provenza, N. R., Sheth, S. A., Rijn, E. M. D.-v., Mathura, R. K., Ding, Y., Vogt, G. S., Avendano-Ortega, M., Ramakrishnan, N., Peled, N., Gelin, L. F. F., Xing, D., Jeni, L. A., Ertugrul, I. O., Barrios-Anderson, A., Matteson, E., Wiese, A. D., Xu, J., Viswanathan, A., Bijanki, K., Storch, E. A., Cohn, J. F., Goodman, W. K., & Borton, D. A. (2021). Long-term ecological assessment of intracranial electrophysiology synchronized to behavioral markers in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Nature Medicine.
  • Published Conference Proceedings and Reports
  • Published Abstracts
    • Ahn, Y. A., Ertugrul, I. O., Chow, S.-M., Cohn, J. F., & Messinger, D. S. (2021). Is mother-infant face-to-face responsivity affective? Society for Affective Science, Virtual.
    • Bylsma, L.M., Swartz, H.A., Fournier, J.C., Morency, L., Girard, J.M., Cohn, J.F. (2021). Feasibility and Acceptability of IPT-B and Brief CBT for Depression Delivered In-Person and via Telehealth. In H.A. Swartz (chair), Evidence-Based Approaches to Teletherapy: What Do We Know About Remote Delivery of IPT and Related Therapies? Symposium to be presented virtually at the Biennial Conference of the International Society of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (ISIPT).
    • Elliott, B. T., Girard, J. M., Bylsma, L. M., Cohn, J. F., Fournier, J. C., Morency, L.-P., & Swartz, H. A. (2021). Observing changes in pathological personality traits and interpersonal problems over the course of brief psychotherapy for depression. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research.           
    • Johnson, E. N., Elliott, B. T., Girard, J. M., Bylsma, L. M., Cohn, J. F., Fournier, J. C., Morency, L.-P., & Swartz, H. A. (2021). Predicting working alliance during depression psychotherapy treatment from personality and interpersonal style. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research.
    • Sheth, S. A., Bijanki, K. R., Metzger, B., Allawala, A., Pirtle, V., Adkinson, J. A., Myers, J., Mathura, R. K., Oswalt, D., Tsolaki, E., Xiao, J., Noecker, A., Cohn, J. F., McIntyre, C. C., Mathew, S. J., Borton, D., Goodman, W., & Pouratian, N. (2021). Deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression informed by intracranial sEEG UH3 NS103549 Brain Initiative, Virtual.
    • Yeojin Ahn, Martin, K., Prince, E., Chow, S.-M., Cohn, J., Wang, J., . . . Messinger, D. (2021). Not-so-still interaction: Parent-infant interaction during the still-face and later infant attachment. Society for Research in Child Development.

2020

  • Journal articles
  • Published Conference Proceedings and Reports

    • Ding, Y., Ertugrul, I. O., Jeni, L., Provenza, N. R., Cohn, J. F., Borton, D., & Goodman, W. (2020). Automated Detection of Optimal DBS Device Settings. Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.

    • Hurst, N., Baynes, R., Mitroff, D., Clabaugh, C., Cohn, J., & Scherer, S. (2020). Social and emotional skills training with embodied moxie. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.12962v1 [cs.RO], 1-16. https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12962

  • Chapters
    • Girard, J. M., & Cohn, J. F. (2020). Afterword: Generalizability of automated AU detection. In P. Ekman & E. Rosenberg (Eds.), What the face reveals (3rd ed.). NY: Oxford.
    • Girard, J. M., & Cohn, J. F. (2020). Afterword:  Automated Analysis of Depressed Behavior. In P. Ekman & E. Rosenberg (Eds.), What the face reveals (3rd ed.). NY: Oxford.
    • Girard, J.M. & Cohn, J.F. Jeni, L.A., Sayette, M.A., & De la Torre, F. (2020). Spontaneous facial expression in unscripted social interactions can be measured automatically.  In P. Ekman & E. Rosenberg (Eds.), What the face reveals (3rd ed.). NY: Oxford.
    • Schmidt, K.L., Cohn, J.F., & Tian, T. (2020). Signal characteristics of spontaneous facial expressions: Automatic movement in solitary and social smiles.  In P. Ekman & E. Rosenberg (Eds.), What the face reveals (3rd ed.). NY: Oxford.

2019

2018

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2015

2014

2013

  •    Journal articles
  • Published conference proceedings
    • Chu, Wen-Sheng, De la Torre, Fernando, & Cohn, Jeffrey F. (2013). Selective transfer machine for personalized facial action unit detection.Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages 3515-3522.Portland, OR.
    • Ding, X., Chu, W.-S., De la Torre, F., Cohn, J. F., & Wang, Q. (2013). Facial action unit event detection by cascade of tasks, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision(pp. 2400-2407). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Girard, J. M., Cohn, J. F., Mahoor, M. H., Mavadati, S. M., Rosenwald, D., & Torre, F. D. l. (2013). Manual and automatic analysis of facial affective reactivity in major depressive disorder.Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition,(pp. 1-8). Shanghai, China. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Hammal, Z., & Cohn, J. F. (2013). Temporal coordination of head motion in couples with history of interpersonal violence. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, (pp. 1-8). Shanghai, China. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Hammal, Z., Cohn, J. F, & Messinger, D. S. (2013). Head movement dynamics during normal and perturbed parent-infant interaction.Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, (pp. 1-7). Geneva, Switzerland. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Jeni, L., Lorincz, A., Szabo, Z., Cohn, J. F., & Kanade, T. (2013). Emotion expression classification using time-series kernels. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures, Portland, OR. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Jeni, L., Torre, F. D. l., Girard, J., & Cohn, J. F. (2013). Continuous AU intensity estimation using localized, sparse facial feature space.Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Emotion Representation, Analysis and Synthesis in Continuous Time and Space, Shanghai, China. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Jeni, Laszlo, Cohn, Jeffrey F, & De la Torre, Fernando. (2013). Facing imbalanced data recommendations for the use of performance metrics. Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Geneva, Switzerland. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Joshi, Jyoti, Goecke, Roland, Braeaksp, Michael, Breakspear, Michael, & Cohn, Jeffrey F. (2013). Relative body parts movement for automatic depression analysis. Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Geneva. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Lorincz, A., Molnar, G., Jeni, L., Toser, Z., Rausch, A., Cohn, J. F., & Csapo, B. (2013). Towards entertaining and efficient educational games.Proceedings of the NIPS Data Driven Education Workshop. Lake Tahoe, NV.
    • McDuff, D., Kaliouby, R. El, Senechal, T., Amr, M., Cohn, J. F, & Picard, R.. (2013). AMFED facial expression dataset: Naturalistic and spontaneous facial expressions collected “in-the-wild”. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Trutoiu, L., Cohn, J. F., & Hodgins, J. (2013). The temporal coordination between smiles and blinks. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition.  Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Zaker, N., Mohammad, M. H., Cohn, J. F., Mattson, W., & Messinger, D. S. (2013). A comparison of alternative classifiers for detecting occurrence and intensity in spontaneous facial expression of infants with their mothers. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Zhang, X., Yin, L., Cohn, J.F., Horowitz, A., Reale, M., Canavan, S., Liu, P., et al. (2013 ).A 3D spontaneous dynamic facial expression database. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Shanghai, China. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.

Selected publications from prior to 2013. For more, please see Google Scholar, CV, or PubMed

    • Ambadar, Z., Cohn, J. F., & Reed, L. I. (2009). All smiles are not created equal: Morphology and timing of smiles perceived as amused, polite, and embarrassed/nervous. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 33(1), 17-34.
    • Ambadar, Z., Schooler, J. W., & Cohn, J. F. (2005). Deciphering the enigmatic face: The importance of facial dynamics to interpreting subtle facial expressions. Psychological Science, 16, 403-410.
    • Boker, S. M., Cohn, J. F., Theobald, B. J., Matthews, I., Spies, J., & Brick, T. (2009). Effects of damping head movement and facial expression in dyadic conversation using real-time facial expression tracking and synthesized avatars. Philosophical Transactions B of the Royal Society, 364, 3485–3495. 
    • Boker SM, Cohn JF, Theobald BJ, et al. Something in the way we move: Motion, not perceived sex, influences nods in conversation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 2011;37(3):874-891.
    • Cohn, J. F., Ambadar, Z., & Ekman, P. (2007). Observer-based measurement of facial expression with the Facial Action Coding System. In J. A. Coan & J. J. B. Allen (Eds.), Handbook of emotion elicitation and assessment. Oxford University Press Series in Affective Science (pp. 203-221). New York, NY: Oxford University.
    • Cohn, J. F., Campbell, S. B., & Ross, S. (1991). Infant response in the still-face paradigm at 6 months predicts avoidant and secure attachment at 12 months. Development and Psychopathology, 3, 367-376.

    • Cohn, J. F., & Elmore, M. (1988). Effects of contingent changes in mothers’ affective expression on the organization of behavior in 3-month old infants. Infants Behavior and Development, 11, 493-505. https://doi.org/10.1016/0163-6383(88)90008-2

    • Cohn, J. F., & Schmidt, K. L. (2004). The timing of facial motion in posed and spontaneous smiles. International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing, 2, 1-12.
    • Cohn, J. F., Simon Kreuz, T., Matthews, I., Yang, Y., Nguyen, M. H., Tejera Padilla, M., . . . Torre, F. D. l. (2009). Detecting depression from facial actions and vocal prosody. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2009), 1-7.
    • Cohn, J. F., & Tronick, E. Z. (1983). Three month old infants’ reaction to simulated maternal depression. Child Development, 54, 185-193.
    • Cohn, J. F., & Tronick, E. (1988). Mother-Infant face-to-face interaction: Influence is bidirectional and unrelated to periodic cycles in either partner’s behavior. Developmental Psychology, 34(3), 386-392.
    • Cohn, J. F., & Tronick, E. (1989). Specificity of infants’ response to mothers’ affective behavior. Journal of the American Academy of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry, 28, 242-248.
    • Katz, G. S., Cohn, J. F., & Moore, C. A. (1996). A combination of vocal fo dynamic and summary features discriminates between three pragmatic categories of infant-directed speech. Child Development, 67(1), 205-217. 

    • Matias, R., Cohn, J. F., & Ross, S. (1989). A comparison of two systems that code infant affective expression. Developmental Psychology, 25(4), 483-489.

    • Moore, G. A., Cohn, J. F., & Campbell, S. B. (1997). Mothers’ affective behavior with infant siblings: Stability and change. Developmental Psychology, 33, 856-860.

    • Pollak, S. D., Messner, M., Kistler, D. J., & Cohn, J. F. (2009). Development of perceptual expertise in emotion recognition. Cognition, 110(2), 242-247.
    • Schmidt, K. L., & Cohn, J. F. (2001). Human facial expressions as adaptations: Evolutionary perspectives in facial expression research. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 116, 8-24. doi:10.1002/ajpa.2001
    • Tronick, E. Z., & Cohn, J. F. (1989). Infant-mother face-to-face interaction: Age and gender differences in coordination and the occurrence of miscoordination. Child Development, 60, 85-92.
    • Tronick, E. Z., Ricks, M., & Cohn, J. F. (1982). Maternal and infant affective exchange: Patterns of adaptation. In T. Field & A. Fogel (Eds.), Emotion and interaction: Normal and high risk infants (pp. 83-100). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

    • Van Swearingen, J. M., Cohn, J. F., & Bajaj-Luthra, A. (1999). Specific impairment of smiling increases the severity of depressive symptoms in patients with facial neuromuscular disorders. Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery, 23, 416-423.

    • VanSwearingen, J. M., Cohn, J. F., Turnbull, J., Mrzai, T., & Johnson, P. (1998). Psychological distress: Linking impairment with disability in facial neuromotor disorders. Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 790-796.
    • Zlochower, A. J., & Cohn, J. F. (1996). Vocal timing in face-to-face interaction of clinically depressed and nondepressed mothers and their 4-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 19, 373-376.

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