Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles
Mooney, L., Dadra, J., Davinson, K., Tani, N., & Ghetti, S. (2024). Memory for space and time in 2-year-olds. Cognitive Development, 70, 101443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101443
      keywords: episodic memory, spatial memory, temporal memory, memory development, relational binding


Johnson, E. G., Mooney, L. N., Estes, K. G., Nordal, C.W., Ghetti, S. (2021). Activation for Newly Learned Words in Left Medial-Temporal Lobe During Toddlers’ Sleep is Associated with Word Learning. Current Biology, 31, (5429-5438). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.09.058
      keywords: memory, word learning, hippocampus, anterior medial-temporal lobe, vocabulary, early childhood, fMRI, episodic memory, developmental cognitive neuroscience


Mooney, L. N., Johnson, E. G., Prabhakar, J., & Ghetti, S. (2020). Memory-Related Hippocampal Activation During Sleep and Temporal Memory in Toddlers. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 47, (1-9). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100908
      keywords: hippocampal development, songs, episodic memory, fMRI, spatial, temporal


Mooney, L. N., Nordahl, C., Soloman, M., & Ghetti, S. (2020). Children with ASD Show Impaired Item-Space Recollection, but Preserved Item-Color Recollection. Autism Research, 13, (1985-1977). https://doi/org/10.1002/aur.2395
      keywords: ASD, episodic memory, middle childhood, signal detection theory, global processing


Johnson, E. G., Prabhakar, J., Mooney, L. N., & Ghetti, S. (2020). Neuroimaging the sleeping brain: Insight on memory functioning in infants and toddlers. Infant Behavior and Development, 58, (1-14). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101427
      keywords: memory development, episodic memory,functional magnetic resonance imaging, sleep, infancy, toddlers


Pedapati, E., Mooney, L. N., Wu, S., Erickson, C., Sweeney, J., Shaffer, R.C., Horn, P.S., Wink, L.K., & Gilbert, D. (2020). Motor Cortex Facilitation: A marker of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder co-occurrence in Austism Spectrum Disorder. Translational Psychiatry, 9(1), (1-11)
      keywords: Autism, ADHD, biomaker, ICF


Hong, M.P., Guilfoyle, J. L., Mooney, L. N., Wink, L. K., Pedapati, E.V., Shaffer, R. C., Sweeney, J. A., Erickson, C. A. (2017). Eye Gaze and Pupillary Response in Angleman Syndrome. Research in Developmental Disorders, 68, (88-94). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2017.06011
      keywords: Angelman syndrome, pupillometry, eye tracking, developmental disabilities


** Mooney, L. N.., Sonnentag, T. L., & Dulaney, C. L. (2016). The Role of Practice Testing and Presentation Style on Undergraduate Students’ Retention of Information. Journal of Psychological Inquiry._21(1), (6-19).
** Received the Elizabeth A. Dahl, Ph.D., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
      keywords: testing effect, learning, knowledge retention


Book Chapters
Mooney, L. N., Dominick, K.C., & Erickson, C. A. (2019). Psychopharmacology of Neurodevelopment Disorders. In: Reus V. and D. Lindqvist D. (Eds.), Psychopharmacology of Neurologic Disease. (158-175). San Diego: Elsevier BV.
      keywords: treatments, medications, ADHD, aggression, anxiety, mood, repetitive behaviors, Fragile X Syndrome, Down Syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome


Mooney, L. N., Fosdick C, Erickson CA. (2019). Psychopharmacology of Autism Spectrum Disorder. In F. R. Volkmar (Ed.), Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders (pp. 158-175). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
      keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorders, treatments, medication classes, symptomatology