Publications

  1. Guinness, K. E., Diercks, C., Vaughn, K., Davis, B., Landry, S., & Fiel, E. G. (2025). Adapting an internet-based parenting intervention for parents with intellectual disabilities: Preliminary data and lessons learned. Infants and Young Children.
  2. Muñoz, J. S., Giles, M. E., Vaughn, K. A., Wang, Y., Landry, S. H., Bick, J. R., & DeMaster, D. M. (2024). Frontal lobe gray matter effects on preterm toddlers’ problem-solving skills. Children. doi: 10.3390/children11020206
  3. Ronderos, J., Zuk, J. Hernandez, A. E., & Vaughn, K. A. (2024). Large-scale investigation of white matter structural differences in bilingual and monolingual children: An ABCD Data Study. Human Brain Mapping. doi: 10.1002/hbm.26608
  4. Nguyen, M. V. H., Xu, Y., Vaughn, K. A., & Hernandez, A. E. (2024). Subcortical and Cerebellar Volume Differences in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: An ABCD Study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101334
  5. FIT’NG, Korom, M., Camacho, M. C., Ford, A., Taha, H., Scheinost, D., Spann, M. N., & Vaughn, K. A. (2023). An opportunity to increase collaborative science in fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging. Biological Psychiatry. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.07.005
  6. Vaughn, K. A., Tamber-Rosenau, B. J., & Hernandez, A. E. (2023). The role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in bilingual language control and cognitive control: Evidence from multi-voxel pattern analysis. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. doi: S1366728923000834
  7. Nguyen, M. V. H., Vaughn, K. A., Claussenius-Kalman, H., Archila-Suerte, P., & Hernandez, A. E. (2023). Cortical thickness is related to variability in bilingual language proficiency. Translational Issues in Psychological Science. doi: 10.1037/tps0000362
  8. Gorniak, S. L., Wagner, V. E., Vaughn, K., Perry, J., Cox, L. G., Hibino, H., Hernandez, A. E., & Pollonini, L. (2023). Use of functional near infrared spectroscopy to detect cortical activation changes concurrent with memory loss in postmenopausal women with type II diabetes. Experimental Brain Research. doi: 10.1007/s00221-023-06581-1
  9. FIT’NG, Korom, M., Camacho, M. C., Ford, A., Taha, H., Scheinost, D., Spann, M. N., & Vaughn, K. A. (2023). An opportunity to increase collaborative science in fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging. Biological Psychiatry. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.07.005
  10. Spann, M. N., Wisnowski, J. L., HBCD Phase I Scanning Young Populations Working Group, Smyser, C. D., FIT’NG [including Vaughn, K. A.], Howell, B., & Dean, D. C. (2022). The Art, Science, and Secrets of Scanning Young Children. Biological Psychiatry. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.09.025
  11. Pollatou, A., Filippi, C., Aydin, E., Vaughn, K., Thompson, D., Korom, M. Dufford, A. J., Howell, B., Zöllei, L., Scheinost, D., Di Martino, A., Graham, A., Robinson, E., FIT’NG, Spann, M. (2022). An ode to Fetal, Infant, and Toddler Neuroimaging: Chronicling early clinical to research applications with MRI, and an introduction to an academic society connecting the field. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101083
  12. Korom, M., Camacho, M. C., Filippi, C. A., Licandro, R., Moore, L., Dufford, A., Zöllei, L., Graham, A. M., Spann, M., Howell, B., FIT’NG [including Vaughn, K. A.], Shultz, S., & Scheinost, D. (2022). Dear reviewers: Responses to common reviewer critiques about infant neuroimaging studies. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.101055
  13. Vaughn, K. A., DeMaster, D. M., Kook, J. H., Vannucci, M., & Ewing-Cobbs, L. (2022). Effective connectivity in the default mode network after pediatric TBI. European Journal of Neuroscience. doi: 10.1111/ejn.15546
  14. Vaughn, K. A., Nguyen, My, V. H., Ronderos, J. & Hernandez, A. E. (2021). Cortical thickness in bilingual and monolingual children: Relationships to language use and language skill. NeuroImage. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118560
  15. Crawford, A., Vaughn, K. A., Guttentag, C., Varghese, C., Oh, Y., & Zucker, T. A. (2021).  “Doing what I can, but I got no magic wand.” A Snapshot of Early Childhood Educator Experiences and Efforts to Ensure Quality During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Early Childhood Education Journal. doi: 10.1007/s10643-021-01215-z
  16. Vaughn, K. A., Watlington, E. M., Linares Abrego, P., Tamber-Rosenau, B., & Hernandez, A. E. (2020). Prefrontal tDCS has a domain-specific impact on bilingual language control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. doi: 10.1037/xge0000956
  17. Claussenius-Kalman, H. L., Vaughn, K. A., Archila-Suerte, P., & Hernandez, A. E. (2020). Highly proficient, balanced bilingualism is related to the thinner cortex in two cognitive control regions. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1111/nyas.14491
  18. Gorniak, S. L., Wagner, V. E., Vaughn, K., Perry, J., Cox, L. G., Hernandez, A. E., Pollonini, L. (2020). Functional neuroimaging of sensorimotor cortices in postmenopausal women with type II diabetes. Neurophotonics. 7(3), 035007. doi: 10.1117/1.NPh.7.3.035007
  19. Kook, J. H., Vaughn, K., DeMaster D., Ewing-Cobbs, L., & Vannucci, M. (2020). BVAR-connect: A variational Bayes approach to multi-subject vector autoregressive models for inference on brain connectivity networks. Neuroinformatics. doi: 10.1007/s12021-020-09472-w
  20. Claussenius-Kalman, H. Vaughn, K. A., Archila-Suerte, P., & Hernandez, A. E. (2019). Age of acquisition impacts the brain differently depending on neuroanatomical metric. Human Brain Mapping. doi: 10.1002/hbm.24817
  21. Vaughn, K. A., Archila-Suerte, P., & Hernandez, A. E. (2019). Parietal lobe volume distinguishes attentional control in bilinguals and monolinguals: A structural MRI study. Brain and Cognition, 134, 103-109. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2018.12.001
  22. Hernandez, A. E., Claussenius-Kalman, H. L., Ronderos, J., & Vaughn, K. A. (2018). Symbiosis, parasitism, and bilingual cognitive control: A neuroemergentist perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02171
  23. Vaughn, K. A., & Hernandez, A. E. (2018). Becoming a balanced, proficient bilingual: Predictions from age of acquisition & genetic background. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 46, 69-77. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2017.12.012
  24. Rodriguez, M. R., Archila-Suerte, P., Vaughn, K. A., Chiarello, C., & Hernandez, A. E. (2017).Anterior insular thickness predicts speech sound learning ability in bilinguals. NeuroImage, 165, 278-284. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.10.038
  25. Vaughn, K. A., Ramos-Nuñez, A. I., Greene, M. R., Munson, B., Lee, M., Grigorenko, E., & Hernandez, A. E. (2016). Individual differences in the bilingual brain: The role of language background and DRD2 genotype in verbal and non-verbal cognitive control. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 40,112-127. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.06.008
  26. Vaughn, K. A., Greene, M. R., Ramos Nuñez, A. I., & Hernandez, A. E. (2015). The importance of neuroscience in understanding bilingual cognitive control. Cortex, 73, 373-374. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2015.06.010
  27. Hernandez, A. E., Greene, M. R., Vaughn, K. A., Francis, D. J., & Grigorenko, E. (2015). Beyond the bilingual advantage: The potential role of genes and environment on the development of cognitive control. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 35, 109-119. doi:1 0.1016/j.jneuroling.2015.04.002