Preprints
Paid Maternal Leave is Associated with Infant Brain Function at 3-Months of Age.
Brito, N. H., Werchan, D. M., Brandes-Aitkens, A., Greaves, A. & Zhang, M.
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/t4zvn
Behavioral coping phenotypes and psychosocial outcomes in a national U.S. sample of pregnant and postpartum women during the COVID-19 pandemic
Werchan, D. M., Hendrix, C. L., ..... Thomason, M. E., & Brito, N. H.
https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-185357/v1
Social determinants of health exacerbate COVID-19 disparities in illness severity and lasting symptom complaints.
Thomason, M. E., Hendrix, C. L., Werchan, D. M., & Brito, N. H.
https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.16.21260638
Publications
COVID-19 patient accounts of illness severity, treatments and lasting symptoms.
Thomason, M. E., Werchan, D. M., & Hendrix, C. L.
Scientific Data, 2021
Miswiring the brain: Human prenatal Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol use associated with altered fetal hippocampal brain network connectivity.
Thomason, M. E., Palopoli, A. C., Jariwala, N. N., Werchan, D. M., Chen, A., Adhikari, S., Espinoza-Heredia, C., Brito, N. H., & Trentacosta, C. J.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.101000
All contexts are not created equal: Social stimuli win the competition for organizing reinforcement learning in 9-month-old infants.
Werchan, D. M. & Amso, D.
Developmental Science, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13088
A daytime nap combined with nighttime sleep promotes learning in toddlers.
Werchan, D. M., Kim, J., & Gómez, R. L.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105006
Adaptive rule learning of event sequences during the A‐not‐B task in 9‐month‐old infants.
Werchan, D. M. & Amso, D.
Developmental Psychobiology, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21999
Top-down knowledge rapidly acquired through PFC-dependent rule learning biases visual attention in 9-month-old infants.
Werchan, D. M. & Amso, D.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100761
The emergence of object-based visual attention in infancy: A role for family socioeconomic status and competing visual features.
Werchan, D. M., Lynn, A., Baumgartner, H., Kirkham, N. Z., & Amso, D.
Infancy, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12309
The origins of cortical multisensory dynamics: Evidence from human infants.
Werchan, D. M., Baumgartner, H., Lewkowicz, D. & Amso, D.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.07.002
A novel ecological model of prefrontal cortex functional development.
Werchan, D. M. & Amso, D.
Psychological Review, 2017
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5675045
Role of prefrontal cortex in learning and generalizing hierarchical rules in 8-month-old infants.
Werchan, D. M., Collins, A. G. E, Frank, M. J., & Amso, D.
The Journal of Neuroscience, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1351-16.201
Sleep and statistical language learning: Insights into cortical development and retention in 6.5-month-olds.
Simon, K. N. S., Werchan, D. M., Goldstein, M., Sweeney, L., Bootzin, R. R., Nadel, L., & Gómez, R. L.
Brain & Language, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2016.05.002
Eight-month-old infants spontaneously learn and generalize hierarchical rules.
Werchan, D. M., Collins, A. G. E, Frank, M. J., & Amso, D.
Psychological Science, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615571442
Wakefulness (not sleep) promotes generalization of word learning in 2.5-year-old children.
Werchan, D. M. & Gómez, R. L.
Child Development, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12149
Generalizing memories over time: Reinforcement and sleep facilitate transitive inference.
Werchan, D. M. & Gómez, R.L.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 2013