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Gabard-Durnam, L.J., McCormick, S.A., Underwood, E., Tao, A., Kim, I., Coffman, S., Benster, L., Graziano, M., Nelson, C.A., Berde, C.B., Cornelissen, L., & Hensch, T.K. (2025). Accelerated Visual Cortical Development by Anesthesia in Early Infancy. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2504172122.
Olson, H.A., Catalina Camacho, M., Abdurokhmonova, G., Ahmad, S., Chen, E.M., Chung, H., Di Lorenzo, R., Dineen, A.T., Ganz, M., Licandro, R., Magnain, C., Marrus, N., McCormick, S.A., Rutter, T.M., Wagner, L., Woodruff Carr, K., Zollei, L., Vaughn, K.A., Madsen, K.S. (2025). Measuring and interpreting individual differences in development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101539.
Xu, W., Monachino, A.D., McCormick, S.A., Margolis, E.T., Sobrino, A., Bosco, C., Franke, C., Davel, L., Zieff, M.R., Donald, K.A., Gabard-Durnam, L.J., Morales, S. (2024). Advancing the Reporting of Developmental EEG Data: Tools for Estimating Reliability, Effect Size, and Data Quality Metrics. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101458.
Forest, T.A., McCormick, S.A., Davel, L., Mlandu, N., Zieff, M.R., Khula South Africa Data Collection Team, Amso, D., Donald, K.A., Gabard-Durnam, L.J. (2024). Early caregiver predictability shapes neural indices of statistical learning in infancy. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13570.
Mlandu, N., McCormick, S.A., Davel, L., Zieff, M.R., Bradford, L., Herr, D., Jacobs, C.A., Khumalo, A., Knipe, C., Madi, Z., Mazubane, T., Methola, B., Mhlakwaphalwa, T., Miles, M., Goolam Nabi, Z., Negota, R., Nkubungu, K., Pan, T., Samuels, R., Williams, S., Williams, S.R., Avery, T., Foster, G., Donald, K.A., & Gabard-Durnam, L. J. (2024). Evaluating a Novel High-Density EEG Sensor Net Structure for Improving Inclusivity in Infants with Curly or Tightly Coiled Hair. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101396.
McCormick, S.A., Deater-Deckard, K., & Hughes, C.E. (2022). Household clutter and crowding constrains associations between maternal sensitivity and child theory of mind. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 40(2), 271 – 286. http://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12406
McCormick, S.A., Chary, M., & Deater-Deckard, K. (2022). Associations between child theory of mind, mutuality in father-preschooler dyads, and household chaos. Social Development, 31(1), 212 – 231. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12529
Bowman, L.C., McCormick, S.A., Kane-Grade, F., Xie, W., Bosquet Enlow, M., Nelson, C.A. (2022). Infants’ neural responses to emotional faces are related to maternal anxiety. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 63(2), 152-164. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13429
Hong, Y., McCormick, S.A., Deater-Deckard, K., Calkins, S.D., Bell, M.A. (2021). Household chaos, parental responses to emotion, and child emotion regulation in middle childhood. Social Development, 30(3), 786-805. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12500
Helm, A.F., McCormick, S.A., Deater-Deckard, K., Smith, C.L., Calkins, S.D., Bell, M.A. (2020). Parenting and children’s executive function development across the transition to school. Infant and Child Development, 29:e2171. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2171
Miguel, H.O., McCormick, S.A., Westerlund, A., Nelson, C.A. (2019). Rapid face processing for positive and negative emotions in 5-, 7-, and 12-month-old infants: an exploratory study. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 37(4), 486-504. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12288
Xie, W.*, McCormick, S.A.*, Westerlund, A., Bowman, L.C., Nelson, C.A. (2019). Neural correlates of facial emotion processing in infancy. Developmental Science, 22:e12758. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12758
*These authors contributed equally to this work as co-first authors
Deater-Deckard, K., Chary, M., and McCormick, S.A. (2018). Biological factors in parenting and child development. In M. Sanders & A. Morawska (Eds.). Handbook of Parenting and Child Development Across the Lifespan (pp. 27-45). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94598-9_2
Vanderwert, R.E., Westerlund, A., Montoya, L., McCormick, S.A., Miguel, H.O., Nelson, C.A. (2015). Looking to the eyes influences the processing of emotion on face-sensitive event-related potentials in 7-month-old infants. Developmental Neurobiology, 75(10), 1154-1163. https://doi.org/10.1002/dneu.22204
Perdue, K.L., Westerlund, A., McCormick, S.A., Nelson, C.A. (2014). Extraction of heart rate from functional near-infrared spectroscopy in infants. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 19(6), 067010. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.19.6.067010