Publications

2024

• Nugiel, T., Demeter, D. V., Mitchell, M. E., Garza, A., Hernandez, A. E., Juranek, J., & Church, J. A. (2024). Brain connectivity and academic skills in English learners. Cerebral Cortex, 34(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad414.
• Burenkova, O. V., Naumova, O. Y., Church, J. A., Juranek, J., Fletcher, J. M., & Grigorenko, E. L. (2024). Associations between telomere length, glucocorticoid receptor gene DNA methylation, volume of stress-related brain structures, and academic performance in middle-school-age children. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 17, 100223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpnec.2023.100223.
• Ben-Asher, E., Porter, B. M., & Church, J. A. (2024). Distinct constellations of common risk factors differentially relate to Executive-Function ability in children. Psychological Science, 35(5), 489–503. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241235931.
• Porter, B. M., Roe, M. A., Mitchell, M. E., & Church, J. A. (2023). A longitudinal examination of executive function abilities, attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and puberty in adolescence. Child Development, 95(4), 1076–1091. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14057.

2023

• Church, J.A. (2023). The brain’s control networks in reading: Insights from cross-task studies of youth. Mind, Brain, and Education. https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12372.
• Ben-Asher, E. Porter, B.M., Roe, M.A., Mitchell, M.E., Church, J.A. (2023). Bidirectional longitudinal relations between executive function and social function across adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 59(9), 1587-1594. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001580.
• Nugiel, T., Mitchell, M.E., Demeter, D.V., Garza, AC., Miciak, J., Cirino, P.T., Hernandez, A.E., Juranek, J., Church, J.A. (2023). Brain engagement during a cognitive flexibility task relates to academic performance in English learners. Mind, Brain, and Education, 17(2): 149-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12362.
• Church J.A., Grigorenko, E.L., Fletcher J.M. (2023). The role of neural and genetic processes in learning to read and specific reading disabilities: Implications for instruction. Reading Research Quarterly, 58(2), 203- 219. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.439.
• Demeter, D.V., Gordon, E.M., Nugiel, T., Garza, AC., Larguinho, T.L., Church, J.A. (2023). Resting state cortical hubs in youths. Cell Reports, 42(5), 112521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112521.
• Aizza A, Porter B.M., Church J.A . (2023) Youth pre-pandemic executive function relates to year one COVID-19 difficulties. Frontiers Psychology: Developmental Psychology, Apr 20; 14:1033282. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1033282.
• Barendse, M.E.A., et al. (2023). Longitudinal change in adolescent depression and anxiety symptoms from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international collaborative of 12 samples. Journal of Adolescent Psychiatry, 33(1): 74-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12781.

2022

• Garcini, L. M., Arredondo, M. M., Berry, O., Church, J. A., Fryberg, S. A., Thomason, M. E., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2022). Increasing Diversity in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: A Roadmap for Increasing Representation in Pediatric Neuroimaging Research. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 58: 101167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101167
• Davis, B.R., Garza, A.C, Church, J.A. (2022). Key considerations for child and adolescent MRI data collection. Tutorial in Frontiers in Neuroimaging: Neuroimaging for Cognitive Neuroscience, 1:981947. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnimg.2022.981947.

2021

• Porter, B. M., Douglas, I. J., Larguinho, T. L., Aristizabal, M., Mitchell, M. E., Roe, M. A., & Church, J. A. (2021). Examination of Pre-Pandemic Measures on Youth Well-Being During Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science.
• Zheng, A., Church, J.A. (2021). A developmental eye tracking investigation of cued task-switching performance. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13478.
• Garza A, Aizza A, Charoenworawat J and Church J (2021) A Core Set of Brain Regions Helps Kids Achieve Their Goals. Front. Young Minds. 9:618432. doi: 10.3389/frym.2021.618432
• Weng, T. B., Vela, R. D., Weber, W., Dodla, M., Heinsfeld, A. S., Parker, S. D., Simon, B., Demeter, D. V., Nugiel, T., Whitmore, L., Mills, K. L., Church, J. A., Haberman, M. R., & Craddock, R. C. (2021). The impact of customized head molds on motion and motion-related artifacts from structural and functional MRI scans in children. medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.24.21253213
• Roe, M.A., Engelhardt, L.E., Nugiel, T., Harden, K.P., Tucker-Drob, E.M., Church, J.A. (2021). Error-signaling in the developing brain. NeuroImage, 227, 117821. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117621.

2020

• Nugiel, T., Roe, M.A., Engelhardt, L.E., Mitchell, M.E., Zheng A., Church, J.A. (2020) Pediatric ADHD symptom burden relates to distinct neural activity across executive function domains. Neuroimage:Clinical, Aug 25, 28:102394. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102394.
• Church, J.A., Fletcher, J.M. (2020). Chapter 15: Neuroimaging. Marla Mallette and Nell Duke, Eds. Literacy Research Methodologies, 3rd edition. The Guilford Press, New York, NY.
• Cirino, P.T., Church, J.A., Miciak, J., Fletcher, J.M. (2020). Chapter 10: The Role of Executive Functions in Reading Development, Reading Disability, and Intervention Response. Elena L. Grigorenko, Yury Shtyrov, and Peggy McCardle, Eds. All About Language: Science, Theory, and Practice, Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD
• Harden, P.K., Engelhardt, L.E., Mann, F.D., Patterson, M.W., Grotzinger, A.D., Savicki, S.L., Thibodeaux, M.L., Freis, S.M., Tackett, J.L., Church, J.A., Tucker-Drob, E.M. (2020) Genetic association between executive functions and a general factor of psychopathology. Journal of American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 2020 Jun 1; 59(6):749-758. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2019.05.006. Epub 2020 Jun 1.
• Nielsen, A.N., Gratton, C., Church, J.A., Dosenbach, N.U.F, Black, K.J, Petersen, S.E., Schlaggar, B.L., Greene, D.J. (2020) Atypical functional connectivity in Tourette Syndrome differs between children and adults. Biological Psychiatry. 2020 Jan 15;87(2):164-173. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.06.021. Epub 2019 Jul 2.

2019

• Demeter, D.V., Engelhardt, L.E., Mallett, R., Gordon, E.M., Nugiel, T., Harden, K.P., Tucker-Drob, E.M., Lewis-Peacock, J.A., Church, J.A. (2019) Functional connectivity fingerprints at rest are similar across youths and adults and vary with genetic similarity. iScience. 2019 Dec 25;23(1):100801. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2019.100801. [Epub ahead of print]
• Wood, A.C., Vainik, U., Engelhardt, L.E., Briley, D.A., Grotzinger, A.D., Church, J.A., Harden, K.P., Tucker-Drob, E.M. (2019) Genetic overlap between executive functions and BMI in childhood.  The American Journal Clinical Nutrition. 2019 Jun 19. pii: nqz109. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqz109. [Epub ahead of print]
• Harden, K.P., Engelhardt, L.E., Mann, F.D., Patterson, M.W., Grotzinger, A.D., Savicki, S.L., Thibodeaux, M.L., Freis, S.M., Tackett, J.L., Church, J.A., Tucker-Drob, E.M. (2019) Genetic Associations Between Executive Functions and a General Factor of Psychopathology. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 2019 May 15. pii: S0890-8567(19)30327-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2019.05.006. [Epub ahead of print]
• Church, J.A., Cirino, P.T., Miciak, J., Juranek, J., Vaughn, S., Fletcher, J.M. (2019). Cognitive, intervention, and neuroimaging perspectives on executive function in children with reading disabilities. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. 2019 May;2019(165):25-54. doi: 10.1002/cad.20292. Epub 2019 May 2. Review.
• Cirino, P.T., Church, J.A., Miciak, J., Fletcher, J.M. The Role of Executive Functions in Reading Development, Reading Disability, and Intervention Response. Book Chapter. All About Language: Science, Theory, and Practice. Brooks Publishing Co.
• Nugiel, T., Roe, M. A., Taylor, W. P., Cirino, P. T., Vaughn, S. R., Fletcher, J. M., Juranek, J., & Church, J. A. (2019). Brain activity in struggling readers before intervention relates to future reading gains. Cortex. 2019 Feb;111:286-302. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2018.11.009. Epub 2018 Nov 16.
• Engelhardt, L. E., Harden, K. P., Tucker-Drob, E. M., & Church, J. A. (2019). The neural architecture of executive functions is established by middle childhood. NeuroImage, 185, 479-489. 2019 Jan 15;185:479-489. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.10.024. Epub 2018 Oct 9.

2018

• Roe, M.A., Martinez, J.E., Mumford, J.A., Taylor, W.P., Cirino, P.T., Fletcher, J.M., Juranek, J., Church, J.A. (2018). Control Engagement During Sentence and Inhibition fMRI Tasks in Children With Reading Difficulties, Cerebral Cortex,28(10), 3697-3710. bhy170, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy170
• Engelhardt, L. E., Church, J. A., Harden, K. P., & Tucker-Drob, E. M. (2018). Accounting for the shared environment in cognitive abilities and academic achievement with measured socioecological contexts. Developmental Science, e12699. 2019 Jan;22(1):e12699. doi: 10.1111/desc.12699. Epub 2018 Aug 16.
• Martinez JE, Mack ML, Bauer JR, Roe MA, Church JA.  (2018). Perceptual biases during cued task switching relate to decision process differences between children and adults. Accepted at Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(10), 1603-1618.

2017

• Bauer JR*, Martinez JE*, Roe MA, Church JA. Consistent performance differences between children and adults despite manipulation of cue-target variables. 2017 in press, Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental.           *Co-first authors                     Open Science Framework of the dataset
• Engelhardt LE, Roe MA, Juranek J, DeMaster D, Harden KP, Tucker-Drob EM, Church JA. Children’s head motion during fMRI tasks is heritable and stable over time. 2017 Jun;25:58-68. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2017.01.011. Epub 2017 Feb 1.
• Church JA, Bunge SA, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. Preparatory engagement of cognitive control networks increases late in childhood. Cerebral Cortex. 2017 Mar 1;27(3):2139-2153. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhw046
• Tucker-Drob EM, Grotzinger A, Briley DA, Engelhardt LE, Mann FD, Patterson M, Kirschbaum C, Adam EK, Church JA, Tackett JL, Harden KP. Genetic influences on hormonal markers of chronic HPA function in human hair. Psychol Med. 2017 Jan 19:1-13. doi: 10.1017/S0033291716003068. [Epub ahead of print]

2016

• Engelhardt LE, Mann FD, Briley DA, Church JA, Harden KP, Tucker-Drob EM. Strong genetic overlap between executive functions and intelligence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 2016. doi:10.1037/xge0000195
• Greene DJ, Church JA, Dosenbach NUF, Nielsen AN, Adeyemo B, Nardos, B, Petersen SE, Black KJ, Schlaggar BL. Multivariate pattern classification of pediatric Tourette syndrome using functional connectivity MRI. Developmental Science. 2016. doi: 10.1111/desc.12407

2014-2015

• Stewart SB, Greene DJ, Lessov-Schlaggar CN, Church JA, Schlaggar BL. Clinical correlates of parenting stress in children with Tourette Syndrome and in Typically Developing Children. The Journal of Pediatrics. 2015. 166(5):1297-1302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2015.01.041
• Church JA, Schlaggar BL. Pediatric Tourette syndrome: insights from recent neuroimaging studies. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. Special Issue: Tourette Syndrome Update. 2014; 3(4):386-393. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2014.04.002

2013

• Williams AC, McNeely ME, Greene DJ, Church JA, Warren SL, Hartlein JM, Schlaggar BL, Black KJ, Wang L: A pilot study of basal ganglia and thalamus structure by high dimensional mapping in children with Tourette syndrome F1000Research 2013; 2:207. PMCID: PMC3976104  doi: 10.12688/f1000research.2‑207.v1
• Siegel JS, Power JD, Dubis JW, Vogel AC, Church JA, Schlaggar BL, Petersen SE. Statistical improvements in fMRI analyses produced by censoring high-motion data points. Human Brain Mapping, 2013. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22307.
• Vogel AC, Church JA, Power JD, Miezin FM, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. Functional Network Architecture of Reading-Related Regions Across Development. Brain and Language. 2013. 125(2):231-43. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.12.016.

2012

• Church JA, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. Comment on “The physiology of developmental changes in BOLD functional imaging signals” by Harris, Reynell, and Attwell. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 2012. 2(2): 220-222.
• Barnes KA, Nelson SM, Cohen AL, Power JD, Coalson RS, Miezin FM, Vogel AC, Dubis JW, Church JA, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. Parcellation in left lateral parietal cortex is similar in adults and children. Cerebral Cortex. 2012. 22(5): 1148-1158.

2011

• Power JD, Cohen AL, Nelson SM, Wig GS, Barnes KA, Church JA, Vogel AC, Laumann TO, Miezin FM, Schlaggar BL, Petersen SE. Functional network organization of the human brain. Neuron, 2011. 72: 665-678.
• Church JA, Balota DA, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. Manipulation of length and lexicality localizes the functional neuroanatomy of phonological processing in adult readers. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2011. 23(6): 1475-1493.

2010

• Dosenbach NUF, Nardos B, Cohen AL, Fair DA, Power JD, Church JA, Nelson SM, Wig GS, Vogel AC, Lessov-Schlaggar CN, Barnes KA, Dubis JW, Feczko E, Coalson RS, Pruett JR, Barch DM, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. Prediction of individual brain maturity using fMRI. Science 2010. 329(5997):1358-1361.
• Church JA, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. The Task B problem and other issues in developmental functional neuroimaging. Human Brain Mapping. 2010. 31(6): 852-862.

2009

• Church JA, Wenger KK, Dosenbach NU, Miezin FM, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. Task control signals in pediatric Tourette syndrome show evidence of immature and anomalous functional activity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2009. 3:38.
• Fair DA, Cohen AL, Power JD, Dosenbach NU, Church JA, Miezin FM, Schlaggar BL, Petersen SE. Functional brain networks develop from a “local to distributed” organization. PLoS Computational Biology 2009. 5(5): e1000381.
• Schlaggar BL, Church JA. 2009. Functional neuroimaging insights into the development of skilled reading. Curr Dir in Psych Sci 2009. 18(1): 21-26.
• Ihnen SK, Church JA, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. Lack of generalizability of sex differences in the fMRI BOLD activity associated with language processing in adults. NeuroImage. 2009. 45(3): 1020-32. Epub 2008 Dec 30.
• Church JA, Fair DA, Dosenbach NUF, Cohen AL, Miezin FM, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. Control networks in pediatric Tourette Syndrome show immature and anomalous patterns of functional connectivity. Brain 2009. 132(1): 225-38. Epub 2008 Oct 24.

2007-2008

• Church JA, Coalson RS, Lugar HM, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. A developmental fMRI study of reading and repetition reveals changes in phonological and visual mechanisms over age. Cerebral Cortex, 2008. 18(9): 2054-65. Epub Jan 31.
• Fair DA, Cohen AL, Dosenbach NUF, Church JA, Miezin FM, Barch DM, Raichle ME, Petersen SE, Schlaggar Bl. The maturing architecture of the brain’s default network. PNAS 2008. 105(10):4028-4032.
• Fair DA, Dosenbach NUF, Church JA, Cohen AL, Brahmbhatt S, Miezin FM, Barch DM, Raichle ME, Petersen SE, Schlaggar BL. Development of distinct control networks through segregation and integration. PNAS. 2007 Aug; 104(33): 13507-13512.

2000-2006

• Wraga M, Duncan L, Jacobs EC, Helt M, Church J. Stereotype susceptibility narrows the gender gap in imagined self-rotation performance. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 2006; 13(5): 813-819.
• Burns JM, Church JA, Johnson DK, Xiong C, Marcus D, Fotenos AF, Snyder AZ, Morris JC, Buckner RL. White matter lesions are prevalent but differentially related with cognition in aging and early Alzheimer disease. Arch Neurol. 2005 Dec; 62(12): 1870-6.
• Wraga M, Shephard JM, Church JA, Inati S, Kosslyn SM. Imagined rotations of self versus objects: an fMRI study. Neuropsychologia. 2005; 43(9):1351-61. Epub 2005 Jan 20.
• de Villiers PA, Church J, Giordano R, Whalen M, & Hoffmeister R. (2000). Reference to protagonists’ mental states in the written narratives of deaf children: the contribution of English syntax and ASL skills. In Howell, S.C., Fish, S. & Keith-Lucas, T. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp 265-275.