Neurocognitive Development Lab
at the University of Maryland, College Park
Publications
(Please note Dr. Riggins has formerly published under the name T. DeBoer)
Geng, F., Canada, K.*, & Riggins, T. (in press). Age- and performance-related differences in encoding during early childhood: Insights from event-related potentials. Memory. PDF
Robey, A.* & Riggins, T. (in press). Increasing relational memory in childhood with unitization strategies. Memory and Cognition. PDF
Rollins, L.* & Riggins, T. (in press). Age-related differences in subjective recollection: ERP studies of memory encoding and retrieval. Developmental Science. PDF
Blankenship, S. L.*, Redcay, E., Dougherty, L. R., & Riggins, T. (2017). Development of hippocampal functional connectivity during childhood. Human Brain Mapping, 38, 182-201. DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23353 PDF
Rollins, L.* & Riggins, T. (2016). Cohort-sequential study of conflict inhibition during middle childhood. International Journal of Behavioral Development. DOI: 10.1177/0165025416656413 PDF
Robey, A.*, & Riggins, T. (2016). Event-related potential study of intentional and incidental retrieval of item and source memory during early childhood. Developmental Psychobiology, 58, 556-557. DOI: 10.1002/dev21401 PDF
Riggins, T., Geng, F., Blankenship, S. L., & Redcay, E. (2016). Hippocampal functional connectivity and episodic memory in early childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 58-69. PDF
Riggins, T., Blankenship, S. L.*, Mulligan, E., Rice, K., & Redcay, E. (2015). Developmental differences in relations between episodic memory and hippocampal subregion volume during early childhood. Child Development, 86(6), 1710-1718. PDF
Blankenship, S. L.*, & Riggins, T. (in press). Developmental differences in relations between parent-reported executive function and unitized and non-unitized memory representations during childhood. Frontiers in Psychology, section Developmental Psychology. PDF
Riggins, T., & Rollins, L. (2015). Developmental changes in recollection and familiarity during early childhood: Insights from event-related potentials. Child Development, 86, 889–902. PDF
Rollins, L.*, & Riggins, T. (2015). Processing and rejection of novel items in childhood: Event-related potential study of similar lures and novel foils. Developmental Psychobiology, 57(2), 263-270. DOI 10.1002/dev.21281 PDF
Schweitzer, J. B., Riggins, T., Ross, T. J., Black, M. M., & Salmeron, B. J. (2015). Interpretation of prenatal drug exposure functional imaging data. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 52(Pt A), 58-59. PDF
Schweitzer, J., Riggins, T., Liang, X., Gallen, C., Kurup, P. K., Ross, T. J., Black, M., Nair, P., Salmeron, B. J. (2015). Prenatal drug exposure to illicit drugs alters working memory-related brain activity and underlying network properties in adolescence. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 48, 69-77. doi:10.1016/j.ntt.2015.02.002 PDF
Robey, A.*, Buckingham-Howes, S., Salmeron, B. J., Black, M.M., & Riggins, T. (2014). Relations between prospective memory, cognitive abilities, and brain structure in adolescents who vary in prenatal drug exposure. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 144–162. PDF
Wong, L., Riggins, T., Harvey, D., Cabaral, M., & Simon, T. J. (2014). Children with Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome exhibit impaired spatial working memory. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 119(2), 115–132. PDF
Riggins, T. (2014). Longitudinal investigation of source memory reveals qualitative differences between item memory and binding. Developmental Psychology, 50(2), 449–459.PDF
Rice, K., Viscomi, B., Riggins, T., & Redcay, E. (2014). Amygdala volume linked to individual differences in mental state inference in early childhood and adulthood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 8, 153-163.PDF
Riggins, T., Cheatham, C. L., Stark, E., & Bauer, P. J. (2013). Elicited imitation performance at 20 months predicts memory abilities in school age children. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14(4), 593–606. PDF
Riggins, T. & Nelson, C. A. (2013). Memory in at-risk populations: Infants who experience metabolic disturbances during the prenatal period. In P. J. Bauer & R. Fivush (Eds.), Handbook on the Development of Children’s Memory. Wiley-Blackwell.PDF
Rollins, L.*, & Riggins, T. (2013). An event-related potential study of memory encoding in children and adults. Developmental Science, 16, 1-12.PDF
Riggins, T., Rollins, L.*, & Graham, M.* (2013). Event-related potential study of source memory during childhood. Developmental Neuropsychology. PDF
Riggins, T., Cacic, K., Buckingham-Howes, S., Scaletti, L.A., Salmeron, B.J., & Black, M.M. (2012). Memory ability and hippocampal volume in adolescents with prenatal drug exposure. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 34(4), 434-441.PDF
Riggins, T., Bauer, P.J., Georgieff, M.K., & Nelson, C.A. (2010). Declarative memory performance in infants of diabetic mothers. In P.J. Bauer (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 38 - Varieties of Early Experience: Implications for the Development of Declarative Memory in Infancy. London, U.K.: Elsevier.PDF
Ackerman, J. P., Riggins, T., & Black, M. M. (2010). A review of the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure among school-aged children. Pediatrics, 125(3), 554-565.PDF
Balas, B., Nelson, C. A., Westerlund, A., Vogel-Farley, V., Riggins, T., & Kuefner, D. (2010). Personal familiarity influences the processing of upright and inverted faces in infants. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4, 1-6. PDF
Riggins, T., Miller, N. C., Bauer, P. J., Georgieff, M. K., & Nelson, C. A. (2009). Consequences of maternal diabetes mellitus and neonatal iron status on children's explicit memory performance. Developmental Neuropsychology, 34(6), 762–779.PDF
Riggins, T., Miller, N. C., Bauer, P. J., Georgieff, M. K., & Nelson, C. A. (2009). Electrophysiological indices of memory for temporal order in early childhood: Implications for the development of recollection. Developmental Science, 12(2), 209-219.PDF
Simon, T.J., Takarae, Y., DeBoer, T., McDonald-McGinn, D.M., Zackai, E.H., Ross, J.L. (2008). Overlapping numerical cognition impairments in Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion and Turner Syndromes. Neuropsychologia, 46, 82-94. PMC ID: PMC2249611.PDF
DeBoer, T., Scott, L.S., & Nelson, C.A. (2007). Methods for acquiring and analyzing infant event-related potentials. In: Michelle de Haan (Ed.). Infant EEG and Event-Related Potentials. (pp. 5-37). New York: Psychology Press.Page 1 - PDF
Bauer, P. J., DeBoer, T., & Lukowski, A. F. (2007). In the language of multiple memory systems, defining and describing developments in long-term explicit memory. In Lisa M. Oakes & Patricia J. Bauer (Eds.), Short- and long-term memory in infancy and early childhood: Taking the first steps towards remembering (pp. 240-270). New York: Oxford University Press.PDF
DeBoer, T., Wu, Z., Lee, A., & Simon, T. J. (2007). Hippocampal volume reduction in children with Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome is associated with cognitive impairment. Brain and Behavioral Functions, 3:54.PDF
Richmond, J., & DeBoer T. (2006). Mechanisms of change: Exploring not only when and what, but how declarative memory develops. Infant and Child Development, 15, 207-210.PDF
DeBoer, T., Wewerka, S., Bauer, P. J., Georgieff, M. K., & Nelson, C. A. (2005). Explicit memory performance in infants of diabetic mothers at 1 year of age. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 47, 525-531. PMCID: In progress.PDF
DeBoer, T., Scott, L. S., & Nelson., C. A. (2005). Event-related potentials in developmental populations. In Todd Handy (Ed.). Methodological Handbook for Research Using Event-related Potentials (pp. 263-297). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.PDF
Lukowski, A. F., Wiebe, S. A., Haight, J. C., DeBoer, T., Nelson, C. A., & Bauer, P. J. (2005). Forming a stable memory representation in the first year of life: Why imitation is more than child’s play. Developmental Science, 8(3), 279-298.PDF
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