Biographical Information
Dr. Mills received her B.A. in Psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles, and her M.A. in Educational Psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and completed her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of California at San Diego in 1988. Her doctoral work was in both cognitive development and applied behavior analysis with autistic children with Dr. Laura Schreibman. She conducted her post-doctoral training in cognitive neuroscience and the
event-related potential technique at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA with Helen Neville.
From 1995 to 2001, Dr. Mills was an Assistant Research Scientist in the Center for Research in Language at the
University of California, San Diego. She joined the Emory faculty in Fall, 2001.Dr Mills uses the event-related
potential (ERP) technique to study how the organization of the brain changes during the course of language development.
Of particular interest is the role of experience in setting up cerebral specializations for different aspects of language
processing. In another line of research, she studies the development and plasticity of brain systems for sensory,
language, and non-language cognitive functions in atypical populations such as Williams Syndrome.
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