Debra Mills, Ph.D.

Selected Publications

Language Development:

Aydelott, J., Dick, F. & Mills, D. (2006). Effects of acoustic distortion & semantic context on event-related potentials to spoken words. Psychophysiology, 43, 454-464.

Conboy, B. T. & Mills, D.L. (2006). Two languages, one developing brain: Event-related potentials to words in bilingual toddlers. Developmental Science, 9, F1-F12.

Zangl, R. & Mills, D.L. (in press). Brain activity to infant versus adult directed speech in 6- and 13-month olds. Infancy, Scheduled to appear in February, 2007.

Mills, D. Prat, C. Stager, C., Zangl, R. Neville, H. & Werker, J. (2004). Language experience and the organization of brain activity to phonetically similar words: ERP evidence from 14- and 20-month olds. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Special Issue on Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Charles A. Nelson (Ed), 16, 1452-1464.

Mills, D.L., Conboy, B. & Paton, C. (2005). Do changes in brain organization reflect shifts in symbolic functioning? In L. Namy (Ed.) Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation (pp. 123-153). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Mills, D., Plunkett, K., Prat, C. & Schafer, G. (2005). Watching the infant brain learn words: Effects of language and experience. Cognitive Development, 20, 19-31.

St. George, M. & Mills, D.L. (2001). Electrophysiological studies of language development. In J. Weissenborn & B. Hoehle (Eds). Language Acquisition and Language Disorders (pp. 247-259). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Neville, H. & Mills, D.L. (1997). Epigenesis of language development. In Dolan (Ed) Special Volume: Communication processes in children with developmental disorders. Journal of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Reviews. 3, 1-11.

Mills, D. L., Coffey, Corina, S. A. and Neville, H. J. (1997). Language comprehension and cerebral specialization from 13-20 months. D. Thal and J. Reilly (Eds.), Special Issue on Origins of Language Disorders, Developmental Neuropsychology, 13 (3) 397-446.

Neville, H. J., Mills, D. L., and Lawson, D. S. (1992). Fractionating Language: Different Neural Subsystems With Different Sensitive Periods, Cerebral Cortex, 2, 244-258

Mills, D.M., Coffey-Corina, S.A, & Neville, H.J. (1993). Language Acquisition and Cerebral Specialization in 20-month-Old Infants, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 5, 326-342.

Williams Syndrome:

Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Mills, D.L. (in press), Language Development in Williams Syndrome. To appear in Elsevier's second edition of The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (scheduled for 2006).

Mobbs, D., Eckert, M.A, Mills, D., Korenberg, J., Bellugi, U., Galaburda, A.M., & Reiss, A.L. (in press). Frontostriatal Dysfunction during Response Inhibition in Williams Syndrome, Biological Psychiatry.

Eckert, M., Galaburda, A.M., Bellugi, U., Korenberg, J., Mills, D., & Reiss, A. (2006). The Neurobiology of Williams Syndrome: Cascading influences of Visual System Impairment? Cellular & Molecular Life Sciences, 63, 1867-1875.

Thompson, P.M., Lee, A.G., Dutton, R.A., Geaga, J.A., Hayashi, K.M., Eckert, M.A., Bellugi, U., Galaburda, A.M., Korenberg, J.R., Mills, D.L., Toga, A.W., and Reiss, A.L. (2005). Abnormal cortical complexity and thickness profiles mapped in Williams Syndrome. 25 (18), 4146-4158.

Eckert, M.A., Hu, D., Eleiz, S., Bellugi, U., Galaburda, A., Korenberg, J., Mills, D., & Reiss, A. (2005). Evidence for Superior Parietal Impairment in Williams Syndrome. Neurology. 64, 152-153.

Holinger, D. P., Bellugi, U., Mills, D. L., Korenberg, J.R. Reiss, A. L., Sherman, G. F. & Galaburda, A. M. (2005). Relative sparing of primary auditory cortex in Williams Syndrome, Brain Research. 1037, 35-42.

Korenberg, J,R., Bellugi, U, Salandanan, L S., Mills, D L., & Reiss, A. L.(2003). Williams Syndrome: A Neurogenetic Model of Human Behavior, (pp 757-766). Encyclopedia of the Human Genome. MacMillan.

Mills, D. L., Alvarez, T.D., St. George, Appelbaum, L.G., Neville, H. and Bellugi, U. (2000). Electrophysiological studies of face recognition in Williams Syndrome. In U. Bellugi and M. St. George, special issue on Williams Syndrome Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Bellugi, U., Lichtenberger, L., Mills, D., Galaburda, A. & Korenberg, J. (1999). Bridging cognition, brain and molecular genetics: Evidence from Williams Syndrome. Trends in Neuroscience, 22, 193-236.