Under Review

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Troller-Renfree, S.V., Gray, K.N., Sandre, A., Hart, E.R., Sperber, J.F., Dettmer, A.M., Meyer, J.S., & Noble, K.G. (under review). Associations between prenatal maternal stress and infant resting brain activity: A preregistered investigation. 

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Sanchez, D., Sandre, A., Amarante, M., Wiltshire, C. A., & Noble, K.G. (under review). Screen Exposure, Sleep Quality, and Language Development in 6-month-old Infants. ​

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Giebler, M.A., Yoshikawa, H., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Scott, M.E., Salazar, Y., Bravo, B., Abdurokhmonova, G., Magnuson, K.A., Gennetian, L.A., Fox, N.A., Noble, K.G. (under review). Associations Between Maternal Parenting Behavior and Infant Brain Activity Among Families Experiencing Poverty.

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Magnuson, K.A., Yoo, P.Y., Duncan, G.J., Yoshikawa, H., Trang, K., Gennetian, L.A., Halpern-Meekin, S., Fox, N.A., & Noble, K.G. (under review). Can a Poverty Reduction Intervention Reduce Family Stress and Improve Stress-Related Processes among Families with Infants? An Experimental Analysis.

 

 

2024​

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Magnuson, K., Duncan, G., Yoshikawa, H., Yoo, P. Y,  Han, S., Gennetian, L. A., Fox, N., Halpern-Meekin, S., and Noble, K. G. (2024). Can Cash Transfers Improve Maternal Well-being and Family Processes among Families with Young Children? An Experimental Analysis. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4955765 [PDF]. 

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Rosengarten, M. L., Sandre, A., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Shuffrey, L. C., Amarante, M., Bakhoya, M., & Noble, K. G. (In press). Measuring Socioeconomic and Stress Disparities in Infant Declarative Memory Using the Visual Paired Comparison Task. Developmental Psychology. 

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Hart, E. R., Gennetian, L. A., Sperber, J. F., Penalva, R., Magnuson, K., Duncan, G. J., ... & Noble, K. G. (2024). The effect of unconditional cash transfers on maternal assessments of children’s early language and socioemotional development: Experimental evidence from US families residing in poverty. Developmental Psychology. [PDF].

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Das, A.,  Osypuk,. T. L., Yoo, P. Y., Magnuson, K., Gennetian, L. A., Noble, K. G., Bruckner, T. A. Poverty reduction and childhood opportunity moves: A randomized trial of cash transfers to low-income U.S. families with infants, Health & Place, Volume 89, 2024, 103320. [PDF].​​

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Hart, E. R., Sperber, J. F., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Ortells-Faci, P., Halpern-Meekin, S., Sandre, A., & Noble, K. G. (2024). Mothers with low incomes view both individual and structural interventions as potentially helpful for supporting early child development. Scientific Reports, 14 (1), 18374. [PDF]

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Sauval, M., Duncan, G. J., Gennetian, L. A., Magnuson, K. A., Fox, N. A., Noble, K. G., & Yoshikawa, H. (2024). Unconditional cash transfers and maternal employment: Evidence from the Baby’s First Years study. Journal of Public Economics, 236, 105159. [PDF]

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Egan-Dailey, S., Gennetian, L., Magnuson, K., Duncan, G., Yoshikawa, H., Fox, N., & Noble, K. (2024). Child-directed speech in a large sample of U.S. mothers with low income. Child Development. [PDF]

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Gennetian, L., Duncan, G., Fox, N., Halpern-Meekin, S., Magnuson, K., Noble, K. G., & Yoshikawa, H. (2024). Effects of a monthly unconditional cash transfer starting at birth on family investments among US families with low income. Nature Human Behaviour. 1-16. [PDF]

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Sandre, A., Troller-Renfree, S.V., Giebler, M.A., Meyer, J.S., & Noble, K.G. (2024). Prenatal family income, but not parental education, is associated with resting brain activity in 1-month-old infants. Sci Rep 14, 13638. [PDF]

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Stilwell, L., Morales-Gracia, M., Magnuson, K., Gennetian, L. A., Sauval, M., Fox, N. A., ... & Noble, K. G. (2024). Unconditional Cash and Breastfeeding, Child Care, and Maternal Employment among Families with Young Children Residing in Poverty. Social Service Review, 98(2), 000-000. [PDF]

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Adams, E. J., Scott, M. E., Amarante, M., Ramírez, C. A., Rowley, S. J., Noble, K. G., & Troller-Renfree, S. V. (2024). Fostering inclusion in EEG measures of pediatric brain activity. npj Science of Learning, 9(1), 27. [PDF]

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Clinchard, C., Lee, T., Lindenmuth, M., Brieant, A., Deater-Deckard, K., Noble, K., Casas, B., & Kim-Spoon, J. (2024). Family economic status and adolescent substance use: The mediating role of parent-adolescent brain similarity and parental monitoring. Journal of Family Psychology, 38(4):677-684. [PDF]

*C.C. and T.H.L. contributed equally to this work.

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Hansen, M., Simon, K. R., He, X., Steele, N., Thomas, M. L., Noble, K. G., & Merz, E. C. (2024). Socioeconomic factors, sleep timing and duration, and amygdala resting-state functional connectivity in children. Frontiers in Psychiatry, (Vol. 15), 1373546. [PDF]

 

2023

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Merz, E. C., Myers, B., Hansen, M., Simon, K. R., Strack, J., & Noble, K. G. (2023). Socioeconomic Disparities in Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Regulation and Prefrontal Cortical Structure. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 4(1): 83–96.[PDF]

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Costanzo, M. A., Magnuson, K. A., Gennetian, L. A., Halpern-Meekin, S., Noble, K. G., & Yoshikawa, H. (2023). Contraception Use and Satisfaction Among Mothers with Low-Income: Evidence from the Baby’s First Years Study. Contraception, 129,110297. [PDF]

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Troller-Renfree, S. V., Sperber, J. F., Hart, E. R., Costanzo, M. A., Gennetian, L. A., Meyer, J. S., Fox, N. A., & Noble, K. G. (2023). Associations between maternal stress and infant resting brain activity among families residing in poverty in the U.S. Biological Psychology, 184, 108683. [PDF]

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Sperber, J. F., Gennetian, L. A., Hart, E. R., Kunin-Batson, A., Magnuson, K., Duncan, G. J., Yoshikawa, H., Fox, N. A., Halpern-Meekin, S., & Noble, K. G. (2023). Unconditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Assessments of Children's Health, Nutrition, and Sleep: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open, 6(9), e2335237-e2335237 [PDF]

 

See special commentary on Sperber et al 2023 by Dr. Benard Dreyer: Dreyer, B. P. (2023). Reducing Child Poverty—What Money Can Buy. JAMA Network Open, 6(9), e2335183. [PDF]

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Premo, E. M., Magnuson, K. A., Lorenzo, N. E., Fox, N. A., & Noble, K. G. (2023). Mental health and sleep quality of low-income mothers of one-year-olds during the COVID-19 pandemic. Infant Mental Health Journal, 44(4), 572–586. [PDF]
 

Firestein, M. R., Shuffrey, L. C., Hu, Y., Kyle, M., Hussain, M., Bianco, C., Hott, V., Hyman, S. P., Kyler, M., Rodriguez, C., Tejeda Romero. M., Tzul Lopez, H., Alcántara, C., Amso, D., Austin, J., Bain, J. M., Barbosa, J., Battarbee, A. N., Bruno, A., Ettinger, S., Factor-Litvak, P., Gilboa, S., Goldman, S., Gyamfi-Bannerman, C., Maniatis, P., Marsh, R., Morrill, T., Mourad, M., Muhle. R., Newes-Adeyi, G., Noble. K. G., O'Reilly, K. C., Penn, A. A., Reichle, L., Sania, A., Semenova, V., Silver, W. G., Smotrich, G., Tita, A. T., Tottenham, N., Varner, M., Welch, M. G., Zork, N., Garey, D., Fifer, W. P., Stockwell, M. S., Monk, C., Dawood, F., & Dumitriu, D. (2023). Assessment of Neurodevelopment in Infants With and Without Exposure to Asymptomatic or Mild Maternal SARS-CoV-2 Infection During Pregnancy. JAMA Netw Open 6(4):e237396. PMID: 37036706; PMCID: PMC10087058. [PDF]

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Hart, E. R., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Sperber, J. F., & Noble, K G. (2023). Relations among Socioeconomic Status, Perceived Stress, and the Home Language Environment. Journal of Child Language, 1-18. [PDF]

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Hansen, M., Simon, K. R., Strack, J., He, X., Noble, K. G., & Merz, E. C. (2023). Socioeconomic disparities in sleep duration are associated with cortical thickness in children. Brain and Behavior, 13(2), e2859. [PDF]

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Sperber, J. F., Hart, E. R., Troller‐Renfree, S. V., Watts, T. W., & Noble, K. G. (2023). The effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic on infant development and maternal mental health in the first 2 years of life. Infancy, 28(1), 107-135. [PDF]

 

2022

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Finkel, M. A., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Meyer, J. S., & Noble, K. G. (2022). Co-Rooming Accounts for Socioeconomic Disparities in Infant Sleep Quality among Families Living in Urban Environments. Children, 9(10), 1429. [PDF]

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Yoo, P. Y., Duncan, G. J., Magnuson, K., Fox, N. A., Yoshikawa, H., Halpern-Meekin, S., & Noble, K. G. (2022). Unconditional cash transfers and maternal substance use: findings from a randomized control trial of low-income mothers with infants in the US. BMC Public Health, 22(1) 897. [PDF]

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Simon, K. R., Merz, E. C., He, X., & Noble, K. G. (2022). Environmental noise, brain structure, and language development in children. Brain and Language, 229, 105112. [PDF]

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Troller-Renfree, S. V., Costanzo, M. A., Duncan, G. J., Magnuson, K., Gennetian, L. A., Yoshikawa, H., Halpern-Meekin, S., Fox, N. A., & Noble, K. G. (2022). The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(5), e2115649119. [PDF]

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Shuffrey, L. C., Firestein, M. R., Kyle, M. H., Fields, A., Alcántara, C., Amso, D., Austin, J., Bain, J. M., Barbosa, J., Bence, M., Bianco, C., Fernández, C. R., Goldman, S., Gyamfi-Bannerman, C., Hott, V., Hu, Y. Hussain, M., Factor-Litvak, P., Lucchini, M., Mandel, A., Marsh, R., McBrian, D., Mourad, M., Muhle, R., Noble, K. G., Penn, A. A., Rodriguez, C., Sania, A., Silver, W. G., O'Reily, K. C., Stockwell, M., Tottenham, N., Welch, M. G., Zork, N., Fifer, W. P., Monk, C., & Dumitriu, D. (2022). Association of birth during the COVID-19 pandemic with neurodevelopmental status at 6 months in infants with and without in utero exposure to maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection. JAMA pediatrics, 176(6), e215563-e215563 [PDF]

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2021

Noble, K. G., Hart, E. R., & Sperber, J. F. (2021). Socioeconomic disparities and neuroplasticity: Moving toward adaptation, intersectionality, and inclusion. American Psychologist, 76(9), 1486. [PDF]

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Merz, E.C., Desai, P. M., Maskus, E. A., Melvin, S. A., Rehman, R., Torres, S. D., Meyer. J., He, X., & Noble, K.G. (2021) Poverty may affect the developing brain through chronic stress. Atlas of Science. [PDF]

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Ramphal, B., Pagliaccio, D., Dworkin, J. D., Herbstman, J., Noble, K. G., & Margolis, A. E. (2021). Timing‐specific associations between income‐to‐needs ratio and hippocampal and amygdala volumes in middle childhood: a preliminary study. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(7), e22153. [PDF]

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Wiltshire, C. A., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Giebler, M. A., & Noble, K. G. (2021). Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age. Infant Behavior and Development, 65, 101644. [PDF]

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Noble, K. G., Magnuson, K., Gennetian, L. A., Duncan, G. J., Yoshikawa, H., Fox, N. A., & Halpern-Meekin, S. (2021). Baby’s first years: design of a randomized controlled trial of poverty reduction in the United States. Pediatrics, 148(4). [PDF]

 

Troller‐Renfree, S. V., Morales, S., Leach, S. C., Bowers, M. E., Debnath, R., Fifer, W. P., Fox, N. A., & Noble, K. G. (2021). Feasibility of assessing brain activity using mobile, in‐home collection of electroencephalography: methods and analysis. Developmental psychobiology, 63(6), e22128. [PDF]

 

Simon, K. R., Merz, E. C., He, X., Desai, P. M., Meyer, J. S., & Noble, K. G. (2021). Socioeconomic factors, stress, hair cortisol, and white matter microstructure in children. Developmental psychobiology, 63(6), e22147. [PDF]

 

Noble, K. G. (2021). Early childhood: The opportunity to untap human potential. The scale-up effect in early childhood and public policy: Why interventions lose impact at scale and what we can do about it, 25-40. [PDF]

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Lichtin, R. D.*, Merz, E. C.*, He, X., Desai, P. M., Simon, K. R., Melvin, S. A., Maskus, E. A, & Noble, K. G. (2021). Material hardship, prefrontal cortex–amygdala structure, and internalizing symptoms in children. Developmental psychobiology, 63(2), 364-377. [PDF]

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Brito, N. H., Greaves, A., Leon-Santos, A., Fifer, W. P., & Noble, K. G. (2021). Associations between bilingualism and memory generalization during infancy: Does socioeconomic status matter?. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24(2), 231-240. [PDF]

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2020

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Kapengut, D., & Noble, K. G. (2020). Parental Language and Learning Directed to the Young Child. Future of Children, 30(2), 71-92. [PDF]

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Merz, E. C., He, X., Myers, B., & Noble, K. G. (2020). Socioeconomic disadvantage, chronic stress, and hippocampal subfield development in children. Neuroscience Insights, 15, 2633105520931098. [PDF]

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Noble, Kimberly G., and Katrina R. Simon. "How Can Neuroscience Bridge Gaps in Reading Research?." In Handbook of Reading Research, Volume V, pp. 487-491. Routledge, 2020. [PDF]

 

Finkel, M. A., Troller-Renfree, S. V., & Noble, K. G. (2020). Higher utilization of social services is associated with higher language scores in Children from deeply impoverished urban families. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(22), 8607. [PDF]

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Noble, K. G., & Giebler, M. A. (2020). The neuroscience of socioeconomic inequality. Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 36, 23-28. [PDF]

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Merz, E. C., Maskus, E. A., Melvin, S. A., He, X., & Noble, K. G. (2020). Socioeconomic disparities in language input are associated with children's language‐related brain structure and reading skills. Child development, 91(3), 846-860. [PDF]

 

Vargas, W. S., Noble, K. G., Banwell, B., & De Jager, P. (2020). The educational impact of childhood-onset multiple sclerosis: Why assessing academic achievement is imperative. Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 26(13), 1633-1637.[PDF]

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Hardy, L. M., Banker, S., Tomb, M., Cha, Y., Zhang, I., Thomas, L., Algermissen, M., Peverly, S. T., Noble, K. G. & Margolis, A. E. (2020). Phonological memory problems are magnified in children from language minority homes when predicting reading disability. Journal of child language, 47(3), 680-694. [PDF]

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Troller‐Renfree, S. V., Brito, N. H., Desai, P. M., Leon‐Santos, A. G., Wiltshire, C. A., Motton, S. N., Meyer, J. S., Isler, J., Fifer, W. P., & Noble, K. G. (2020). Infants of mothers with higher physiological stress show alterations in brain function. Developmental Science, 23(6), e12976. [PDF]

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Brito, N. H., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Leon-Santos, A., Isler, J. R., Fifer, W. P., & Noble, K. G. (2020). Associations among the home language environment and neural activity during infancy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 43, 100780. [PDF]

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Muennig, P., McEwen, B., Belsky, D. W., Noble, K. G., Riccio, J., & Manly, J. (2020). Determining the optimal outcome measures for studying the social determinants of health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(9), 3028. [PDF]

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de Vries, C.F., Staff, R.T., Noble, K.G. et al. Klotho gene polymorphism, brain structure and cognition in early-life development. Brain Imaging and Behavior 14, 213–225 (2020). [PDF]

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Rojas, N. Yoshikawa, H., Rangel, M.L., Melvin, S.A., Gennetian, L., Noble, K.G., Duncan, G.D., Magnuson, K. (2020) Exploring the experiences and dynamics of an unconditional cash transfer for low-income mothers: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Children and Poverty, 1-21. doi: 10.1080/10796126.2019.1704161 [PDF]

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2019

 

Merz, E. C., Desai, P. M., Maskus, E. A., Melvin, S. A., Rehman, R., Torres, S. D., Meyer, J., He, X., & Noble, K. G. (2019). Socioeconomic disparities in chronic physiologic stress are associated with brain structure in children. Biological psychiatry, 86(12), 921-929.[PDF]

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Merz, E. C., Maskus, E. A., Melvin, S. A., He, X., & Noble, K. G. (2019). Parental punitive discipline and children’s depressive symptoms: Associations with striatal volume. Developmental psychobiology, 61(6), 953-961. [PDF]

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Merz, E. C., Wiltshire, C. A. and Noble, K. G. (2019), Socioeconomic Inequality and the Developing Brain: Spotlight on Language and Executive Function. Child Development Perspectives, 13: 15-20. doi:10.1111/cdev.13239 [PDF]

 

Piccolo, L.R., and Noble, K.G. (2019) How can poverty shape children’s brains? Insights from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. Handbook of Infant Mental Health. [PDF]

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Piccolo, L. R., Merz, E. C., Noble, K. G., & Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition, and Genetics Study. (2019). School climate is associated with cortical thickness and executive function in children and adolescents. Developmental Science, 22(1), e12719. [PDF]

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2018

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Merz, E.C., Tottenham, N., Noble, K.G. for the Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition and Genetics study (2018). Socioeconomic Status, Amygdala Volume, and Internalizing Symptoms in Children and Adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology,  47(2), 312-323. [PDF]

 

Merz, E. C., He, X., & Noble, K. G. (2018). Anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and brain structure in children and adolescents. NeuroImage: Clinical, 20, 243-251. [PDF]

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Brito, N. H., Noble, K. G. for the Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition and Genetics study (2018). The independent and interacting effects of socioeconomic status and dual‐language use on brain structure and cognition. Developmental Science, e12688. doi: 10.1111/desc.12688 [PDF]

 

Marti, M., Merz, E. C., Repka, K. R., Noble, K. G., & Duch, H. (2018). Parent Involvement in the Getting Ready for School Intervention is Associated with Changes in School Readiness Skills. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 759. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00759. [PDF]

 

Marti, M., Melvin, S.A., Landers, C., Noble, K.G., & Duch, H. (2018). Implementation fidelity of Getting Ready for School: Associations with classroom and teacher characteristics and preschooler’s school readiness skills., 55-71.  Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 44. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.02.010. [PDF]

 

Piccolo, L.R., and Noble, K.G. for the Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition and Genetics study (2018). Perceived stress is associated with smaller hippocampal volume in adolescence. Psychophysiology, 55(5). doi: 10.1111/psyp.13025. [PDF]

 

2017

 

Obus, E. A., Brito, N. H., Sanlorenzo, L., Rea, C., Engelhardt, L., & Noble, K. G. (2017). Improving Adherence to Reach Out and Read: A Bookmark Intervention. Journal of Pediatrics and Pediatric Medicine Obus. doi:10.29245/2578-2940/2018/1.1103. [PDF]

 

Noble, K.G. (2017) Poverty and the adolescent brain. In: Balvin, Nikola; Banati, Prerna (eds). The Adolescent Brain: A second window of opportunity - A compendium, UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, Florence. pp 49-53. [PDF]

 

Brito, N.H., Piccolo, L.R., and Noble, K.G.  for the Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition, and Genetics Study. (2017). Associations between Cortical Thickness and Neurocognitive Skills During Childhood Vary by Family Socioeconomic Factors. Brain and Cognition, 116(2017), 54-62. [PDF]

 

Noble, K.G. (2017, March). What Inequality Does to the Brain. Scientific American. 316(3),44-49. [PDF]

 

Merz, E.C. and Noble, K.G.* (2017). Neural Development in Context: Differences in Neural Structure and Function Associated with Adverse Childhood Experiences. In E. Votruba-Drzal & E. Dearing (Eds.), Handbook of Early Childhood Development Programs, Practices, and Policies (135-160). West Sussex: Wiley. [PDF]

 

Ursache, A. Merz, E.C., Melvin, S., Meyer, J., & Noble, K.G. (2017). Socioeconomic Status, Hair Cortisol and Internalizing Symptoms in Parents and Children.  Psychoneuroendocrinology, 78, 142-150. [PDF]

 

Melvin, S. A., Brito, N. H., Mack, L. J., Engelhardt, L. E., Fifer, W. P., Elliott, A. J., & Noble, K. G. (2017). Home environment, but not socioeconomic status, is linked to differences in early phonetic perception ability. Infancy, 22(1), 42-55. [PDF]

 

2016

 

Piccolo, L.R.*, Merz, E.C.*, He, X., Sowell, E.R., & Noble, K.G. for the Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition and Genetics study (2016). Age-related Differences in Cortical Thickness Vary by Socioeconomic Status. PLoS One, 11(9): e0162511. [PDF]

 

Ursache, A. & Noble, K.G. for the Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition, and Genetics Study. (2016). Socioeconomic Status, White Matter Development, and Executive Function in Children. Brain and Behavior, 6(10). [PDF]

 

Brito, N.H., Fifer, W.P., Myers, M.M., Elliott, A.J., & Noble, K.G. (2016). Associations among Family Socioeconomic Status, EEG Power at Birth, and Cognitive Skills During Infancy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 144-151. [PDF]

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Merz, E.C., Harle, K., Noble, K.G., & McCall, R.B. (2016). Executive Function in Previously Institutionalized Children. Child Development Perspectives, 10(2), 105-110. doi:10.1111/cdep.12170. [PDF]

 

Johnson, S.B., Riis, J.L., & Noble, K.G. (2016). State of the Art Review: Poverty and the Developing Brain. Pediatrics, 137(4), peds-2015. doi:10.1542/peds.2015-3075. [PDF]

 

Ursache, A. & Noble, K.G. (2016). Neurocognitive development in socioeconomic context: Multiple mechanisms and implications for measuring socioeconomic status. Psychophysiology, 53(1), 71–82. doi:10.1111/psyp.12547. [PDF]

 

2015

 

Ursache, A., Noble, K. G., & Blair, C. (2015). Socioeconomic status, subjective social status, and perceived stress: associations with stress physiology and executive functioning. Behavioral Medicine, 41(3), 145-154. doi:10.1080/08964289.2015.1024604 . [PDF]

 

Noble, K.G., Houston, S.M., Brito, N.H., Bartsch, H., Kan, E., Kuperman, J.M., Akshoomoff, N., Amaral, D.G., Bloss, C.S., Libiger, O. Schork, N.J., Murray, S.S., Casey, B.J., Chang, L., Ernst, T.M., Frazier, J.A., Gruen, J.R., Kennedy, D.N., Van Zijl, P., Mostofsky, S., Kaufmann, W.E., Kenet, T., Dale, A.M., Jernigan, T.L., and Sowell, E.R. (2015). Family income, parental education and brain structure in children and adolescents. Nature Neuroscience, 18(5), p.773. doi:10.1038/nn.3983. [PDF]

 

Noble, K. G., Engelhardt, L. E., Brito, N. H., Mack, L. J., Nail, E. J., Angal, J., Barr, R., Fifer, W.P. & Elliott, A. J. (2015). Socioeconomic disparities in neurocognitive development in the first two years of life. Developmental Psychobiology, 57(5), 535-551. doi:10.1002/dev.21303 . [PDF]

 

Pavlakis, A., Noble, K., Pavlakis, S.G., Ali, N, & Frank, Y. (2015). Brain imaging and electrophysiology biomarkers: Is there a role in poverty and education outcome research? Pediatric Neurology, 52, 383-388. doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2014.11.005 [PDF]

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2014

 

Brito, N.H. & Noble, K.G. (2014). Socioeconomic status and structural brain development. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8, 276. doi:10.3389/fnins.2014.00276 . [PDF]

 

Noble, K. G. (2014). Rich man, poor man: Socioeconomic adversity and brain development. In Cerebrum: the Dana forum on brain science (Vol. 2014). Dana Foundation. [PDF]

 

2013

 

Noble, K. G., & Farah, M. J. (2013). Neurocognitive consequences of socioeconomic disparities: The intersection of cognitive neuroscience and public health [Preface]. Developmental Science, 16(5), 639-640. PMID: 24033569 [PDF]

 

Noble, K. G., Korgaonkar, M. S., Grieve, S. M., & Brickman, A. M. (2013). Higher education is an age-independent predictor of white matter integrity and cognitive control in late adolescence. Developmental Science,16(5), 653-664. PMCID: PMC3775010 [PDF]

 

2012

 

Noble, K. G., Grieve, S. M., Korgaonkar, M. S., Engelhardt, L. E., Griffith, E. Y., Williams, L. M., & Brickman, A. M. (2012). Hippocampal volume varies with educational attainment across the life-span. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 1-10. PMCID: PMC3494123 [PDF]

 

Noble, K. G., Fifer, W. P., Nomura, Y., Rauh, V. A., & Andrews, H. (2012). Academic achievement varies with gestational age among children born at term. Pediatrics, 130(2), e257-e264. PMCID: PMC3408682 [PDF]

 

Noble, K. G., Houston, S., Kan, E., & Sowell, E. R. (2012). Neural correlates of socioeconomic status in the developing human brain. Developmental Science, 15(4), 516-527. PMID: 22709401 [PDF]

 

*Noble, K. G., *Duch, H., Darvique, M. E., Grundleger, A., Rodriguez, C., & Landers, C. (2012). “Getting Ready for School:” A Preliminary Evaluation of a Parent-Focused School-Readiness Program. Child Development Research, 2012. [PDF]

 

Ginsburg, H. P., Duch, H., Ertle, B., & Noble, K. G. (2012). How can parents help their children learn math? In B. H. Wasik & B. Van Horn (Eds.), Handbook of Family Literacy. New York: Routledge Press. 51-65. [PDF]

 

2007

 

Noble, K. G., McCandliss, B. D., & Farah, M. J. (2007). Socioeconomic gradients predict individual differences in neurocognitive abilities. Developmental Science, 10(4), 464-480. PMID: 17552936 [PDF]

 

Farah, M. J., Noble, K. G., & Hurt, H. (2007). The developing adolescent brain in socioeconomic context. In D. Romer & E. Walker (Eds.), Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain (373-387). New York: Oxford University Press. [PDF]

 

2006

 

Noble, K. G., Wolmetz, M. E., Ochs, L. G., Farah, M. J., & McCandliss, B. D. (2006). Brain-behavior relationships in reading acquisition are modulated by socioeconomic factors. Developmental Science, 9(6), 642-654. PMID: 17059461[PDF]

 

Noble, K. G., Farah, M. J., & McCandliss, B. D. (2006). Socioeconomic background modulates cognition-achievement relationships in reading. Cognitive Development, 21(3), 349-368. PMCID: PMC2752890 [PDF]

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Farah, M. J., Noble, K. G., & Hurt, H. (2006). Poverty, privilege, and brain development: Empirical findings and ethical implications. Neuroethics: Defining the issues in theory, practice, and policy, 277-288. [PDF]

 

2005

 

Noble, K. G., Tottenham, N., & Casey, B. J. (2005). Neuroscience perspectives on disparities in school readiness and cognitive achievement [in volume School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps]. Future of Children, 15(1), 71-89. [PDF]

 

Noble, K. G., Norman, M. F., & Farah, M. J. (2005). Neurocognitive correlates of socioeconomic status in kindergarten children. Developmental Science, 8(1), 74-87. PMID: 15647068 [PDF]

 

Noble, K. G., & McCandliss, B. D. (2005). Reading development and impairment: Behavioral, social, and neurobiological factors. Journal of Development and Behavioral Pediatrics, 26(5), 370-378. PMID: 16222178 [PDF]

 

Farah, M. J., & Noble, K. G. (2005). Socioeconomic influences on brain development: A preliminary study. In U. Mayr, E. Awh, & S. Keele (Eds.), Developing Individuality in the Human Brain: A Tribute to Michael I. Posner (189-208). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press. [PDF]

 

2004 and earlier

 

Flowers, D. L., Jones, K., Noble, K., VanMeter, J., Zeffiro, T. A., Wood, F. B., & Eden, G. F. (2004). Attention to single letters activates left extrastriate cortex. Neuroimage, 21(3), 829-839. PMID: 15006649 [PDF]

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McCandliss, B. D., & Noble, K. G. (2003). The development of reading impairment: A cognitive neuroscience model. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 9(3), 196-204. PMID: 12953299 [PDF]

 

Joseph, J., Noble, K. G., & Eden, G. (2001). The neurobiological basis of reading. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 34(6), 566-579. PMID: 15503571 [PDF]

 

Noble, K. G., Glosser, G., & Grossman, M. (2000). Oral reading in dementia. Brain and Language, 74(1), 48-69. PMID: 10924216 [PDF]

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* Denotes equal contributions by the authors