Graduate Student Publications

  • Anderson LC & Petrovich GD (2018) Ventromedial prefrontal cortex mediates sex-specific persistent cognitive drive for food. Scientific Reports 8:2230.
  • Anderson LC & Petrovich, GD (2018) Distinct recruitment of the hippocampal, thalamic, and amygdalar neurons projecting to the prelimbic cortex in male and female rats during context-mediated renewal of responding to food cues. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 150:25-35.
  • Anderson, L.C. and Petrovich, G. D. (2017) Sex specific recruitment of a medial prefrontal cortex-hippocampal-thalamic system during context-dependent renewal of responding to food cues in rats. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 139:11-21.
  • Anderson, L.C., and Petrovich, G.D. (2015) Renewal of conditioned responding to food cues in rats: Sex differences and relevance of estradiol. Physiology & Behavior 151:338-344.
  • Bennion, K.A., Mickley Steinmetz, K.R., Kensinger, E.A., & Payne, J.D. (2015). Sleep and cortisol interact to support memory consolidation. Cerebral Cortex, 25(3), 646-657.
  • Bennion, K.A., Payne, J.D., & Kensinger, E.A. (2015). The selective effects of sleep on emotional memory: What mechanisms are responsible? Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 1, 79–88.
  • Cole S, Keefer SE, Anderson LC & Petrovich GD (2020) Medial prefrontal cortex neural plasticity, orexin receptor 1 signaling, and connectivity with the lateral hypothalamus are necessary in cue-potentiated feeding. Journal of Neuroscience 40:1744-1755.        
  • DiLeo, A., Wright, K.M., & McDannald, M.A., (2016) Subsecond fear discrimination in rats: adult impairment in adolescent heavy alcohol drinkers. Learning and Memory, 23: 618-622.
  • DiLeo, A., Wright, K.M., Mangone, E., & McDannald, M.A., (2015) Alcohol gains access to appetitive learning through adolescent heavy drinking. Behavioral Neuroscience, 129 (4): 371-379.
  • Dumais, K.M., Veenema, A.H. (2015). Vasopressin and oxytocin receptor systems in the brain: sex differences and implications for social behavior. Front Neuroendocrinol, 40:1-23.
  • Dungan, J., Waytz, A., & Young, L. (2015). The Psychology of Whistleblowing. Current Opinions in Psychology, 6, 129-133.
  • Gilbert, K.S., Kark, S.M., Gehrman, P., & Bogdanova, Y. (2015). Sleep disturbances, TBI and PTSD: Implications for treatment and recovery. Clin Psychol Rev, 40, 195-212
  • Greiner EM & Petrovich GD (2020) The effects of novelty on food consumption in male and female rats. Physiology & Behavior 223:112970.
  • Greiner EM, Witt ME, Moran SJ, and Petrovich GD (2024) Activation patterns in male and female forebrain circuitries during food consumption under novelty. Brain Structure and Function [Epub Jan 9, 2024] 
  • Greiner, E. M., MĂĽller, I., Norris, M. R., Ng, K. H., & Sangha, S. (2019). Sex differences in fear regulation and reward-seeking behaviors in a fear-safety-reward discrimination task. Behavioural Brain Research, 368, 111903.
  • Hamamouche, K. & Cordes, S. (2016). Space, time, and number. In T.K. Shackelford & V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.),Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. 
  • Hamamouche, K. & Cordes, S. (2019a). A divergence of sub- and supra-second timing abilities in childhood and its relation to academic achievement. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 178, 137-154. 
  • Hamamouche, K. & Cordes, S. (2019b). Number, time, and space are not singularly represented: Evidence against a common magnitude system. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26(3), 833-854.
  • Hamamouche, K. & Cordes, S. (2020). Learning about time: Knowledge of formal timing symbols is related to individual differences in temporal precision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46(1), 117.
  • Hamamouche, K.**, Niemi, L.** & Cordes, S. (2017). Quantifying a threat: Evidence of a numeric processing bias. Acta Psychologica, 177, 1-9. (**equal contribution)
  • Hamamouche, K., & Cordes, S. (2023). How many seconds was that? Teaching children about time does not refine their ability to track durations. Cognition.
  • Hamamouche, K., & Cordes, S. (2023). Winning or losing: Children’s proportional reasoning across motivational contexts. Cognitive Development.
  • Hamamouche, K., Chernyak, N., & Cordes, S. (2020). Sharing scenarios facilitate division performance in preschoolers. Cognitive Development, 56. 
  • Hamamouche, K., Keefe, M., Jordan, K., & Cordes, S. (2018). Cognitive load affects numerical, but not temporal, judgments. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1783. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01783
  • Handley-Miner, I. J., & Young, L. (2021). Do knowledge representations facilitate learning under epistemic uncertainty? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e156. 
  • Handley-Miner, I. J., Pope, M., Atkins, R. K., Jones-Jang, S. M., McKaughan, D. J., Phillips, J., & Young, L. (2023). The intentions of information sources can affect what information people think qualifies as true. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 1. 
  • Hildebrand, L, & Cordes, S. (2023). Children underperform following “math” but not “spatial” task framing. Developmental Psychology.
  • Hildebrand, L.**, Posid, T.**, Moss-Racusin, C., Hymes, L., & Cordes, S. (2023). Does my daughter like math? Gender-specific relations between parent and child math attitudes. Developmental Science. (**equal contribution)
  • Hogan, J. & Winner, E. (2019). Habits of mind as a framework for assessment in music education. In D. Elliot, M. Silverman, & G. McPherson (Eds.), Handbook of philosophical and qualitative perspectives on assessment in music education. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Hogan, J., Cordes, S., Holochwost, S., Ryu, E., & Winner, E. (2023). Participation in intensive orchestral music training does not cause gains in executive functioning, self-perception, or attitudes towards school in young children. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
  • Hogan, J., Cordes, S., Holochwost, S., Ryu, E., Diamond, A. & Winner, E. (2018). Is more time in general music class associated with stronger extra-musical outcomes in kindergarten? Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 45. 238-248. 
  • Hogan, J., Hetland, L., Jaquith, D. & Winner, E. (2018). Studio thinking from the start: The K-8 art educator’s handbook. New York: Teachers College Press.
  • Hogan, J., Murdock, K., Hamill, M., Lanzara, A. & Winner, E. (2018). Looking at the process: Examining creative and artistic thinking in fashion designers on a reality television show. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02008
  • Hurst, M. & Cordes, S. (2017a). When being good at math isn’t enough: How students’ beliefs about the nature of mathematics impact decisions to pursue optional math education. In U. Xolocotzin (Ed.), Understanding Emotions in Mathematical Thinking and Learning. San Diego, CA: Elsevier. 
  • Hurst, M. & Cordes, S. (2017b). Working memory strategies during rational number magnitude processing. Journal of Educational Psychology.  
  • Hurst, M. & Cordes, S. (2018a). A systematic investigation of the link between rational number processing and algebra ability. British Journal of Psychology, 109(1), 99-117.
  • Hurst, M. & Cordes, S. (2018b). Attending to relations: Proportional reasoning in 3- to 6-year-old children. Developmental Psychology, 54(3), 428.
  • Hurst, M. & Cordes, S. (2018c). Children’s understanding of fraction and decimal symbols and the notation-specific relation to pre-algebra ability. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 168, 32-48.
  • Hurst, M. & Cordes, S. (2019). Talking about proportion: Fraction labels impact numerical interference in non-symbolic proportional reasoning. Developmental Science, 22(4), e12790.
  • Hurst, M. A., Boyer, T. W., & Cordes, S. (2021). Spontaneous and directed attention to number versus proportion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
  • Hurst, M. A., Wong, A., Gordon, R., Alam, A., & Cordes, S. (2022). Children’s gesture use provides insight into proportional reasoning strategies. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 
  • Hurst, M., & Cordes, S. (2015). Rational Number Comparison Across Notation: Fractions, Decimals, and Whole Numbers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000140
  • Hurst, M., Anderson, U. S., & Cordes, S. (2017). The acquisition of mappings among number words, written numerals, and quantities in preschoolers, Journal of Cognition and Development, 18(1), 41-62. doi: 10.1080/15248372.2016.1228653.
  • Hurst, M., Massaro, M., & Cordes, S. (2020). Fraction magnitude: Mapping between symbolic and spatial representations of proportion. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 6(2), 204-230.
  • Hurst, M., Monahan, K.L., Heller, E., & Cordes, S. (2014). 123s & AĎ㽶Đăs: Developmental Shifts in Logarithmic to Linear Responding Reflect Fluency with Sequence Values, Developmental Science, 17(6), 892-904. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12165
  • Karanian, J. M., & Slotnick, S. D. (2015).  Memory for shape reactivates the lateral occipital complex. Brain Research, 1603, 124-132.
  • Kark, S.M., & Kensinger, E.A. (2015). Effect of emotional valence on retrieval-related recapitulation of encoding activity in the ventral visual stream. Neuropsychologia, 78, 221-230.
  • Kayyal, M. H., Pochedly, J., McCarthy, A., & Russell, J. A. (2015). On the limits of the relation of disgust to judgments of immorality. Frontiers in psychology, 6, #951.
  • Keefer S & Petrovich GD (2020) The basolateral amygdala-medial prefrontal cortex circuitry regulates behavioral flexibility during appetitive reversal learning. Behavioral Neuroscience 134:34-44 [Epub 2019].
  • Keefer S, Cole S, Petrovich GD (2017) Distinct recruitment of basolateral-medial prefrontal cortex pathways across Pavlovian appetitive conditioning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 141:27-32.
  • Keefer SE & Petrovich GD (2022) Necessity and recruitment of cue-specific neuronal ensembles within the basolateral amygdala during appetitive reversal learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 194:107663.
  • Keefer, S., Cole, S., Petrovich, G. D. (2016) Orexin/hypocretin receptor 1 signaling mediates Pavlovian cue-food conditioning and extinction. Physiology & Behavior 162:27-36.
  • Kurkela, K.A., Cooper, R.A., Ryu, E., & Ritchey, M. (2022). Integrating region- and network-level contributions to episodic recollection using multilevel structural equation modeling. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(12), 2341-2359.
  • Moaddab, M., Mangone, E., Ray, M. H., & McDannald, M. A. (2017). Adolescent alcohol drinking renders adult drinking BLA-dependent: BLA hyper-activity as contributor to comorbid alcohol use disorder and anxiety disorders. Brain Sciences.
  • Niemi, L., Woodring, M., Young, L., & Cordes, S. (2019). Partisan mathematical processing of political polling statistics: It’s the expectations that count. Cognition, 186, 95-107.
  • O’Dea, C. J., Miller, S. S., Andres, E. B., Ray, M. H., Till, D. F., & Saucier, D. A. (2015). Out of bounds: factors affecting the perceived offensiveness of racial slurs. Language Sciences.
  • Parsons W, Greiner E, Buczek L, Miggliacio J, Corbett E, Madden AMK and Petrovich GD (2022) Sex differences in activation of extra-hypothalamic forebrain areas during hedonic eating. Brain Structure and Function 227:2857-2878.
  • Pickens, C. L., Fisher, H., Bright, N., Gallo, M., Ray, M. H., Anji, A., & Kumari, M. (2016). Prior alcohol consumption does not impair go/no-go discrimination learning, but causes over-responding on go trials, in rats. Behavioral Brain Research.
  • Posid, T. & Cordes, S. (2018).  How high can you count? Probing the limits of young children's counting. Developmental Psychology 54(5), 875-889.
  • Posid, T. & Cordes, S. (2019). The effect of multimodal information on children’s numerical judgments. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 182, 166-186.
  • Posid, T., & Cordes, S. (2014). The small-large divide: A case of incompatible numerical representations in infancy. In D. Geary, D. Berch, & K. Mann Koepke (Eds.), Evolutionary Origins and Early Development of Basic Number Processing.
  • Posid, T., Fazio, A., & Cordes, S. (2015). Being sticker-rich: Numerical context influences children’s sharing behavior. PLOS ONE, 10(11).
  • Ray, M. H., Hanlon, E., & McDannald, M. A. (2018). Lateral orbitofrontal cortex partitions mechanisms for fear regulation and alcohol consumption. PLOS One.
  • Ray, M.H., Hite, T., Bright, N., Gallo, M., & Pickens, C.L. (2018). Operant over-responding is more sensitive than reversal learning for revealing behavioral changes after withdrawal from alcohol consumption. Physiology and Behavior.
  • Reppucci CJ & Petrovich GD (2018) Neural substrates of fear-induced hypophagia in male and female rats. Brain Structure & Function 223:2925-2947.
  • Reppucci, C.J., and Petrovich, G.D. (2016) Organization of connections between the amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, and lateral hypothalamus: a single and double retrograde tracing study in rats. Brain Structure and Function 221:2937-2962 [Epub July 14, 2015].
  • Samide, R., Cooper, R.A. & Ritchey, M. (2020). A database of news videos for investigating the dynamics of emotion and memory. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 1469-1479.
  • Samide, R., & Ritchey, M. (2021). Reframing the past: Role of memory processes in emotion regulation. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 45, 848-857. 
  • Savelkouls, S. & Cordes, S. (2017). Numerical intuitions in infancy: Give credit where credit is due. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40.
  • Savelkouls, S. & Cordes, S. (2020). The impact of set size on cumulative area judgments. Acta Psychologica, 210.
  • Savelkouls, S., #Hurst, M., & Cordes, S. (2020). Preschoolers' number knowledge relates to spontaneous focusing on number for small, but not large, sets. Developmental Psychology, 56.
  • Smith, C.J.W., Wilkins, K.B., Mogavero, J.N., Veenema, A.H. (2015). Social novelty investigation in the juvenile rat: Modulation by the opioid system. J Neuroendocrinol, 27:752-764.
  • Walker, R.A., Andreansky, C., Ray, M.H. & McDannald, M.A. (2018). Early adolescent adversity inflates threat estimation in females and promotes alcohol use initiation in both sexes. Behavioral Neuroscience, 132(3), 171-182.
  • Walker, R.A., Wright K.M., Jhou, T.C. & McDannald, M.A. (2019). A causal role for ventrolateral periaqueductal grey prediction errors in fear updating. European Journal of Neuroscience 10.1111/ejn.14536.
  • Widen, S. C., Pochedly, J. T., & Russell, J. A. (2015). The development of emotion concepts: a story superiority effect in older children and adolescents. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.10.009
  • Wright, K.M. & McDannald, M.A., (2019) Ventrolateral periaqueductal gray neurons prioritize threat probability over fear output. eLife, 8: e45013. Dataset Available at 
  • Wright, K.M., DiLeo, A., & McDannald, M.A., (2015) Early adversity disrupts the adult use of aversive prediction errors to reduce fear in uncertainty. Frontiers in Be
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