In Press
Clapham, R. B., Ye, Z., Somerville, L. H., Miller, A. B., Giletta, M., Hastings, P. D., Slavich, G. M., Nock, M. K., Prinstein, M. J., & Rudolph, K. D. (in press). Risk and protective effects of need for approval on self-injury in adolescent girls. Child Psychiatry & Human Development.
Reilly, O.T., Somerville, L.H., Hecht, E.E. (in press). Mechanisms of social attachment between children and pet dogs. Animals.
Weissman D.G., Vartiainen H.I., Nook E.C., Lambert H.K., Sasse S.F., Somerville L.H., & McLaughlin K.M. (in press). Perceptual sensitivity to labeling stereotyped emotion expressions: Associations with age and psychopathology from childhood through early adulthood. Emotion.
2024
Heffer, T., Flournoy, J. C., Baum, G. L., & Somerville, L. H. (2024). Examining the Association between Punishment and Reward Sensitivity and Response Inhibition to Previously-Incentivized Cues across Development. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 53(6), 1341-1354.
Nook, E. C., Ahn, H. E., Schleider, J. L., & Somerville, L. H. (2024). Emotion regulation is associated with increases in linguistic measures of both psychological distancing and abstractness. Affective Science. Supplement
Tervo-Clemmens, B., Karim, Z., Khan, S., Somerville, L. H., Schuster, R. M., Gilman, J. M., & Evins, A. E. (2024). The developmental timing but not magnitude of adolescent risk-taking propensity is consistent across social, environmental, and psychological factors. Journal of Adolescent Health, 4(3), 613-616.
2023
Grisanzio, K. A., Flournoy, J. C., Mair, P., & Somerville, L. H. (2023). Shifting qualities of negative affective experience through adolescence: Age-related change and associations with functional outcomes. Emotion, 23(1), 278.
Rodman, A. M., Powers, K. E., Kastman, E. K., Kabotyanski, K. E., Stark, A. M., Mair, P., & Somerville, L. H. (2023). Physical effort exertion for peer feedback reveals evolving social motivations from adolescence to young adulthood. Psychological Science, 34(1), 60-74. Supplement Data & Materials
Sanders, A. F. P., Baum, G. L., Bookheimer, S. Y., Dapretto, M., Harms, M. P., Kandala, S., Somerville, L. H., Thomas, K. M., Yacoub, E., Van Essen, D. C., & Barch, D. M. (2023). Developmental trajectories of cortical thickness by functional brain network: The roles of sex, puberty, and socioeconomic status. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Supplement Data & Materials
Weissman, D. G., Baum, G. L., Sanders, A., Rosen, M. L., Barch, D. M., McLaughlin, K. M., & Somerville, L. H. (2023). Family income is not significantly associated with T1w/T2w ratio in the Human Connectome Project in Development. Imaging Neuroscience, 1, 1-10.
2022
Casey, B. J., Simmons, C., Somerville, L. H., & Baskin-Sommers, A. (2022). Making the sentencing case for expanding the age of youthful offenders: Insights from psychology and neuroscience. Annual Review of Criminology, 5, 321-343.
Baum, G. L., Flournoy, J. C., Glasser, M. F., Harms, M. P., Mair, P., Sanders, A., Barch, D. M., Buckner, R. L., Bookheimer, S., Dapretto, M., Smith, S., Thomas, K. M., Yacoub, E., Van Essen, D., & Somerville, L. H. (2022). Graded variation in cortical T1w/T2w during adolescence: Measurement, caveats, and implications for development of myelination. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(29), 5681-5694. Data & Materials
Nook, E. C., Hull, T. D., Nock, M. K., & Somerville, L. H. (2022). Linguistic measures of psychological distance track symptom levels and treatment outcomes in a large set of psychotherapy transcripts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (13), e2114737119. Supplement Data & Materials
Powers, K. E.*, Schaefer, L.*, Figner, B., & Somerville, L. H. (2022). Effects of Peer Observation on Risky Decision-Making in Adolescence: A Meta-Analytic Review. Psychological Bulletin, 148(11-12), 783-812. *Shared first authorship
Schwab, J. F., & Somerville, L. H. (2022). Raising the Stakes for Online Learning: Monetary Incentives Increase Performance in a Computer-Based Learning Task Under Certain Conditions. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. Supplement Data & Materials
2021
Braams, B., Davidow, J. Y., & Somerville, L. H. (2021). Information about others’ choices selectively alters risk tolerance and medial prefrontal cortex activation across adolescence and young adulthood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 52, 101039. Supplement Data & Materials
Jenness, J., Lambert, H. K., Bitran, D., Blossom, J., Nook, E. C., Sasse, S. F., Somerville, L. H., & McLaughlin, K. M. (2021). Developmental variation in the associations of attention bias to emotion with internalizing and externalizing psychopathology. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49, 711-726. Supplement
Kabotyanski, K. E. & Somerville, L. H. (2021). Puberty: Your brain on hormones. Frontiers for Young Minds, 9:554380. doi: 10.3389/frym.2020.554380.
Meyer, K. N., Davidow, J. Y., Van Dijk, K. R. A., Santillana, R. M., Snyder, J., Vidal Bustamante, C. M., Hollinshead, M., Buckner, R. L., Rosen, B. R., Somerville, L. H., & Sheridan, M. A. (2021). History of conditioned reward association disrupts inhibitory control: An examination of neural regions associated with inhibitory control over rewarded stimuli. NeuroImage, 227, 117629. Supplement
2020
Grisanzio, K. A.*, Sasse, S. F.*, Nook, E. C., Lambert, H. K., McLaughlin, K. A., & Somerville, L. H. (2020). Voluntary pursuit of negatively valenced stimuli from childhood to early adulthood. Developmental Science, 00:e13012. *Equal contribution. Supplement
Insel, C., Davidow, J. Y., & Somerville, L. H. (2020). Neurodevelopmental processes that shape the emergence of value-guided goal directed behavior. The Cognitive Neurosciences VI (Gazzaniga, Mangun, & Poeppel, Eds.).
Nook, E. C.*, Vidal Bustamante, C. M.*, Cho, H. Y., & Somerville, L. H. (2020). Use of linguistic distancing and cognitive reappraisal strategies during emotion regulation in children, adolescents, and young adults. Emotion, 20(4), 525-540. * Equal contribution. Data & Materials
Nook, E. C., Stavish, C. M., Sasse, S. F., Lambert, H. K., Mair, P., McLaughlin, K. A., & Somerville, L. H. (2020). Charting the development of emotion comprehension and abstraction using observer-rated and linguistic measures. Emotion, 20(5), 773-792.
Rodman, A., Powers, K. E., Insel, C., Kastman, E. K., Stark, A., Kabotyanski, K. E., & Worthington, S., & Somerville, L. H. (2020). How adolescents and adults translate value to action: Age-related shifts in strategic physical effort exertion for monetary rewards. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 150(1), 103-113. Supplement
Rodriguez-Thompson, A. M., Meyer, K. M., Davidow, J. Y., Van Dijk, K. R. A., Santillana, R. M., Snyder, J., Vidal Bustamante, C. M., Hollinshead, M. O., Rosen, B. R., Somerville, L. H., & Sheridan, M. A. (2020). Examining cognitive control and reward interactions in adolescent externalizing symptoms. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 45, 100813.
Siless, V., Davidow, J. Y., Nielsen, J., Fan, Q., Hedden, T., Hollinshead, M., Beam, E., Vidal Bustamante, C. M., Garrad, M. C., Santillana, R., Smith, E. E., Hamadeh, A., Snyder, J., Drews, M. K., Van Dijk, K. R. A., Sheridan, M., Somerville, L. H., & Yendiki, A. (2020). Registration-free analysis of diffusion MRI tractography data across subjects through the human lifespan. NeuroImage, 214, 116703.
Shermohammed, M., Kordyban, L. E., & Somerville, L. H. (2020). Examining the causal effects of sleep deprivation on emotion regulation and its neural mechanisms. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32 (7), 1289-1300.
Weissman D.G., Nook E.C., Dews A., Miller A.B., Nook E.C., Lambert H.K., Sasse S.F., Somerville L.H., & McLaughlin K.M. (2020). Low emotional awareness as a transdiagnostic mechanism underlying psychopathology in adolescence. Clinical Psychological Science, 8(6), 971-988. Supplement
2019
Bookheimer, S. Y., Salat, D. H., Terpstra, M., Ances, B. M., Barch, D. M., Buckner, R. L., Burgess, G. C., Curtiss, S. W., Diaz-Santos, M., Elam, J. S., Fischl, B., Greve, D. N., Hagy, H. A., Harms, M. P., Hatch, O., Hedden, T., Hodge, C., Japardi, K., Kuhn, T., Ly, T., Smith, S. M., Somerville, L. H., Ugurbil, K., van der Kouwe, A., Van Essen, D. C., Woods, R. P., & Yacoub, E. (2019). The Lifespan Human Connectome Project in Aging: An overview. NeuroImage, 185, 335-348.
Davidow, J. Y., Sheridan, M. A., Van Dijk, K. R. A., Santillana, R., Snyder, J., Vidal Bustamante, C. M., Rosen, B. R., & Somerville, L. H. (2019). Development of prefrontal cortical connectivity and the enduring effect of learned value on cognitive control. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(1), 64-77.
Insel, C., Charifson, M., & Somerville, L. H. (2019). Neurodevelopmental shifts in learned value transfer on cognitive control during adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 40, 100730.
Insel, C.*, Glenn, C.*, Nock, M., & Somerville, L. H. (2019). Aberrant striatal tracking of reward magnitude in youth with current or past-year depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(1), 44-56. *Equal contribution
Kabotyanski, K.E.*, Mayer, M.D.*, Prater Fahey, M.*, & Somerville, L. H. (2019). Building the developmental foundations of developmental computational psychiatry. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 60(4), 427-429. *Equal contribution
Nook, E. C. & Somerville, L. H. (2019). Emotion concept development from childhood to adulthood. Chapter in Emotion in the Mind and Body, Proceedings of the 66th Nebraska Symposium on Motivation (Neta & Haas, Eds.). New York: Springer.
Shermohammed, M., Davidow, J. Y., Somerville L. H., & Murty, V. (2019). Stress impacts the fidelity but not strength of emotional memories. Brain and Cognition, 157, 48-60. Supplement
Somerville L.H., Haddara N., Sasse S.F., Skwara A.C., Moran J.M., & Figner B. (2019). Dissecting “peer presence” and “decisions” to deepen understanding of peer influence on adolescent risky choice. Child Development, 90(6), 2086-2103.
2018
Ahmed, S. P., Somerville, L. H.*, & Sebastian. C. L.* (2018). Using temporal distancing to regulate emotion in adolescence: modulation by reactive aggression. Cognition and Emotion, 32(4), 812-826. *Equal contribution
Braams, B. R., Davidow, J. Y., & Somerville, L. H. (2018). Developmental patterns of change in the influence of safe and risky peer choices on risky decision making. Developmental Science, e12717. Data & Materials
Davidow, J. Y.*, Insel, C.*, & Somerville, L. H. (2018). Adolescent development of value guided goal pursuit. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(8), 725-736. *Equal contribution
Harms, M. P.*, Somerville, L. H.*, Ances, B. M., Andersson, J., Barch, D. M., Bastiani, M., Bookheimer, S. Y., Brown, T. T., Buckner, R. L., Burgess, G. C., Coalson, T. S., Chappell, M. A., Dapretto, M., Douaud, G., Fischl, B., Glasser, M. F., Greve, D. N., Hodge, C., Jamison, K. W., Jbabdi, S., Kandala, S., Li, X., Mair, R. W., Mangia, S., Marcus, D., Mascali, D., Moeller, S., Nichols, T. E., Robinson, E. C., Salat, D. H., Smith, S. M., Sotiropoulos, S. N., Terpstra, M., Thomas, K. M., Tisdall, M. D., Ugurbil, K., van der Kouwe, A., Woods, R. P., Zöllei, L., Van Essen, D. C., & Yacoub, E. (2018). Extending the Human Connectome Project across ages: Imaging protocols for the Lifespan Development and Aging projects. NeuroImage, 183, 972-984. *Equal contribution Supplement Data & Materials
Insel, C. & Somerville, L. H. (2018). Asymmetric neural tracking of gain and loss magnitude during adolescence. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 13(8), 785-796.
Lee, N. C.*, Weeda, W. D.*, Insel, C., Somerville, L. H., Krabbendram, L., & Huizinga, M. (2018). Neural substrates of the influence of emotional cues on cognitive control in risk-taking adolescents. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 31, 20-34. *Equal contribution
Nook, E. C., Sasse, S. F., Lambert, H. K., McLaughlin, K. M., & Somerville, L. H. (2018). The nonlinear development of emotion differentiation: Granular emotional experience is low in adolescence. Psychological Science, 29(8), 1346-1357. Supplement Data & Materials
Powers, K. E., Yaffe, G., Hartley, C. A., Davidow, J. Y., Kober, H. & Somerville, L. H. (2018). Consequences for peers differentially bias computations about risk from adolescence to adulthood. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(5), 671-682. Supplement Data & Materials
Somerville, L. H., Bookheimer, S. Y., Buckner, R. L., Burgess, G. C., Curtiss, S. W., Dapretto, M., Elam, J. S., Gaffrey, M. S., Harms, M. P., Hodge, C., Kandala, S., Kastman, E. K., Nichols, T. E., Schlaggar, B. L., Smith, S. M., Thomas, K. M., Yacoub, E., Van Essen, D. C., & Barch, D. M. (2018). The Lifespan Human Connectome Project in Development: A large-scale study of brain connectivity development in 5-21 year olds. NeuroImage, 183, 456-468. Supplement Data & Materials
Somerville, L. H. & McLaughlin, K. A. (2018). What develops during emotional development? Normative trajectories and sources of psychopathology risk in adolescence. In The Nature of Emotion, 2nd Edition (Fox, Lapate, Shackman, & Davidson, Eds.).
Yoon, L., Somerville, L. H., & Kim, H. (2018). Development of RMPFC function mediates shifts in self-protective behavior provoked by social feedback. Nature Communications, 9, 3086. Supplement
2017
Insel, C., Kastman, E. K., Glenn, C. R., & Somerville, L. H. (2017). Development of corticostriatal connectivity constrains goal directed behavior through adolescence. Nature Communications, 8(1), 1605. Supplement Data & Materials
Nook, E. C., Sasse, S. F., Lambert, H. K., McLaughlin, K. M., & Somerville, L. H. (2017). Increasing verbal knowledge mediates the development of multidimensional emotion representations. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(12), 881-889. Supplement Data & Materials
Nook, E. C., Schleider, J. L., & Somerville, L. H. (2017). A linguistic signature of psychological distancing in emotion regulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(3), 337-346. Supplement Data & Materials
Rodman, A. M., Powers, K. E., & Somerville, L. H. (2017). Development of self-protective biases in response to social evaluative feedback. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(50), 13158-13163. Supplement Data & Materials
Shermohammed, M. S, Mehta, P., Zhang, J, Brandes, C., Chang, L. J., & Somerville, L. H. (2017). Does psychosocial stress impact cognitive reappraisal? Behavioral and neural evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(11), 1803-1816.
Somerville L. H., Sasse S. F., Garrad M. C., Drysdale A. T., Abi Akar N., Insel C., & Wilson R. C. (2017). Charting the expansion of strategic exploratory behavior during adolescence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(2), 155-164. Supplement
2016
Casey, B. J., Galvan, A., & Somerville, L. H. (2016). Beyond simple models of adolescence to an integrated circuit-based account: A commentary. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 128-130.
Defoe, I. N., Dubas, J. S., Somerville, L. H., Lugtig, P., van Aken, M. A. G. (2016). The unique roles of intrapersonal and social factors in adolescent smoking development. Developmental Psychology, 52(12), 2044-2056.
Fan, Q., Witzel, T., Nummenmaa, A., Van Dijk, K. R. A., Van Horn, J. D., Drews, M. K., Somerville, L. H., Sheridan, M. A., Santillana, R., Snyder, J., Hedden, T., Shaw, E. E., Renvall, V., Zanzonico, R., Keil, B., Cauley, S., Polimeni, J. R., Tisdall, D., Buckner, R. L., Wedeen, V. J., Wald, L. L., Toga, A. W., & Rosen, B. R. (2016). MGH-USC Human Connectome Project datasets with ultra-high b-value diffusion MRI. Neuroimage, 124(1), 1108-1114.
Powers, K. E., Somerville, L. H., Kelley, W. M., & Heatherton, T. F. (2016). Striatal associative learning signals are tuned to in-groups. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(9), 1243-1254.
Rasmussen, J. M., Casey, B. J., van Erp, T. G. M., Tamm, L., Epstein, J. N., Buss, C., Bjork, J. M., Molina, B. S. G., Velanova, K., Mathalon, D. H., Somerville, L. H., Swanson, J. M., Wigal, T., Arnold, L. E., Potkin, S. G., MTA Neuroimaging Group (2015). ADHD and Cannabis Use in Young Adults Examined Using fMRI of a Go/NoGo Task. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 10, 761-771.
Somerville, L. H. (2016). Searching for signatures of brain maturity: What are we searching for? Neuron, 92, 1164-1167.
Somerville, L. H. (2016). Systems neuroscience: The balancing act of behavioral regulation (dispatch for feature article by Meyer & Bucci). Current Biology, 26(20), R925-R926.
Somerville, L. H. (2016). Emotional development in adolescence. In Handbook of Emotion, 4th Edition (Barrett, Lewis, & Haviland-Jones, Eds.).
van den Bulk, B. G., Somerville, L. H., van Hoof, M-J., van Lang, N. D. J., van der Wee, N. J. A., Crone, E. A., & Vermeiren, R. R. J. M. (2016). Amygdala habituation to emotional faces in adolescents with internalizing disorders, adolescents with childhood sexual abuse related PTSD and healthy adolescents. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 15-25
2015
Hartley, C. A. & Somerville, L. H. (2015). The neuroscience of adolescent decision making. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 5, 108-115.
McLaughlin, K. A., Garrad, M. C., & Somerville, L. H. (2015). What develops during emotional development? A component process approach to identifying sources of psychopathology risk in adolescence. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 17, 403-410.
van Duijvenvoorde, A. C. K., Huizenga, H. M., Somerville, L. H., Delgado, M. R., Powers, A., Weeda, W. D., Casey, B. J., Weber, E. U., & Figner, B. (2015). Neural correlates of expected risks and returns in risky choice across development. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(4), 1549 –1560.
2014
Braver, T. S., Krug, M., Chiew, K., Kool, W., Westbrook A., Clement, N., Adcock, R. A., Barch, D., Botvinick, M. A., Carver, C. S., Cools, R., Custers, R., Dickinson, A., Dweck, C. S., Fischbach, A., Gollwitzer, P., Hess, T., Isaacowitz, D. A., Mather, M., Murayama, K., Pessoa, L., Samanez‐Larkin, G. R., Somerville, L. H. for the MOMCAI group. (2014). Mechanisms of motivation‐cognition interaction: Challenges and opportunities. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience., 14(2), 443-472.
Dreyfuss, M., Caudle, K., Drysdale, A. T., Johnston, N. E., Cohen, A. O., Somerville, L. H., Galvan, A., Tottenham, N., Hare, T. A., & Casey, B. J. (2014). Teens impulsively react rather than retreat from threat. Developmental Neuroscience, 36, 220-227.
Drysdale, A. T., Hartley, C. A., Pattwell, S. S., Ruberry, E. J., Somerville, L. H., Compton, S. N., Lee, F. S., Casey, B. J., & Walkup, J. T. (2014). Fear and anxiety from principle to practice: Implications of when to treat youth with anxiety disorders. Biological Psychiatry, 75.11, e9.
Jones, R. M., Somerville, L. H., Li, J., Ruberry, E. J., Powers, A., Mehta, N., Dyke, J., & Casey, B. J., (2014). Adolescent-specific patterns of behavior and neural activity during social reinforcement learning. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 14(2), 683-697.
Somerville, L. H. & Casey, B. J. (2014). Emotional reactivity and regulation across development. In The Cognitive Neurosciences V (Gazzaniga and Mangun, eds.), MIT Press.
Somerville, L. H., van den Bulk, B. G., & Skwara, A. C. (2014). Response to: The triadic model perspective for the study of adolescent motivated behavior. Brain and Cognition, 89, 112-113.
Teslovich, T., Mulder, M., Franklin, N. T., Ruberry, E. J., Millner, A., Somerville, L. H., Simen, P., Durston, S., & Casey, B. J. (2014). Adolescents let sufficient evidence accumulate before making a decision when large incentives are at stake. Developmental Science, 17(1), 59-70.
2013
Powers, K. E., Somerville, L. H., Kelley, W. M., & Heatherton, T. F. (2013). Rejection sensitivity polarizes striatal-medial prefrontal activity when anticipating social feedback. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(11), 1887-1895.
Somerville, L. H. (2013). The teenage brain: Sensitivity to social evaluation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22(2), 129-135.
Somerville, L. H., Jones, R. M., Ruberry, E. J., Dyke, J. P., Glover, G., & Casey, B. J. (2013). The medial prefrontal cortex and the emergence of self-conscious emotion in adolescence. Psychological Science, 24(8), 1554-1562. Supplement
Somerville, L. H., Wagner, D. D., Wig, G. S., Moran, J. M., Whalen, P. J., & Kelly, W. M. (2013). Interactions between transient and sustained neural signals support the generation and regulation of anxious emotion. Cerebral Cortex, 23 (1), 49-60. Supplement
2011
Casey, B. J., Jones, R. M., & Somerville, L. H. (2011). Braking and accelerating of the adolescent brain. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21 (1), 21-33.
Casey, B. J., Somerville, L. H., Gotlib, I. H., Ayduk, O., Franklin, N. T., Askren, M. K., Jonides, J., Berman, M. G., Wilson, N. L., Teslovich, T., Glover, G., Zayas, V., Mischel, W., & Shoda, Y. (2011). Behavioral and neural correlates of delay of gratification 40 years later. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 108 (36), 14988-15003.
Davis, F. C., Somerville, L. H., Ruberry, E. J., Shin, L. M., & Whalen, P. J. (2011). A tale of two negatives: Differential memory modulation by threat-related facial expressions. Emotion, 11 (3), 647-655.
Jones, R. M., Somerville, L. H., Li, J., Ruberry, E. J., Libby, V., Glover, G., Voss, H. U., Ballon, D. J., & Casey, B. J. (2011). Behavioral and neural properties of social reinforcement learning. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31 (37), 13039-13045.
Somerville, L. H., & Casey, B. J. (2011). Response to Moshman, “Adolescents and their teenage brains”. Human Development, 54 (4), 1-17.
Somerville, L. H., Fani, N., & McClure-Tone, E. B. (2011). Behavioral and neural representation of emotional facial expressions across the lifespan. Developmental Neuropsychology, 36 (4), 408-428.
Somerville, L. H.*, Hare, T. A.*, & Casey, B. J. (2011). Frontostriatal maturation predicts cognitive control failure to appetitive cues in adolescents. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 (9), 2123-2134. *Equal contribution
2010
Casey, B. J., Jones, R. M., Levita, L., Libby, V., Pattwell, S., Ruberry, E. J., Soliman, F. A., & Somerville L. H. (2010). The storm and stress of adolescence: Insights from human imaging and mouse genetics. Developmental Psychobiology, 52 (3), 225-235.
Soliman, F., Glatt, C. E., Levita, L., Bath, K. G., Jones, R. M., Pattwell, S. S., Tottenham, N., Somerville, L. H., Voss, H. U., Glover, G., Ballon, D. J., Lee, F. S., & Casey, B. J. (2010). A genetic variant BDNF (Val66Met) polymorphism alters extinction learning in both mouse and human. Science, 327, 863-866.
Somerville, L. H., & Casey, B. J. (2010). Developmental neurobiology of cognitive control and motivational systems. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 20, 1-6.
Somerville, L. H., Jones, R. M., & Casey, B. J. (2010). A time of change: Behavioral and neural correlates of adolescent sensitivity to appetitive and aversive environmental cues. Brain and Cognition, 72, 124-133.
Somerville, L. H., Kelley, W. M., & Heatherton, T. F. (2010). Self-esteem modulates medial prefrontal cortical responses to evaluative social feedback. Cerebral Cortex, 20 (12), 3005-3013.
Somerville, L. H., Whalen, P. J., & Kelley, W. M. (2010). Human bed nucleus of the stria terminalis indexes hypervigilant threat monitoring. Biological Psychiatry, 68 (5), 416-424. Supplement
2009
Aminoff, E. M., Balslev, D., Borroni, P., Bryan, R. E., Chua, E. A., Cloutier, J., Cross, E. S., Drew, T., Funk, C. M., Gil-da-Costa, R., Guerin, S. A., Hall, J. L., Jordan, K. E., Landau, A. N., Molnar-Szakacs, I., Montaser-Kouhsari, L., Olofsson, J. K., Quadflieg, S., Somerville, L. H., Sy, J. L., Uddin, L. Q., & Yamada, M. (2009). The landscape of cognitive neuroscience: Challenges, rewards, and new perspectives. Chapter in The Cognitive Neurosciences IV (Gazzaniga, Ed.). Cambridge: MIT Press.
2008
Whalen, P. J., Johnstone, T., Somerville, L. H., Nitschke, J. B., Polis, S. A., Alexander, A. L., Davidson, R. J., & Kalin, N. H. (2008). A functional magnetic resonance imaging predictor of treatment response to venlafaxine in generalized anxiety disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 63 (9), 858-863.
2006
Somerville, L. H., Heatherton, T. F., & Kelley, W. M. (2006). Anterior cingulate cortex responds differentially to expectancy violation and social rejection. Nature Neuroscience, 9(8), 1007-1008. Supplement
Somerville, L. H. & Whalen, P. J. (2006). Prior experience as a stimulus category confound: An example using facial expressions of emotion. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 1, 271-274.
Somerville, L. H., Wig, G. S., Whalen, P. J., & Kelley, W. M. (2006). Dissociable medial temporal lobe contributions to social memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18 (8), 1253-1265.
2005
Johnstone, T., Somerville, L. H., Alexander, A. L., Davidson, R. J., Kalin, N. H., & Whalen, P. J. (2005). Stability of amygdala BOLD response to fearful faces over multiple scan sessions. NeuroImage, 25, 1112-1123.
2004
Kim, H., Somerville, L. H., Johnstone, T., Polis, S., Alexander, A. L., Shin, L. M., & Whalen, P. J. (2004). Contextual modulation of fMRI responsivity to surprised faces. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1730-1745.
Somerville, L. H., Kim, H., Johnstone, T., Alexander, A. L., & Whalen, P. J. (2004). Human amygdala responses during presentation of happy and neutral faces: Correlations with state anxiety. Biological Psychiatry, 55, 897-903.
Whalen, P. J., Kagan, J., Cook, R. G., Davis, F. C., Kim, H., Polis, S., McLaren, D. L., Somerville, L. H., McLean, A. A., Maxwell, J. S., & Johnstone, T. (2004). Human amygdala responsivity to masked fearful eye-whites. Science, 306, 2061. Supplement
2003
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