Selected Lab Publications

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Published Articles and Chapters: 2007

Bellugi, U., Järvinen-Pasley, A., Doyle, T., Reilly, J. & Korenberg, J. (2007) Affect, social behavior and brain in Williams syndrome. Invited Paper Submitted to Current Directions in Psychological Science 16 99-104.

Korenberg, J. R., Dai, L., Bellugi, U., Jarvinen-Pasley, A., Mills, D., Galaburda, A., Reiss, A., & Pober, B. R. (2007, in press). Deletion of 7q11.23 Genes and Williams Syndrome. In b. C. J. E. second edition, Robert P. Erickson and Anthony Wynshaw-Boris (Ed.), Invited Chapter for Inborn Errors of Development. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Lincoln, A.J., Searcy, Y.M., Jones, W., Lord, C. & Bellugi, U. (2007).  Social interaction behaviors discriminate young children with Autism and Williams Syndrome. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 46(3) 323-331.

Paul, B. (2007, spring ). How we come to process 'what' and 'where' in our visual environment: Insights from typical and atypical developmental populations. University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

Rose, F.E., Lincoln, A.J., Lai, Z., Ene, M., Searcy, Y.M. & Bellugi, U. (2007) Orientation and affective expression effects on face recognition in Williams syndrome and autism. J Autism Dev Disord 37 513-522.

Sacks, O. (2007) Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Published Articles and Chapters: 2001-2006

Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., Rose, F. E., Searcy, Y. M., Wattam-Bell, J., & Bellugi, U. (2006). Dorsal-stream motion processing deficits persist into adulthood in Williams syndrome. Neuropsychologia, 44(5), 828-833.

Bellugi, U., Klima, E. S., & Korenberg, J. R. (2005). Linking behavior, brain and genes in two different genetic syndromes. In D. Riva, U. Bellugi & M. B. Denckla (Eds.), Neurodevelopmental disorders: Cognitive behavioral phenotypes (pp. 39-58). France: John Libbey Eurotext.

Bellugi, U., & Wang, P.P. (2004). From cognition to brain to gene [CD-ROM]. In G. Adelman and B.H. Smith (Eds.).  Encyclopedia of Neuroscience-3rd Edition.  Elsevier: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Bellugi, U., Lai, Z., & Korenberg, J.  (2003).  Malattie genetiche, cervello e comportamento.  In S. Petruccioli (Ed.), Storia della scienza: Vol 9.   (pp. 635-643).  Roma:  Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.

Bellugi, U., Lai, Z.C., & Korenberg, J. (2002).  Genes, Brains and Behavior:  What Genetic Disorders Reveal about Behavior, pp. 143-153.  In D. Baltimore, R. Dulbecco, F. Jacob, & R. Levi-Montalcini (Eds.), Frontiers of Life, San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Bellugi, U. (2001). Sign Language. In: N. Smelser & P. Baltes (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences , Vol. 21, pp. 14066-71. Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier Science Publishers.

Bellugi U, Korenberg, J R, & Klima E S. (2001) Williams syndrome: An exploration of neurocognitive and genetic features. In M. Posner (Ed.) Journal of Clinical Neurosciences Research, Special Issue 1: 217-229.

Bellugi, U., Litchenberger, L., Jones, W., Lai, Z., & St. George, M., (2001).  The neurocognitive characterization of Williams Syndrome:  A complex pattern of strengths and weaknesses.  In U. Bellugi & M. St. George (Eds.), Journey from cognition to brain to gene:  Perspectives from Williams syndrome (pp. 1-42).  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Brookes, D.D. (2002).  Early lexical development in young children with Williams syndrome.  Unpublished master’s thesis, San Diego State University, San Diego.

Buchsbaum, B., Pickell, B., Love, T., Hatrak, M., Bellugi, U., & Hickok, G. (2005). Neural substrates for verbal working memory in deaf signers: fMRI study and lesion case report.  Brain and Language. 95: 265-272,  In appendix.

Collette, J.C., Tea1, K., Bellugi, U.,  Galaburda, A., Mills, D. L., Reiss, A. L., Korenberg, J. R.  (2005, manuscript).   Williams Syndrome: Gene expression is related to parental origin and regional coordinate control.

Doyle, T.F., Bellugi, U., Korenberg, J.R. & Graham, J. (2004).  “Everybody in the world is my friend”:  Hypersociability in young children with Williams syndrome.  American Journal of Medical Genetics, 124A, 263-273.

Emmorey, K. (2004).  Language and Space.  In F. Penz, G. Radick, & R. Howell (Eds.). Space (pp. 22-45).  Cambridge University Press.

Emmorey, K. & Falgier, B. (2004).  Conceptual locations and pronominal reference in American Sign Language.  Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 33(4), 321-331.

Emmorey, K. Grabowski, T., McCullough, S., P:onto, L, Hichwa, R., & Damasio, H.  (2005).  The neural correlates of spatial language in English and American sign Language: A  PET study with hearing bilinguals,  NeuroImage,  24: 832-840.

Emmorey, K. (2003). The neural systems underlying sign language.  In M. Marschark & P. Spencer (Eds.).  The Handbook of Deaf Studuies, Language, and Education, pp. 361-375. Oxford University Press.

Emmorey, K., & Herzig, M. (2003).  Categorical versus gradient properties of classifier constructions in ASL.  In K. Emmorey (Ed). Perspectives on classifier constructions in signed languages, pp. 222-246.  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Emmorey, K., Allen, J.S., Burss, J., Schenker, N. & Damasio, H. (2003).  A morphometic analysis of auditory brain regions in congenitally deaf adults.  Proceedings National Academy of Science, 100 (7), 10049-54.

Emmorey, K., Grabowski, T., McCullough, S., Damasio, H, Ponto, L., Hichwa, R. & Bellugi, U. (2003).  Motor-iconicity of Sign Language does not alter the neural systems underling tool and action naming.  Brain and Language, 89(1), 27-37.

Emmorey, K., McCullough, S., & Brentari, D. (2003).  Categorical perception in American Sign Language.  Language and Cognitive Processes, 18 (1), 21-45.

Emmorey, K. (2002).  Mental imagery and embodied cognition:  Insights from sign language research.  Journal of Mental Imagery, 26, 50-53.

Emmorey, K. (2002). Sign Language and the Brain. Language, cognition, and the brain:  Insights from sign language research (pp.271-314).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.

Emmorey, K. (2002).  The effects of modality on spatial language:  How signers and speakers talk about space.  In R. P. Meier. D. G. Quinto, & K. A. Cormier (Eds.), Modality and structure in signed and spoken languages, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Emmorey, K., Damasio, H., McCullough, S., Grabowski, T., Ponto, L.L.B., Hichwa, R.D., & Bellugi, U. (2002).  Neural system underlying spatial language in American Sign Language. NeuroImage, 17, 812-824.

Emmorey, K. (2001).  Space on hand:  The exploitation of signing space to illustrate abstract thought.  In M. Gattis (Ed.), Spatial schemas and abstract thought, pp. 147-174.  Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Emmorey, K. & Casey, S. (2001).  Gesture, thought, and spatial language.  Gesture 1(1), 35-50.

Emmorey, K., Tversky, B., & Taylor, H. (2001).  Using space to describe space:  Perspective in speech, sign, and gesture. Spatial cognition and computation, 3, 1-24.

Eckert, M. A., Hu, D., Eliez, S., Bellugi, U., Galaburda, A., Korenberg, J., Mills, D., & Reiss, A. L. (2005). Evidence for superior parietal impairment in Williams syndrome. Neurology, 64 (1), 152-153.

Gothelf, D., Furfaro, J. A., Penniman, L. C., Glover, G. H., & Reiss, A. L. (2005). The contribution of novel brain imaging techniques to understanding the neurobiology of mental retardation and developmental disabilities. Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev, 11 (4), 331-339.

Gothelf, D., Farber, N., Raveh, E., Apter, A., & Attias, J. (2006). Hyperacusis in Williams syndrome: characteristics and associated neuroaudiologic abnormalities. Neurology, 66(3), 390-395.

Eckert, M. A., Galaburda, A., Karchemskiy, A., Liang, A., Thompson, P., Dutton, R. A., Lee, A. D., Bellugi, U., Korenberg, J., Mills, D., Rose, F. E., & Reiss, A. L. (2006). Anomalous sylvian fissure morphology in Williams syndrome. Neuroimage.

Eckert, M. A., A. Galaburda, et al. (2006). "The Neurobiology of Williams syndrome: Cascading influences of visual system impairment?" Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 63(16): 1867-75.

Eckert, M. A., Tenforde, A., Galaburda, A., Bellugi, U., Korenberg, J., Mills, D., & Reiss, A. (2006). To modulate or not to modulate: differing results in uniquely shaped Williams syndrome brains. Neuroimage, 32(3), 1001-1007.

Fok, A., Yuen, C.Y., Bellugi, U. & Klima, E.  (2001).  Visual and Silent Mode of Communication -- The Sign Language used in Hong Kong.  A Collection of Papers from the 2001 Conference on the Teaching and Use of Sign Languages edited by the Special Education Section, National Institute of Education, Taiwan pp 8-21.

Galaburda, A.M. & J.E. Schmitt (2003).  Neuroanatomic considerations specific to the study of neurogenetics.  In G.S. Fisch (Ed.) Genetics and Genomics of Neurobehavioral Disorders.  Totowana, NJ:  Humana Press, Inc.

Galaburda, A.M., Holinger, D., Mills, D., Reiss, A., Korenberg, J.R., & Bellugi, U.  El sindrome de Williams.  (2003).  [Williams syndrome.  A summary of cognitive, electrophysiological, anatomofunctional, microanatomical and genetic findings].  Revista de neurologya  [Review of Neurology], 36 (Suppl. 1), S132-S137.

Galaburda, A.M., Holinger, D.P., Bellugi, U., & Sherman, G.F.  (2002) Williams syndrome: Neuronal size and neuronal-packing density in primary visual cortex.  Archives of Neurology, 59 (9), 1461-1467.

Galaburda, A. & Bellugi, U (2001). Cellular and moleuclar cortical neuroanatomy in Williams syndrome.  In U. Bellugi and M. St. George (Eds.), Journey from cognition to brain to gene:  Perspectives from Williams syndrome (pp. 123-146).  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.

Galaburda, A.M., Schmitt, J. E., Atlas, S.W., Eliez, S., Bellugi, U., & Reiss, A.L. (2001). Dorsal forebrain anomaly in Williams syndrome.  Archives of Neurology, 58: 1865-1869.

Gaser C, Luders E, Thompson PM, Lee AD, Dutton RA, Geaga JA, Hayashi KM, Bellugi U, Galaburda AM, Korenberg JR, Mills DL, Toga AW, Reiss AL: Increased local gyrification mapped in Williams syndrome Neuroimage, 33(1), 46-54. 

Grossfeld, P.D., Mattina, T., Lai, Z., Favier, R., Lyons Jones, K.,  Cotter, F., Jones,C.,  and the 11q Consortium* (2004). The 11q terminal deletion disorder:  A prospective study of 110 cases.  American Journal of Medical Genetics, 129A(1), 51-61.

Hickok, G. & Buchsbaum, B. (2006). Temporal lobe speech perception systems are part of the verbal working memory circuit: evidence from two recent fMRI studies.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 

Hickok, G., Bellugi, U. & Klima E.S. (2002).  Sign language in the brain.  [Special edition “The Hidden Mind”] Scientific American 12(1), 46-53.

Hickok, G., Love, T., & Klima, E.S. (2002)  Role of the left hemisphere in sign language comprehension.  Brain and Language  82, 167-178.

Hickok, G., & Bellugi, U.  (2001).  The signs of aphasia.  In F. Boller & J. Grafman (Series Eds.) & R.S. Berndt (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of neuropsychology: Vol. 3. Language and Aphasia (2nd ed pp 31-50).  Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science Publishers.

Hickok, G., & Bellugi, U.  (2001).  The signs of aphasia [CD-ROM]. In F. Boller & J. Grafman (Series Eds.) & R.S. Berndt (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of neuropsychology: Vol. 3. Language and Aphasia (2nd ed pp 31-50).  Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science Publishers;  New York:  Elsevier Science.

Hickok, G., Bellugi, U., & Klima, E.S. (2001). Sign language in the brain.  Scientific American  284  (6), 58-65.

Hirota, H., Matsuoka, R., Chen, X.N., Salandanan, L.S., Lincoln, A., Rose, F.E., Sunahara, M., Osawa, M., Bellugi, U., & Korenberg, J.R. (2003).  Williams syndrome deficits in visual spatial processing linked to GTF2IRD1 and GTF2I on Chromosome 7q11.23. Genetics in Medicine, 5 (4), 311-321.

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 Res, 1037(1-2), 35-42.

Jones, W., Hesselink, J., Courchesne, E., Duncan, T., Matsuda, K., & Bellugi, U.  (2002).  Cerebellar abnormalities in infants and toddlers with Williams syndrome.  Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 44, 688-694.

 

Jones-Laakmann, W. (2001) Cerebellar contributions to cognition: Evidence from Williams syndrome.  Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of San Diego and San Diego State University.

Jones, W., Bellugi, B., Lai, Z., Chiles, M., Reilly, J., Lincoln, A., & Adolphs, R. (2001).  Hypersociability:  The socail and affective phenotype of Williams syndrome. In U. Bellugi & M. St. George (Eds.), Journey from cognition to brain to gene:  Perspectives from Williams syndrome (pp. 43-72).  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.

Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Mills, D. L. (2006, under review). Language development in Williams syndrome. Invited contribution to Elsevier's second edition of The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics.

Kassubek, J., Hickok, G., & Erhard, P. (2004). Involvement of classical anterior and posterior language areas in sign language production, as investigated by 4 Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neuroscience Letters, 364, 168-172.

Klima, E.S., & Bellugi-Klima, U.  (2004).  Syntactic regularities in the speech of children.  In B. Lust & C. Foley (Eds.), First Language Acquisition:  The Essential Readings, pp. 344-366, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.  (Reprinted from:  Psycholinguistic papers, pp. 183-208, in J. Lyons & R.J. Wales (Eds.), 1966, Edinburgh:  Edinburgh University Press).

Korenberg, J. R., Chen, X.-N., Bellugi, U., Mills, D., Reiss, A., Lai, Z., Salandanan, L. S., Schmitt, J. E., Galaburda, A. M., Yao, G. M., & Shi, Z. Y. (2005, in revision). Williams syndrome: genetic origins of visual spatial processing is linked to variation in volumetric MRI and ERPs.

Korenberg, J.R., Bellugi, U., Salandanan, L.S., Mills, D.L., & Reiss, A.L. (2003). Williams syndrome : A neurogenetic model of human behavior. In Encyclopedia of the Human Genome, pp. 757-766. London, United Kingdom: The Nature Publishing Group.

Korenberg, J.R., Chen, X-N., Hirota, H., Lai, Z., Bellugi, U., Burian, D., Roe, B., & Matsuoka, R. (2001). Genome structure and cognitive map of Williams syndrome.  In U. Bellugi & M. St. George (Eds.), Journey from cognition to brain to gene:  Perspectives from Williams syndrome (pp. 147-178).  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press

Lenhoff, H. M., Perales, O., & Hickok, G. S.  (2001).  Preservation of a normally transient critical period in a cognitively impaired population: window of opportunity for acquiring absolute pitch in Williams Syndrome.  In, C. A . Shaw & J. C. McEachern (Eds.) Toward a Theory of Neuroplasticity.  Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis Publishers, Psychology Press.

Levitin, D. J., & Bellugi, U. (2006). Rhythm, timbre and hyperacusis in Williams-Beuren syndrome. In C. Morris, H. Lenhoff & P. Wang (Eds.), Williams-Beuren Syndrome: Research and Clinical Perspectives (pp. 343-358). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 

Levitin, D. J. (2005). Musical behavior in a neurogenetic developmental disorder: evidence from Williams syndrome. Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1060, 325-334.

Levitin, D. J., Cole, K., Lincoln, A., & Bellugi, U. (2005). Aversion, awareness, and attraction: investigating claims of hyperacusis in the Williams syndrome phenotype. J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 46 (5), 514-523.

Levitin, D. J., Cole, K., Chiles, M., Lai, Z., Lincoln, A., & Bellugi, U. (2005). Characterizing the musical phenotype in individuals with Williams syndrome. Child Neuropsychology, 10 (4), 223-247.

Levitin, D.J., Cole, K., Chiles, M., Lai, Z., Lincoln, A. & Bellugi, U. (2004).  Characterizing the musical phenotype in individuals with Williams Syndrome.  Child Neuropsychology. 10(4), 223-47.

Levitin, D. J., Menon, V., Schmitt, J. E., Eliez, S., White, C. D., Glover, G. H., Kadis, J., Korenberg, J. R., Bellugi, U., & Reiss, A. L. (2003). Neural correlates of auditory perception in Williams syndrome:  An fMRI study.  NeuroImage, 18, 74-82.

Lincoln, A.J., Searcy, Y.M., Jones, W., Lord, C. & Bellugi, U. (2006, in press).  Social Interaction behaviors discriminate young children with Autism and Williams Syndrome. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Lincoln, A., Lai, Z., & Jones, W. (2002).   Shifting attention and joint attention dissociation in Williams syndrome: Implications for the Cerebellum and the social deficits in Autism.  Neurocase  8, 226-232.

McCullough, S., Emmorey, K., & Sereno, M. (2005).  Neural organization for recognition of grammatical and emotional facial expressions in deaf ASL signers and hearing nonsigners.  Cognitive Brain Research,  22(2), 193 - 203.

Mills, D.L., Llamas, T., St. George, M., Doyle, T.F., Neville, H. Bellugi, U. & Korenberg, J. K.  (2003).  Electrophysiological signatures of abnormal auditory language processing in infants, children and adults with Williams Syndrome.  [Tech Report INC2003-11] University of California, San Diego, Institute of Neural Computation.

Mills, D.L., Alvarez, T.D., St. George, M., Appelbaum, L.G., Bellugi, U., & Neville, H. (2001).  Neurophysiological markers of face processing in Willimas syndrome.  In U. Bellugi & M. St. George (Eds.), Journey from cognition to brain to gene:  Perspectives from Williams syndrome. (pp. 73-104). Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.

Mobbs, D., Eckert, M. A., Menon, V., Mills, D., Korenberg, J., Galaburda, A., Rose, F. E., Bellugi, U., & Reiss, A. (2005, submitted). Reduced visual and parietal activation during global processing in Williams syndrome. Dev Med Child Neurol.

Mobbs, D., Eckert, M., Mills, D., Korenberg, J., Galaburda, A., Bellugi, U., & Reiss, A. L (2006, in press). Frontostriatal Dysfunction during Response Inhibition in Williams Syndrome.  Biological Psychiatry.

Mobbs, D., Garrett, A., Menon, V., Bellugi, U., Rose, F.E. & Reiss, A.L. (2004).  Anomalous brain activation during face and gaze processing in Williams syndrome.  Neurology, 62(11), 2070-2076.

Nichols, S., Jones, W. Roman, M., Wulfeck, B. Delis, D. Reilly, J. & Bellugi, U.  (2004).  Mechanisms of verbal memory impairment in four neurodevelopmental disorders.   In B. Wulfeck & J. Reilly (Eds.) Plasticity and Development: Language In Atypical Children, Special Issue Brain and Language, 88, 180-189.

Paul, B., Stiles, J., Passarotti, A., Bavar, N., & Bellugi, U. (2002).  Face and place processing in Williams syndrome: Evidence for a dorsal ventral dissociation.  NeuroReport 13 (9), 1115-1119.

Pickell, H., Klima, E., Bellugi, U., & Hickok, G. (2006 - submitted 10/24). Neural Dissociation in the Production of Lexical versus Classifier Signs in ASL: Distinct Patterns of Hemispheric Asymmetry. Brain and Language. 

Pickell, H., Klima, E., Love, T., Kritchevsky, M., Bellugi, U. & Hickok, G. (2005).  Sign language aphasia following right hemisphere damage in a left-hander:  a case of reversed cerebral  dominance in a deaf signer?  Neurocase, 11(3), 194-203.

Reilly, J., Bernicot, J., Vicari, S., Lacroix, A., & Bellugi, U. (2005). Narratives in Children with Williams Syndrome: A Cross Linguistic Perspective. In D. Ravid & H. B.-Z. Shyldkrot (Eds.), Perspectives on language and language development: essays in honor of Ruth A. Berman (pp. 303-312). Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer.

Reilly, J., Lacroix, A., Poirier, J., Bernicot, J., Bellugi, U., & Klima, E. (2005). Narratives in French and American Children with Williams Syndrome.  Le Langage el L’Homme (pp.111- 125).

Reilly, J., Losh, M., Bellugi, U. & Wulfeck, B.  (2004).  Frog, Where are you?  Narratives in children with specific language impairment, early focal brain injury and Williams Syndrome.   In B. Wulfeck & J. Reilly (Eds.) Plasticity and Development: Language In Atypical Children, Special Issue Brain and Language, 88, 229-247.

Reilly, J.S.  & Wulfeck, B.  (2004).  Issues in plasticity and development:  Language in atypical children.  In B. Wulfeck & J. Reilly (Eds.) Plasticity and Development: Language In Atypical Children, Special Issue Brain and Language, 88, 163-166.

Reilly, J., Bernicot, J., Vicari, S., Lacroix, A., & Bellugi, U. (2003).  Narratives in children with Williams syndrome:  A cross linguistic perspective.  In D. Ravid & H.B. Shyldkrot (Eds.), Perspectives on language and language development:  Essays in honor of Ruth A. Berman.  Dordrecht, the Netherlands:  Kluwer Publishers.

Reilly, J., Krieter, J., Bellugi, U., Doyle T.F., & Jones, W. (2003). Le langage, l’espace el l’emotion chez des enfants atteints du syndrome de Williams: Une interaction complexe.  In. J. Bernicot & J. Reilly (Eds.)  Special Issue: d’Enfance Les developpements atypiques du langage chez l’enfant.

Reiss, A. L., Eckert, M. A., Rose, F. E., Karchemskiy, A., Kesler, S., Chang, M., Reynolds, M. F., Kwon, H., & Galaburda, A. (2004).  An experiment of nature:  Brain anatomy parallels cognition and behavior in Williams syndrome. The Journal of Neuroscience, 24(21), 5009-5015.

Reiss, A.L., Eliez, S., Schmitt, J.E., Patwardhan, A.J., & Haberecht, M. (2001).  Brain imaging in neurogenetic conditions: Realizing the potential of behavioral neurogenetics research. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews , 6 (3):186-197.

Reiss, A. L., Eliez, S., Schmitt, E., Straus, E., Lai, Z., Jones, W., & Bellugi, U. (2001).  Neuroanatomy of Williams syndrome:  A high-resolution MRI study.  In U. Bellugi & M. St. George (Eds.), Journey from cognition to brain to gene: Perspectives from Williams syndrome (pp.105-122).  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.

Rose, F. E., Lincoln, A., Lai, Z., Ene, M., Searcy, Y. M., & Bellugi, U. (2006). Orientation and affective expression effects on facial recognition in Williams syndrome and Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Searcy, Y.M., Lincoln, A.J., Rose, F.E., Klima, E.S., Bavar, N. & Korenberg, J.R. (2004). The relationship between age and IQ in adults with Williams syndrome.  American Journal on Mental Retardation, 109(3), 231-236.

Schmitt, J.E., Watts, K., Eliez, S., Bellugi, U., Galaburda, A.M. & Reiss, A., (2002) Increased gyrification in Williams syndrome:  evidence using 3D MRI methods.  Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 44 (5), 292-295.

Schmitt, J.E., Eliez, S., Bellugi, U., & Reiss, A.L. (2001)  Analysis of cerebral shape in Williams syndrome.  Archives of Neurology, 58  (2), 283-287.

Schmitt, J.E., Eliez, S., Warsofsky, I., Bellugi, U., & Reiss. A.L. (2001).  Enlarged cerebellar vermis in Williams Syndrome.  Journal of Psychiatric Research, 35, 225-229.

Schmitt, J.E., Eliez, S., Warsofsky, I.S., Bellugi, U. & Reiss, A.L. (2001) Corpus callosum morphology of Williams syndrome: Relation to genetics and behavior.  Developmental Medical Child Neurology; 43 (3): 155-159.

Schul, R. (2002).  The development of visuospatial attentional orienting: Evidence from normally developing children, children with Specific Language Impairment, and adults with Williams Syndrome.  Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of San Diego and San Diego State University.

Thompson, P. M., Lee, A. D., 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., & Reiss, A. L. (2005). Abnormal cortical complexity and thickness profiles mapped in Williams syndrome. J Neurosci, 25 (16), 4146-4158.

Tosun, D., Reiss, A. L., Lee, A. D., 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., & Thompson, P. (2006, accepted for presentation at 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging). Use of 3-D cortical morphometry for mapping increased cortical gyrification and complexity in Williams syndrome.

Van Essen, D., Dieker, D., Snyder, A., Raichle, M., Reiss, A., & Korenberg, J. R. (2006). Symmetry of Cortical Folding Abnormalities in Williams Syndrome Revealed by Surface-Based Analyses. J Neuroscience May 17, 2006, 26(20) 5470-83.

Weiss, D. (2001) Histometric Underpinnings of cerebellar changes in Williams syndrome. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Harvard, Massachusetts.

Wilson, M., & Emmorey, K. (2003).  The effect of irrelevant visual input on working memory for sign language.  Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 8(2), 97-103.

Wilson, M. & Emmorey, K. (2001).  Functional consequences of modality: Spatial coding in working memory for signs.  In V. Dively, M. Metzger, S. Taub, & A. M. Baer (Eds.), Sign Languages:  Discoveries from international research, pp. 91-99, Gallaudet University Press:  Washington, D.C.

Wijesuriya, H. (2002).  The role of imprinted gene expression in Williams syndrome.  Unpublished master’s thesis, California State University, Los Angeles.

Yang, T.T., Menon, V., Eliez, S., Blasey, C.M., White, C.D., Gotlib, I.H., Reiss, A.L. (2002) Amygdala activation associated with positive and negative facial expressions.  NeuroReport  13 (14), 1737-1741.

Zitzer-Comfort, C., Doyle, T. F., Masataka, N., Korenberg, J., & Bellugi, U. (2006, accepted with revisions). Nature and Nurture: Williams syndrome across cultures. Developmental Science.

Zitzer-Comfort, C. (2002).  Living in a Hello World:  The interplay of language, cognition, genetics and culture in Williams syndrome.  Unpublished doctoral dissertation, California Polytechnic University, Pomona.