Publications

2024
2024

preprint

Tandoc, M.C., Nadendla, B., Pham, T. & Finn, A.S. (under review). Dividing attention hurts learning in adults but not children. preprint
2024

preprint

Himberger, K., Finn, A.S. & Honey, C.J. (under review). On the automaticity of visual statistical learning. preprint
2024

Dubois, M. & Finn, A.S. (2024). Mind wandering can be a good thing. Frontiers for Young Minds
2023
2023

Decker, A., Duncan, K.,* & Finn, A.S.* (2023). Fluctuations in sustained attention explain moment-to-moment shifts in children's memory formation. Psychological Science 
2023

Hurtado, H., Hansen, M., Strack, J., Vainik, U., Decker, A. L., Khundrakpam, B., Duncan, K., Finn, A.S., Mabbott, D.J. &  Merz, E.C. (2023). Polygenic risk for depression and anterior and posterior hippocampal volume in children and adolescents. Journal of Affective Disorders, 344, 619-627.
2023

Jung, Y., Forest, T.A., Walther, D.B., & Finn, A.S. (2023). Neither sharpened nor lost: the unique role of attention in children’s neural representations. Journal of Neuroscience.  
2023

Forest, T.A., Abolghasem, Z., Finn, A.S., & Schlichting, ML. (2023) Memories of structured input become increasingly distorted across development. Child Development  
2023

Liu, H.,* Forest, T.A.*, Duncan, K.,* & Finn, A.S.* (2023). What sticks after statistical learning: The persistence of implicit versus explicit memory traces. Cognition.
2023

Forest, T.A., Schlichting, M.L., Duncan, K., & Finn, A.S. (2023). How statistical learning changes across development. Nature Reviews Psychology.
2022
2022

Decker, A.,* Dubois, M.,* Duncan, K.* & Finn, A.S.* (2022). Pay attention and you might miss it: Greater learning during attentional lapses. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
2022

Forest, T. A., Siegelman, N.,* & Finn, A.S.* (2022). Attention Shifts to More Complex Structures With Experience. Psychological Science.
2022

Gualtieri, S. & Finn, A.S. (2022). The sweet spot: When children’s developing abilities, brains, and knowledge make them better learners. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
2022

Forest, T. A., Finn, A.S. & Schlichting, M.L. (2022). General precedes specific in memory representations for structured experience. JEP: General.
2021
2021

Ren, J., Wharton-Shuckster, E., Bauer, A., Duncan, K.*, & Finn, A.S.* (2021) Events Structure Information Accessibility Less in Children than Adults. Cognition.
2020
2020

Jung, Y., Walther, D. B., & Finn, A. S. (2020). Children automatically abstract categorical regularities during statistical learningDevelopmental Science.
2020

Decker, A.L., Duncan, K.*, Finn, A.S.*Mabbott, D.J.* (2020). Children's family income is associated with cognitive function and volume of anterior not posterior hippocampus. Nature Communications. 
2020

Decker, A., Finn, A.*, & Duncan, K.* (2020). Errors lead to transient impairments in memory formationCognition.
2020

Forest, T. A., Finn, A.S. & Schlichting, M.L. (2020). What is represented in memory after statistical learning? Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2019
2019

Kalra, P.B., Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Finn, A.S. (2019). Evidence of stable individual differences in implicit learning. Cognition.
2019

Leonard, J.A., Romeo, R.R., Park, T.A., Takada, M., Robinson, S.T., Grotziner, H., Finn, A.S., Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Mackey, A.P. (2019) Associations between cortical thickness and reasoning vary by socioeconomic status in early childhood and adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
2019

Finn, A. S., Kharitonova, M., Holtby, N., & Sheridan, M. A. (2019). Prefrontal and hippocampal structure predict statistical learning ability in early childhood. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Supplementary Materials
2019

Galla, B. M., Shulman, E. P., Plummer, B. D., Gardner, M., Hutt, S. J., Goyer, J. P., Finn, A. S., D’Mello, S. K., & Duckworth, A. L. (2019). Why high school grades are better predictors of on-time college graduation than are admissions test scores: The role of self-regulation and cognitive ability. American Educational Research Journal.
2019

Forest, T.A., Lichtenfeld, A., Alvarez, B., & Finn, A.S. (2019). Superior learning in synesthetes: Consistent grapheme-color associations facilitate statistical learning. Cognition.
2018
2018

Forest, T. A., & Finn, A. S. Attention selectively boosts learning of statistical structure. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2017
2017

Sheridan, M. A., Peverill, M., Finn, A. S., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2017). Dimensions of childhood adversity have distinct associations with neural systems underlying executive functioningDevelopment and Psychopathology.  
2017

Qi Z., Beach S. D., Finn A. S., Minas J., Goetz C., Chan B., & Gabrieli J. D. E. (2017). Dissociable language learning strengths are predicted by native-language N400 and P600Neuropsychologica.
2016
2016

Finn, A. S., Minas, J. E., Leonard, J. A., Mackey, A. P., Salvatore, J., Goetz, C., West, M.R., Gabrieli, C.F.O. & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2016). Functional brain organization of working memory in adolescents varies in relation to family income and academic achievementDevelopmental Science.
2016

Cain, M.S., Leonard, J.A., Gabrieli, J.D.E. & Finn, A.S. (2016). Media multitasking in adolescence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
2016

Finn, A.S., Kalra, P.B., Goetz, C., Leonard, J.A., Sheridan, M.A. & Gabrieli, J.D.E (2016) Developmental dissociation between the maturation of procedural memory and declarative memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
2016

Peverill, M., McLaughlin, K. A., Finn, A. S., & Sheridan, M. A. (2016) Working memory filtering continues to develop into late adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
2015
2015

Leonard, J.A., Mackey, A.P., Finn, A.S., & Gabrieli, J.D.E (2015). Differential effects of socioeconomic status on declarative and procedural memory systems. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2015

West, M.R., Kraft, M., Finn, A.S., Martin, R.E., Duckworth, A.L., Gabrieli, C.F.O. & Gabrieli, J.D.E (2015) Promise and paradox: Measuring students’ non-cognitive skills and the impact of schoolingEducational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
2015

Saygin, Z.M., Osher, D.E., Koldewyn, K., Martin, R.E., Finn, A.S., Saxe, R., Gabrieli, J.D.E. & Sheridan, M.A. (2015). Structural connectivity of the developing human amygdalaPlosOne.
2015

Mackey, A.P., Finn, A.S., Leonard, J.A., West, M.R., Gabrieli, C.F.O. & Gabrieli, J.D.E (2015). Cortical thickness correlates of the income achievement gap in middle school students. Psychological Science.
2015

Finn, A.S. & Hudson Kam, C.L. (2015). Why segmentation matters: experience-driven segmentation errors impair “morpheme” learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.
2014
2014

Finn, A.S., Lee, T., Kraus, A. & Hudson Kam, C.L. (2014). When it hurts (and helps) to try: The role of effort in statistical learning. PlosOne.
2014

Finn, A.S., Kraft, M., West, M.R., Leonard, J.A., Bish, C., Martin, R.E., Sheridan, M.A., Gabrieli, C.F.O. & Gabrieli, J.D.E (2014). Cognitive skills, student student achievement tests and schools. Psychological Science.
2014

West, M.R., Gabrieli, C.F.O., Finn, A.S., Kraft, M. & Gabrieli, J.D.E (2014). What Effective Schools Do: Stretching the cognitive limits on achievement. Education Next.
2014

Plummer, B.D., Galla, B.M., Patrick, S.D., Meketon, D.M., Fernandez-Vina, E., Finn, A.S., Leonard, J., Goetz, C., Bartolino, S. White, R. & Duckworth, A.L (2014). A behind-the-scenes guide to school-based research. Mind, Brain, and Education.
2013
2013

Finn, A.S., Hudson Kam, C.L., Ettlinger, M., Vytlacil, J. & D’Esposito, M. (2013). Learning language with the wrong neural scaffolding: The cost of neural commitment to sounds. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.