Publications

Adams, P.E., Adams, J.S., Nguyen, D.V (in press).
Psychological symptoms correlate with reduced hippocampal volume in fragile X premutation.
American Journal of Medical Genetics.

Bourgeois, JA, Coffey, SM, Rivera, SM, Hessl, D, Gane, LW, Tassone, F, Greco, C, Finucane, B, Nelson, L, Berry-Kravis, E, Grigsby, J, Hagerman, PJ, and Hagerman, RJ (2009).
A review of fragile X premutation disorders: expanding the psychiatric perspective.
J Clin Psychiatry 70(6):852-62.

Charles, EP and Rivera, SM (2009).
Object permanence and method of disappearance: looking measures further contradict reaching measures.
Dev Sci 12(6):991-1006.

Corbett, BA, Carmean, V, Ravizza, S, Wendelken, C, Henry, ML, Carter, C, and Rivera, SM (2009).
A functional and structural study of emotion and face processing in children with autism.
Psychiatry Res 173(3):196-205.

Farzin, F, Charles, E, and Rivera, S (2009).
Development of multimodal numerical processing in infancy.
Infancy.

Farzin, F, Rivera, SM, and Hessl, D (2009).
Brief report: Visual processing of faces in individuals with fragile X syndrome: an eye tracking study.
J Autism Dev Disord 39(6):946-52.

Farzin, F, Rivera, SM, and Whitney, D (2009).
Holistic crowding of Mooney faces.
J Vis 9(6):18.1-15.

Koldewyn, K, Whitney, D, and Rivera, SM (2009).
The psychophysics of visual motion and global form processing in autism.
Brain.

Losin, E. A. R., Rivera, S. M., O’Hare, (2009).
Abnormal fMRI activation pattern during story listening in Down syndrome.
American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 114(5):369–380.

Farzin, F, Whitney, D, Hagerman, R, and Rivera, S (2008).
Contrast Detection in Infants with Fragile X Syndrome.
Vision Research 48(13):1471-1478.

Hagerman, R, Rivera, S, and Hagerman, P (2008).
The fragile X family of disorders: A model for autism and targeted treatments.
Current Pediatric Reviews 4(1):40-52.

Koldewyn, K, Hessl, D, Adams, J, Tassone, F, Hagerman, PJ, Hagerman, RJ, and Rivera, SM (2008).
Reduced Hippocampal Activation During Recall is Associated with Elevated FMR1 mRNA and Psychiatric Symptoms in Men with the Fragile X Premutation.
Brain Imaging Behav 2(2):105-116.

Rivera, S and Reiss, A (2008).
From genes to brain to behavior: The case of fragile X Syndrome.
In: Neuroimaging in Developmental Clinical Neuroscience., edited by J. Rumsey & M. Ernst. Cambridge University Press.

Adams, JS, Adams, PE, Nguyen, D, Brunberg, JA, Tassone, F, Zhang, W, Koldewyn, K, Rivera, SM, Grigsby, J, Zhang, L, DeCarli, C, Hagerman, PJ, and Hagerman, RJ (2007).
Volumetric brain changes in females with fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS).
Neurology 69(9):851-9.

Hessl, D, Rivera, S, Koldewyn, K, Cordeiro, L, Adams, J, Tassone, F, Hagerman, PJ, and Hagerman, RJ (2007).
Amygdala dysfunction in men with the fragile X premutation.
Brain 130(Pt 2):404-16.

Nordahl, CW, Dierker, D, Mostafavi, I, Schumann, CM, Rivera, SM, Amaral, DG, and Van Essen, DC (2007).
Cortical folding abnormalities in autism revealed by surface-based morphometry.
J Neurosci 27(43):11725-35.

Rivera, SM and Zawaydeh, AN (2007).
Word comprehension facilitates object individuation in 10- and 11-month-old infants.
Brain Res 1146:146-57.

Simon, T and Rivera, S (2007).
Neuroanatomical Approaches to the Study of Mathematical Ability and Disability.
In: Why is Math So Hard for Some Children? The Nature and Origins of Mathematical Learning Difficulties and Disabilities., edited by D.B. Berch & M.M.M. Mazzocco. Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD.

Cohen, S, Masyn, K, Adams, J, Hessl, D, Rivera, S, Tassone, F, Brunberg, J, DeCarli, C, Zhang, L, Cogswell, J, Loesch, D, Leehey, M, Grigsby, J, Hagerman, PJ, and Hagerman, R (2006).
Molecular and imaging correlates of the fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome.
Neurology 67(8):1426-31.

Rivera, S and Koldewyn, K (2006).
Unraveling the mystery of motion perception impairments in autism: Some further considerations.
Current Psychology of Cognition 23(1-2):189-197.

Rivera, SM, Reiss, AL, Eckert, MA, and Menon, V (2005).
Developmental changes in mental arithmetic: evidence for increased functional specialization in the left inferior parietal cortex.
Cereb Cortex 15(11):1779-90.

Williams, S and Rivera, S (2005).
Functional MRI of Working Memory in Pediatric Head Injury: A Longitudinal Case Study.
Brain Injury 19(7):549-53.

Hessl, D, Rivera, SM, and Reiss, AL (2004).
The neuroanatomy and neuroendocrinology of fragile X syndrome.
Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev 10(1):17-24.

Langer, J, Rivera, S, Schesinger, M, and Wakeley, A (2002).
Early Cognitive Development: Ontogeny and Phylogeny.
Handbook of Developmental Psychology.

Menon, V, Mackenzie, K, Rivera, SM, and Reiss, AL (2002).
Prefrontal cortex involvement in processing incorrect arithmetic equations: evidence from event-related fMRI.
Hum Brain Mapp 16(2):119-30.