Publications

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In Prep & Under Review

Richardson, H., Saxe, R., Bedny, M. (in prep). Selective responses for theory of mind in congenitally blind children.

Richardson, H., Boebinger, D., Saxe, R. (in prep). Neural Correlates of Processing Music in School-Aged Children.

Park, A., Richardson, H., Tooley, U., McDermott, C., Boroshok, A., Leonard, J., Tisdall, D., Deater-Deckard, K., Edgar, C., Mackey, A. (in prep). Negative parent affect and control is associated with reduced neural responses to positive emotional content in children.

*Kamps, F., *Richardson, H., Murty, N.A.R., Kanwisher, N., Saxe, R. (under review). Using child-friendly movie stimuli to study the development of face, place, and object regions from age 3 to 12 years. *joint first authorship

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Richardson, H., Taylor, J., Kane-Grade, F., Powell, L., Bosquet Enlow, M., Nelson. C.A. (2021). Preferential responses to faces in superior temporal and medial prefrontal cortex in three-year-old children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 50, 100984.

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Richardson, H., Koster-Hale, J., Caselli, N., Magid, R., Benedict, R., Olson, H., Pyers, J., Saxe, R. (2020). Reduced neural selectivity for mental states in deaf children with delayed access to sign language. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1-13.

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Richardson, H., Gweon, H., Dodell-Feder, D., Malloy, C., Pelton, H., Keil, B., Kanwisher, N., Saxe, R. (2020). Response patterns in the developing social brain are organized by social and emotion features and disrupted in children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Cortex, 125, 12-29.

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Richardson, H., Saxe, R. (2019). Development of predictive responses in theory of mind brain regions. Developmental Science, 23(1), e12863.

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Richardson, H. (2019). Development of networks for social functions: Confirmatory analyses in a large open source dataset. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 37(1), 100598.

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Kliemann, D., Richardson, H., Anzellotti, S., Ayyash, D., Haskins, A., Gabrieli, J., Saxe, R. (2018). Cortical responses to dynamic emotional facial expressions generalize across stimuli, and are sensitive to task-relevance, in adults with and without Autism. Cortex, 103, 24-43.

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Richardson, H., Lisandrelli, G., Riobueno-Naylor, A., Saxe, R. (2018). Development of the social brain from age three to twelve years. Nature Communications, 9(1), 1027.

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*Koster-Hale, J., *Richardson, H., Velez, N., Asaba, M., Young, L., Saxe, R. (2017). Mentalizing regions represent distributed, continuous, and abstract dimensions of others’ beliefs. NeuroImage, 161, 9-18. *joint first-authorship

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Deen, B., Richardson, H., Dilks, D., Takahashi, A., Keil, B., Wald, L., Kanwisher, N., Saxe, R. (2017). Category-sensitive visual cortex in human infants. Nature Communications, 8, 13995.

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Lane, C., Kanjlia, S., Richardson, H., Fulton, A., Omaki, A., Bedny, M. (2016). Reduced left-lateralization of language in congenitally blind individuals. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(1), 65-78.

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Bedny, M., Richardson, H., Saxe, R. (2015). ‘Visual’ cortex responds to spoken language in blind children. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35(33), 11674-11681.

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Koldewyn, K., Yendiki, A., Weigelt, S., Gweon, H., Julian, J., Richardson, H., Malloy, C., Saxe, R., Fischl, B., Kanwisher, N. (2014). Differences in the right inferior longitudinal fasciculus but no general disruption of white matter tracts in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(5), 1981-1986.

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Conference Proceedings

Richardson, H., Baker, C., Tenenbaum, J., & Saxe, R. (2012). The development of joint belief-desire inferences. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 34, No. 34). [Full Text]

Book Chapters

Richardson, H., Saxe, R. (2020). Early signatures and developmental change in brain regions for theory of mind. In J. Rubenstein & P. Rakic (Eds.) Neural Circuit and Cognitive Development, Second Edition, Volume 2. [Full Text]

Richardson, H., Saxe, R. (2016). Using MRI to study developmental change in theory of mind. In J. Sommerville & J. Decety (Eds.) Social Cognition: Development Across the Life Span, 210.

Commentaries & Essays

Richardson, H. (2020). Beliefs for Human-Unique Social Learning. Commentary on Phillips et al., 2020 "Knowledge before Belief". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-37. [Preprint]

Richardson, H.. (2012). New discoveries about the developing brain. Future Reflections, 31(1). [Full Text]

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