Alexandra Decker
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Selected Publications (see my google scholar for a full list)
Type
Journal article
Date
2024
2023
2020
2019
2018
2017
Striatal and Behavioral Responses to Reward Vary by Socioeconomic Status in Adolescents (2024)
Disparities in socioeconomic status (SES) lead to unequal access to financial and social support. These disparities are believed to …
Alexandra Decker
,
Steven Meislder
,
Nicholas Hubbard
,
Clemens Bauer
,
Julia Leonard
,
Hannah Grotzinger
,
Melissa Giebler
,
Yesi Camacho Torres
,
Andrea Imhof
,
Rachel Romeo
,
John Gabrieli
Pay Attention and you might miss it Greater learning during attentional lapses (2023)
Attentional lapses have been found to impair everything from basic perception to learning and memory. Yet, despite the well documented …
Alexandra Decker
,
Michael Dubois
,
Katherine Duncan
,
Amy Finn
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Fluctuations in Sustained Attention Explain Moment-to-Moment Shifts in Children’s Memory Formation (2023)
Why do children’s memories often differ from adults’ after the same experience? Whereas prior work has focused on immature memory …
Alexandra Decker
,
Katherine Duncan
,
Amy Finn
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Errors lead to transient impairments in memory formation (2020)
Making an error triggers a host of cognitive and behavioral adjustments theorized to boost task engagement and facilitate learning. Yet …
Alexandra Decker
,
Amy Finn*
,
Katherine Duncan*
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Children’s family income is associated with cognitive function and volume of anterior not posterior hippocampus (2020)
Children from lower income backgrounds tend to have poorer memory and language abilities than their wealthier peers. It has been …
Alexandra Decker
,
Katherine Duncan*
,
Amy Finn*
,
Donald Mabbott*
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Acetylcholine and the complex interdependence of memory and attention (2020)
Long-standing theories propose that acetylcholine biases memory by slowly shifting hippocampal dynamics to favor encoding or retrieval. …
Alexandra Decker
,
Katherine Duncan
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Medulloblastoma has a global impact on health related quality of life - Findings from an international cohort (2020)
Understanding the global impact of medulloblastoma on health related
Cynthia B. de Medeiros
,
Iska Moxon-Emre
,
Nadia Scantlebury
,
David Malkin
,
Vijay Ramaswamy
,
Alexandra Decker
,
Nicole Law
,
Toshihiro Kumabe
,
Jeffrey Leonard
,
Josh Rubin
,
Shin Jung
,
Seung-Ki Kim
,
Nalin Gupta
,
William Weiss
,
Claudia C. Faria
,
Rajeev Vibhakar
,
Lucie Lafay-Cousin
,
Jennifer Chan
,
Johan M. Kros
,
Laura Janzen
,
Michael D. Taylor
,
Eric Bouffet
,
Donald J. Mabbott
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Impaired recent, but preserved remote, autobiographical memory in pediatric brain tumor patients (2018)
Medulloblastomas, the most common malignant brain tumor in children, are typically treated with radiotherapy. Refinement of this …
Melanie Sekeres
,
Lily Riggs
,
Alexandra Decker
,
Cynthia de Medieros
,
Agnes Bacopulos
,
Jovanka Skocic
,
Kamila Szulc-Lerch
,
Eric Bouffet
,
Brian Levine
,
Cheryl Grady
,
Donald J. Mabbott
,
Sheen Josselyn
,
Paul Frankland
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Development of short-range white matter in healthy children and adolescents (2018)
Neural communication is facilitated by intricate networks of white matter (WM) comprised of both long and short range connections. The …
Ade Oyefiade
,
Stephanie Ameis
,
Jason Lerch
,
Conrad Rockel
,
Kamila Szulc
,
Nadia Scantlebury
,
Alexandra Decker
,
Jaleel Jefferson
,
Simon Spichak
,
Donald Mabbott
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Smaller hippocampal subfield volumes predict verbal associative memory in pediatric brain tumor survivors (2017)
The developing hippocampus is highly sensitive to chemotherapy and cranial radiation treatments for pediatric cancers, yet little is …
Alexandra Decker
,
Kamila Szulc
,
Eric Bouffet
,
Suzanne Laughlin
,
Jovanka Skocic
,
Cynthia de Medieros
,
Donald Mabbott
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