publications

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In Prep & Under Review

Chen, E., Boebinger, D., Saxe, R., Richardson, H. (in prep). Neural correlates of processing music in school-aged children.

Heise, M.J., Richardson, H., Bowman, L.C. (in prep). Psychometrics of Theory of Mind: Reliability, Validity, and Difficulty Scaling of a multi-mental-state theory of mind measure in 3- to 12-year-old children.

Zimmer, L., Richardson, H., Pletti, C., Paulus, M., Schuwerk, T. Predictive coding in the theory of mind network: a comparison of autistic and non-autistic adults. (in prep). [Preregistration][Data, analysis code] [Preprint]

Ozernov-Palchik, O.*, O’Brien, A.*, Lee, E., Richardson, H., Romeo, R., Lipkin, B., Small, H., Capella, J., Nieto-Castañón, Saxe, R., Gabrieli, J., Fedorenko, E. (submitted). Precision fMRI reveals that the language network exhibits adult-like left-hemispheric lateralization by four years of age. *joint first authorship. [Preregistration] [Preprint]

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Mckinnon, K., Conole, E., Vaher, K., Hillary, R., Gadd, D., Binkowska, J., Sullivan, G., Stevenson, A., Corrigan, A., Murphy, L., Whalley, H., Richardson, H., Marioni, R., Cox, S., Boardman, J.P. (2024). Epigenetic scores derived in saliva are associated with gestational age at birth. Clinical Epigenetics, 16(84). [Full text] [Preprint]

Galdi, P., Blesa Cabez, M., Farrugia, C., Vaher K., Williams, L.Z.J., Sullivan, G., Stoye, D.G., Quigley, A.J., Makropoulos, A., Thrippleton, M.J., Bastin, M.E., Richardson, H., Whalley, H., Edwards, A.D., Bajada, C.J., Robinson, E.C., Boardman, J.P. (2024). Feature similarity gradients detect alterations in the neonatal cortex associated with preterm birth. Human brain mapping45(4), e26660. [Full text] [Preprint]

Sotomayor-Enriquez, K., Gweon, H., Saxe, R., Richardson, H. (2023). Open dataset of theory of mind reasoning in early to middle childhood. Data in brief, 52, 109905. [Full text] [Preprint] [Open Dataset & Task]

Richardson, H., Saxe, R., Bedny, M. (2023). Neural correlates of theory of mind in congenitally blind children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 63, 101285. [Full text] [Data, analysis code, and behavioral ToM task]

Mckinnon, K., Galdi, P., Blesa-Cábez, M., Sullivan, G., Vaher, K., Corrigan, A., Hallk J., Jiménez-Sánchez, L., Thrippleton, M., Bastin, M., Quigley, A., Valavani, E., Tsanas, A., Richardson, H., Boardman, J. (2023). Association of preterm birth and socioeconomic status with neonatal brain structure. JAMA Network Open6(5), e2316067-e2316067. [Full text] [Preprint] [Analysis Plan]

Park, A., Richardson, H., Tooley, U., McDermott, C., Boroshok, A., Leonard, J., Tisdall, D., Deater-Deckard, K., Edgar, C., Mackey, A. (2022). Early stressful experiences are associated with reduced neural responses to naturalistic emotional and social content in children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 54, 101152. [Full Text] [Preprint]

Vaher, K., Bogaert, D., Richardson, H., Boardman, J. (2022). Microbiome-gut-brain axis in brain development, cognition, and behavior during infancy and early childhood. Developmental Review, 66, 101038. [Full Text]

*Kamps, F., *Richardson, H., Murty, N.A.R., Kanwisher, N., Saxe, R. (2022). Using child-friendly movie stimuli to study the development of face, place, and object regions from age 3 to 12 years. Human Brain Mapping, 43(9), 2782-2800. *joint first authorship. [Full Text] [Group-average timecourses & summary data] [fMRI Dataset] [Movie Stimulus] [fMRI Experiment]

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. [Full Text] [Data & Code]

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. [Full Text] [Preprint] [Materials & Analysis Plan] [Abstract in ASL]

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. [Full Text] [Preprint] [Stimuli, Data, Analysis Plan & Code]

Richardson, H., Saxe, R. (2019). Development of predictive responses in theory of mind brain regions. Developmental Science, 23(1), e12863. [Full Text] [Preprint] [Timecourse Data] [Movie Stimulus]

Richardson, H. (2019). Development of networks for social functions: Confirmatory analyses in a large open source dataset. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 37(1), 100598. [Full Text] [HBN Dataset] [Movie Stimulus]

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. [Full Text]

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. [Full Text] [fMRI Dataset] [Movie Stimulus] [fMRI Experiment] [Behavioral ToM Task] [MIT Press Release] [Boston Globe Press Coverage]

*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. [Full Text] [Stimuli & Beta/Contrast Images]

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. [Full Text]

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.  [Full Text]

Bedny, M., Richardson, H., Saxe, R. (2015). ‘Visual’ cortex responds to spoken language in blind children. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35(33), 11674-11681. [Full Text] [MIT News Press Release] [The Guardian Press Coverage]

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. [Full Text]


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]


For a dynamic list of publications, please see Hilary’s Google Scholar profile. Stimuli and analysis plans are shared via the Open Science Framework.