Journal Articles

Monachino, A. D., Lopez, K. L., Pierce, L. J., & Gabard-Durnam, L. J. (2022). The HAPPE plus Event-Related (HAPPE+ ER) Software: A Standardized Preprocessing Pipeline for Event-Related Potential Analyses. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101140. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.02.450946

Elansary, M., Pierce, L., Wei, W., Charles McCoy, D., Zuckerman, B., & Nelson, C.A. (2022). Maternal Stress and Early Neurodevelopment: Exploring the Protective Role of Maternal Growth Mindset, Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 43(2), e103-e109. https://doi.org/10.1097/dbp.0000000000000998

Barrero-Castillero, A., Pierce, L. J., Urbina-Johanson, S. A., Pirazzoli, L., Burris, H. H., & Nelson, C. A. (2022). Perinatal and early childhood biomarkers of psychosocial stress and adverse experiences. Pediatric Research, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-022-01933-z

Pierce, L. J., Carmody Tague, E., & Nelson III, C. A. (2021). Maternal stress predicts neural responses during auditory statistical learning in 26-month-old children: An event-related potential study. Cognition, 104600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104600

Pierce, L. J., Reilly, E., & Nelson, C. A. (2020). Associations between maternal stress, early language behaviors, and infant electroencephalography during the first year of life. Journal of Child Language, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.105014

Valdes, V., Pierce, L. J., Lane, C. J., Reilly, E. B., Jensen, S. K., Gharib, A., Levitt, P., Nelson, C.A., & Thompson, B. L. (2020). An exploratory study of predictors of cognition in two low-income samples of infants across the first year of life. Plos one, 15(9), e0238507. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238507

Pierce, L. J., Thompson, B. L., Gharib, A., Schlueter, L., Reilly, E., Valdes, V., Roberts, S., Conroy, K., Levitt, P., Nelson, C.A. (2019). Association of Perceived Maternal Stress during the Perinatal Period and EEG in 2-month-old Infants. JAMA Pediatrics, 173(6), 561-570. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.0492

Pierce, L. J., Genesee, F., Delcenserie, A., & Morgan, G. (2017). Variations in phonological working memory: Linking early experiences and language learning outcomes. Applied Psycholinguistics, 38(6), 1265-1300. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0142716417000236

Pierce, L. J., Genesee, F., Delcenserie, A., & Morgan, G. (2017). Towards a model of multiple paths to language learning: Response to commentaries. Applied Psycholinguistics, 38(6), 1351-1362. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0142716417000340

Pierce, L. J., Chen, J-K., Delcenserie, A., Genesee, F. & Klein, D. (2015). Past experience shapes ongoing neural patterns for language. Nature Communications, 6, 10073. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10073

Pierce, L. J., Klein, D., Chen, J. K., Delcenserie, A., & Genesee, F. (2014). Mapping the unconscious maintenance of a lost first language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(48), 17314-1731. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1409411111

Nakano, H., Rosario, M. A. M., Oshima-Takane, Y., Pierce, L., & Tate, S. G. (2014). Electrophysiological response to omitted stimulus in sentence processing. NeuroReport, 25(14), 1169-1174. https://doi.org/10.1097/wnr.0000000000000250

Pierce, L., Genesee, F., Gauthier, K., & DuBois, M-E. (2014). Communication patterns between parents and children: Comparing mothers and fathers in different learner contexts. Applied Psycholinguistics 36(5), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0142716414000125

Tanaka, J. W., Kaiser, M. D., Hagen, S., & Pierce, L. J. (2014). Losing face: impaired discrimination of featural and configural information in the mouth region of an inverted face. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 76(4), 1000-1014. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-014-0628-0

Pierce, L. J., Genesee, F., & Paradis, J. (2012). Acquisition of English grammatical morphology by internationally adopted children from China. Journal of Child Language, 40(5), 1076-1090. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000912000402

Pierce, L. J., Scott, L., Boddington, S., Droucker, D., Curran, T., & Tanaka, J. W. (2011). The N250 brain potential to personally familiar and newly learned faces and objects. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5, 111. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00111

Krigolson, O. E., Pierce, L. J., Holroyd, C. B., & Tanaka, J. W. (2009). Learning to become an expert: reinforcement learning and the acquisition of perceptual expertise. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(9), 1833-1840. https://doi.org/10.5214/ans.0972.7531.1118307

Tanaka, J. W. & Pierce, L. J. (2009). The neural plasticity of other-race face recognition. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 122-131. https://doi.org/10.1167/8.6.534

Lebrecht, S., Pierce, L. J., Tarr, M. J., & Tanaka, J. W. (2009). Perceptual other-race training reduces implicit racial bias. PLoS ONE, 4(1), e4215. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004215

Book Chapters

Pierce, L.J., Klein, D., & Genesee, F. (2019). Language loss and language learning in internationally adopted children: evidence from behavior and the brain. In Schmid, M. S., & Kopke, B. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Language Attrition. Oxford University Press.

*Bowman, L.C., *Pierce, L.J., Nelson, C.A., & Werker, J.F. (2017). Development of language and cognition. In Gibb, R., & Kolb, B. (Eds.), The neurobiology of brain and behavioral development. Elsevier. [*co-first authors with equal contribution]

Pierce, L.J., Klein, D., & Genesee, F. (2016). Language loss or retention in internationally adopted children: Neurocognitive implications for second language learning (trends in language acquisition series). In Geneseee, F., & Delcenserie, A. (Eds.), Language development in internationally-adopted children. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Pierce, L., & Genesee, F. (2014). Language input and language learning: an interactional perspective (trends in language acquisition series). In Gruter, T., & Paradis, J. (Eds.), Input and experience in bilingual development. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.