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D’Souza, D., Brady, D., Haensel, J. X., & D’Souza, H. (2021). Early bilingual experience is associated with change detection ability in adults. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81545-5
D’Souza, D., Brady, D., Haensel, J. X., & D’Souza, H. (2020). Is mere exposure enough? The effects of bilingual environments on infant cognitive development. Royal Society Open Science, 7(2), 180191. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180191
D’Souza, D., D’Souza, H., Horváth, K., Plunkett, K., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2020). Sleep is atypical across neurodevelopmental disorders in infants and toddlers: A cross-syndrome study. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 97, 103549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2019.103549
D’Souza, D., D’Souza, H., Jones, E. J., & Karmiloff‐Smith, A. (2020). Attentional abilities constrain language development: A cross‐syndrome infant/toddler study. Developmental Science, e12961. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12961
D’Souza, H., Lathan, A., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Mareschal, D. (2020). Down syndrome and parental depression: A double hit on early expressive language development. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 100, 103613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2020.103613
D’Souza, H., Mason, L., Mok, K. Y., Startin, C. M., Hamburg, S., Hithersay, R., … Thomas, M. S. C. (2020). Differential associations of apolipoprotein E ε4 genotype with attentional abilities across the life span of individuals with Down syndrome. JAMA Network Open, 3(9), e2018221. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18221
Farran, E., Bowler, A., D'Souza, H., Mayall, L., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Sumner, E., ... & Hill, E. L. (2020). Is the motor impairment in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) a co-occurring deficit or a phenotypic characteristic?. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 4, 253-270. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41252-020-00159-6
Glennon, J. M., D’Souza, H., Mason, L., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Thomas, M. S. C. (2020). Visuo-attentional correlates of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in children with Down syndrome: A comparative study with children with idiopathic ASD. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 104, 103678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2020.103678
Mayall, L. A., D’Souza, H., Hill, E. L., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Tolmie, A., & Farran, E. K. (2020). Motor Abilities and the Motor Profile in Individuals with Williams Syndrome. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41252-020-00173-8
Startin, C. M., D’Souza, H., Ball, G., Hamburg, S., Hithersay, R., Hughes, K. M., ... & LonDownS Consortium. (2020). Health comorbidities and cognitive abilities across the lifespan in Down syndrome. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 12(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-019-9306-9
Thomas, M. S. C., Alfageme, O. O., D’Souza, H., Patkee, P. A., Rutherford, M. A., Mok, K. Y., ... & LonDownS Consortium. (2020). A multi-level developmental approach to exploring individual differences in Down syndrome: genes, brain, behaviour, and environment. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 104, 103638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2020.103638
D’Souza, D., & D’Souza, H. (2019). Emergent and constrained: Understanding brain and cognitive development. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 49, 228-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2018.04.011
Farran, E. K., Bowler, A., Karmiloff-Smith, A., D’Souza, H., Mayall, L., & Hill, E. L. (2019). Cross-domain associations between motor ability, independent exploration and large-scale spatial navigation; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Williams syndrome and typical development. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 225. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00225
D’Souza, D., D’Souza, H., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2017). Precursors to language development in typically and atypically developing infants and toddlers: The importance of embracing complexity. Journal of Child Language, 44(3), 591-627. https://doi.org/10.1017/S030500091700006X
D’Souza, H., Cowie, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Bremner, A. J. (2017). Specialization of the motor system in infancy: From broad tuning to selectively specialized purposeful actions. Developmental Science, 20(4), e12409. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12409
D’Souza, H., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2017). Neurodevelopmental disorders. WIREs Cognitive Science, 8(1-2), e1398. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1398
D’Souza, H., & Bremner, A. J. (2016). Calling for a developmental perspective on action-based consciousness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, e174. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X15002034
D’Souza, D., & D’Souza, H. (2016). Bilingual language control mechanisms in anterior cingulate cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: A developmental perspective. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(20), 5434-5436. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0798-16.2016
D’Souza, D., D’Souza, H., Johnson, M. H., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2016). Audio-visual speech perception in infants and toddlers with Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, and Williams syndrome. Infant Behavior and Development, 44, 249-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2016.07.002
Karmiloff-Smith, A., Al-Janabi, T., D’Souza, H., Groet, J., Massand, E., Mok, K., ... & Strydom, A. (2016). The importance of understanding individual differences in Down syndrome. F1000Research, 5. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.7506.1
Soukup Ascençao, T., D’Souza, D., D’Souza, H., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2016). Parent-child interaction as a dynamic contributor to learning and cognitive development in typical and atypical development. Infancia y Aprendizaje, 39(4), 694-726. https://doi.org/10.1080/02103702.2016.1221054
D’Souza, D., Cole, V., Farran, E. K., Brown, J. H., Humphreys, K., Howard, J., Rodic, M., Dekker, T. M., D’Souza, H., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2015). Face processing in Williams syndrome is already atypical in infancy. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 760. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00760
D’Souza, D., D’Souza, H., Johnson, M. H., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2015). Concurrent relations between face scanning and language: a cross-syndrome infant study. PLOS ONE, 10(10), e0139319. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139319
