Publications of Laurel Raffington

Keresztes, A., Raffington, L., Bender, A. R., Bögl, K., Heim, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2020). Hair cortisol concentrations are associated with hippocampal subregional volumes in children. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 4865. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61131-x

Raffington, L., Falck, J., Heim, C., Mather, M., & Shing, Y. L. (2020). Effects of stress on 6- and 7-year-old children's emotional memory differs by gender. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 199, Article 104924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104924

Raffington, L., Czamara, D., Mohn, J. J., Falck, J., Schmoll, V., Heim, C., Binder, E. B., & Shing, Y. L. (2019). Stable longitudinal associations of family income with children's hippocampal volume and memory persist after controlling for polygenic scores of educational attainment. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 40, Article 100720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100720

Raffington, L., Prindle, J. J., Keresztes, A., Binder, J., Heim, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2018). Blunted cortisol stress reactivity in low-income children relates to lower memory function. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 90, 110–121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.02.002

Raffington, L., Prindle, J. J., & Shing, Y. L. (2018). Income gains predict cognitive functioning longitudinally throughout later childhood in poor children. Developmental Psychology, 54(7), 1232–1243. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000529

Raffington, L., Schmiedek, F., Heim, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2018). Cognitive control moderates parenting stress effects on children's diurnal cortisol. PLoS ONE, 13(1), Article e0191215. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191215

Raffington, L. (2018). Socioeconomic disparities in children's cognitive development: Longitudinal dynamics and stress mechanisms [PhD Thesis]. https://doi.org/10.18452/19217

Mohn, J. J. (2019). Testing the longitudinal links among executive functions, prefrontal cortex structure, and socioeconomic status in middle childhood [Master's Thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin].

Aikins, M., Willems, Y., Mitchell, C., Goosby, B., & Raffington, L. (2024). Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence. BioRxiv, March 28, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.26.586786

Falck, J., Zhang, L., Raffington, L., Mohn, J. J., Triesch, J., Heim, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2024). Hippocampus and striatum showed distinct contributions to longitudinal changes in value-based learning in middle childhood (Version posted online June 1, 2024). BioRxiv, April 13, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.13.536699