*Indicates joint first authorship.
Empirical Papers
*Olson, H. A., *Johnson, K. T., Nishith, S., Frosch, I. R., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & D’Mello, A. M. (2024). Personalized Neuroimaging Reveals the Impact of Children’s Interests on Language Processing in the Brain. Imaging Neuroscience, 2: 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00339
Olson, H., Chen, E., Lydic, K., & Saxe, R. (2023). Left-hemisphere cortical language regions respond equally to observed dialogue and monologue. Neurobiology of Language, 1-89. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00123
Treves, I. N., Olson, H. A., Ozernov-Palchik, O., Li, C. E., Wang, K. L., Arechiga, X. M., Goldberg, S. B., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2023). At-home use of app-based mindfulness for children: A randomized active-controlled trial. Mindfulness, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-023-02231-3
Treves, I. N., Li, C. E., Wang, K. L., Ozernov-Palchik, O., Olson, H. A., & Gabrieli, J. D. (2023). Mindfulness supports emotional resilience in children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plos one, 18(7), e0278501. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278501
Romeo, R. R., Perrachione, T. K., Olson, H. A., Halverson, K. K., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Christodoulou, J. A. (2022). Socioeconomic dissociations in the neural and cognitive bases of reading disorders. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 58, 101175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101175
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 exposure to sign language. Nature Communications, 11(1), 3246. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17004-y
Reviews & Methods Papers
Santi, B., Soza, M., Tuckute, G., Sathe, A., Fedorenko, E., & Olson, H. (2026). An automated pipeline for efficiently generating standardized, child-friendly audiovisual language stimuli. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101674
Behm, L., Yates, T. S., Trach, J. E., Choi, D., Du, H., Osumah, C., Deen, B., Kosakowski, H. L., Chen, E. M., Kamps, F. S., Olson, H. A., Ellis, C. T., Saxe, R., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2026). Data retention in awake infant fMRI: Lessons from more than 750 scanning sessions. Infancy, 31(1), e70062. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70062
Olson, H.A., Day, T.K., Hiersche, K.J., Manning, B.L., Bradley, H., Choi, S., Abdurokhmonova, G., McCormick, S.A., Conrad, A.L., Scheinost, D. & Vaughn, K.A., (2025). Utilizing functional neuroimaging to study early language development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101641
*Olson, H. A., *Camacho, M. C., Abdurokhmonova, G., Ahmad, S., Chen, E. M., Chung, H., Di Lorenzo, R., Dineen, Á. T., Ganz, M., Licandro, R., Magnain, C., Marrus, N., McCormick, S. A., Rutter, T. M., Wagner, L., Woodruff Carr, K., Zöllei, L., §Vaughn, K. A., §Skak Madsen, K. (2025). Measuring and interpreting individual differences in fetal, infant, and toddler neurodevelopment. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101539
*Margolis, E. T., *Nelson, P. M., Fiske, A., Champaud, J. L. Y., Olson, H. A., Gomez, M. J. C., Dineen, Á. T., Bulgarelli, C., Troller-Renfree, S., V., Donald, K. A., Spann, M. N., Howell, B., Scheinost, D., Korom, M. (2025). Modality-Level Obstacles and Initiatives to Improve Representation in Fetal, Infant, and Toddler Neuroimaging Research Samples. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101505
Olson, H. & D’Mello, A. (2022). The social brain. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.781
*Ozernov-Palchik, O., *Olson, H. A., Arechiga, X. M., Kentala, H., Solorio-Fielder, J. L., Wang, K. L., Torres, Y. C., Gardino, N. D., Dieffenbach, J. R., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2022). Implementing Remote Developmental Research: A Case Study of a Randomized Controlled Trial Language Intervention During COVID-19. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 6163. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.734375
Preprints
*Olson, H. A., *Ozernov-Palchik, O., Arechiga, X. M., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2024). Remote text-supplemented audiobook intervention supports children’s explicit and incidental vocabulary learning. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/w89ea
Olson, H. A., Johnson, K. T., Nishith, S., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & D’Mello, A. M. (2025). Incorporating special interests to investigate the language system in autism: A feasibility pilot fMRI study. Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.04.647117v1