Selected Publications
Dr. Mackey’s full publication list can be found on Google Scholar
McDermott, C.L. , Taylor, K.R. , Sharp, S., Lydon-Staley, D., Leonard, J.A., Mackey, A.P. (2024) Sensitivity to psychosocial influences at age 3 predicts mental health in middle childhood. Developmental Science.
McDermott, C.L., Norton, E.S., & Mackey, A.P. (2023) A Systematic Review of Interventions to Ameliorate the Impact of Adversity on Brain Development. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105391
Boroshok, A.L., McDermott, C.L., Fotiadis, P., Park, A.T., Tooley, U.A., Gataviņš, M.M., Tisdall, M.D., Bassett, D.S., Mackey, A.P. (2023) Individual differences in cortical myelin map development during childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101270.
McDermott, C.L., Lee, J., Park, A.T., Tooley, U.A., Boroshok, A.L., Hilton, K., Mupparapu, M., & Mackey, A.P. (2023) Developmental correlates of accelerated molar eruption in early childhood. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2023.02.006
Sydnor, V.J., Larsen, B., Seidlitz, J., Adebimpe, A., Alexander-Bloch, A.F., Bassett, D.S., Bertolero, M.A., Cieslak, M., Covitz, S., Fan, Y., Gur, R.E., Gur, R.C., Mackey, A.P., Moore, T.M., Roalf, D.R., Shinohara, R.T., Satterthwaite, T.D. (2023) Intrinsic activity development unfolds along a sensorimotor-association cortical axis in youth. Nature Neuroscience. 26: 638-649. doi: 10.1038/s41593-023-01282-y
Tooley, U.T., Park, A.T., Leonard, J.A., Boroshok, A.L., McDermott, C.L., Tisdall, M.D., Bassett, D.S., & Mackey, A.P. (2022) The age of reason: Functional brain network development during childhood. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(44), 8237-8251. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0511-22.2022.
Leonard, J.A., Cordrey, S., Liu, H.S., & Mackey, A.P. (2022) Young children calibrate effort based on the trajectory of their performance. Developmental Psychology. 59(3):609-619. preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/hc62q/
Park, A.T., Richardson, H., Tooley, U.A., McDermott, C.L., Boroshok, A.L., Ke, A., Leonard, J.A., Tisdall, M.D., Deater-Deckard, K., Edgar, J.C., & Mackey, A.P. (2022) Early stressful experiences are associated with reduced neural responses to naturalistic emotional and social content in children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 57:101152.
Boroshok, A. L., Park, A. T., Fotiadis, P., Velasquez, G. H., Tooley, U. A., Simon, K. R., Forde, J. C. P., Delgado Reyes, L. M., Tisdall, M. D., Bassett, D. S., Cooper, E. A., & Mackey, A. P. (2022). Individual differences in frontoparietal plasticity in humans. Npj Science of Learning, 7(1), 1–10.
Tooley, U. A., Bassett, D. S., & Mackey, A. P. (2022). Functional brain network community structure in childhood: Unfinished territories and fuzzy boundaries. NeuroImage, 247, 118843.
Leonard, J. A., Lydon-Stanley, D., Sharp, S., Liu, H. Z., Park, A. T. , Bassett, D.S., Duckworth, A. L., & Mackey, A. P. (2022). Daily fluctuations in young children’s persistence. Child Development. 93(3), e222-e236
Keller, A.S., Mackey, A.P., Pines, A., Fair, D., Fezcko, E., Hoffman, M.S., Salum, G.A., Barzilay, R., Satterthwaite, T.D. (2022) Caregiver monitoring, but not caregiver warmth, is associated with general cognition in two large samples of youth from the ABCD study. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13337
Hart, Y., Kosoy, E., Liquin, E., Leonard, J.A., Mackey, A.P., & Gopnik, A. (2022) The development of creative search strategies. Cognition, 225, 105102.
Park, A.T. & Mackey, A.P. (2022). Do younger children benefit more from cognitive and academic interventions? How training studies can provide insights into developmental changes in plasticity. Mind, Brain, and Education. https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12304
Murtha, K., Larsen, B., Pines, A., Parkes, L., Moore, T., Adebimpe, A., Alexander-Bloch, A., Calkins, M., Mackey, A.P., Roalf, D., Scott, J., Wolf, D., Gur, R.E., Gur, R.C., Barzilay, R., & Satterthwaite, T. (2022). Associations between neighborhood socioeconomic status, parental education, and executive system activation in youth. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac120
Tooley, U. A., Bassett, D. S., & Mackey, A. P. (2021). Environmental influences on the pace of brain development. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 22(6), 372-384.
McDermott, C. L., Hilton, K., Park, A. T., Tooley, U. A., Boroshok, A. L., Mupparapu, M., Scott, J. M., Bumann, E. E., & Mackey, A. P. (2021). Early life stress is associated with earlier emergence of permanent molars. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(24).
Leonard, J. A., Duckworth, A. L., Schulz, L. E., & Mackey, A. P. (2021). Leveraging cognitive science to foster children’s persistence. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 25(8), 642-644
Park, A. T., Tooley, U. A., Leonard, J. A., Boroshok, A. L., McDermott, C. L., Tisdall, M. D., & Mackey, A. P. (2021). Early childhood stress is associated with blunted development of ventral tegmental area functional connectivity. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 47, 100909.
Leonard, J. A., Martinez, D. N., Dashineau, S. C., Park, A. T., & Mackey, A. P. (2021). Children persist less when adults take over. Child Development, 92(4), 1325-1336.
Bugden, S., Park, A.T., Mackey, A.P., Brannon, E.M. (2021). The neural basis of number word processing in children and adults. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2021.101011
Sydnor, V.J., Larsen, B., Bassett, D.S., Alexander-Bloch, A., Fair, D.A., Liston, C., Mackey, A.P., Milham, M. P., Pines, A., Roalf, D.R., Seidlitz, J., Xu, T., Raznahan, A., & Satterthwaite, T.D. (2021) Neurodevelopment of the association cortices: Patterns, mechanisms, and implications for psychopathology. Neuron, 109(18), 2820-2846.
Tooley U.A., Mackey A.P., Ciric, R., Ruparel, K., Moore, T.M., Gur, R.C., Gur, R.E., Satterthwaite T.D., & Bassett, D.S. (2020). Associations between Neighborhood SES and Functional Brain Network Development. 30(1):1-19.
Park A. T., Leonard J.A., Saxler P., Cyr A.B., Gabrieli J.D.E, & Mackey A.P. (2018) Amygdala-medial prefrontal functional connectivity relates to stress exposure and mental health in early childhood. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 13(4): 430-439.
Mackey, A.P., Park, A.T., Robinson, S.T., and Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2017). A Pilot Study of Classroom-Based Cognitive Skill Instruction: Effects on Cognition and Academic Performance. Mind, Brain, and Education. 11(2), 85–95.
Cooper, E.A. & Mackey, A.P. (2016) Sensory and cognitive plasticity: implications for academic interventions. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 10, 21-27.
Mackey, A.P., Finn, A.S., Leonard, J.A., West, M.R., Gabrieli, C.F.O., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2015) Neuroanatomical correlates of the income achievement gap. Psychological Science, 26(6): 925–33.
Mackey, A.P., Miller Singley, A.T., Wendelken, J.C. & Bunge, S.A. (2015) Characterizing behavioral and brain changes associated with practicing reasoning skills. PLOS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0137627.
Guerra-Carrillo, B., Mackey, A.P., & Bunge, S.A. (2014) Resting-state fMRI: A window into human brain plasticity. The Neuroscientist, Oct; 20(5):522-533
Mackey, A.P., Miller Singley, A.T., & Bunge, S.A. (2013). Intensive reasoning training alters patterns of brain connectivity at rest. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(11): 4796-4803.
Mackey, A.P., Whitaker, K.J., & Bunge, S.A. (2012). Experience-dependent plasticity in white matter microstructure: Reasoning training alters frontoparietal connectivity. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 6(32).
Mackey, A. P., Hill, S.S., Stone, S.I., & Bunge, S.A. (2011). Differential effects of reasoning and speed training in children. Developmental Science,14(3): 582-590.