Publications

Coughlin, C. & Ghetti, S. (2025). Development of episodic memory: A neurocognitive account. In M. Rugg (Ed.), Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, 3rd Edition. New York, NY: Elsevier. [Available upon request]

Coughlin, C., Karjack, S., Pospisil, J.*, Lee, J. K., & Ghetti, S. (2024). Of popsicles and crackers across development: When memory is not enough to guide decision making. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. [PDF]

Coughlin, C.‡, Pudhiyidath, A.‡, Roome, H.E., Varga, N.L., Nguyen, K., & Preston, A. (2023). Asynchronous development of integration and differentiation processes contributes to age-related differences in memory organization. Developmental Science. ‡Co-first authors. [PDF]

Vale, G., Coughlin, C., & Brosnan, S. (2022). The importance of thinking about the future in culture and cumulative cultural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. [PDF]

Coughlin, C., Ben-Asher, E., Roome, H.E., Varga, N.L., Moreau, M., Schneider, L., & Preston, A.R. (2022). Interpersonal family dynamics relate to hippocampal CA subfield structure. Frontiers in Neuroscience. [PDF]

Coughlin, C., Nissel, J., Kelly, K., Clegg, J.M., Li, H., & Woolley, J.D. (2022). Cross-cultural sensitivity to context when reasoning about the impossible. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Coughlin, C., Prabhakar, J., D’Esposito, Z., Thigpen, B., & Ghetti, S. (2022). Future-oriented thought and math achievement in children. Cognitive Development. [PDF]

Kazemi, A., Coughlin, C., DeMaster, D., & Ghetti, S. (2022). Contextual features in the developing hippocampus: A representational similarity analysis. Hippocampus, 32(4), 286-297. [PDF]

Pathman, J., Deker, L. Coughlin, C., & Ghetti, S. (2022). Examining temporal memory and the flexible retrieval of conventional time knowledge across middle to late childhood. Journal of Cognition and Development. [PDF]

Pudhiyidath, A.‡, Roome, H.E.‡, Coughlin, C., Nguyen, K.V., & Preston, A.R. (2020). Developmental differences in temporal schema acquisition impact reasoning decisions. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 37(1-2), 25-45. ‡Co-first authors. [PDF]

Coughlin, C., Robins, R.W., & Ghetti, S. (2019). Development of episodic prospection: Factors underlying improvements in middle and late childhood. Child Development, 90(4), 1109-1122. [PDF]

Ghetti, S., & Coughlin, C., (2018). Stuck in the present? Constraints on children’s episodic prospection. Trends in Cognitive Science, 22(10), 846-850. [PDF]

Pathman, T., Coughlin, C., & Ghetti, S. (2018). Space and time in episodic memory: Effects of linearity and directionality on memory for spatial location and temporal order in children and adults. PLoS ONE, 13(11): e0206999. [PDF]

Coughlin, C., C., Leckey, S., & Ghetti, S. (2018). The development of episodic memory: Implications for remembering the past and envisioning the future. In S. Ghetti (Ed.), Stevens’ Journal of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience: Development and Social Psychology (Vol. 4). New York, NY: Wiley. [PDF]

Coughlin, C., Coughlin, C. & Robins, R. (2017). Self-concept development. In A. Wenzel (Ed.), The Sage Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. [PDF]

Prabhakar, J., Coughlin, C., & Ghetti, S. (2016). The neurocognitive development of future-oriented behavior and its implications for academic achievement. Mind, Brain, and Education, 10(3), 196-206. [PDF]

DeMaster, D., Coughlin, C., & Ghetti, S. (2016). Retrieval flexibility and reinstatement in the developing hippocampus. Hippocampus, 26(4), 492-501. [PDF]

Coughlin, C., Hembacher, E., Lyons, K., & Ghetti, S. (2015). Introspection on uncertainty and judicious help-seeking during the preschool years. Developmental Science, 18(6), 957-971. [PDF]

Coughlin, C., Lyons, K., & Ghetti, S. (2014). Remembering the past to envision the future in middle childhood: Developmental linkages between prospection and episodic memory. Cognitive Development, 30, 96-110. [PDF]

Ghetti, S., Hembacher, E., & Coughlin, C. (2013). Feeling uncertain and acting on it in the preschool years: A metacognitive account. Child Development Perspectives, 7(3), 160-165. [PDF]

Davies, H.D., Newkirk, L.A., Pitts, C.B., Coughlin, C., Sridhar, S.B., Zeiss, M., & Zeiss, A.M. (2010). The impact of dementia and mild memory impairment (MMI) on intimacy and sexuality in spousal relationships. International Psychogeriatrics, 22(4), 618-628. [PDF]