Professor Debbie Mills

Professor in Psychology

Contact info

Director for Research at Tir na n'Og Child Development Centre and Nursery

Phone: +44(0)1248 388572
Email: d.l.mills@bangor.ac.uk

Room 130, Brigantia Building
Penrallt Road, School of Psychology
Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2AS

 

Professor Debbie Mills is a member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Institute

  1. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    Language and sociability: insights from Williams syndrome

    Fishman, I., Yam, A., Bellugi, U. & Mills, D. L., 1 Sept 2011, In: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 3, 3, p. 185-192

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Language experience and the organization of brain activity to phonetically similar words: ERP evidence from 14- and 20-month olds.

    Mills, D. L., Prat, C., Stager, C., Zangl, R., Neville, H. & Werker, J., 1 Oct 2004, In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 16, 8, p. 1452-1464

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Mapping Genetically Controlled Neural Circuits of Social Behavior and Visuo-Motor Integration by a Preliminary Examination of Atypical Deletions with Williams Syndrome

    Hoeft, F., Dai, L., Hass, B. W., Sheau, K., Mimura, M., Mills, D. L., Galaburda, A., Bellugi, U., Korenberg, J. R. & Reiss, A. L., 8 Aug 2014, In: PLoS ONE. 9, 8, p. e104088

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    More is not always better: Increased fractional Anisotropy of superior longitudinal fasciculus associated with poor Visuospatial abilities in Williams syndrome.

    Hoeft, F., Barnea-Goraly, N., Haas, B. W., Golarai, G., Ng, D., Mills, D. L., Korenberg, J., Bellugi, U., Galaburda, A. & Reiss, A. L., 31 Oct 2007, In: Journal of Neuroscience. 27, 44, p. 11960-11965

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Reduced parietal and visual cortical activation during global processing in Williams syndrome

    Mobbs, D., Eckert, M. A., Menon, V., Mills, D., Korenberg, J. R., Galaburda, A., Rose, F., Bellugi, U. & Reiss, A., 2007, In: Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. 49, p. 433-438 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Relative sparing of primary auditory cortex in Williams Syndrome.

    Holinger, D. P., Bellugi, U., Mills, D. L., Korenberg, J. R., Reiss, A. L., Sherman, G. F. & Galaburda, A. M., 10 Mar 2005, In: Brain Research. 1037, 1-2, p. 35-42

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    The fusiform face area is enlarged in Williams Syndrome.

    Golarai, G., Hong, S., Haas, B., Galaburda, A., Mills, D. L., Bellugi, U., Grill-Spector, K. & Reiss, A., 12 May 2010, In: Journal of Neuroscience. 30, 19, p. 6700-6712

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    The neurobiology of Williams syndrome: Cascading influences of visual system impairment?

    Eckert, M. A., Galaburda, A. M., Mills, D. L., Bellugi, U., Korenberg, J. R. & Reiss, A. L., 1 Aug 2006, In: Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 63, 16, p. 1867-1875

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    To modulate or not to modulate: Differing results in uniquely shaped Williams syndrome brains.

    Eckert, M. A., Tenforde, A., Galaburda, A. M., Bellugi, U., Korenberg, J. R., Mills, D. L. & Reiss, A. L., 1 Sept 2006, In: Neuroimage. 32, 3, p. 1001-1007

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Two languages, one developing brain: Event-related potentials to words in bilingual toddlers.

    Conboy, B. T. & Mills, D. L., 1 Jan 2006, In: Developmental Science. 9, 1, p. F1-F12

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Vocabulary of 2-year-olds learing English and an additional language: Nroms and effecs of linguistic distance

    Floccia, C., Sambrook, T., Delle Luche, C., Kwok, R., Goslin, J., White, L., Cattani, A., Sullivan, E., Gervain, J., Abbott-Smith, K., Krott, A., Mills, D., Rowland, C. & Plunkett, K., Mar 2018, In: Monographs for the Society for Research in Child Development. 83, 1, p. 1-135

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Vowels in early words: an event-related potential study

    Mani, N., Mills, D. L. & Plunkett, K., 1 Jan 2012, In: Developmental Science. 15, 1, p. 2-11

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Watching the infant brain learn words: effects of vocabulary size and experience.

    Mills, D. L., Plunkett, K., Prat, C. & Schafer, G., 1 Jan 2005, In: Cognitive Development. 20, 1, p. 19-31

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  15. Published

    William’s syndrome: gene expression is related to parental origin and regional coordinate control

    Collette, J. C., Chen, X-N., Mills, D., Galaburda, A., Reiss, A., Bellugi, U. & Korenberg, J. R., 2009, In: Journal of Human Genetics. 54, 4, p. 193-198 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  16. Chapter › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  17. Published

    Deletion of 7q11.23 Genes and Williams Syndrome

    Dai, L., Jarvinen-Pasley, A., Bellugi, U., Mills, D., Brown, T., Halgren, E., Pober, B. & Korenberg, J. R., 8 Sept 2016, Epstein's Inborn Errors of Development: : The Molecular Basis of Clinical Disorders of Morphogenesis. Erickson, R. P. & Wynshaw-Boris, A. J. (eds.). Third ed. Oxford University Press, (Oxford Monographs on Medical Genetics).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  18. Published

    Deletion of 7q11.23 Genes and Williams Syndrome

    Korenberg, J., Dai, L., Bellugi, U., Pasley, A., Mills, D. L., Galaburda, A., Reiss, A., Pober, B., Epstein, C. J. (ed.), Erickson, R. P. (ed.) & Wynshaw-Boris, A. (ed.), 1 Jan 2008, Inborn errors of development. 2008 ed. Oxford University Press, p. 1544-1555

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  19. Published

    Do changes in brain organization reflect shifts in symbolic functioning?

    Mills, D. L., Conboy, B., Paton, C. & Namy, L. (ed.), 1 Jan 2005, Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation: Developmental and Comparative Perspectives. 2005 ed. Psychology Press, p. 123-153

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  20. Published

    Early communicative development and the social brain.

    Mills, D. L., Conboy, B., De Haan, M. (ed.) & Gunnar, M. R. (ed.), 1 Jan 2009, Handbook of social development neuroscience. 2009 ed. Guildford Press, p. 175-207

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  21. Published

    Electrophysiological studies of language development.

    St George, M., Mills, D. L., Weissenborn, J. (ed.) & Hoehle, B. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, Language acquisition and language disorders. 2001 ed. John Benjamins Publishing, p. 247-259

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  22. Published

    Experience and developmental changes in the organization of language-relevant brain activity.

    Mills, D. L., Sheehan, E. A., Coch, D. (ed.), Fischer, K. W. (ed.) & Dawson, G. (ed.), 1 Jan 2007, Human behavior, learning, and the developing brain: Typical development.. 2007 ed. The Guilford Press, p. 183-218

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  23. Published

    Language development in Williams syndrome.

    Karmiloff-Smith, A., Mills, D. L. & Brown, K. (ed.), 1 Jan 2006, Encyclopedia of language and linguistics: Second edition, Volume 13, Language acquisition. 2006 ed. Elsevier, p. 585-589

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  24. Published

    Neuroimaging Methods

    Dick, F., Loyd-Fox, S., Blasi, A., Elwell, C. & Mills, D., 1 Dec 2013, Handbook of Educational Neuroscience. Mareschal, D., Butterworth, B. & Tolmie, A. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell, p. 13-45

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  25. Published

    Neurophysiological markers of face processing in Williams syndrome.

    Mills, D. L., Alvarez, T. D., St George, M., Appelbaum, L. G., Bellugi, U. & Neville, H., 1 Jan 2001, Journey from cognition to brain to gene: Perspectives from Williams syndrome. 2001 ed. MIT Press, p. 73-104

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  26. Published

    Williams Syndrome: A neurogenetic model of human behavior.

    Korenberg, J., Bellugi, U., Salandanan, L. S., Mills, D. L., Reiss, A. L. & Cooper, D. (ed.), 1 Jan 2003, Nature Encyclopedia of the Human Genome. 2003 ed. Nature, p. 757-766

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  27. Conference contribution › Research › Peer-reviewed
  28. Accepted/In press

    Gender in teacher-student interactions: Another factor in spatial ability development and STEM affiliation

    Gamarra Burga, E., Tenbrink, T. & Mills, D., 8 Mar 2024, (Accepted/In press) Spatial Cognition Conference Proceedings 2024. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review