Publications

Published Manuscripts: (+ = joint first-authorship; *= Montclair State University student/mentee/trainee)

  1. McKenney, E. E., Brunwasser, S., Richards, J., Day, T., Kofner, B., *McDonald, R., Williams, Z. J., Gillespie-Lynch, K., Kang, E., Lerner, M. D., & Gotham, K. O. (2023). Repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic prospective predictor of depression and anxiety symptoms in neurodiverse first-semester college students. Autism in Adulthood.

  2. Kang, E., Lerner, M. D., & Gadow, K. D. (2022). The importance of parent-teacher informant discrepancy in characterizing autistic youth: A replication latent profile analysis. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.

  3. *+McDonald, R.G., *+Khawar, S., *Yacoub, N., *Cargill, M. I., & Lerner, M. D., & Kang E. (2022). Performance- and Theater-based interventions for supporting social cognition and social communication in autistic youth: A review and theoretical synthesis. Seminars in Speech and Language.

  4. Gerber, A. H., Kang, E., Nahmias, A. S., Libsack, E. J., Simson, C. E. & Lerner, M. D. (2022). Predictors of Treatment Response to a Community-Delivered Group Social Skills Intervention for Youth with ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

  5. Kang, E., Lerner, M. D. & Gadow, K. D. (2020). Atypical Communication Characteristics Among Clinic-Referred Youth with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: Stability and Associations with Clinical Correlates. Development and Psychopathology, 32(4), 1240-1253. http://doi.org/10.1017/S095457942000070X

  6. Kang, E., Gioia, A., Pugliese, C. E., Islam, N. Y., Martinez-Pedraza, F. de L., Girard, R. M., McLeod, B. D., Carter, A. S., & Lerner, M. D. (2020). Alliance-Outcome Associations in a Community-Based Social Skills Intervention for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Behavior Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2020.04.006

  7. Kang, E., Santore, L. A., Rankin, J. A.., Lerner, M. D. (2020). Self-reported social skills importance ratings, not social skills themselves, predict sociometric status in youth with autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 74(June 2020), 101552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2020.101552

  8. Kuzava, S., Frost, A., Perrone, L., Kang, E., Lindhiem, O., & Bernard, K. (2020). Adult processing of child emotional expressions: A meta-analysis of ERP studies. Developmental Psychology, 56(6), 1170. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000928

  9. Kang, E., Gadow, K. D., & Lerner, M. D. (2020). Atypical communication characteristics, differential diagnosis, and the autism spectrum disorder clinical phenotype in youth. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 49(2), 251 - 263. DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2018.1539912

  10. Clarkson, T., Kang, E., Capriola-Hall, N., Lerner, M. D., Jarcho, J., & Prinstein, M. J. (2020). Meta- analysis of the RDoC social processing domain across units of analysis in children and adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 49(3), 297–321. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2019.1678167

  11. +Kang, E., +Clarkson, T., Keifer, C. M., Rosen, T. E., & Lerner, M. D. (2019). Discrete electrocortical predictors of anxiety and anxiety-related treatment response in youth with autism spectrum disorder. Biological Psychology, 146(May 2018), 107710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.05.010

  12. Russo-Ponsaran, N., Lerner, M. D., McKown, C., Weber, R. J., Karls, A., Kang, E., & Sommer, S. L. (2019). Web-Based assessment of social-emotional comprehension cognition in school-age youth withautism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 12(8), 1260–1271. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2123

  13. +Marro, B. M., +Kang, E., Hauschild, K., Normansell, K., Abu-Ramadan, T. & Lerner, M. D. (2019). Social performance-based interventions promote gains in social knowledge in the absence of explicit training for youth with autism spectrum disorder. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 83(3), 301-325. https://doi.org/10.1521/bumc.2019.83.3.301

  14. Kang, E., McPartland, J. C., Keifer, C. M., Foss-Feig, J. H., Levy, E. J., & Lerner, M. D. (2019). What must a neural signal mark to be called a biomarker?: Reply to Vettori, Jacques, Boets, and Rossion (2018). Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 4(3), 324–325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.09.004

  15. Kang, E., Keifer, C. M., Levy, E. J., Foss-Feig, J. H., McPartland, J. C., & Lerner, M. D. (2018). Atypicality of the N170 event-related potential in autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analysis. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 3(8), 657-666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.11.003

  16. Gates, J. A., Kang, E., Lerner, M. D. (2017). Efficacy of group social skills interventions for youth with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 52, 164 - 181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2017.01.006

  17. Kang, E., Klein, E. F., Lillard, A. S., & Lerner, M. D. (2016). Predictors and moderators of spontaneous pretend play in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1577. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01577

  18. Rankin, J. A., Weber, R. J., Kang, E., Lerner, M. D. (2016). Parent- and self-reported social skills importance in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 46, 273-286. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2574-7

  19. Lin, D. J. P., Kang, E., & Chen, C. (2014). Changes in input strength and number are driven by distinct mechanisms at the retinogeniculate synapse. Journal of Neurophysiology, 112(4), 942-950. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00175.2014

  20.  Kang, E., Durand, S., LeBlanc, J. J., Hensch, T. K., Chen, C., & Fagiolini, M. (2013). Visual acuity development and plasticity in the absence of sensory experience. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(45), 17789-17796. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1500-13.2013

  21. Noutel, J., Hong, Y. K., Leu, B., Kang, E., & Chen, C. (2011). Experience-dependent retinogeniculate synapse remodeling is abnormal in MeCP2 deficient mice. Neuron, 70(1), 35–42. DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.03.001

Published Book Chapter:

  1. Kang, E., *McDonald, R. G., & White, S. W. (2022). Overview of Autism Interventions. In Kana, R. K. (Ed.), Neuroscience of Autism. Elsevier.

  2. Lerner, M.D., Rosen, T.E., Kang, E., Keifer, C.M., & Gerber, A. (2018). Autism spectrum disorder. In T.H. Ollendick, S. W. White, & B. A. White (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (pp. 223-234). New York: Oxford University Press