Distinguished University Scholar and Professor

Office: 349 Life Sciences Building

Phone: (502) 852-5946

Fax: (502) 852-8904

Email: cbmervis AT louisville DOT edu

Lab location: 201 & 212 Davidson Hall

Lab phone: (502) 852-4638

Lab website: Neurodevelopmental Sciences Lab

Education

Ph.D. (1976) Cornell University

Research Interests

• Language and cognitive development in typically developing children and children with Williams syndrome, Duplication 7q11.23 syndrome, Kabuki syndrome, and Down syndrome
• Genotype-phenotype relations in Williams syndrome and Duplication 7q11.23 syndrome

Selected Recent Publications

Mervis, C. B., & John, A. E. (in press). Vocabulary abilities of children with Williams syndrome: Strengths, weaknesses, and relation to visuospatial construction ability. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Mervis, C. B., & Becerra, A. M. (2007). Language and communicative development in Williams syndrome. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 13, 3-15.

Mervis, C. B., & Morris, C. A. (2007). Williams syndrome. In M. M. M. Mazzocco & J. L. Ross, Neurogenetic developmental disorders: Variation of manifestation in childhood (pp. 199-262). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Osborne, L. R., & Mervis, C. B. (2007). Rearrangements of the Williams-Beuren syndrome locus: molecular basis and implications for speech and language development. Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine, 9 (15), 1-16.

Klein-Tasman, B. P., Mervis, C. B., Lord, C., & Phillips, K. D. (2007). Socio-communicative deficits in young children with Williams syndrome: Performance on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule. Child Neuropsychology, 13, 444-467.

Leyfer, O. T., Woodruff-Borden, J., Klein-Tasman, B. P., Fricke, J. S., & Mervis, C. B. (2006). Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in 4 – 16-year-olds with Williams syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B, 141B, 615-622.

Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Mervis, C. B., & Berman, K. F. (2006). Neural mechanisms in Williams syndrome: a unique window to genetic influences on cognition and behavior. Nature Reviews: Neuroscience, 7, 380-393.

Somerville, M. J.*, Mervis, C. B.*, Young, E. J., Seo, E.-J., del Campo, M., Bamforth, S., Peregrine, E., Lilley, M., Pérez-Jurado, L., Morris, C. A., Scherer, S. W., & Osborne, L. R. (2005). Severe expressive language delay related to duplication of the Williams-Beuren locus. New England Journal of Medicine, 353, 1694-1701. (*: equal contributions)

Mervis, C. B., & Robinson, B. F. (2005). Designing measures for profiling and genotype/phenotype studies of individuals with genetic syndromes or developmental language disorders. Applied Psycholinguistics, 26, 41-64.

Courses Often Taught

PSYC609: Developmental Disabilities

PSYC609: Developmental Assessment

PSYC609: Developmental Psycholinguistics