Department of Psychology

2012

Cleary, H., Vidal, S., Woolard, J., & Jarvis, J. (2012, March). Observing the cadence of juvenile interrogations. Paper presented at the at the AP-LS Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Flynn R., Staiano A.E., & Richert, R. (2012, April). Exergaming and executive functioning. American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, Canada.

Flynn R., Staiano A.E., & Richert, R. (2012, February). Summer gaming improves executive functioning in Latino and African American youth. Society for Research in Child Development 2012 Themed Meeting: Positive Development of Minority Children, Tampa, Florida.

Staiano A.E., Abraham A.A., & Calvert S.L. (2012, March). The Wii club: Promoting weight loss, psychosocial health, and sports involvement through an exergaming intervention for overweight and obese youth. Journal of Adolescent Health 2012;(Supplement) Annual Meetings of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, New Orleans, LA.

Vidal, S., & Woolard, J. (2012, March). Social climate and institutional infractions among juvenile detainees. In S. Vidal (Chair), Incarceration and Institutional Adjustment: Exploring the Experiences of Youth in Juvenile Institutions. Symposium presented at the AP-LS Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2011

Brito, N., Atkinson, E., & Barr. R. (2011, October). Cognitive flexibility in monolingual and bilingual infants. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Brito, N., Barr, R.., McIntyre, P., Atkinson, E., & Simcock, G. (2011, March). Long-term retention and reactivation of forgotten memories from books during toddlerhood. Talk presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

Brito, N., Frank, H., Shuler, J, & Barr, R. (2011, November). Effect of bilingualism on memory specificity during infancy. Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Brito, N., McIntyre, P., Atkinson, E., Barr, R., & Simcock, G. (2010, November). Can reminders be used to reactivate forgotten memories from books during toddlerhood? Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Gamble, K.R., Westbay, L.C., Howard Jr., J.H. & Howard, D.V. (2011, November). Effects of simultaneous vs. interleaved secondary tasks on implicit sequence learning in older and younger adults. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.

Gamble, K.R., Westbay, L.C., Howard Jr., J.H. & Howard, D.V. (2011, August). Does Nonconscious Goal Pursuit Improve Implicit Learning? Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

Gamble, K.R., Howard Jr., J.H. & Howard, D.V. (2011, May). Dual Task Effects on Implicit Probabilistic Sequence Learning in Young and Old Adults. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

Meloy, M. (2011, April). Foster children’s development benefits from exposure to childcare. Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Meloy, M. & Phillips, D. (2011, August). Foster parent childcare subsidy receipt in Illinois: Impacts on placement stability. Poster presented at the 2011 National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit. Washington, DC.

Meloy, M., Lipscomb, S., Ward, H, & Dinehart L. (2011, November). Research findings at the intersection of Early Care and Education and Child Welfare. Poster symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Child Care Policy Research Consortium. Bethesda, MD.

Meloy, M., Lipscomb, S., Ward, H, & Rous, B. (2011, November). Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Special Populations: A conversation about research with families at the intersection of Early Care and Education, Child Welfare, and Early Intervention/ Preschool special education. Session presented at the annual meeting of the Child Care Policy Research Consortium. Bethesda, MD.

Meloy, M. & Phillips, D. (2011, November). Pre-Kindergarten Boosts Early Learning for Children with Special Needs. Poster presented at the Division for Early Childhood’s 27th Annual International Conference on Young Children with Special Needs & their Families. National Harbor, MD.

Mikulak, A. (2011, March). Competing media frames of mental health and mental illness in children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Cambridge, MA.

Mikulak, A. (2011, May). Demographic characteristics and beliefs about government predict vaccination attitudes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Murphy, E., Krishnamurthy, B., Foss-Feig, J., Leotti, L., Ruiz, E., & Vaidya, C.J. (2011, March). Connectivity of the Amygdala During Cognitive Control of Socio-emotional Information in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Symposium Presentation, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec.

Murphy, E., D'Mello, A., Fine, A., Foss-Feig, J., You, X., Kenworthy, L., Gaillard, W., Vaidya, C. (2011, April). Atypical amygdala connectivity during involuntary eye-gaze processing in emotional faces in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Poster Presentation, Annual Meeting for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.

Staiano, A.E., Abraham, A.A., & Calvert, S.L. (2011, November). Exergaming as physical activity for weight loss in low-income overweight and obese African American adolescents. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association conference, Washington, D.C.

Staiano, A. E., Abraham, A. A., & Calvert, S. L. (2011, June). Weight loss from Wii Active intervention in overweight and obese adolescents. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 43(5), Suppl. American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

Staiano, A. E., Abraham, A., & Calvert, S. L. (2011, May). Wii Active intervention produces weight loss, improves self-efficacy, and enhances friendship quality in overweight and obese low-income African American adolescents. Paper presented at the Games for Health Conference, Boston, MA.

Staiano, A. E., Terry, A., Wathington, K., Scanlon, P., Abraham, A. A., & Calvert, S. L. (2011, April). Exergame physical activity intervention for weight loss in overweight and obese adolescents. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

Staiano, A. E., Terry, A., Wathington, K., Abraham, A. A., & Calvert, S. L. (2011, March). Competitive versus cooperative exergame play for African American adolescents’ executive function skills. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

Vidal, S., & LoGerfo, L. (2011, April). Exploring the relationship between adolescent substance use and academic outcomes. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Conference (Montreal, Quebec, Canada).

Vidal, S., & Woolard, J. (2011, March). How understanding of Miranda rights and interrogation practices predict juvenile offenders’ attitudes toward police officers. In J. Woolard (Chair), Laying the ground work in juvenile interrogation: Perspectives and experiences of and about juvenile offenders. Symposium presented at the AP-LS Annual Conference/ 4th International Congress on Psychology and Law (Miami, FL).

2010
Brito, N., Barr, R., McIntyre, P., Garrity, K., & Simcock G. (2010, March). Long-term Retention from Books and Video during Toddlerhood. Talk presented at the biennial meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.

Brito, N., Barr, R., McIntyre, P., Lieberman, J., Shauffer, C., Rodriguez, J. (2010, April). The Baby Elmo Project: Intervention Targeting Parent-child Interactions within the Juvenile Justice Facilities. Talk presented at the biennial meeting of Human Development, New York, NY.

Brito, N., Simcock, G., Neary, P., & Barr, R. (2010, March). The Effects of Description and Depiction on Infants Imitation from Picture Books. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.

Calvert, S., Buijzen, M., Livingstone, S., Staiano, A. E., & de Droog, S. (2010, June). The obesity crisis: Tipping the balance in children’s energy intake and expenditure through media. Panel session at the annual scientific meeting of the International Communication Association, Singapore.

Gamble, K.R., Becker, R.A., Howard Jr., J.H. & Howard, D.V. (2010, November) Effects of a MTL-loading simultaneous task on implicit probabilistic motor sequence learning. Poster presented at the 40th Annual Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.

Lee, J.M, Gamble, K.R., Simon, J.R., Howard Jr., J.H. & Howard, D.V. (2010, November) The effects of goal motivation on implicit sequence learning. Poster presented at the 40th Annual Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.

Gamble, K.R., Howard, D.V & Howard Jr., J.H. (2010, April) Age-related MTL task interference in implicit perceptual sequence learning. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Staiano, A. E. (2010, July). In-school physical education: Effect on body mass index andacademic performance among U.S. adolescents. Paper presentation at the 2010 Add Health Users Conference. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

Staiano, A. E., & Calvert, S. L. (2010, June). Wii tennis play as physical activity in low-income African American adolescents. Paper presentation at the annual scientific meeting of the International Communication Association, Singapore.

Staiano, A. E., & Calvert, S. L. (2010, May). Improved executive functioning from Wii Active play. Paper presentation at the annual Games for Health Conference, Boston.

Murphy, E.R., Shook, D.A., Parrott, W., Foss-Feig, J., Kenealy, L., Cook, E., Stein, M., Vaidya, C.J. (April, 2010). Effect of dopamine transporter genotype on methylphenidate-induced changes in functional connectivity during response inhibition in childhood ADHD. Poster presentation, Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, Quebec.

Simon, J. R., Stollstorff, M., Westbay, L. C., Vaidya, C. J., Howard, J. H., & Howard, D. V. (2010). Dopamine transporter genotype predicts implicit sequence learning but not implicit spatial learning. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, Canada.

Simon, J. R., Howard, J. H. & Howard, D. V. (2010). Age deficits in implicit perceptual associative learning of arbitrary sequences. Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Vidal, S., & Woolard, J. (2010, March). Juvenile detainees’ perceptions and attitudes toward the legal system. Paper presented at the American Psychology and Law Society (AP-LS) Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC.

2009
Barnes, K. A., Simon, J. R., Howard, J. H., Howard, D. V. & Vaidya, C. J. (2009). An fMRI study of probabilistic sequence learning reveals age-related differences in activation but not performance. Conference on Neurocognitive Development. Berkley, CA.

Brito, N., Brunick, K., & Vishton, P.M. (2009, April). How object properties influence the frequency of scale errors during object-directed reaching. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Bennett, I. J., Simon, J. R., Madden, D. J., Vaidya, C. J., Howard, J. H. & Howard, D. V. (2009, March). A Combined DTI and fMRI Analysis of the Neural Correlates of Implicit Probabilistic Sequence Learning. Poster session.

Cleary, H.M.D., Woolard, J.L., Jarvis, J. (2009, March). An observational study of police-juvenile dynamics in custodial interrogations. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Criminal Justice Society, Boston, MA.

Meloy, M., & Phillips, D. (2009, July). Child development at the intersection of early education and child welfare: A developmental perspective on quality child care as a protective factor for foster children. Paper presented at the Second National Research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy, Bridgewater, MA.

Meloy, M., & Phillips, D. (2009, October). The effects of the Tulsa Pre-K Program for children with special educational needs. Poster presented at the Division of Early Childhood 25th Annual International Conference on Young Children with Special Needs and Their Families, Albuquerque, NM.

Exner, A. (2009, October). In-school physical education: Effect on body mass index and academic performance among U.S. adolescents. Poster presented at the annual scientific meeting of the Obesity Society, Washington, D.C.

Exner, A., Papatheodorou, G., Baker, C.M., Verdaguer, A., Hluchan, C.M., & Calvert, S.L. (2009, April). Solitary versus social gross motor videogame play: Energy expenditure among low-income African American adolescents. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Lowenstein, A. E., Phillips, D. A., & Gormley, W. T. (2009, April). Fostering the socio-emotional adjustment of low-income children: The effects of universal pre-K and Head Start in Oklahoma. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Lowenstein, A. E. (2009, April). Classroom and teacher predictors of low-income children’s socio-emotional adjustment in pre-kindergarten and Head Start. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Murphy, E.R., Shook, D.A., Foss-Feig, J., Kenealy, L., Vaidya, C.J. (October, 2009). Methylphenidate increases striato-frontal-temporal functional connectivity in ADHD children during response inhibition. Poster presentation, Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, Illinois.

Simon, J. R., Barnes, K. A., Vaidya, C. J., Howard, J. H. & Howard, D. V. (2009, March). Neural basis of probabilistic sequence learning in aging: An fMRI study. Poster session presented at the 38th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.

Simon, J. R., Murphy, E. R., Vaidya, C. J., Howard, J. H. & Howard, D. V. (2009, March). Functional connectivity of implicit probabilistic sequence learning in aging. Poster session presented at the 16th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Stollstorff, M., Bean, S.E., Anderson, L., Vaidya, C.J. (January, 2009). Effect of dopamine regulating genes (DAT1 & COMT) on logical reasoning with emotional content. Poster presented at the Conference on Organization of Prefrontal Cortex for Executive Function, Boulder, CO.

Woolard, J.L., & Cleary, H.M.D. (2009, March). Parent and youth views on interrogation choices: age differences in consistency and resolution of disagreements. In J.L. Woolard (chair), Police interrogation of vulnerable suspects. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, San Antonio, TX.

2008
Meloy, M., & Phillips, D. (2008, July). Understanding gender differences in the effects of the Tulsa Pre-K Program on school readiness. Paper Presented at the First National Research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy, Bridgewater, MA.

Daglis, H., Woolard, J. L., & Harvell, S.S. (2008, March). Police interviewing and interrogation of juvenile suspects in custodial and non-custodial settings. In J. L. Woolard (chair), A developmental approach to juvenile interrogation: perspectives from parents, cops, kids, and prosecutors. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, Jacksonville, FL.

Lowenstein, A. E. (2008, July). Understanding the pre-K movement: the anatomy of an advocacy campaign. Paper presented at the First National Research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy, Bridgewater, MA.

Simon, J. R., Barnes, K. A., Vaidya, C. J., Howard, J. H., & Howard, D. V. (2008, April). Neural basis of implicit sequence learning in a probabilistic Triplets Learning Task. Poster session presented at the 15th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Simon, J. R., Howard, J. H., Frank, M. J., & Howard, D. V. (2008, April). Adult age differences in positive versus negative feedback learning in Probabilistic Selection. Poster session presented at the 12th biennial meeting of the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Stollstorff, M., Bean, S.E., Shook, D., Ruiz, E., Billington, M., Kenealy, L., Vaidya, C.J. (November, 2008). Effect of DAT1 on reasoning and belief bias in children with and without ADHD. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual meeting, Washington, DC.

Zack, E., Barr, R., Shuck, L., Sperle, E., Shroff, G., Dickerson, K., Miller, S. Gerhardstein, P., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2008, March). Infants fail at a transfer of learning task from 2D to 3D and 3D to 2D. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.

Zack, E., Fidler, A., Carr, C., Lee. J., Reyes, J., & Barr, R (2008, March). Television viewing patterns in 6- and 9-month-olds: The role of infant-parent interactions and joint attention. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.