University Distinguished Professor
Faculty, Department of Psychology
Faculty, Developmental Science Graduate Program
Director, The CAP Lab
Faculty, Department of Psychology
Faculty, Developmental Science Graduate Program
Director, The CAP Lab
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Office Hours
*Spring 2023*
Mondays 4-5
Tuesdays 12-1 (except for 2nd Tues of each month)
Fridays 9-10
or by appointment
Mondays 4-5
Tuesdays 12-1 (except for 2nd Tues of each month)
Fridays 9-10
or by appointment
Office Address
333 Williams Hall
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Research Center/Lab
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Curriculum Vitae
Short Bio
since 2021 --- University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech
2019-2022 --- College of Science Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech
since 2010 --- Professor of Psychology, Virginia Tech
2001-2010 --- Associate Professor of Psychology, Virginia Tech
1996-2001 --- Assistant Professor of Psychology, Virginia Tech
1993-1996 --- Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Univ of South Carolina
1992-1993 --- Research Associate, Child Development Lab, Univ of Maryland
2019-2022 --- College of Science Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech
since 2010 --- Professor of Psychology, Virginia Tech
2001-2010 --- Associate Professor of Psychology, Virginia Tech
1996-2001 --- Assistant Professor of Psychology, Virginia Tech
1993-1996 --- Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Univ of South Carolina
1992-1993 --- Research Associate, Child Development Lab, Univ of Maryland
Interests
Developmental changes in brain-behavior relations during infancy and early childhood; developmental cognitive neuroscience and developmental psychophysiology (executive function, emotion regulation, EEG, ECG); individual differences in development; integration of cognition and emotion in early development.
Recent Courses Taught
- PSYC 6944 - Advanced Topics in Developmental Psychology (spring 2023 seminar - "Developmental Psychobiology of Early Executive Function")
- PSYC 5544 - Cognitive Development
- PSYC 4034- Special Topics in Dev Psyc ("Child Cognitive and Social-Emotional Development")
Select Publications
- RECENT CHAPTERS:
- Cuevas, K., & Bell, M.A. (2022). EEG frequency development across infancy and childhood. In P. Gable, M. Miller, & E. Bernat (Eds.), Oxford handbook of human EEG frequency analysis (pp. 293-323). Oxford University Press.
- Bell, M.A., Phillips, J.J., & Bruce, M.D. (2022). Infant and toddler working memory. In M.L. Courage & N. Cowan (Eds.), The development of memory in infancy and childhood, 3rd Ed (pp. 87 – 110). New York: Routledge Press.
- Bell, M.A. (2020). Mother-child behavioral and physiological synchrony. In J. Benson (Ed.), Advances in child development and behavior, Vol 58 (pp. 163-188). Oxford, UK: Elsevier. https://authors.elsevier.com/b/1aimFErO9zLWb
- Bell, M.A., & Garcia Meza, T. (2020). Executive function. In J.B. Benson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of infant and early childhood development, 2nd ed (Vol 1, pp. 568-574). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
- RECENT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:
- 2023
- Bertrand, C., Bell, M.A., & Deater-Deckard, K. (in press). Maternal executive function, authoritarian attitudes, and hostile attribution bias as interacting predictors of harsh parenting. Journal of Family Psychology.
- Meza-Cervera, T., Kim-Spoon, J., & Bell, M.A. (2023). Adolescent depressive symptoms: The role of late childhood frontal EEG asymmetry, executive function, and adolescent cognitive reappraisal. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 51, 193-207.
- 2022
- Blankenship, T.L., Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A. (2022). The role of executive functions in familiarity and recollection development. Journal of Cognition and Development, 23(1), 135-147.
- Broomell, A.P.R., & Bell, M.A. (2022). Longitudinal structure of executive function from infancy to late childhood. Cognitive Development, 63, e101229.
- Bruce, M.D., & Bell, M.A. (2022_early online). Vocabulary and executive functioning: A scoping review of the unidirectional and bidirectional associations across early childhood. Human Development.
- Bruce, M.D., McFayden, T.C., Ollendick, T.H., & Bell, M.A. (2022). Expressive language in infancy and toddlerhood: The role of child temperament and maternal parenting behaviors. Developmental Psychobiology, 64, e22287.
- Bruce, M.D., Miyazaki, Y., & Bell, M.A. (2022). Infant attention and maternal education are associated with childhood receptive vocabulary development. Developmental Psychology, 58(7), 1207-1220.
- Gartstein, M.A., Seamon, E., Mattera, J.A., Enlow, M.B., Wright, R.J., Perez-Edgar, K., Buss, K., LoBue, V., Bell, M.A., Goodman, S.H., Spieker, S., Bridgett, D.J., Salisbury, A.L., Gunnar, M., Muzik, M., Stifter, C., Planalp, E.M., Mehr, S., Spelke, E., Lukowski, A.F., Groh, A., Lickenbrock, D.M., Santelli, R., Schudlich, T.D., Anzman-Frasca, S., Thrasher, C., Diaz, A., Dayton, C., Moding, K., Jordan, E.M., & Miliner, S. (2022). Using machine learning to understand age and gender classification based on infant temperament. PLOS ONE, e0266026
- Meza-Cervera, T., Tucker, A., Liu, R., & Bell, M.A. (2022). Child emotion inhibition mediates the effect of parent’s adaptive cognitive emotion regulation on child frontal EEG asymmetry during reappraisal. Developmental Psychobiology, 64, e22339.
- Zerrouk, M., Diaz, A., & Bell, M.A. (2022). Inhibitory control moderates the association between fear and attention bias to snakes in middle childhood. Cognitive Development, 64, 101253.
- 2021
- Broomell, A.P.R., Savla, J., Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A. (2021). Infant EEG coherence and early childhood inhibitory control: Foundations for social cognition in late childhood. Developmental Psychology, 57(9), 1439-1451.
- Clark, E.A., Duncan, S.E., Bell, M.A., Lahne, J., Gallagher, D.L., & O’Keefe, S.F. (2021). Characterizing consumer emotional response to milk packaging guides interpretation of consumer behavior. Food Quality and Preference, 87, e103984.
- Goodman, S.H., Liu, R., Lusby, C.M., Park, J.S., Bell, M.A., Newport, D.J., & Stowe, Z.N. (2021). Consistency of EEG asymmetry patterns in infants of depressed mothers. Developmental Psychobiology, 63, 768-781.
- Holmboe, K., Larkman, C., de Klerk, C., Simpson, A., Bell, M.A., Patton, L., Christodoulou, C., & Divergsdal, H. (2021). The Early Childhood Inhibitory Touchscreen Task: A new measure of response inhibition in toddlerhood and across and lifespan. PLOS ONE, 2021, e0260695.
- Hong, Y., McCormick, S., Deater-Deckard, K., Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A. (2021). Household chaos, parental responses to emotion and child emotion regulation in middle childhood. Social Development, 30, 786-805.
- Hunter H., Allen, K.B., Liu, R., Jaekel, J., & Bell, M.A. (2021). Examining the bidirectional relationships between maternal intrusiveness and child internalizing symptoms in a community sample: A longitudinal study from infancy to middle childhood. Depression and Anxiety, 38(12), 1245-1255.
- Liu, R., & Bell, M.A. (2021_early online). Fearful temperament in middle childhood predicts adolescent attention bias and anxiety symptoms: The moderating role of frontal EEG asymmetry. Development and Psychopathology.
- Liu, R., Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A. (2021). Frontal EEG asymmetry moderates the associations between negative temperament and behavioral problems during childhood. Development and Psychopathology, 33(3), 1016-1025.
- Liu, L., Phillips, J.J., Ji, F., Shi, D., & Bell, M.A. (2021). Temperamental shyness and anger/frustration in childhood: Normative development, individual differences, and the impacts of maternal intrusiveness and frontal EEG asymmetry. Child Development, 92(6), 2529-2545.
- Rajan, V., Cuevas, K., & Bell, M.A. (2021). Memory binding and theta EEG during middle childhood. Developmental Psychobiology, 63, e22124.
- Whedon, M., Perry, N., Curtis, E., & Bell, M.A. (2021). Private speech and the development of self-regulation: The importance of temperamental anger. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 56, 213-224.
Degrees
- 1992 --- PhD, Human Development, Univ of Maryland
- 1983 --- MS, Child and Family Studies, Univ of Tennessee
- 1978 --- BS, Home Economics, Carson-Newman College