University Distinguished Professor
College of Science Faculty Fellow
Faculty, Department of Psychology
Faculty, Developmental Science Graduate Program
Director, The CAP Lab
College of Science Faculty Fellow
Faculty, Department of Psychology
Faculty, Developmental Science Graduate Program
Director, The CAP Lab
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*Fall 2023*
M 4-5
Tu 2-3
Th 9-10
M 4-5
Tu 2-3
Th 9-10
Office Address
333 Williams Hall
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Curriculum Vitae
Short Bio
since 2021 --- University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech
since 2019 --- 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
since 2019 --- 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
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.
- RECENT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:
- 2023
- Bertrand, C., Bell, M.A., & Deater-Deckard, K. (2023). Maternal executive function, authoritarian attitudes, and hostile attribution bias as interacting predictors of harsh parenting. Journal of Family Psychology, 37(3), 388–397.
- Bruce, M., Ermanni, B., & Bell, M.A. (2023). The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development. Infant Behavior and Development, 72, e101847
- Bruce, M., Savla, J., & Bell, M.A. (2023_online). From terrible twos to sassy sixes: The development of vocabulary and executive functioning across early childhood. Developmental Science, e13396.
- Hassan, R., Smith, C.L., Schmidt, L.A., Brook, C.A., & Bell, M.A. (2023_online). Developmental patterns of children’s shyness: Relations with physiological, emotional, and regulatory responses to being treated unfairly. Child Development.
- Liu, R., & Bell, M.A. (2023). Fearful temperament in middle childhood predicts adolescent attention bias and anxiety symptoms: The moderating role of frontal EEG asymmetry. Development and Psychopathology, 35, 1335-1345.
- 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.
- Phillips, J.J., Bruce, M., & Bell, M.A. (2023). Setting the stage: Biopsychosocial predictors of early childhood externalizing behaviors. Developmental Psychobiology,65, e22391.
- Wolfe, C.D., & Bell, M.A. (2023). The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial. Infant Behavior and Development, e101845.
- 2022
- Blankenship, T.L., Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A. (2022). The role of executive functions in item recognition and temporal order memory development. Journal of Cognition and Development, 23, 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., & Bell, M.A. (2022). Vocabulary and executive functioning: A scoping review of the unidirectional and bidirectional associations across early childhood. Human Development, 66, 167-187.
- Bruce, M., 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., Miyazaki, Y., & Bell, M.A. (2022). Infant attention and maternal education are associated with childhood receptive vocabulary development. Developmental Psychology, 58, 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.
Degrees
- 1992 --- PhD, Human Development, Univ of Maryland
- 1983 --- MS, Child and Family Studies, Univ of Tennessee
- 1978 --- BS, Home Economics, Carson-Newman College