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B.E.A.R LAb News
Recruiting California Educators!
We are recruiting pre-service and current pre-K to high school educators in California to participate in an online survey to help us understand educators’ experiences and knowledge relating to how your students learn.
New Papers from the BEAR Lab Team!
Measuring Attention Using EEG in Real-World Settings
Xu, K., Torgrimson, S. J., Torres, R., Lenartowicz, A., & Grammer, J. K. (2022). EEG data quality in real‐world settings: Examining neural correlates of attention in school‐aged children. Mind, Brain, and Education, 16(3), 221-227.
Grammer, J. K., Xu, K., & Lenartowicz, A. (2021). Effects of context on the neural correlates of attention in a college classroom. NPJ science of learning, 6(1), 15.
Student Persistence and Cognitive Control
Torgrimson, S. J., Tan, P. Z., & Grammer, J. K. (2021). Associations among response inhibition, motivational beliefs, and task persistence in early elementary school. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 208, 105141.
Measuring EF in the Group Setting
Ahmed, S. F., Grammer, J., & Morrison, F. (2021). Cognition in context: Validating group-based executive function assessments in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 208, 105131.
Culture, Parent Emotion Socialization, and Adolescent Peer Rejection
Rapp, A. M., Tan, P. Z., Grammer, J. K., Gehring, W. J., Miller, G. A., & Chavira, D. A. (2021). Cultural Values Influence Relations Between Parent Emotion Socialization and Adolescents’ Neural Responses to Peer Rejection. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 1-13.
Upcoming Presentations
Attention and Executive Functions
Grammer, J. K. (2024, July). Conceptual Clutter and Measurement Mayhem Revisited: Studying EF and Attention in the Classroom. Keynote at the International Mind, Brain and Education Society (IMBES) biannual conference, Leuven, Belgium.
Teacher’s Perception of Student’s Attention
Mao, X. Z., Grammer, J. G., Luo, M., Peng, R. (2024, July). Teacher's Perception of Children's Attention in Chinese Kindergarten Classrooms. Poster at the International Mind, Brain and Education Society (IMBES) biannual conference, Leuven, Belgium.
Educational Neuroscience
Hay, K., Mao, X. Z., Grammer, J. G., & Yoshimoto-Towery, A. (2024, April). Looking into California’s Science Framework via Sports and Exercise: Linking Neuroscience and Promoting Equitable Access. Poster at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual conference, Philadelphia, PA.
