I'm an Associate Professor of Human Development and Psychology at UCLA in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.  I am also faculty director of the UC|CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity, and Learning.

 

Motivated by an interest in identifying the factors that contribute to individual differences in student’s school success, I examine how school experiences shape student’s cognitive development, including cognitive control (or executive functions), memory, and metacognition.

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Drawing on methods from psychology, education, and cognitive neuroscience, for the past decade I have been conducting neuroscientific research in schools and classrooms to examine the neural correlates of cognition in real-world settings. By bringing neuroscience into the school context, my goal is to characterize the complex interactions between students and their environments that propel developmental change. In doing so, I works to identify classroom-based strategies to support students with low self-regulation, ADHD, and anxiety.