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Martha Ann Bell

Martha Ann Bell

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Psychology

D-Index
50
Citations
9955
World Ranking
5440
National Ranking
2971

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Martha Ann Bell is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in the field of Psychology. Their work spans several subfields, including Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Education, Social Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The principal subjects of their research include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Early Childhood Education and Development, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Child and Animal Learning Development, Cognitive Abilities and Testing, and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum.

Recent publications by Martha Ann Bell include:

  • "The Facial Action Coding System for Characterization of Human Affective Response to Consumer Product-Based Stimuli: A Systematic Review" (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Mother-child behavioral and physiological synchrony" (2020), published in Advances in Child Development and Behavior
  • "Relations between frontal EEG maturation and inhibitory control in preschool in the prediction of children's early academic skills" (2020), published in Brain and Cognition
  • "The early childhood inhibitory touchscreen task: A new measure of response inhibition in toddlerhood and across the lifespan" (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • "Characterizing consumer emotional response to milk packaging guides packaging material selection" (2020), published in Food Quality and Preference

Collaborations have been a significant part of their scientific output. Frequent coauthors include Madeleine Bruce, Jennifer J. Phillips, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Ran Liu, and Cynthia L. Smith.

Martha Ann Bell has published predominantly in several journals, with multiple contributions in:

  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Cognitive Development
  • Infant Behavior and Development

In 2007, Martha Ann Bell was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Best Publications

  • The relations between frontal brain electrical activity and cognitive development during infancy.

    Martha Ann Bell;Nathan A. Fox

  • Emotion and Cognition: An Intricately Bound Developmental Process

    Martha Ann Bell;Christy D. Wolfe

  • Maternal executive function, harsh parenting, and child conduct problems

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Zhe Wang;Nan Chen;Martha Ann Bell

  • Working memory and inhibitory control in early childhood: Contributions from physiology, temperament, and language.

    Christy D. Wolfe;Martha Ann Bell

  • Using EEG to Study Cognitive Development: Issues and Practices

    Martha Ann Bell;Kimberly Cuevas

  • What's mom got to do with it? Contributions of maternal executive function and caregiving to the development of executive function across early childhood.

    Kimberly Cuevas;Kirby Deater-Deckard;Jungmeen Kim-Spoon;Amanda J. Watson

  • Infant Attention and Early Childhood Executive Function

    Kimberly Cuevas;Martha Ann Bell

  • Neural plasticity and development in the first two years of life: Evidence from cognitive and socioemotional domains of research

    Nathan A. Fox;Susan D. Calkins;Martha Ann Bell

  • Biological Systems and the Development of Self-Regulation: Integrating Behavior, Genetics, and Psychophysiology

    Martha Ann Bell;Kirby Deater-Deckard

  • The Integration of Cognition and Emotion during Infancy and Early Childhood: Regulatory Processes Associated with the Development of Working Memory.

    Christy D. Wolfe;Martha Ann Bell

  • Individual differences in response to stress and cerebral asymmetry.

    Nathan A. Fox;Martha Ann Bell;Nancy Aaron Jones

  • Changes in Brain Functioning From Infancy to Early Childhood: Evidence From EEG Power and Coherence During Working Memory Tasks

    Martha Ann Bell;Christy D. Wolfe

  • Crawling experience is related to changes in cortical organization during infancy: evidence from EEG coherence.

    Martha Ann Bell;Nathan A. Fox

  • Child development at the intersection of emotion and cognition

    Susan D. Calkins;Martha Ann Bell

  • Longitudinal Associations between the Quality of Mother-Infant Interactions and Brain Development across Infancy.

    Annie Bernier;Susan D. Calkins;Martha Ann Bell

  • Individual differences in object permanence performance at 8 months: locomotor experience and brain electrical activity

    Martha Ann Bell;Nathan A. Fox

  • The Role of Inhibitory Control in Behavioral and Physiological Expressions of Toddler Executive Function

    Katherine C. Morasch;Martha Ann Bell

  • Sex differences on a mental rotation task: variations in electroencephalogram hemispheric activation between children and college students.

    Jonathan E. Roberts;Martha Ann Bell

  • Stroop color—word interference and electroencephalogram activation: Evidence for age-related decline of the anterior attention system.

    Robert West;Martha Ann Bell

  • Brain Electrical Activity Associated With Cognitive Processing During a Looking Version of the A‐Not‐B Task

    Martha Ann Bell

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan D. Calkins
Susan D. Calkins University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Kirby Deater-Deckard
Kirby Deater-Deckard University of Massachusetts Amherst
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Angela Scarpa
Angela Scarpa Virginia Tech
Sherryl H. Goodman
Sherryl H. Goodman Emory University
Maria A. Gartstein
Maria A. Gartstein Washington State University
Stuart Marcovitch
Stuart Marcovitch University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Susan W. White
Susan W. White University of Alabama
Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley
Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota

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