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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Mary K. Rothbart is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with notable contributions to cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, clinical psychology, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Among recent papers co-authored or including their contribution are:

  • Individual differences in temperament and the efficiency of brain networks, 2021, published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Using item response theory to evaluate the Children's Behavior Questionnaire: Considerations of general functioning and assessment length, 2020, published in Psychological Assessment
  • Fifty years integrating neurobiology and psychology to study attention, 2023, published in Biological Psychology
  • Decision Making as a Learned Skill in Mice and Humans, 2022, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Increasing the amplitude of intrinsic theta in the human brain, 2020, published in AIMS neuroscience

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Michael I. Posner
  • Philip J. Corr
  • Aldis P. Weible
  • Pascale Voelker
  • Cristopher M. Niell

The scientist has published in several notable venues including Biological Psychology, Psychological Assessment, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, and AIMS neuroscience.

Mary K. Rothbart has also contributed to the literature through book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press. One such book is "The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology" (2020), which has received citations within the academic community.

Among recognitions received, they were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Investigations of temperament at three to seven years: the Children's Behavior Questionnaire.

    Mary K. Rothbart;Stephan A. Ahadi;Karen L. Hershey;Phillip Fisher

  • Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation

    Yi-Yuan Tang;Yinghua Ma;Junhong Wang;Yaxin Fan

  • Developing mechanisms of self-regulation

    Michael I. Posner;Mary K. Rothbart

  • Temperament and personality: origins and outcomes.

    Mary K. Rothbart;Stephan A. Ahadi;David E. Evans

  • Research on Attention Networks as a Model for the Integration of Psychological Science

    Michael I Posner;Mary K Rothbart

  • Roundtable: what is temperament? Four approaches

    H. Hill Goldsmith;Arnold H. Buss;Robert Plomin;Mary Klevjord Rothbart

  • Studying infant temperament via the Revised Infant Behavior Questionnaire

    Maria A Gartstein;Mary K Rothbart

  • Measurement of Temperament in Infancy

    Mary Klevjord Rothbart

  • Development of individual differences in temperament

    M.K. Rothbart;D. Derryberry

  • Development of short and very short forms of the Children's Behavior Questionnaire.

    Samuel P Putnam;Mary K Rothbart

  • Training, maturation, and genetic influences on the development of executive attention

    M. Rosario Rueda;Mary K. Rothbart;Bruce D. McCandliss;Lisa Saccomanno

  • The development of executive attention: contributions to the emergence of self-regulation.

    M. Rosario Rueda;Michael I. Posner;Mary K. Rothbart

  • Temperament and social behavior in childhood

    Mary K. Rothbart;Stephan A. Ahadi;Karen L. Hershey

  • Attention, self-regulation and consciousness.

    M. I. Posner;M. K. Rothbart

  • Reactive and effortful processes in the organization of temperament

    Douglas Derryberry;Mary K. Rothbart

  • Measurement of fine-grained aspects of toddler temperament: The Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire.

    Samuel P. Putnam;Maria A. Gartstein;Mary K. Rothbart

  • Temperament, Development, and Personality:

    Mary K. Rothbart

  • Temperament in childhood.

    Geldolph A. Kohnstamm;John E. Bates;Mary Klevjord Rothbart

  • Developing a model for adult temperament

    David E. Evans;Mary K. Rothbart

  • Developing mechanisms of temperamental effortful control

    Mary K. Rothbart;Lesa K. Ellis;M. Rosario Rueda;Michael I. Posner

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael I. Posner
Michael I. Posner University of Oregon
Samuel P. Putnam
Samuel P. Putnam Bowdoin College
Maria A. Gartstein
Maria A. Gartstein Washington State University
Yi-Yuan Tang
Yi-Yuan Tang Arizona State University
Douglas Derryberry
Douglas Derryberry Oregon State University
H. Hill Goldsmith
H. Hill Goldsmith University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kenneth N. Levy
Kenneth N. Levy Pennsylvania State University
John E. Bates
John E. Bates Indiana University
Kathleen M. Thomas
Kathleen M. Thomas University of Minnesota
John F. Clarkin
John F. Clarkin Cornell University

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