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Rebecca Bull is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and has an extensive publication record in social sciences, psychology, and mathematics. Their research primarily addresses cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, early childhood education and development, and mathematics education and teaching techniques.

The scientist's recent papers include the following:

  • "That's just impossible in my kindergarten." Advocating for 'glocal' early childhood curriculum frameworks (2020), Policy Futures in Education
  • Socioeconomic status, home mathematics environment and math achievement in kindergarten: A mediation analysis (2021), Developmental Science
  • Working memory and numeracy training for children with math learning difficulties: Evidence from a large-scale implementation in the classroom (2022), Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Numerical magnitude understanding in kindergartners: A specific and sensitive predictor of later mathematical difficulties? (2020), Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Maternal education and siblings: Agents of cognitive development in kindergarten (2021), Developmental Science

Rebecca Bull collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • David Múñez
  • Sandie Wong
  • Ee Lynn Ng
  • Kerry Lee
  • Laura McFarland

Publications are often featured in the following venues:

  • Developmental Science
  • Journal of Educational Psychology
  • International Journal of Early Childhood
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychological Assessment

Their work spans multiple subfields such as education, statistics and probability, developmental and educational psychology, general health professions, and social psychology.

Major topics covered in their research include:

  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • School Choice and Performance
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments

Additionally, Rebecca Bull has contributed to academic books published by Verlag Barbara Budrich, including the 2023 title Early Childhood Education Leadership in Times of Crisis.

Best Publications

  • Executive functioning as a predictor of children's mathematics ability: Inhibition, switching, and working memory

    Rebecca Bull;Gaia Scerif

  • Short-Term Memory, Working Memory, and Executive Functioning in Preschoolers: Longitudinal Predictors of Mathematical Achievement at Age 7 Years

    Rebecca Bull;Kimberly Andrews Espy;Sandra A. Wiebe

  • Developmental changes in executive functioning.

    Kerry Lee;Rebecca Bull;Ringo Ho Moon Ho

  • Executive Functioning and Mathematics Achievement

    Rebecca Bull;Kerry Lee

  • Children's arithmetical difficulties: contributions from processing speed, item identification, and short-term memory

    Rebecca Bull;Rhona S. Johnston

  • Exploring the roles of the visual‐spatial sketch pad and central executive in children's arithmetical skills: Views from cognition and developmental neuropsychology

    Rebecca Bull;Rhona S. Johnston;Jennifer A. Roy

  • Positive mood and executive function: evidence from stroop and fluency tasks.

    Louise H. Phillips;Rebecca Bull;Ewan Adams;Lisa Fraser

  • The effects of phonological and visual-spatial interference on children's arithmetical performance.

    Bruce McKenzie;Rebecca Bull;Colin Gray

  • The role of control functions in mentalizing: dual-task studies of theory of mind and executive function.

    Rebecca Bull;Louise H. Phillips;Claire A. Conway

  • Number games, magnitude representation, and basic number skills in preschoolers

    Jemma Catherine Whyte;Rebecca Bull

  • A comparison of performance on the Towers of London and Hanoi in young children.

    Rebecca Bull;Kimberly Andrews Espy;Theresa E. Senn

  • Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis to Understand Executive Control in Preschool Children: Sources of Variation in Emergent Mathematic Achievement.

    Rebecca Bull;Kimberly Andrews Espy;Sandra A. Wiebe;Tiffany D. Sheffield

  • Helping to Improve the Group Stereotype: On the Strategic Dimension of Prosocial Behavior

    Nick Hopkins;Steve Reicher;Kate Harrison;Clare Cassidy

  • Exploring the Specificity of Age-Related Differences in Theory of Mind Tasks

    Gillian Slessor;Louise Helen Phillips;Rebecca Bull

  • Inhibitory Processes in Young Children and Individual Variation in Short-Term Memory

    Kimberly Andrews Espy;Rebecca Bull

  • Lifespan aging and belief reasoning: Influences of executive function and social cue decoding.

    Louise H. Phillips;Rebecca Bull;Roy Allen;Pauline Insch

  • Developmental Changes in Working Memory, Updating, and Math Achievement.

    Kerry Lee;Rebecca Bull

  • The cognitive underpinnings of emerging mathematical skills: Executive functioning, patterns, numeracy, and arithmetic

    Kerry Lee;Swee Fong Ng;Madeline Lee Pe;Su Yin Ang

  • Measuring the development of executive control with the shape school

    Kimberly Andrews Espy;Rebecca Bull;Jessica Martin;Walter Stroup

  • Executive functioning in preschoolers: reducing the inhibitory demands of the dimensional change card sort task.

    David A. C. Rennie;Rebecca Bull;Adele Diamond

Frequent Co-Authors

Louise H. Phillips
Louise H. Phillips University of Aberdeen
Kimberly Andrews Espy
Kimberly Andrews Espy Wayne State University
Marc Marschark
Marc Marschark Rochester Institute of Technology
Sandra A. Wiebe
Sandra A. Wiebe University of Alberta
Adele Diamond
Adele Diamond University of British Columbia
Mike W.-L. Cheung
Mike W.-L. Cheung National University of Singapore
Donald B. Bailey
Donald B. Bailey Research Triangle Park Foundation
Matthias Kliegel
Matthias Kliegel University of Geneva
Rauno Parrila
Rauno Parrila Macquarie University
Nick Hopkins
Nick Hopkins University of Dundee

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