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Overview

Victoria J. Molfese is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with a particular emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology, education, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The main topics of their work include sleep and related disorders, early childhood education and development, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, infant development and preterm care, sleep and wakefulness research, child development and digital technology, and the impact of technology on adolescents.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Sleep across early childhood: implications for internalizing and externalizing problems, socioemotional skills, and cognitive and academic abilities in preschool (2020) published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Screen use before bedtime: Consequences for nighttime sleep in young children (2020) published in Infant Behavior and Development
  • The Family Context of Toddler Sleep: Routines, Sleep Environment, and Emotional Security Induction in the Hour before Bedtime (2020) published in Behavioral Sleep Medicine
  • Heterotypic continuity of inhibitory control in early childhood: Evidence from four widely used measures (2021) published in Developmental Psychology
  • Sustained attention across toddlerhood: The roles of language and sleep (2021) published in Developmental Psychology

Frequent co-authors of Victoria J. Molfese include:

  • Caroline P. Hoyniak
  • John E. Bates
  • Maureen E. McQuillan
  • Angela D. Staples
  • Kathleen Moritz Rudasill

Their publications appear regularly in several journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Infant Behavior and Development
  • Behavioral Sleep Medicine
  • Affective Science

Best Publications

  • Hemisphere and Stimulus Differences as Reflected in the Cortical Responses of Newborn Infants to Speech Stimuli.

    Dennis L. Molfese;Victoria J. Molfese

  • Electrophysiological indices of auditory discrimination in newborn infants: The bases for predicting later language development?*

    Dennis L. Molfese;Victoria J. Molfese

  • The Role of Environment in the Development of Reading Skills A Longitudinal Study of Preschool and School-Age Measures

    Victoria J. Molfese;Arlene Modglin;Dennis L. Molfese

  • Discrimination of Language Skills at Five Years of Age Using Event-Related Potentials Recorded at Birth

    Dennis L. Molfese;Victoria J. Molfese

  • Temperament and Personality Development Across the Life Span

    Victoria J. Molfese;Dennis L. Molfese;Robert R. McCrae

  • Snoring in Preschoolers: Associations with Sleepiness, Ethnicity, and Learning

    Hawley E. Montgomery-Downs;V. Faye Jones;Victoria J. Molfese;David Gozal

  • Effects of environmental measures on intelligence in young children: Growth curve modeling of longitudinal data

    Kimberly Andrews Espy;Victoria J. Molfese;Lisabeth F. DiLalla

  • Cortical response of preterm infants to phonetic and nonphonetic speech stimuli

    Dennis L. Molfese;Victoria J. Molfese

  • Alphabetic skills in preschool: a preliminary study of letter naming and letter writing.

    Victoria J. Molfese;Jennifer Beswick;Andrew Molnar;Jill Jacobi-Vessels

  • Infant Temperament, Maternal Personality, and Parenting Stress as Contributors to Infant Developmental Outcomes

    Victoria J. Molfese;Kathleen Moritz Rudasill;Jennifer L. Beswick;Jill L. Jacobi-Vessels

  • Letter Knowledge, Phonological Processing, and Print Knowledge Skill Development in Nonreading Preschool Children

    Victoria J. Molfese;Arlene A. Modglin;Jennifer L. Beswick;Jessica D. Neamon

  • Preschool Student Learning in Literacy and Mathematics: Impact of Teacher Experience, Qualifications, and Beliefs on an At-Risk Sample

    E. Todd Brown;Victoria J. Molfese;Peter Molfese

  • Smoking during pregnancy affects speech-processing ability in newborn infants.

    Alexandra P.F. Key;Melissa Ferguson;Dennis L. Molfese;Kelley Peach

  • Development of auditory event-related potentials in young children and relations to word-level reading abilities at age 8 years

    Kimberly Andrews Espy;Dennis L. Molfese;Victoria J. Molfese;Arlene Modglin

  • Evidence of alphabetic knowledge in writing: connections to letter and word identification skills in preschool and kindergarten

    Victoria J. Molfese;Jennifer L. Beswick;Jill L. Jacobi-Vessels;Natalie E. Armstrong

  • Newborn and Preschool Predictors of Second-Grade Reading Scores An Evaluation of Categorical and Continuous Scores

    Victoria J. Molfese;Dennis L. Molfese;Arlene A. Modgline

  • Executive function skills of 6–8 year olds: Brain and behavioral evidence and implications for school achievement

    Victoria J. Molfese;Peter J. Molfese;Dennis L. Molfese;Kathleen Moritz Rudasill

  • Prediction of the intelligence test scores of 3- to 8-year-old children by home environment, socioeconomic status, and biomedical risks

    Victoria J. Molfese;Lisabeth F. DiLalla;Debra Bunce

  • Temperament and Preschool Children's Peer Interactions.

    Ibrahim H Acar;Kathleen Moritz Rudasill;Victoria J. Molfese;Julia C. Torquati

  • A One-Hour Sleep Restriction Impacts Brain Processing in Young Children Across Tasks: Evidence From Event-related Potentials

    Dennis L. Molfese;Anna Ivanenko;Alexandra Fonaryova Key;Adrienne Roman

  • Stability of Temperament in Childhood: Laboratory Infant Assessment to Parent Report at Seven Years

    Victoria J. Molfese;Dennis L. Molfese;Robert R. McCrae

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis L. Molfese
Dennis L. Molfese University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Robert R. McCrae
Robert R. McCrae Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
John E. Bates
John E. Bates Indiana University
Kimberly Andrews Espy
Kimberly Andrews Espy Wayne State University
Jeffrey D. Long
Jeffrey D. Long University of Iowa
Mary K. Rothbart
Mary K. Rothbart University of Oregon
Virginia W. Berninger
Virginia W. Berninger University of Washington
Maria A. Gartstein
Maria A. Gartstein Washington State University
Bruce A. Thyer
Bruce A. Thyer Florida State University
Samuel P. Putnam
Samuel P. Putnam Bowdoin College

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