Martha Ann Bell

Faculty, Department of Psychology
Faculty, Developmental and Biological Psychology
Faculty/Consultant, Child Study Center
Director, CAP Lab

Background

• 2010-present --- Professor of Psychology, Virginia Tech
• 2001-2010 --- Associate Professor of Psychology, Virginia Tech
• 1996-2001 --- Assistant Professor of Psychology, Virginia Tech
• 1993-96 --- Visiting Assistant Prof of Psychology, Univ of South Carolina
• 1993 --- Research Associate, Child Dev Research Lab, Univ of Maryland
• 1992 --- Ph.D., Human Development, Univ of Maryland
• 1983 --- M.S., Child and Family Studies, Univ of Tennessee
• 1978 --- B.S., Home Economics Education, Carson-Newman College

Interests

• Developmental changes in brain-behavior relations during infancy and early childhood; developmental cognitive neuroscience and developmental psychophysiology (executive function, emotion regulation, EEG, ECG); individual differences in development; integration of cognition and emotion in early development.

Courses Taught

• 5544 - Cognitive Development ("Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience")
• 6944 - Adv Topics in Dev Psyc ("Developmental Affective Neuroscience")
• 4034 - Advanced Developmental Psychology (infant & child)

Publications

• Bell, M.A. & Cuevas, K. (in press). Psychobiology of executive function in early development. To appear in J.A. Griffin, L.S. Freund, & P. McCardle (Eds.), Executive function in preschool age children: Integrating measurement, neurodevelopment and translational research. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Bell, M.A., Kraybill, J. H., & Diaz, A. (in press). Reactivity, regulation, and remembering: Associations between temperament and memory. To appear in P.J. Bauer & R. Fivush (Eds.), Handbook on the development of children’s memory. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Cuevas, K., & Bell, M.A. (in press). Infant attention and early childhood executive function. Child Development.
• Cuevas, K., Deater-Deckard, K., Watson, A.J., Kim-Spoon, J., Morasch, K.C., & Bell, M.A. (in press). What’s mom got to do with it? Contributions of maternal executive function and caregiving to the development of executive function across early childhood. Developmental Science.
• Lusby, C.M., Goodman, S.H., Bell, M.A., & Newport, D.J. (in press). Electroencephalogram patterns in infants of depressed mothers. Developmental Psychobiology.
• Wang, Z., Deater-Deckard, K., & Bell, M.A. (in press). Household chaos moderates the link between maternal attribution bias and parenting. Parenting: Science and Practice.
• Morasch, K.C., Raj, V.R., & Bell, M.A. (2013). The development of cognitive control from infancy through childhood. In D. Reisberg (Ed.), Oxford handbook of cognitive psychology (pp. 989-999). New York: Oxford.
• Patriquin, M.A., Lorenzi, J., Scarpa, A., & Bell, M.A. (2013, early on-line publication). Developmental trajectories of respiratory sinus arrhythmia: Associations with social responsiveness. Developmental Psychobiology. doi:10.1002/dev.21100
• Rajan, V., Cuevas, K., & Bell, M.A. (2013, early on-line publication). The contributions of executive function to source memory development in early childhood. Journal of Cognition and Development. doi:10.1080/15248372.2013.763809
• Watson, A.J., & Bell, M.A. (2013). Individual differences in inhibitory control skills at three years of age. Developmental Neuropsychology, 38, 1-21.
• Kraybill, J.H., & Bell, M.A. (2012, early on-line pubication). Infancy predictors of preschool and post-kindergarten executive function. Developmental Psychobiology. doi:10.102/dev.21057
• Salley, B., Miller, A., & Bell, M.A. (2012, early on-line publication). Associations between temperament and social responsiveness in young children. Infant and Child Development. doi:10.1002/icd.1785