Jennifer M. McDermott | Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Associate Professor

PhD, University of Maryland

Tobin 618

(413) 545-5959

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jmm@umass.edu

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Learning Lab

Research Area(s):

Clinical Psychology

Developmental Science

Center and Institute Affilitation:

Center for Research on Families

Healthy Development Initiative at Springfield

Neuroscience & Behavior Graduate Program

Rudd Adoption Research Program

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Research

My program of research bridges developmental, cognitive, and affective neuroscience. I use this combined perspective to explore individual differences and the role of early experience in relation to cognitive development and social outcomes. I am particularly interested in the role of response monitoring in children’s learning and behavioral regulation.

Teaching

Psych 350 - Developmental Psychology

Psych 350H - Honors Developmental Psychology

Psych 391SE - Socioemotional Development

Psych 591/891 Critical Periods and Developmental Plasticity

Publications

Articles:

McDermott, J.M., Pears, K.C., Bruce, J., Kim, H.K., Roos, L., Yoeger, K.L. & Fisher, P. (2017, in press). Improving Kindergarten Readiness in Children with Developmental Disabilities: Changes in Neural Correlates of Response Monitoring. Applied Neuropsychology: Child.

Flegenheimer, C., Lugo-Candelas, C., Harvey, E. & McDermott, J.M. (2017, in press). Neural processing of threat cues in young children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.

Cremone, A., de Jong, D.M., Kurdziel, L. B.F., Desrochers, P., Sayer, A., LeBourgeois, M., Spencer, R.M.C. & McDermott, J.M. (2017, in press). Temperamental negative affect, sleep variability and behavior problems in preschool-aged children. Child Development.

Cremonea, A., McDermott, J.M., & Spencer, R.M.C. (2017). Naps enhance executive attention in preschool-aged children. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 42, 837-845.

Cremonea, A., Lugo-Candelasa, C., Harvey, E., McDermott, J.M., & Spencer, R.M.C. (2017). REM theta activity enhances inhibitory control in typically developing children but not children with ADHD symptoms. Experimental Brain Research, 235, 1491-1500.

Lugo-Candelas, C., Flegenheimer, C., McDermott, J.M. & Harvey, E. (2017). Emotion Understanding, Reactivity, and Regulation in Young Children with ADHD Symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 45, 1297-1310.

Lugo-Candelas, C., Flegenheimer, C., Harvey, E. & McDermott, J.M. (2017). Neural correlates of emotion reactivity and regulation in young children with ADHD symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 45, 1311-1324.

Cremone, A., Kurdziel, L., Fraticelli-Torres, A., McDermott, J.M.+, Spencer, R. + (2017). Napping Reduces Emotional Reactivity in Preschool-Aged Children. Developmental Science, 20, 1-12.

Troller-Refree, S., McDermott, J.M., Nelson, C.A., Zeanah, C.H. & Fox, N.A. (2014). The effects of early intervention on attention biases in previously institutionalized children in Romania. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.12261

Grotevant, H.D. & McDermott, J.M. (2014). Adoption: Biological and social processes linked to adaptation. Annual Reviews of Psychology, 65, 235-265.

Lamm, C., Walker, O., Degnan, K. Henderson, Pine, D., McDermott, J.M. & Fox, N.A. (2014). Cognitive control moderates early childhood temperament in predicting social behavior in 7-year-old children: An ERP study. Developmental Science, 17, 667-681

McDermott, J.M. Troller-Renfree, S., Vanderwert, R., Nelson, C., Zeanah, C., & Fox, N.A. (2013). Psychosocial deprivation, executive functions and the emergence of socio-emotional behavior problems. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, ArtID 167

Nelson, C.A., Westerlund, A., McDermott, J.M., Zeanah, C.H. & Fox, N.A. (2013). Emotion recognition following early psychosocial deprivation. Developmental Psychopathology, 25, 517-525.

Lahat, A., Degnan, K.A., White, L.K., McDermott, J.M., Henderson, H.A., Lejuez, C. et al. (2012). Temperamental exuberance and executive function predict propensity for risk-taking in childhood. Development and Psychopathology, 24, 847-856.

McDermott, J.M., Westerlund, A., Zeanah, C.H., Nelson, C.A. & Fox, N.A. (2012). Early adversity and neural correlates of executive function: Implications for academic adjustment. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2S, S59-S66.

Lamm, C., White, L.K., McDermott, J.M. & Fox, N.A. (2012). Neural activation underlying inhibitory control in the context of neutral and affectively charged pictures in children. Brain and Cognition, 79, 181-187.

Perez-Edgar, K., Reeb-Sunderland, B.C., McDermott, J.M., White, L.K., Henderson, H.A., Degnan, K.A. et al. (2011). Attention biases to threat link behavioral inhibition to social withdrawal over time in very young children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 39, 885-895.

White, L.K., McDermott, J.M., Degnan, K.A., Henderson, H.A. & Fox, N.A. (2011). Behavioral inhibition and anxiety: The moderating roles of inhibitory control and attention shifting. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 39, 735-747.

Pérez-Edgar, K., McDermott, J. M., Korelitz, K., Degnan, K. E., Curby, T. W., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (2010). Patterns of sustained attention in infancy shape the developmental trajectory of social behavior from toddlerhood through adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 46, 1723-1730.

Pérez-Edgar, K., Fox, N. A., Bar-Haim, Y., McDermott, J.M., & Pine, D. S. (2010). Attention biases to threat and behavioral inhibition in early childhood to adolescent social withdrawal. Emotion, 10, 349-357.

He, J., Degnan, K.A., McDermott, J.M., Henderson, H.A., Hane, A.A., & Fox, N.A. (2010). Anger and approach motivation in infancy: Relations to early childhood inhibitory control and behavior problems. Infancy, 15, 246-269.

Pérez-Edgar, K., Bar-Haim, Y., McDermott, J.M., Goldman, D., Hodgkinson, C., Gorodetsky, E., Ernst, M., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (2010). Variations in the serotonin transporter gene are linked to heightened attention bias to threat. Biological Psychology, 83, 269-271.

McDermott, J.M., Pérez-Edgar, K., Henderson, H.A., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Pine, D., & Fox, N.A. (2009). A history of childhood behavioral inhibition and enhanced response monitoring in adolescence are linked to clinical anxiety. Biological Psychiatry, 65, 445-48.

Bruce, J., McDermott, J.M., Fisher, P.A. & Fox, N.A. (2009). Using behavioral and electrophysiological measures to assess the effects of a preventive intervention: a preliminary study with preschool-aged foster children. Prevention Science, 10, 129-140.

McDermott, J.N.M. & Fox, N.A. (2007). Conundrums in the use of observational measures of socio-emotional behavior. Infant Mental Health Journal, 28, 667-681.

McDermott J.N.M., Pérez -Edgar, K. & Fox, N.A. (2007). Variations of the flanker paradigm: Assessing selective attention in young children. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 62-70.

Nichols, K.E., Martin, J.N. & Fox, N.A. (2005). Individual differences in the development of social communication: Joint attention and temperament. Cognition, Brain & Behavior, 9, 317-332.

Chapters:

McDermott, J.M. & Fox, N.A. (2017, in press). Emerging executive functions: Antecedents and influence of caregiving. In C.A. Zeanah (Ed.), Handbook of Infant Mental Health.

McDermott, J.M. & Fox, N.A. (2010). Exploring response-monitoring: Developmental differences and contributions to self-regulation. In R.H. Hoyle (Ed.), Handbook of Self-Regulation and Personality.Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.

Martin, J.N. & Fox, N.A. (2006). Temperament (pp. 126-146). In K. McCartney & D. Phillips (Eds.), Handbook of Early Child Development. Blackwell: Malden, Massachusetts.

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