Jennifer M. McDermott
Associate Professor
Education
PhD, University of Maryland
Center and Institute Affilitation
Center for Research on Families
Healthy Development Initiative at Springfield
Neuroscience & Behavior Graduate Program
Rudd Adoption Research Program
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.