Commentary by Dr. Christia Spears Brown. Science has long addressed issues important to public health. For example, since antiquity, scientists have sought to understand how diseases spread from person to person. Regardless of prevailing public opinion, generations of scientists pursued basic and applied research that eventually led to vaccines capable of eradicating many once-deadly diseases.
Dynamic Field Theory of Executive Function: Identifying Early Neurocognitive Markers
By Alexis McCraw, Jacqueline Sullivan, Kara Lowery, Rachel Eddings, Hollis R. Heim, & Aaron T. Buss.
Much ado about generalization? What convenience samples can—and cannot—tell us about executive function development | Commentary 89.3
Commentary by Dr. Sabine Doebel. Executive function (EF) is a core capacity of the human mind and brain that allows us to think before we act and select behaviors that align with our goals, knowledge, values, and social norms.
A Place for Learning in Executive Function Development | Commentary 89.3
Commentary by Dr. Sammy Perone. In their Monograph…McCraw and colleagues present a theory-driven test of the mechanisms driving the early development of executive function.
Moving Towards a Developmental Conceptualization of Executive Function Skills | Commentary 89.3
Commentary by Dr. Michael T. Willoughby. The authors’ reliance on dynamic field (DF) theory is a distinguishing feature of this work.
Author Interviews | Monographs 89.3 | Video
The following clips were taken from an interview between Chang Liu, Associate Editor of Monograph Matters, and Alexis McCraw, Hollis R. Heim, and Aaron T. Buss, who contributed to “Dynamic Field Theory of Executive Function: Identifying Early Neurocognitive Markers” published in the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, (89)3.
Place Based Developmental Research: Conceptual and Methodological Advances in Studying Youth Development in Context
By Dawn P. Witherspoon, Rebecca M.B. White, Mayra Y. Bámaca, Christopher R. Browning, Tamara G.J. Leech, Tama Leventhal, Stephen A. Matthews, Nicolo Pinchak, Amanda L. Roy, Naomi Sugie, and Erin N. Winkler.
Place-based Developmental Research: Conceptual and Methodological Advances in Studying Youth Development in Context | Commentary 88.3
Commentary by Dr. Hannah Badland. The Monograph. . .weaves together neighborhood effects scholarship and cultural-development neighborhood research by…
Advancing Neighborhood Research Through Innovations in Method and Theory | Commentary 88.3
Commentary by Dr. Arianna M. Gard. Where you grow up shapes your development across the life course. This is the message that has been touted by psychologists, sociologists, economists, and public health scholars.