Child Attention and Learning Lab

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Cynthia L. Huang-Pollock, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

 

 

Psychology Department Home | Psychological Clinic | Child Study Center

 

Clinical Neuropsychology at PSU | Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neurosciences at PSU

Select Publications:

Karalunas, S. & Huang-Pollock, C. (in press). Testing the dual-pathway hypothesis of

             ADHD.   Journal  of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.

 

Huang-Pollock, C., Maddox, T., & Karalunas, S.L. (2011). Development of implicit and explicit category learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109, 321-335.

 

Huang-Pollock, C. & Karalunas, S. (2010). Working memory demands impair skill acquisition in children with ADHD. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119, 174-185

 

Huang-Pollock, C., Mikami, A., Pfiffner, P., & McBurnett, K. (2009).  Can Executive Function Deficits Explain the Relationship between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Social Adjustment?  Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 37, 679-691.

 

Huang-Pollock, C.L., Mikami, A., Pfiffner, L., & McBurnett, K. (2007). ADHD subtype differences in motivational responsivity but not inhibitory control: Evidence from a reward-based variation of the stop signal paradigm. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 36, 127-136.

 

Huang-Pollock, C.L., Nigg, J.T., & Halperin, J.M. (2006). Single dissociation findings for ADHD deficits in Vigilance but not Anterior or Posterior Attention Systems. Neuropsychology, 20, 420-429.

 

Huang-Pollock, C.L., Nigg, J.T., & Carr, T.H. (2005). Deficient Attention is Hard to Find: Applying the Perceptual Load Model of Selective Attention to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Subtypes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46, 1211– 1218

 

Huang-Pollock, C.L. & Nigg, J.T. (2003). Searching for the attention deficit in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: The case of visuospatial orienting. Clinical Psychology Review, 23, 801-830.

 

Huang-Pollock, C.L., Carr, T.H., Nigg, J.T., (2002). Perceptual load influences late versus early selection in child and adult selective attention. Developmental Psychology, 38, 363-375.

Research Interests:

I am interested in the cognitive and neuropsychological risk factors that contribute to the development of attention, learning, and disruptive behavior problems in children.

Childhood Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is among the most common reasons for referral to medical, psychological, and school services, and is a significant risk factor for multiple poor outcomes, including academic underachievement and peer relationship problems.

My current research focus is to identify how children with attention problems acquire new skills, and how difficulties in emotion regulation, motivation biases, self-perception, anxiety, and depression may interfere with the skilled acquisition and execution of routine academic and social processes. The ultimate aim is to elucidate the causal mechanisms of ADHD, with the goal of improving the diagnostic accuracy and treatment of this disorder.

A copy of my curriculum vitae can be found here