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Diego Placido
@dplacidoeffect.bsky.social
Dev Psych PhD Candidate @ UC Davis | Cognitive Control | #NSFGRFP Fellow | #FGLI | 🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈✊🏽🧠
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Just published! ✨ Across 15+ timepoints, we found that unpredictability in economic hardship – not only severity – shapes young children’s self-regulation. Understanding these dynamics can help us design supports that promote stability and adaptive development. 👉 bit.ly/4oIZO75
Hidden dynamics of economic hardship: Characterizing economic unpredictability and its role on self-regulation in early childhood | Development and Psychopathology | Cambridge Core
Hidden dynamics of economic hardship: Characterizing economic unpredictability and its role on self-regulation in early childhood
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October 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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New paper!
How does the brain retrieve probabilistic representations? Can we enhance this process? Our latest study says yes! We show that DLPFC intervention improves access to representations built up through statistical learning.
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Enhancing retrieval capacity of the predictive brain through dorsolateral prefrontal cortex intervention
Abstract. Extracting spatial or temporal patterns across experiences is essential for skill acquisition and predictive processes. The prefrontal cortex pla
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February 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Very pleased to share our study from @ucdavis.bsky.social examining cognitive difficulties in children with asthma using data from the #ABCDStudy. Thanks to Dr. Simona Ghetti, our wonderful collaborators, and our funders #NIH @ucdaviscns.bsky.social.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Asthma and Memory Function in Children
This cohort study evaluates the association between childhood asthma and memory function among children aged 9 to 10 years.
jamanetwork.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Speaking of procrastination, I have a @natrevpsych.bsky.social review. A product of collaborative work with two developmental psychologists, it reviews the current status of procrastination research and suggests key future directions. View-only PDF: rdcu.be/dPMCV

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Mutual implications of procrastination research in adults and children for theory and intervention - Nature Reviews Psychology
Procrastination is often viewed as innocuous as long as deadlines are met but it is associated with negative life outcomes. In this Review, Mahy et al. bring together procrastination research in adult...
www.nature.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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Exciting table of contents for Child Development today, focusing on the development of indigenous children:
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678624...
<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 22, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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New! Special Issue Call at Developmental Psychology.

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The special issue will compile current evidence on the impact of specific caregiver practices on children’s social development in culturally diverse populations.

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Call for papers: Varieties of household experiences and children's positive social development in culturally diverse contexts
A call for papers from the APA journal Developmental Psychology for a special issue exploring the multifaceted relations between caregiver practices and key child social outcomes in diverse family and cultural settings.
apa.org
October 11, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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Special Issue at Developmental Psychology!

New Approaches to Understanding How Early Experience Shapes Executive Function and Self-Regulation Skills

Guest Editors: Sabine Doebel, Dana Miller-Cotto, and Jennifer McDermott
@sabinedoebel.bsky.social @damcotto.bsky.social

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November 21, 2024 at 8:21 PM