Tara McAuley | Faculty | People | Psychology

Tara McAuley
Assistant Professor

Dr. McAuley will be accepting graduate students for the 2012 academic year.

Clinical Psychology
B.Sc. (University of Toronto), Ph.D. (Washington University)
Phone: 519-888-4567 x31343
Fax: 519-746-8631
Office: PAS 3016
email: tara.mcauley@uwaterloo.ca
Child and Adolescent Neuropsychology Lab

Research Interests

My research interests pertain to the development of executive control - a set of inter-related skills that facilitate purposeful, goal-oriented behaviour. My goal as a clinician scientist is to cultivate a programme of research in which the promotion of these skills is an overarching theme. Specific foci include: (1) modeling executive control across development, with a particular focus on transitional periods that occur in early childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, (2) identifying factors that influence the development of executive control, including neurobiological risk, psychosocial adversity, and social-cultural context, (3) further elucidating the relationship between executive control and other domains of function, including academic achievement, emotional adjustment, and peer relations, and (4) developing interventions that strengthen core executive skills. My research examines these questions in the context of typical and atypical development using converging behavioural and neuroimaging methods.

Selected Publications

McAuley, T., Christ, S. E., & White, D. A. (2011). Mapping the development of response inhibition in young children using a modified day-night task. Developmental Neuropsychology, 36(5), 539-551.
McAuley, T., & White, D. A. (2011). A latent variables examination of processing speed, response inhibition, and working memory during typical development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108, 453-468.
McAuley, T., Chen, S., Goos, L., Schachar, R, & Crosbie, J. (2010). Is the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function more strongly associated with measures of impairment or executive function? Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 16, 495-505.
Brahmbhatt, S., McAuley, T., & Barch, D. (2008). Functional developmental similarities and differences in the neural correlates of a verbal and nonverbal working memory task. Neuropsychologia, 46, 1020-1031.
McAuley, T., Brahmbhatt, S., & Barch, D. (2007). Performance on an episodic encoding task yields further insight into functional brain development. NeuroImage, 34(2), 815-826.
McAuley, T., Yap, M., Christ, S. E., White, D. A. (2006). An ex-Gaussian analysis of inhibitory control across the lifespan. Developmental Neuropsychology, 29(3), 447-458.
Dodd, M. D., McAuley, T., & Pratt, J. (2005). An illusion of 3-D motion with the Ternus display. Vision Research, 45, 969-973.


	Tara McAuley Assistant Professor Dr. McAuley will be accepting graduate students for the 2012 academic year. Clinical Psychology B.Sc. (University of Toronto), Ph.D. (Washington University) Phone: 519-888-4567 x31343 Fax: 519-746-8631 Office: PAS 3016 email: tara.mcauley@uwaterloo.ca Child and Adolescent Neuropsychology Lab

Research Interests My research interests pertain to the development of executive control - a set of inter-related skills that facilitate purposeful, goal-oriented behaviour. My goal as a clinician scientist is to cultivate a programme of research in which the promotion of these skills is an overarching theme. Specific foci include: (1) modeling executive control across development, with a particular focus on transitional periods that occur in early childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, (2) identifying factors that influence the development of executive control, including neurobiological risk, psychosocial adversity, and social-cultural context, (3) further elucidating the relationship between executive control and other domains of function, including academic achievement, emotional adjustment, and peer relations, and (4) developing interventions that strengthen core executive skills. My research examines these questions in the context of typical and atypical development using converging behavioural and neuroimaging methods. Selected Publications McAuley, T., Christ, S. E., & White, D. A. (2011). Mapping the development of response inhibition in young children using a modified day-night task. Developmental Neuropsychology, 36(5), 539-551. McAuley, T., & White, D. A. (2011). A latent variables examination of processing speed, response inhibition, and working memory during typical development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108, 453-468. McAuley, T., Chen, S., Goos, L., Schachar, R, & Crosbie, J. (2010). Is the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function more strongly associated with measures of impairment or executive function? Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 16, 495-505. Brahmbhatt, S., McAuley, T., & Barch, D. (2008). Functional developmental similarities and differences in the neural correlates of a verbal and nonverbal working memory task. Neuropsychologia, 46, 1020-1031. McAuley, T., Brahmbhatt, S., & Barch, D. (2007). Performance on an episodic encoding task yields further insight into functional brain development. NeuroImage, 34(2), 815-826. McAuley, T., Yap, M., Christ, S. E., White, D. A. (2006). An ex-Gaussian analysis of inhibitory control across the lifespan. Developmental Neuropsychology, 29(3), 447-458. Dodd, M. D., McAuley, T., & Pratt, J. (2005). An illusion of 3-D motion with the Ternus display. Vision Research, 45, 969-973.