Posters

Conference Posters presentated by INSTRUCT researchers

Fischer, N. L., Kalaivanan, K., Uchiyama, R., Tong, K., Fu, W. L., Tripathi, S., Lee, T., Ting, G. O. S. T., Leon, V., Robbins, T. W., Sahakian, B. J., Seow, P. S. K., Teo, C. L., Hung, D. W. L., & Ellefson, M. R. (2024, November 21-24). Cognitive flexibility and its contribution to originality in divergent thinking and adaptive behaviour under uncertainty during adolescence [Poster presentation]. The 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New York, NY, United States. 

Alrushoud, I., Wang, R., Ögel-Balaban, H., & Ellefson, M. R. (2024, Sep 8-12). Executive functions and reading comprehension: The mediating role of second language proficiency [Poster presentation]. BERA Annual Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting 2024, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Sandıkçı, M., Özdemir Haksever, N., & Ögel-Balaban, H. (2024, July 21-26). The impact of threat- and empathy-evoking portrayals of Syrian refugees on perceptions in Turkey [Poster presentation]. The 33rd International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic.

Ögel-Balaban, H., & Seldüz, B. (2024, July 15-19). The development of evaluative function of narrative in adolescence [Poster presentation]. The 16th International Conference for the Study of Child Language, Prague, Czech Republic.

Güngör, S., & Ögel-Balaban, H. (2024, July 15-19). The relation between comprehension of time metaphors and cognitive flexibility [Poster presentation]. The 16th International Conference for the Study of Child Language, Prague, Czech Republic.

Xu, C., Zheng, J., Wu, Z., & Hughes, C. (2024, Jun 15-20). Elucidating the pathway between parental mind-mindedness and preschool children’s executive functions in China [Poster presentation]. The 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.

Barnes, M. (2024, June 17). The integration of AI in early developmental checks: An exploratory study into parantal perspectives on utilising automated methods to assess parent-child interaction [Poster presentation]. Psychology, Education and Learning Studies Annual Research Celebration Event 2024. Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Dong, X. (2024, June 17). Decoding associations of anxiety and executive functions in teenagers [Poster presentation]. Psychology, Education and Learning Studies Annual Research Celebration Event 2024. Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Yip, E. (2024, June 17). The relationship between theory of mind and narratives in Cantonese-speaking adults: A preliminary analysis [Poster presentation]. Psychology, Education and Learning Studies Annual Research Celebration Event 2024. Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Lončarević, B., Ögel-Balaban, H., Wang, R., & Ellefson, M. R. (2024, June 17). Individual Differences in executive functions and desirable difficulties: a case of interleaving practice [Poster presentation]. Psychology, Education and Learning Studies   Annual Research Celebration Event 2024 2024. Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Phanomsomboonsin, P., Gibson, J.L. (2024, June 17). Examining the link between mindfulness and retrieval practice on long-term retention [Poster presentation]. Psychology, Education and Learning Studies Annual Research Celebration Event 2024. Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Wang, Q. (2024, June 17). Pathway from family socioeconomic status to tobacco use: The role of executive function [Poster presentation]. Psychology, Education and Learning Studies Annual Research Celebration Event 2024, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Tosun, A. E., & Ögel-Balaban, H. (2024, June 1). The relationship between maladaptive daydreaming and episodic memory [Poster presentation]. The 10th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science. Ankara, Turkey.

Yip, E. (2024, May 30). The relationship between theory of mind and narratives in Cantonese-speaking adults: A preliminary analysis [Poster presentation]. Kaleidoscope 2024, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Alrushoud, I., Wang, R., Ögel-Balaban, H., & Ellefson, M. R. (2023, Oct 21). Correlations between executive functions, decoding and reading comprehension: A comparison of boys and girls [Poster presentation]. The 3rd International Symposium on Educational Research (ERL2023), Virtual. osf.io/pd4u8

Alrushoud, I., Wang, R., & Ellefson, M. R. (2023, Aug 22-26). The links between executive functions, decoding and reading comprehension: English-Arabic differences [Poster presentation]. The 20th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Tsigaridis, K. G., Wang, R., Zheng, J., & Ellefson, M. R. (2023, August 22-26). The impact of executive functions on physics learning in secondary school students [Poster Presentation]. The 20th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Wang, R., Tsigardis, G. K., Zheng, J., Feeney, A., & Ellefson, M. R. (2023, Aug 22-26). Biology education levels and general cognitive ability influence conceptual learning of biology [Poster presentation]. The 20th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece. 

Alrushoud, I., Wang, R., & Ellefson, M. R. (2023, June 24). ‪The role of executive functions in children's decoding of words and non-words [Poster presentation]. Kaleidoscope 2023, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Hutson, N. (2023, June 24). What do young children want to do to be active during the school day? [Poster presentation]. Kaleidoscope 2023, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Tsigaridis, K. G., Wang, R., & Ellefson, M. R. (2023, June 5-8). Executive function and mathematical skills correlate differently for science and non-science secondary school students [Poster Presentation]. The 6th Annual Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS) Conference, Loughborough, United Kingdom.

Sandıkçı, M., & Ögel-Balaban, H. (2023, May 7). Exploring phenomenological differences in bilinguals’ remembered past and imagined future events across languages [Poster presentation]. The 9th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science. Istanbul, Turkey.

Sevindik, Y. Ş., & Ögel-Balaban, H. (2023, January 5-7). The relationship between executive functions and syntactic complexity in personal and fictional narratives of 4- and 5-year-old Turkish-speaking children [Poster presentation]. The 13th Annual Budapest Central European University Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

Alrushoud, I., Wang, R., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, November 24). The links between executive functions, reading comprehension and second language proficiency in learners of English as an additional language: Pilot study [Poster presentation]. Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2022-tkwq3

Huang, L., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, October 7). The contribution of cognitive flexibility to arithmetic skills in Chinese children [Poster presentation]. International Group for Understanding Arithmetic Symposium 2022, Virtual. https://osf.io/br4w3

Said, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, August 24-27). Executive functions predict prior knowledge about density and motivation predicts conceptual change [Poster presentation]. The 12th International Conference on Conceptual Change, Zwolle, Netherlands. https://osf.io/c3hfm/

Tsigaridis, K. G., Wang, R., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, August 22). Exploring the effects of executive functions and mathematical skills on physics problem solving [Poster presentation]. International Group for Understanding Arithmetic, Numerical Cognition, and Language Conference 2022, Virtual.

Wang, R., Britton, A., Godfrey, H., Feeney, A., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, July 27-30). Science education helps suppress naïve science thinking [Poster presentation]. The 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Tsigaridis, K. G., Wang, R., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, June 28-July 1). Physics problem solving in high school students: The role of executive functions and mathematical skills [Poster presentation]. Australasian Science Education Research Association 2022, Perth, Australia.

Wang, R., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, June 28-July 1). Contribution of executive functions on the suppression of naïve scientific thinking: A pilot study [Poster presentation]. Australasian Science Education Research Association 2022, Perth, Australia.

Tsigaridis, K. G., Wang, R., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, June 1-3). The role of mathematical skills and executive functions in physics problem solving [Poster presentation]. The 5th Annual Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Conference, Antwerp, Belgium.

Wang, R., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, May 26-27). Pilot research on how executive functions contribute to the suppression of naïve scientific thinking [Poster presentation]. Kaleidoscope 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Hutson, N. (2022, May 26-27). Increasing physical activity during the primary school day: A qualitative evaluation of teachers' perceptions and experiences [Poster presentation]. Kaleidoscope 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Tsigaridis, K. G., Wang, R., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, May 26-27). Executive functions and mathematical skills impact on physics problem solving [Poster presentation]. Kaleidoscope 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Tsigaridis, K. G., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, April 29-30). The role of executive functions and mathematical skills in physics problem solving [Poster presentation]. Wolfson Research Event 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Tsapali, M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2021, November 4-7). Effects of different levels of instructional guidance on decision-making competence [Poster presentation]. The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Virtual. 

Jussli, H., & Tsapali, M. (2021, September 29-October 1). The impact of adversities and resilience factors in adolescence on adolescent depressive symptoms [Poster presention]. The 7th International Symposium on Resilience Research, Virtual.

Barsham, H., & Ellefson, M. R. (2021, July 26-29). Can retrieval practice of the testing effect increase self-efficacy in tests and reduce test anxiety, in 10- to 11-year-olds? [Poster presentation]. The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Virtual.

Yang, Y., & Ellefson, M. R. (2021, July 26-29). Bridging executive function and metacognition through post-error slowing [Poster presentation]. The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Virtual.

Barsham, H., & Ellefson, M. R. (2021, July 21-24). Can teaching 10- to 11-year-olds about the testing effect reduce test anxiety? [Poster presentation]. Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 2021, Virtual.

Yang, Y., & Ellefson, M. R. (2021, June 23-25). Examining the role feedback and metacognitive judgement play in post error slowing [Poster presentation]. Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science 2021, Virtual.

Wang, R., Britton, A., Godfrey, H., Feeney, A., & Ellefson, M. R. (2021, June 3-4). The role of executive functions on scientific thinking: A cognitive psychology experiment exploring the influence of cognitive flexibility on the rejection of naïve science facts [Poster presentation]. Kaleidoscope 2021, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Paes, T. M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2021, April 7-9). The efficacy of a guided play intervention on young children’s self-regulation and language skills [Poster presentation]. Society for Research in Child Development 2021 Biennial Meeting, Virtual.

Zonneveld, A. K., Serpell, Z. N., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2021, April 7-9). Executive function measurement in urban schools: Exploring the links between EF skills and teacher ratings [Poster presentation]. Society for Research in Child Development 2021 Biennial Meeting, Virtual.

Tsapali, M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2020, November 19-22). Can instruction improve decision-making skills? [Poster presentation]. The 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Virtual. 

Paes, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2020, July 29-August 1). Pretend play and children’s self-regulation and language skills: An interventional study [Poster presentation]. The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Virtual.

Paes, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2019, November). The efficacy of a guided play intervention on the language skills of 4- and 5-year-olds [Poster presentation]. Cambridge Language Sciences Virtual Symposium for Early-Career Researchers, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Eberhart, J., Baker, S., & Ellefson, M. R. (2019, August 12-16). Children’s executive function development in a classroom context: Does children’s agency matter? [Poster presention]. The 18th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction  2019, Aachen, Germany.

Paes T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2019, July). Does pretend play have an impact on the language and executive function skills of preschoolers from a deprived area in the east of England? [Poster presention]. Learning to Play and Playing to Learn, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 

Zonneveld, A. K., Serpell, Z. N., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2019, June 6). Teacher evaluations of student behavior in high poverty urban school districts: Investigating measurement invariance across groups and time [Poster presention]. INSTRUCT Symposium, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Zonneveld, A. K., Serpell, Z. N., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2019, May 30). Teacher evaluations of student behavior in high poverty urban school districts: Investigating measurement invariance across groups and time [Poster presentation]. Kaleidoscope 2019, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Zonneveld, A. K., Serpell, Z. N., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2019, March 21-23). Teacher evaluations of student behavior in high poverty urban school districts: Investigating measurement invariance across groups and time [Poster presentation]. Society for Research in Child Development 2019 Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MD, United States.

Paes, T. M., & Ellefson, M. (2018, November 15-18). Language skills in early childhood: What’s play got to do with it? [Poster presentation]. The 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Lai, P. Y. R., Ellefson, M. R., Ng, F. F., Wang, Q., & Hughes, C. (2018, August 20-24). Higher-order cognitive construct and academic performance: A latent-variable approach [Poster presentation]. The 8th Annual JAGS and WinBUGS Workshop of the Bayesian Modeling for Cognitive Science. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Barsham, H. (2018, July 25-28). Does a 12 week intervention of metacognitive strategies improve self-efficacy and lessen test anxiety in high stakes testing for 10-12 year olds? [Poster presentation]. The 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI, United States.

Paes, T. M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2018, July 25-28). The influence of pretend play on children’s self-regulation and language skills [Poster presentation]. The 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI, United States.

Lai, P. Y. R., Ellefson, M. R., Ng, F. F., Wang, Q., & Hughes, C. (2018, June 21-23). Elucidating the role of executive functioning and metacognition on academic achievement [Poster presentation]. The 5th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction: Special Interest Group 22 Neuroscience and Education, London, United Kingdom. 

Paes, T., & Ellefson, M. R., (2018, June 21-23). An exploratory study of the influence of pretend play on children’s self-regulation and language skills [Poster presentation]. The 5th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction: SIG 22 Neuroscience and Education, London, United Kingdom.

Tsapali, M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2018, June 21-23). Constructivist against direct instruction approaches to teaching: Empirical evidence from a study exploring the effects of different learning environments on primary school students’ decision-making competence [Poster presentation]. The 5th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction: SIG 22 Neuroscience and Education, London, United Kingdom.

Barsham, H. (2018, June 4-6). Is metacognition of 'desirable difficulties' and applied to 'self-efficacy' the key to unlocking test anxiety in 10-12 year olds? [Poster presentation]. The 5th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction: Special Interest Group 22 Neuroscience and Education, London, United Kingdom.

Chu, C. P. K., Ellefson, M. R., Ng, F. F., Wang, Q., & Hughes, C. (2018, June 2). Understanding the complexities in assessing literacy across different cultures: An investigation of 9-to-16-year-olds’ English literacy skills in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong [Poster presentation]. The 48th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Xu, C., Ellefson, M. R., & Hughes, C. (2018, April 12-14). A cross-cultural analysis of the development of executive function during preadolescence [Poster presentation]. The 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Minneapolis, MN, United States.

Paes, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2017, September 13-16). The efficacy of a pretend play intervention on the self-regulation, language, and pre-literacy skills of 4- to 5-year-olds with English as a second language: An overview [Poster presentation]. The 20th International Play Association Triennial World Conference, Calgary, AB, Canada. 

Penford, R., & Ellefson, M. R. (2017, September 13-15). Mathematical achievement: The effect of the approximate number system, executive functioning and socioeconomic status [Poster presentation]. British Psychological Society Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference 2017, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.

Xu, C., Ellefson, M. R., & Hughes, C. (2017, September 13-15). Development of executive function in preadolescence: A cross-cultural analysis of samples from Mainland China, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom [Poster presentation]. British Psychological Society Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference 2017, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.

Francis, G., Serpell, Z., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2017, July 16-29). Executive functions and academic achievement in a high-poverty sample [Poster presentation]. The 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, United Kingdom.

Paes, T. , & Ellefson, M. R. (2017, July 16-29). An exploratory study of the influence of pretend play on children’s self-regulation and language skills [Poster presentation]. The 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, United Kingdom.

Patel, J., Aldercotte, A., Serpell, Z., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2017, July 16-29). Novel metacognitive problem-solving task [Poster presentation]. The 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, United Kingdom. https://osf.io/gkac3 

Tsapali, M., Quinn, C., Ellefson, M. R., Schlottmann, A. & Taber, K. S. (2016, November 17-20). Progression in primary school children’s reasoning about everyday chemistry [Poster presentation]. The 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA, United States.

Riley, T., Serpell, Z., Parr, T., Foster, A., & Ellefson, M. R. (2016, May 26-29). A latent profile analysis of executive functions and emotion regulation in middle childhood: Examining differences in social behavior outcomes [Poster presentation]. The 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL, United States.

Hill, J., Schlottmann, A., Tse, V. S. S., Yung, T. S. W., Leung, J. S., & Ellefson, M. R. (2015, August 28-31). Young children’s intuitive understanding of substances: Evidence from Hong Kong [Poster presentation]. New Zealand Psychological Science Society Annual Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Hill, J., Schlottmann, A., Ellefson, M. R., & Taber, K. S. (2015, August 28-31). Young children’s intuitive understanding of substances: Evidence from 3 dilution tasks in the UK [Poster presentation]. New Zealand Psychological Science Society Annual Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand. ** Awarded 2015 Best Student Poster Prize by the New Zealand Psychological Science Society **

Walji, F., Schlottmann, A., Hill, J., Ellefson, M. R., & Taber, K.S. (2015, June). Children’s understanding of concentration/dilution: Do they treat intensive like extensive quantities? [Poster presentation]. The 5th International Conference on Information Integration Theory and Functional Measurement, Acre, Israel.

Riley, T., Serpell, Z., Thomas, K., Aldercotte, A., Kim, H., Foster, A., Swafford, A., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2015, May). Executive functions as predictors of aggression and social skills in children: A consideration of gender differences [Poster presentation]. The 27th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY, United States.

Tsapali, M. (2015, May 26). Progress in children's understandings of the composition of materials: A qualitative survey [Poster presentation]. Psychology & Education Annual Symposium, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Tsapali, M. (2015, May). Progress in children's understandings of the composition of materials [Poster presentation]. Gonville & Caius Graduate Research Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Schlottmann, A., Hill, J., Ellefson, M. R., & Taber, K. (2015, March). Children’s reasoning about dissolving and dilution: Is there an intuitive chemistry? [Poster presentation]. The Inaugural Meeting of the International Convention of Psychological Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Schlottmann, A., Hill, J., Ellefson, M. R., & Taber, K. S. (2015, March). Is there an intuitive chemistry? Primary school children’s understanding of dissolving [Poster presentation]. The 76th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Walji, F., Schlottmann, A., Hill, J., Ellefson, M. R., & Taber, K. (2015, March). Do children treat intensive quantities like extensive quantities? Evidence from two mixing tasks [Poster presentation]. The Inaugural Meeting of the International Convention of Psychological Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Antoniou, K., Pushparatnam, A., Landt, J., de Laandraff, L., Katsos, N., Hughes, C., Ellefson, M. R., Alexopoulou, T., Hendriks, H., Parodi, T., & Post, B. (2013, October). What is the source of the multilingual's advantage in deriving pragmatic implicatures? [Poster presentation]. The Language Sciences in the 21st Century: The Interdisciplinary Challenge Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Antoniou, K., Pushparatnam, A., Landt, J., de Laandraff, L., Katsos, N., Hughes, C., Ellefson, M. R., Alexopoulou, T., Hendriks, H., Parodi, T., & Post, B. (2013, October). The effect of bilectalism on children's vocabulary and executive control [Poster presentation]. Language Sciences in the 21st Century: The Interdisciplinary Challenge Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Aldercotte, A., Foster, A., Serpell, Z., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2013, September). 'Hot' versus 'cool': An exploration of how executive functions hangs together [Poster presentation]. British Psychological Joint Developmental and Cognitive Sections Conference 2013, Reading, United Kingdom.

Crehan, D. A., & Ellefson, M. R. (2013, September). Does a mindfulness intervention improve children's attention skills? [Poster presentation]. British Psychological Joint Developmental and Cognitive Sections Conference 2013.

Hill, J., Leung, S. K. J., Tse, W. S. V., Schlottmann, A., Ellefson, M. R., Quinn, C., & Taber, K. S. (2013, September). What children know about substances: Judging the intensity of mixtures [Poster presentation]. British Psychological Joint Developmental and Cognitive Sections Conference 2013, Reading, United Kingdom.

Thomas, K., Young, S., Adeoye, T., Hart, K., Foster, A., Serpell, Z., Ellefson, M. R., & Parr, T. (2013, September). Training children in chess to improve classroom behavior [Poster presentation]. Morgan State University Student Research Conference, Baltimore, MD, United States.

Aldercotte, A., Thomas, K., Willis, T., Foster, A., Serpell, Z., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2013, May 23-26). Hot executive function in at-risk children: The validity of the Hungry Donkey task [Poster presentation]. The 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC, United States.

Moss, C., Hill, J., Schlottmann, A., Ellefson, M. R., Quinn, C., & Taber, K. G. (2013, April 18-20). Children’s intuitive chemistry: 3rd and 4th graders? Understanding of the strength of mixtures of water with sugar or paint [Poster presentation]. The 75th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, United States.

Quinn, C., Ellefson, M. R., Schlottmann, A., & Taber, K. G. (2012, November 15-18). Do domain-general skills apply to chemistry reasoning? [Poster presentation]. The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN, United States.

McFarland, A. L., & Ellefson, M. R. (2012, July). A comparison of metacognitive judgements across task: The task-specificity of retrospective confidence judgements [Poster presentation]. International Conference on Thinking, London, United Kingdom.

Quinn, C., Ellefson, M. R., Schlottmann, A., & Taber, K. G. (2012, July). Property induction in chemistry reasoning [Poster presentation]. International Conference on Thinking, London, United Kingdom.

Vousden, J., & Ellefson, M. R. (2012, July). The development of irregular word reading: The role of word knowledge [Poster presentation]. The 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Raths, C., & Ellefson, M. R. (2012, April). The effect of multilingualism on executive function abilities [Poster presentation]. Development of Executive Functions Workshop, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Quinn, C., & Ellefson, M. R. (2012, January). Differences in cross-modal sensory integration in dyslexia [Poster presentation]. Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, London, United Kingdom.

Goldenberg, A., & Ellefson, M. R. (2011, September). The effect of parenting style on the development of inhibitory control [Poster presentation]. Psychological Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference 2011, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom.

Vousden, J. I., Ellefson, M. R., & Chater, N., & Solity J. (2010, July). Comparing the content of United Kingdom reading programs using the simplicity principle [Poster presentation]. The 17th annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Berlin, Germany.

Moore, T., Dabney, J., & Ellefson, M. R. (2010, March). The efficacy of color and font cues in learning hierarchical structures [Poster presentation]. The 2010 Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY, United States.

Goedert, K. M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2009, November). Mechanism information influences the cell-weight inequality in causal judgment from contingencies [Poster presentation]. The 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA, United States.

Khamar, H. Ellefson, M. R., & Schunn, C. D. (2009, July). Causal parsimony in learning science [Poster presentation]. The 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Molzhon, A. Ellefson, M. R., Blagrove, E., & Chater, N. (2009, July). Do executive functions predict performance on all switching tasks? [Poster presentation]. The 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Khamar, H. J., Ellefson, M. R., & Schunn, C. D. (2009, April). Is reasoning about chemistry constrained by causal parsimony? [Poster presentation]. The 73rd Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO, United States.

Ellefson, M. R., Blagrove, E., Espy, K. A., & Chater, N. (2008, November). Shape school’s asymmetrical switch costs [Poster presentation]. The 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, United States.

Vousden, J. I., Ellefson, M. R., & Chater, N. (2008, January). Identifying optimal spelling-to-sound mappings for reading instruction [Poster presentation]. British Psychological Society Educational and Child Psychology Section Annual Conference 2009, Bournemouth, United Kingdom.

Ellefson, M. R., & Schunn, C. D. (2007, November). Can domain knowledge improve causal reasoning? [Poster presentation]. The 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, United States.

Clinch, A. L., Crean, J. J., Ellefson, M. R., Carroll, J. M., & Chater, N. (2007, March). Can switch training improve arithmetic performance? [Poster presentation]. The 72nd Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, United States.

Ellefson, M. R., Chater, N., Blagrove, E., & Johnstone, E. J. (2006, November). Are developmental changes in asymmetrical switch costs domain dependent? [Poster presentation]. The 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX, United States.

Ellefson, M. R., & Chater, N. (2005, July). Executive functions, switch costs, and arithmetic achievement in early primary school [Symposium poster]. In K. A. Espy (Chair), Neurocognitive bases of mathematics proficiencies in children, International Neuropsychological Society’s Joint Mid-Year Meeting, Dublin, Ireland.

Ellefson, M. R., Chater, N., & Shapiro, L. (2004, November). Do children's switch costs scale up to more difficult tasks? [Poster presentation]. The 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN, United States.

Ellefson, M. R., Chater, N., & Shapiro, L. (2004, April). Do switching costs scale up to mathematics? [Poster presentation]. The 18th Biennial Conference on Human Development, Washington DC, United States.

Conway, C. M., Ellefson, M. R., & Christiansen, M. H. (2003, November). Starting small in visual and auditory domains: Differential effects of staged input [Poster presentation]. The 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Ellefson, M. R., Young, M. E., Christiansen, M. H., & Espy, K. A. (2003, April). The relative benefit of cues for middle school students in a sequential learning task: Educational implications [Poster presentation]. The 70th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL, United States.

Ellefson, M. R., Christiansen, M. H., Young, M. E., & Espy, K. A. (2002, April). The use of parenthetical and spatial cues to facilitate learning in a statistical learning task [Poster presentation]. Cornell University Cognitive Studies Symposium: Statistical Learning Across Cognition, Ithaca, NY, United States.

Ellefson, M. R., & Young, M. E. (2001, November). Predictive learning of main effects and interactions: A comparison of computational models [Poster presentation]. The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL, United States.

Young, M. E., Ellefson, M. R., & Wasserman, E. A. (2001, November). Spatial organization and perceived variety [Poster presentation]. The Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment And Decision Making, Orlando, FL, United States.

Narter, D. B., Modglin, A. A., Van Matre, A. J., Ellefson, M. R., Chambers, E., & Molfese, D. L. (1999, May). Event-related potentials to semantic anomalies in twelve-year-old children [Poster presentation]. The 70th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, United States.

Molfese, D. L., Simos, P. G., Narter, D. B., Modglin, A. A., Ellefson, M. R., Van Matre, A. J., & Chambers, E. (1999, April). Developmental changes in event-related potentials to speech and nonspeech stimuli from 3 to 8 years of age [Poster presentation]. The 68th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM, United States.

Molfese, D. L., Narter, D. B., Ellefson, M. R., Van Matre, A. J., Chambers, E., & Modglin, A. A. (1999, February). Developmental changes in event-related potential peak latencies to speech and nonspeech sounds [Poster presentation]. The 27th Annual Meeting of the International Neurological Society, Boston, MA, United States.

Narter, D. B., Ellefson, M. R., Van Matre, A. J., Modglin, A. A., & Molfese, D. L. (1998, May). Electrophysiological indices of orthographic and phonological processes in 9- & 10-year-olds [Poster presentation]. The 69th Annual Me eting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, United States.

Molfese, D. L., Narter, D. B., Ellefson, M. R., Van Matre, A. J., & Modglin, A. A. (1998, April). Neuroelectrical processing of pseudowords in children [Poster presentation]. Sigma Xi Research Day, Carbondale, IL, United States.

Narter, D. B., Ellefson, M. R., Van Matre, A. J., & Molfese, D. L. (1998, April). Reading skills in nine- and ten-year -old children: Neurological correlates [Poster presentation]. University Women’s Professional Association, Carbondale, IL, United States.

Ellefson, M. R. (1996, May). Neural correlates of infant memory development: A comparison study of NICU graduates and full-term healthy infants [Poster presentation]. The 64th Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Academy of Science, St. Paul, MN, United States.

Ellefson, M. R. (1996, April). Neural correlates of infant memory development: A comparison study of NICU graduates and full-term healthy infants [Poster presentation]. University of Minnesota Undergraduate Research Opportunities Poster Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, United States.

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