Peer-Reviewed Publications
Medrano, J., & Prather, R.W. (2023). Rethinking executive functions in mathematical cognition. Journal of Cognition and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2023.2172414
Medrano, J., Crnosija, N., Prather, R. W., & Payne-Sturges, D. (2022). Bridging the environment and neurodevelopment for children’s health: Associations between real-time air pollutant exposures and cognitive outcomes. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.933327
Prather, R.W., Benitez, V.L., Kendall Brooks, L., Dancy, C.L., Dilworth-Bart. J., Dutra, N.B., Faison, M.O., Figueroa, M., Holden, L.T.R., Johnson, C., Medrano, J., Miller-Cotto, D. Matthews, P.G., Manly, J.J., Thomas, A.K. (2022). What can cognitive science do for people? Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13167
Medrano, J.*, Jaffe, J.,* Lombardi, D., Holzer, M.A., & Roemmele, C. (2020). Students’ scientific evaluations of water resources. Water. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12072048
*Co-first authors
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Manuscripts Under Review
Medrano, J. & Prather, R.W. (under review). Interactions between perceptual cues and working memory during mental arithmetic: A dual-task experiment.
Miller-Cotto, D., Chan, J.Y.-C., & Medrano, J. (under review). Identifying challenging topics in mathematics: An analysis of student performance across domains. Pre-registration.
Miller-Cotto, D. & Medrano, J. (revising for resubmission). The role of working memory in the effectiveness of faded worked examples.
Manuscripts In Preparation
Medrano, J., Mohan, S., & Lombardi, D. (revising for resubmission). The role of inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility in plausibility judgments and scientific evaluations.
Medrano, J., Miller-Cotto, D., & Prather, R.W. (revising for resubmission). Testing the theoretical contributions of inhibitory control to arithmetic skills. Preregistration.
Medrano, J., Devlin, B., Schingledecker, M., Thompson, C.A., & Miller-Cotto, D., (in prep). Individual differences in fraction understanding and relations to EF and spatial/relational reasoning. Preregistration.
Miller-Cotto, D., & Medrano, J. (in prep). Understanding the mechanistic role of working memory in early math learning: to offload or not to offload? A developmental perspective.
Miller-Cotto, D., Medrano, J., & Zaborowski, S. (in prep). When training is inconclusive: Making a case for supporting instead of training executive functions.
Miller-Cotto, D., & Medrano, J., Thompson, C.A., Devlin, B., & Shingledecker, M. (in prep). Testing theories of working memory with whole number bias: A developmental analysis.
Miller-Cotto, D., Ribner, A.D., & Medrano, J. (in prep). The role of assessor racial identity on Black children’s executive function task performance: An initial examination.
Miller-Cotto, D., Borriello, G.A. & Medrano, J. (in prep). A meta-analysis of the correlations between executive functions and spatial skills.