Beth Woods

Biography

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience Focus, University of Houston, 2013

M.A. in Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience Focus, University of Houston, 2009

B.A. in Psychology, Spanish Minor, Texas A&M University, 2006

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Language Development, and Multilingualism.

PUBLICATIONS

Archila-Suerte, P., Woods, E. A., Chiarello, C., & Hernandez, A. E. (2018). Neuroanatomical profiles of bilingual children. Developmental Science, 21(5), e12654.

Bilson, S., Yoshida, H., Tran, C. D., Woods, E. A., & Hills, T. (2014). Semantic Network Structure in Bilingual and Monolingual First Language Acquisition. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of theCognitive Science Society (pp. 200-205). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Bilson, S., Yoshida, H., Tran, C.D., Woods, E.A., & Hill, T.T. (2015). Semantic facilitation in bilingual first language acquisition. Cognition, 140, 122-134.

Hernandez, A. E., Mattarella-Micke, A., Redding, R. W. T., Woods, E. A., &Beilock, S. L. (2011). Age of acquisition in sport: Starting early matters. The American Journal of Psychology. 124(2), 253-260.

Hernandez, A. E., Woods, E. A.,& Bradley, K. (2015). Neural correlates of single word reading in bilingual children and adults. Brain & Language, 143, 11-19.

Woods, E. A., Hernandez, A. E., Wagner, V. E., & Beilock, S. L. (2014). Expert athletes activate somatosensory and motor planning regions of the brain when passively listening to familiar sports sounds. Brain and Cognition, 87, 122-133.

Woods, E. A. & Yoshida, H. (2012). Effects of learning order and previous language experience in novel word learning. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34^th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2546-2551). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.