@ChangingBrain

Allyson Mackey's lab @penn. Interested in how the brain changes as people grow and learn and the basic mechanisms of brain plasticity.

 Philadelphia, PA
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Joined August 2017
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We hope this task and open data are helpful to others who want to study social and emotional processes in young kids. [6/6]
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Some kids did a parent-child interaction task. Negative parenting behaviors during the task were associated with reduced activity in the VTA and cerebellum during positive emotional events. Next question for us: do parenting interventions impact kids’ emotional processing? [5/6]
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We found that higher SES is associated with greater activity in the medial orbitofrontal cortex during caregiver-child interactions in a movie. [4/6]
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New paper out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Early stressful experiences are associated with reduced neural responses to naturalistic emotional and social content in children, led by @anneparkt Thread below sciencedirect.com/science/ar… [1/6]
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Persistence is a skill we can help cultivate in young children. Here’s how Dr. Julia Leonard, former Postdoc at The Changing Brain and current Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale suggests you do it! Stay tuned for more monthly infographics!
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Happy to share this new work from our lab!
julia_a_leonard@julia_a_leonard25 Jan 2021
1. New paper out in Child Development: Children Persist Less When Adults Take Over The title kind of says it all, but a thread below srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com… with @ally_mackey @anneparkt @D_Martinez_ @sam_dashineau
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New work from our lab out today!
julia_a_leonard@julia_a_leonard23 Nov 2020
1. New preprint alert! The toothbrushing task: A novel paradigm for studying daily fluctuations in preschoolers’ persistence With @DLydonStaley, Sophie Sharp, Hunter Z. Liu, @anneparkt, @DaniSBassett, @angeladuckw & @ally_mackey
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Finally, I want to shoutout two orgs here in #Philly doing great work helping young folks exercise their right to vote: @PHLYouthVOTE and @VoteThatJawn, with @Penn Prof @LoreneCary (check their dance moves below)! Follow for ways to get involved! [5/6] xitter.cf/LoreneCary/status/1298…
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If you’re young and not at-risk, sign up to be a poll worker. There’s a huge shortage this year bc COVID, as poll workers are usually older folks-help out our democracy and get paid, too! Sign up at @Powerthepolls. #PowerThePolls powerthepolls.org/ votespa.com/Resources/Pages/…
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Make sure you sign up to vote, if you haven’t already! @ScienceRising is a nonpartisan group organizing for science, justice, and equity in our elections--get registered through their link below. It takes < 2 minutes! [2/6] xitter.cf/SciRising/status/13005…
Science Rising@SciRising31 Aug 2020
November will be here sooner than you think, and your voice deserves to be heard! Register to vote, request a mail ballot, and sign up for important voting updates with @TurboVote sciencerising.org/challenge/…
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Supporting healthy brain development is about more than doing research in a lab. It's also about making sure your voice is heard to the local officials making decisions about science and education issues! #Vote2020 [1/6]
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Finally, I generally love the @thephilacitizen for their lists of ways to be involved locally. Want more ways to help kids and schools this semester? Check out the list below! Follow @PHLserves for more volunteer opportunities specific to Philly! [4/4] thephiladelphiacitizen.org/h…
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Speaking of health and balance, research shows that volunteering is predictive of better mental (and physical!) health. To fight feelings of powerlessness, I’ve been trying to find tangible things I can do for kids and schools in #Philly.Some opportunities close to home: [1/4]
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And sometimes, it helps to reframe by getting involved in something bigger than yourself. Gratitude exercises are evidence-based. Tomorrow, I’ll tweet about ways to give back and help folks locally! And Friday I’ll cover being an engaged citizen😃 [6/6] characterlab.org/activities/…

Three Good Things - Character Lab

Practice noticing three good things that happen to you every day.

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@DorsaAmir has good advice on finding your personal “productivity equilibrium” (which is never 100%!) and not beating yourself up about it along the way. #phdlife #phdchat #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter medium.com/@dorsaamir/findin… [5/6]

Finding Your Productivity Equilibrium in Academia

In academia, it’s easy to be fooled into thinking everyone’s working harder than you. It’s easier still to think that working as hard as…

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Check out their Hidden Curriculum list of resources in STEM: docs.google.com/document/d/1… And follow both @ASecretMenu and @Reclaiming_STEM for more great content on diverse and inclusive #scicomm and #scipol. #Hiddencurriculum #AcademicChatter [4/6]

Academic Secret Menu

Academic Secret Menu The purpose of this document is to compile links, advice, questions, and answers on how to navigate academic environments. Here we will collectively demystify the “hidden...

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