Elif Isbell

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Graduate Student
Brain Development Lab, University of Oregon
MS, University of Oregon (Psychology)
BS, University of Oregon
(Psychology, summa cum laude with departmental honors)

Development and plasticity of attention, working memory, and fluid reasoning. Factors of cumulative risk and resilience in cognitive development of young children. Gene-environment interactions. Biological sensitivity context.

Neville, H., Stevens, C., Pakulak, E., Bell, T.A., Fanning, J., Klein, S. & Isbell, E. (2013). Family-based training program improves brain function, cognition and behavior in lower socioeconomic status preschoolers. PNAS, Early Edition.

Isbell, E., Fukuda, K., Neville, H. J., & Vogel, E.K. (under review). Visual working memory continues to develop through adolescence.

Karns C.M., Isbell E., Giuliano R., & Neville H.J. (under review). Selective auditory attention in late-childhood and adolescence: an event-related potential study.

Isbell, E., Bell T., & Neville, H. J. (in prep). 5-HTT as a factor of risk and resilience in low income preschoolers.

Isbell, E., Fukuda, K., Neville, H. J., & Vogel, E.K. (2013). Development of visual working memory capacity in adolescence. Poster presented at the Society for Child Development Biennial Meeting, Seattle.

Isbell, E., Bell T., & Neville, H. J. (in prep). 5-HTT as a factor of risk and resilience in young children. Poster presented at the 41st Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco.

Isbell, E.C., Karns, C. M., & Neville, H. J. (2011). Maturation of selective auditory attention in adolescents: An event-related potentials study. Poster presented at the 39th Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco.

Neville, H. J., Stevens, C., Klein, S., Fanning, J., Bell, T., Cakir, E. & Pakulak, E. (2011). Improving behavior, cognition and neural mechanisms of attention in at-risk children. Poster presented at the 39th Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco.

Karns, C.M., Cakir E., Petersen, S.J., Neville, H.J. (2009). Spectral dynamics of selective auditory attention in children and adults. Poster presented at the 38th Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Chicago.

Karns, C.M., Petersen, S.J., Cakir, E., Neville, H.J. (2009). Spectral dynamics of selective auditory attention in children and adults. Poster presented at the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, Berkeley, California.

Instructor (Winter 2012) Cognitive Development, University of Oregon

Instructor (Fall 2011) Cognitive Development, University of Oregon

Guest lecturer (Summer 2012) “Development of Thinking Skills” in Thinking

Guest lecturer (Fall 2011, Winter 2012) “Neuroscience of Trauma” in Psychology of Trauma, University of Oregon

Lab Instructor (Winter 2010) Biopsychology, University of Oregon

University of Oregon:

General University Scholarship, 2013

Clarence and Lucille Dunbar Scholarship, College of Arts and Sciences, 2012

Clarence and Lucille Dunbar Scholarship, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011

Monte Scholarship, College of Arts and Sciences, 2008

Ella Travis Edmunson and Mercy Travis Davis Scholarship, 2008

General University Scholarship, 2008

International Cultural Service Program Award, 2008

International Student Merit Award, 2007