Bruce McCandliss

About

Bruce McCandliss is a Professor at the Piggott Family Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, affiliated with the Symbolic Systems Program within the School of Humanities and Sciences. His academic and research focus includes biomedical applications, learning neurosciences, and related interdisciplinary fields. He is involved in advising students within these areas and contributes to the academic community through his teaching and research activities at Stanford.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Medicine
• Cognitive psychology
• Audiology
• Developmental psychology
• Neuroscience

Selected publications

• Baseline brain function in the preadolescents of the ABCD Study

  Nature Neuroscience · 2021 · 120 citations

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• Early Adolescent Substance Use Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Survey in the ABCD Study Cohort

  Journal of Adolescent Health · 2021-08-24 · 95 citations

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• Contribution of sustained attention abilities to real-world academic skills in children

  Scientific Reports · 2023-02-15 · 62 citations

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  Abstract Sustained attention is a critical cognitive ability that improves over the course of development and predicts important real-world outcomes, such as academic achievement. However, the majority of work demonstrating links between sustained attention and academic skills has been conducted in lab-based settings that lack the ecological validity of a more naturalistic environment, like school. Further, most studies focus on targeted academic measures of specific sub-skills and have not full…

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• White matter and literacy: A dynamic system in flux

  Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience · 2024-01-06 · 24 citations

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  Cross-sectional studies have linked differences in white matter tissue properties to reading skills. However, past studies have reported a range of, sometimes conflicting, results. Some studies suggest that white matter properties act as individual-level traits predictive of reading skill, whereas others suggest that reading skill and white matter develop as a function of an individual's educational experience. In the present study, we tested two hypotheses: a) that diffusion properties of the w…

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• Better together: novel methods for measuring and modeling development of executive function diversity while accounting for unity

  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · 2023-07-24 · 23 citations

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  Introduction Executive functions (EFs) are linked to positive outcomes across the lifespan. Yet, methodological challenges have prevented precise understanding of the developmental trajectory of their organization. Methods We introduce novel methods to address challenges for both measuring and modeling EFs using an accelerated longitudinal design with a large, diverse sample of students in middle childhood ( N = 1,286; ages 8 to 14). We used eight adaptive assessments hypothesized to measure thr…

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Recent grants

• Biological Bases of Alphanumeric Learning Interventions

  NSF · $1.6M · 2004–2009

• NIH Grant R01DC007694

  NIH · $3.5M · 2013

Frequent coauthors

• Jamshid Ghajar

  Stanford University

  37 shared

• Rachel Kolster

  Janssen (United States)

  33 shared

• Ranjeeta Sarkar

  30 shared

• Megan M. McClelland

  30 shared

• Pratik Mukherjee

  University of California, San Francisco

  27 shared

• Robert D. Zimmerman

  Cornell University

  26 shared

• Carl E. Johnson

  Digital Research Alliance of Canada

  26 shared

• Michael I. Posner

  26 shared

Education

• Ph.D, Psychology

  University of Oregon

  1997

Awards & honors

• Glushko Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in Sy…
• Barwise Award for Distinguished Contributions to Symbolic Sy…
• Symbolic Systems Distinguished Teaching Award

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