Publications

2024 to Current

  • Ávila-Garibay, A., Gallardo-Moreno, G. B., Gómez-Velázquez, F. R., Woltering, S., & González-Garrido, A. A. (2026). Theta and Alpha Oscillations Reflect Distinct Control and Stabilization Processes Across Working Memory. Brain Sciences, 16(6), 625. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci16060625. [Download]
  • Sun, H., Shi, Q., Pazoki, S., Soto, E. F., & Woltering, S. (2026). Neurophysiological evidence for the role of inhibitory control in reading for children with reading difficulties. Child Neuropsychology, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2026.2631546. [Download]
  • Williams, P., Klein, M., Daly, J. et al. (2026). Balancing Acts: Parental Risk Tolerance in Children’s Play and its Impact on Emotion Regulation and Problem Symptoms. Early Childhood Education Journal, 54, 1487–1500. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-025-01951-6. [Download]
  • Kao, S., Grant, P., & Woltering, S. (2025). Socratic AI in K–12 Science Classrooms: Effects on Critical Thinking, Motivation, and Self-Regulation in a Randomized Controlled Trial.
  • Jones, R. A., Williams, J. A., Richie, C., & Woltering, S*. (Accepted, 2025). Same but different: Mental health help-seeking approaches of undergraduate students. College Student Affairs Journal.
  • Klein, M., Williams, P., & Woltering, S. (2024). Disabling fear: parental risk-tolerance in play for children with disabilities. International Journal of Play, 13(4), 410–427. https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2024.2425540. [Download]
  • Schwartz, J., Shi, Q., & Woltering, S. (Accepted). The Association Between Home Learning Environment, Parental Belief, and Children’s Reading Abilities. Reading Psychology.
  • Pazoki, S., Kopparla, M., Kong, F., Barroso, C., & Woltering, S. (Accepted). Cognitive and Emotional Responses During Mathematical Problem Solving in Engineering Students: An ERP Study on Problem Size and Feedback. Neuropsychologia.

2023

2022

  • Joshi, S. C., Woodward, J., & Woltering, S. Cell Phone Use Distracts Young Adults from Academic Work with Limited Benefit to Self-Regulatory Behavior. Current Psychology. [Download]
  • Kopparla, M., Nguyen, T. T., & Woltering, S. (2022). Maps of meaning: Journeys of first year engineering students. European Journal of Engineering Education, 47(6), 930–949.https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2022.2037522 [Download]
  • JGu, C., Liu, Z. X., & Woltering, S. (2022). Electroencephalography complexity in resting and task states in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Brain Communications, 4(2), fcac054. [Download]
  • Lee, S., Woltering, S., Prickett, C., Shi, Q., Sun, H., & Thompson, J. L. (2022). Exploring the Associations between Reading Skills and Eye Movements in Elementary Children’s Silent Sentence Reading. Reading Psychology, 43(1), 85–103. https://doi.org/10.1080/02702711.2021.2020189.[Download]

2021

  • Joshi, S. C., Woodward, J., & Woltering, S.* (2021). Nighttime Cell Phone Use and Sleep Quality in Young Adults. Sleep and Biological Rhythms. [Download]
  • Woltering, S., Chen, S., & Jia, Y. (2021). Neural Correlates of Attentional Bias to Food Stimuli in Obese Adolescents. Brain Topography, 34 (2), 182-191. [Download]
  • Erbeli, F., Shi, Q., Campbell, A. R., Hart, S. A., & Woltering, S. (2021). Developmental Dynamics between Reading and Math in Elementary School. Developmental Science, 24 (1), e13004. [Download]
  • Nam, B., Paromita, P., Chu, S. L., Chaspari, T., & Woltering, S.*. (2021). Moments of Insight in Problem Solving Relate to Bodily Arousal. Journal of Creative Behavior. [Download]
  • Lin, B., Prickett, C., & Woltering, S.* (2021). Feasibility of Using a Biofeedback Device in Mindfulness training – a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 7 (1), 1-13.[Download]
  • Shi, Q., Liew, J., Ettekal, I., & Woltering, S. (2021). Childhood Resilient Personality Trajectories and Associations with Developmental Trajectories of Behavioral, Social-Emotional, and Academic Outcomes across Childhood and Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study across 12 Years. Personality and Individual Differences, 177.[Download]
  • Woltering, S., Gu, C., Liu, Z., & Tannock, R. (2021). Visuospatial Working Memory Capacity in the Brain after Working Memory Training in Adult ADHD: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Attention Disorders, 25 (7), 1010-1020. [Download]

2020

  • Shi, Q., Ettekal, I., Deutz, M.H.F., & Woltering, S.* (2020). Trajectories of Pure and Co-occurring Internalizing and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood to Adolescence: Associations with Early Childhood Individual and Contextual Antecedents. Developmental Psychology, 56 (10), 1906.[Download]
  • Shi, Q., Ettekal, I., Liew, J., & Woltering, S.* (2020). Predicting Differentiated Developmental Trajectories of Prosocial Behavior: A 12-Year Longitudinal Study on Children Facing Early Risks and Vulnerabilities. International Journal of Behavioral Development. [Download]
  • Tangudu, V., Afrin, K., Reddy, S., Deutz, NEP, Woltering, S, & Bukkapatnam, STS. Towards Standardizing the Clinical Protocols of Point-of-Care Devices for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Diagnosis. Sleep and Breathing. 1-12. [Download]

2019

  • Brooker, R. J., Bates, J. E., Lahat, A., Buss, K. A., Kujawa, A., Lamm, C., Canan, M. J., Moser, J. S., Dennis-Tiwary, T. A., Petersen, I. T., Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., Hoyniak, C., Tang, T., Klein, D. N., Woltering, S., & Schmidt, L. A. (2019). Conducting Event-Related Potential (ERP) Research with Young Children: A Review of Components, Special Considerations and Recommendations for Research on Cognition and Emotion. Journal of Psychophysiology. [Download]
  • Jia, Y., Chen, S., Deutz, N., Bukkapatnam, S., & Woltering, S*. (2019). Examining the structure validity of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Sleep and Biological Rhythms. DOI: 0.1007/s41105-018-00201-0.[Download]
  • Deutz, M. H., Woltering, S., Vossen, H. G., Deković, M., van Baar, A. L., & Prinzie, P. (2019). Underlying psychophysiology of dysregulation: resting heart rate and heart rate reactivity in relation to childhood dysregulation. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 58(6), 589-599. [Download]

2018

  • Gu, C., Liu, Z., Tannock, R., & Woltering, S*. (2018). Neural Processing of Working Memory in Adults with ADHD in a Visuospatial Change Detection Task with Distractors. PeerJ. 6, e5601. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5601[Download]
  • Chen, S., Jia, Y., & Woltering, S*. (2018). Neural Differences of Inhibitory Control between Adolescents with Obesity and Their Peers. International Journal of Obesity, 42, 1753-1761. Doi.org/10.1038/s41366-018-0142-x[Download]
  • Deutz, M.H.F., Shi, Q., Vossen, H., Huijding, J., Prinzie, P., Dekovic, M., Van Baar, A.L., & Woltering, S*.(2018). Evaluation of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire – Dysregulation Profile (SDQ-DP). Psychological Assessment, 30(9), 1194. DOI: 10.1037/pas0000564[Download]

2017

  • Liu, Z., Tannock, R., & Woltering, S. (2017). Effects of Working Memory Training on Neural Correlates of Go/Nogo Response Control in Adults with ADHD: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Neuropsychologia, 95, 54-72.[Download]

2016

  • Woltering, S., Shi, Q. (2016). On the Neuroscience of Self-regulation in Children with Disruptive Behavior Problems: Implications for Education. Review of Educational Research, 86 (4), 1085-1110.[Download]
  • Woltering, S., Lishak, V., Hodgson, N., Granic, I. & Zelazo, P. D. (2016). Executive function in children with aggressive and comorbid internalizing behavior problems. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57 (1), 30-38.[Download]
  • Liu, Z., Glizer, D., Tannock, R., & Woltering, S. (2016). EEG alpha power during maintenance of information in working memory in adults with ADHD and its plasticity due to working memory training: a randomized controlled trial. Clinical Neurophysiology, 127 (2), 1307-1320. [Download]

2015

  • Mawjee, K., Woltering, S., & Tannock, R. (2015). Working memory training in post-secondary students with ADHD: a randomized controlled study. PLOS ONE. 10(9), e0137173.[Download]
  • Woltering, S., Lishak, V., Elliott, B., Ferraro, L., & Granic, I. (2015). Dyadic attunement and physiological synchrony during mother-child discussions: An exploratory study in children with and without externalizing behavior problems. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 1-10. [Download]
  • Woltering, S., Liao, V., Liu, Z. & Granic, I. (2015). Neural Rhythms of Change: Long-term Improvement after Successful Treatment in Children with Disruptive Behavior Problems. Neural Plasticity.[Download]
  • Woltering, S., Lishak, V., Hodgson, N., Granic, I. & Zelazo, P. D. (2015). Executive function in children with externalizing and comorbid internalizing behavior problems. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.[Download]
  • Gray, S., Fettes, P., Woltering, S., Mawjee, K., & Tannock, R. (2015). Symptom Manifestation and Impairments in College Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of Learning Disabilities.[Download]

2014 and Earlier

  • Mawjee, K., Woltering, S., Lai, N., Gotlieb, H., Kronitz, R., & Tannock, R. (2014). Working Memory Training in ADHD Controlling for Engagement, Motivation, and Expectancy of Improvement (Pilot Study). Journal of Attention Disorders. [Download]
  • Kim, S., Liu, Z., Glizer, D., Tannock, R., & Woltering, S. (2014). Adult ADHD and Working Memory: Neural evidence of impaired encoding. Clinical Neurophysiology. 125, 1596-1603. [Download]
  • Gray, S., Woltering, S., & Tannock, R. (2014). The Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS): utility in college students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. PeerJ, 2, e324.[Download]
  • Liu, Z. X., Woltering, S., & Lewis, M. D. (2014). Developmental change in EEG theta activity in the medial prefrontal cortex during response control. NeuroImage, 85, 873-887.[Download]
  • Woltering, S., Liu, Z., Rokeach, A., & Tannock, R. (2013). Neurophysiological differences in inhibitory control between adults with ADHD and their peers. Neuropsychologia, 51, 1888-1895.[Download]
  • Woltering, S., Bazargani, N., & Liu, Z. X. (2013). Eye blink correction: a test on the preservation of common ERP components using a regression based technique. PeerJ, 1, e76. [Download]
  • Woltering, S., & Lewis, M.D. (2013). Change in Neural Mechanism of Emotion Regulation in Children with Behavior Problems. In D. Hermans, B. Mesquita and B. Rime (Eds). Changing Emotions, (pp. 33-44), Psychology Press. [Download]
  • Woltering, S., Jung, J., Liu, Z., & Tannock, R. (2012). Resting state EEG oscillatory power differences in ADHD college students and their peers. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 8(1), 60. [Download]
  • Granic, I., Meusel, L. A., Lamm, C., Woltering, S., & Lewis, M. D. (2012). Emotion regulation in children with behavior problems: Linking behavioral and brain processes. Development and psychopathology, 24(03), 1019-1029. [Download]
  • Woltering, S., Granic, I., Lamm, C., & Lewis, M. D. (2011). Neural changes associated with treatment outcome in children with externalizing problems. Biological Psychiatry, 70(9), 873-879.[Download]
  • Woltering, S., & Lewis, M.D. (2011). Conceptual development and emotion: a neuropsychological perspective. In P. Smith, and H. Hart (Eds). The Blackwell-Wiley Handbook of Childhood Social Development (2nd ed), (pp. 45-63), Wiley-Blackwell. [Download]
  • Chapman, H. A., Woltering, S., Lamm, C., & Lewis, M. D. (2010). Hearts and minds: Coordination of neurocognitive and cardiovascular regulation in children and adolescents. Biological Psychology, 84(2), 296-303.[Download]
  • Woltering, S., & Lewis, M. D. (2009). Developmental pathways of emotion regulation in childhood: A neuropsychological perspective. Mind, Brain, and Education, 3(3), 160-169.[Download]