Graduate Student, Dr. Libertus
Department of Psychology
Cognitive Program
Silver, A. M., Swirbul, M., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Cabrera, N., & Libertus, M. E. (2023). Investigating associations between parent engagement and toddlers' mathematics performance. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Silver, A. M., Chen, Y., Smith, D. K., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Cabrera, N. & Libertus, M. E. (2023). Mothers' and fathers' engagement in math activities with their toddler sons and daughters: The moderating role of parental math beliefs. Frontiers in Psychology.
Silver, A. M. & Libertus, M. E. (2022). Environmental influences on mathematics performance in early childhood. Nature Reviews Psychology.
Silver, A., Elliott, L., & Libertus, M. (2022). Parental math input is not uniformly beneficial for young children: The moderating role of inhibitory control. Journal of Educational Psychology , 114(5), 1178-1191.
Silver, A. M., Elliott, L., Reynvoet, B., Sasanguie, D., & Libertus, M. E. (2022). Teasing apart the unique contributions of cognitive and affective predictors of math performance. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Alex Silver is a recipient of 2023 Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Organization (GSO) Summer Research Grant. A&S-GSO distributes awards and grants to support graduate student research, teaching and professionalization. Recipients are selected through a review process conducted by awards committees made up of A&S graduate students.
July 11, 2022
Alexandra Silver (Melissa Libertus' mentee) has won a 2022-2023 FABBS Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Award. This is awarded to only 2-5 students in the country each year, and is “to acknowledge and honor graduate student scientists who have conducted doctoral dissertation research of superior scientific quality and broader societal impacts."
May 8, 2023
Andrew Ribner, Alex Silver, Leanne Elliott, and Melissa Libertus were featured in a LRDC brief, "Parent-child Interaction is Important for Effective Early Math Intervention."
September 14, 2022
Alex Silver, Melissa Libertus, and Leanne Elliot were featured in the March 2022 LRDC Research News article "Studying the Cognitive and Affective Predictors of Math Performance."
January 28, 2022
Kudos to graduate student researcher, Alex Silver, Psychology, member of Melissa Libertus' KitLab, who has been awarded the Dr. Ruth L. Myers Memorial Award for Excellence in Mentoring from the Department of Psychology, conferred on a graduate student who has distinguished him- or herself as an outstanding mentor of undergraduate students in the lab or the classroom.
April 9, 2021
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