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Beth Woods

  • Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology; Director of General Education
  • Psychology

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Biography

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience Focus, University of Houston
M.A. in Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience Focus, University of Houston
B.A. in Psychology, Spanish Minor, Texas A&M University

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Developmental Psychology (Child Development, Lifespan Development)
Cognitive Neuroscience (fNIRS, executive function, neuroplasticity, learning, expertise, synesthesia)
Language Development (bilingualism, multilingualism, word-learning, lexical development)

FACULTY-STUDENT COLLABORATIONS

Salgado, S. M., Kennedy, A. G., Williamson, L. C., Woods, E. A., & Bailey, S. A. (2024). This is your brain on lies: Neural and behavioral correlates of deception. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2024 Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. Seattle, WA.

Woods, E. A., Williamson, L. C. (2023, March 31). An introduction to fNIRS: History, physics, and research design. In S. A. Bailey (Chair) Cognitive neuroscience using fNIRS: At the intersection of biology, physics, and psychology. [Symposium]. Talk presented at the 2023 Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association. Frisco, TX.

Mikol, M., Becerra, A., Williamson, L. C., Woods, E. A., Bailey, S. A. (2023, March 31). Nonsense on the right: Differential processing of real and pseudo words. In S. A. Bailey (Chair) Cognitive neuroscience using fNIRS: At the intersection of biology, physics, and psychology. [Symposium]. Talk presented at the 2023 Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association. Frisco, TX.

Unks, M., Williamson, L. C., Woods, E. A., Bailey, S. A. (2023, March 31). fNIRS reveals what we knew all along: Math is difficult. In S. A. Bailey (Chair) Cognitive neuroscience using fNIRS: At the intersection of biology, physics, and psychology. [Symposium]. Talk presented at the 2023 Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association. Frisco, TX.

Baccinelli, B., Kraemer, J., Keneipp, M., Zantop, A., & Woods, E. A. (2023). Short-term retention in monolingual vs. bilingual students learning American Sign Language. Poster presented at the 2023 Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association. Frisco, TX.

Crosby, A., Luna, T., & Woods, E. A. (2023). Attachment styles in monolinguals and bilinguals. Poster presented at the 2023 Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association. Frisco, TX.

Williamson, L. C., Copeland, K., Garzareck, N., Molina, H., & Woods, E. A. (2023). Investigating cognitive advantages of bilingualism through undergraduate student success. Poster presented at the 2023 Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association. Frisco, TX.

Williamson, L. C., Woods, E. A., & Bailey, S. A. (2022). Synesthetic V4 activation by achromatic stimuli measured using fNIRS. Poster presented at the 2022 Biennial Meeting of the Society for functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Boston, Massachusetts.

Johnson, A., Reimer, A., & Woods, E. A. (2022). Comparing cognate and non-cognate L2 learning using visual aids. Poster presented at the 2022 Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Payne, S., Williamson, L., Radtke, L., Frey, D., Woods, E. A., & Bailey, S. A. (2022). Pain and hemodynamic responses to violent and non-violent media exposure. Poster presented at the 2022 Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Gray, E. N., Radtke, L. J., O’Bannon, F. E., Taylor, E. A., & Woods, E. A. (2021). Monolingual and bilingual college students’ performance on English and artificial Stroop tests. Talk presented at the 2021 Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association. San Antonio, Texas (online presentation).

Kraft, T. & Woods, E.A. (2021). The effect of linguistic distance on language learning. Poster presented at the 2021 Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association. San Antonio, Texas (online presentation).

Von Buettner, T. & Woods, E.A. (2021). Technology use and attention in early childhood. Poster presented at the 2021 Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association. San Antonio, Texas (online presentation).

Breeden, J. & Woods, E.A. (2020). The effect of method of instruction on American Sign Language learning. Poster accepted for the 2020 Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association (convention cancelled due to Covid, submissions deferred to 2021). San Antonio, Texas (online presentation).

Garcia, A. & Woods, E.A. (2020). The effect of method of instruction on Spanish language learning. Poster accepted for the 2020 Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association (convention cancelled due to Covid, submissions deferred to 2021). San Antonio, Texas (online presentation).

Jauregui, C. & Woods, E.A. (2020). Method of instruction on artificial language learning. Poster accepted for the 2020 Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association (convention cancelled due to Covid, submissions deferred to 2021). San Antonio, Texas (online presentation).

PUBLICATIONS

Archila-Suerte, P., Woods, E. A., Chiarello, C., & Hernandez, A. E. (2018). Neuroanatomical profiles of bilingual children. Developmental Science, 21(5), e12654.

Hernandez, A. E., Woods, E. A.,& Bradley, K. (2015). Neural correlates of single word reading in bilingual children and adults. Brain & Language, 143, 11-19.

Bilson, S., Yoshida, H., Tran, C.D., Woods, E.A., & Hill, T.T. (2015). Semantic facilitation in bilingual first language acquisition. Cognition, 140, 122-134.

Bilson, S., Yoshida, H., Tran, C. D., Woods, E. A., & Hills, T. (2014). Semantic Network Structure in Bilingual and Monolingual First Language Acquisition. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of theCognitive Science Society (pp. 200-205). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Woods, E. A., Hernandez, A. E., Wagner, V. E., & Beilock, S. L. (2014). Expert athletes activate somatosensory and motor planning regions of the brain when passively listening to familiar sports sounds. Brain and Cognition, 87, 122-133.

Woods, E. A. (2013). The development of translation equivalents in bilingual preschool children (Doctoral dissertation). ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (Accession Order No. [3578832])

Woods, E. A. & Yoshida, H. (2012). Effects of learning order and previous language experience in novel word learning. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2546-2551). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Hernandez, A. E., Mattarella-Micke, A., Redding, R. W. T., Woods, E. A., & Beilock, S. L. (2011). Age of acquisition in sport: Starting early matters. The American Journal of Psychology. 124(2), 253-260.