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Here’s to what’s coming next! Grateful for this experience and excited for the future. #SRCD2024 #DevelopmentalScience #ExecutiveFunctions #ChildDevelopment #AcademicLife. (7/7).

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What excites me most is looking ahead. I’m enthusiastic about the new ideas and projects taking shape after this experience. Always open to new collaborations and research opportunities—let’s connect and keep the conversation going! 🚀. (6/7).

I also had the pleasure of seeing @YukoMunakata1 again and attending her brilliant talk on Changing Perspectives on Executive Function. She detailed so clearly how the field is evolving, based on a series of impactful studies she has published. Truly inspiring! 🧠✨. (5/7).

One of the best parts was reconnecting with people who inspire me!. I caught up with my postdoc friends @DPlacidoEffect and @Rachelefos, and finally met @NiebaumJC and .Mateus Mazzaferro in person after many online conversations. 🤝. (4/7).

I also had the chance to present my poster—always a rewarding experience to share the work we’ve been developing and hear valuable feedback.📊📝. (3/7).

The event brought some of the most exciting discussions in our field:.🔹 Integrating parents' and teachers' perspectives into research.🔹 New ways of thinking about executive functions.🔹 How unpredictable environments shape child development.(2/7).

✨ A few weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of attending the SRCD Biennial Meeting for the first time!. I presented part of my postdoc research, shared ideas, met incredible researchers in person, and left inspired by the exciting future of developmental science. 🧠👶. (1/7)

EF research is undergoing a paradigm shift. New perspectives emphasize context, social influences, and dynamic goal-directed skills. There’s still work to do, and I’m excited to be part of this evolving conversation! 🚀. 🔗 Read the full piece: (5/5).

These ideas profoundly influenced my own research. They pushed me to move beyond rigid EF categories, explore relational reasoning, and rethink task design—especially in diverse socio-cultural contexts. Understanding context is key to making EF research more inclusive. (4/5).

However, more recent papers challenged this view. One of Bunge’s biggest contributions is expanding the EF framework. She argues for including monitoring and relational thinking as core components—both essential for goal-directed behavior but often overlooked. (3/5).

When I started studying EFs, I felt the field rigid: working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility dominated the conversation. Children were classified as having "good" or "bad" EFs, and interventions aimed to fit them into these categories. (2/5).

✨ New Publication! ✨. Executive function research is changing. In my latest Journal Club piece in @NatRevPsych, I discuss how groundbreaking work—especially by Silvia Bunge—reshaped my views on this field. 🔗 Read here: (1/5)

A huge thanks to my co-author, Elizeu Macedo, and to everyone who helped with the data collection and analysis!. Your thoughts & feedback are welcome as this work moves forward. Let’s discuss! 🧠💬. 🔗 Read here: (6/6).

Why does this matter? .📚In educational settings, assessments that rely on sustained attention may be affected by mood shifts, while knowledge-based tests remain stable .📷These insights help design better assessments that reflect ability—not mood-driven attention changes.(5/n).

Key findings:.✅ Mood did not impact overall test scores. ✅ However, attention allocation changed—participants in a positive mood showed a less structured scanpath. ✅ This challenges the idea that stress impairs performance in knowledge-free reasoning tasks. (4/n).

Fast forward to 2020, we developed a technique that allowed us to finally understand the patterns we observed. (3/n).

This experiment started during my master’s, but at the time, we lacked the technical tools to analyze eye movements in-depth. We could see differences qualitatively, but a quantitative method was missing. (2/n).

✨ New Paper Alert! First of 2025!✨. Ever wondered how mood affects attention during problem-solving? Our new study explores how mood influences eye movements in a knowledge-free reasoning task—without affecting performance! 🧠👀. 🔗 Read here: (1/5)

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