Kimberly S. Cuevas
April, 2012
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Psychology Department
311 Williams Hall (0436)
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Laboratory: (540) 231-1116
Fax: (540) 231-3652
[email protected]
Educational History
Ph.D., May 2009, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick
Dissertation: Transitions in the temporal parameters of sensory preconditioning during infancy
Psychology: Behavioral Neuroscience
Mentor: Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Ph.D.
M.S., January 2005, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick
Master’s Thesis: Associating representations of stimuli in absentia: The 6-month-old infant
Psychology: Biopsychology & Behavioral Neuroscience
Mentor: Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Ph.D.
B.S., magna cum laude, May 2002, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA
Honor’s Thesis: Drawing to remember: Facilitating young children’s memory reports.
Major: Psychology (Departmental Honors)
Concentration: Biology
Advisor: Beth Schwartz, Ph.D.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Martha Ann Bell, Ph.D.)
Graduate Assistant, Behavioral Neuroscience (Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Ph.D.)
Research Assistant, R-MWC (Beth Schwartz, Ph.D.)
2009-present
2002-2009
2000-2002
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Bell, M. A., & Cuevas, K. (2012). The use of EEG to study cognitive development: Issues and
practices. Invited as a feature for “Tools of the Trade” series to appear in the Journal of
Cognition and Development. Manuscript accepted for publication pending minor revisions.
Raj, V., Cuevas, K., & Bell, M. A. (2011). The contribution of executive function to source memory
development in early childhood. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Watson, A. J., Cuevas, K., Kraybill, J. H., & Bell, M. A. (2011). A longitudinal investigation of conflict
and delay inhibitory control in toddlers and preschoolers. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Cuevas, K., Bell, M. A., Marcovitch, S., & Calkins, S. D. (in press). EEG and heart rate measures of
working memory at 5 and 10 months of age. Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1037/a0026448
Cuevas, K., Hubble, M., & Bell, M.A. (2012). Early childhood predictors of post-kindergarten executive
function: Behavior, parent-report, and psychophysiology. Early Education and Development,
23, 59-73. doi: 10.1080/10409289.2011.611441
Cuevas, K., Raj, V., & Bell, M. A. (2012). A frequency band analysis of two-year-olds’ memory
processes. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 83, 315-322. doi:
10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.11.009
Cuevas, K., Raj, V., & Bell, M. A. (2012). Functional connectivity and infant spatial working memory:
A frequency band analysis. Psychophysiology, 49, 271-280. doi: 10.1111/j.14698986.2011.01304.x
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Cuevas, K., Swingler, M. M., Bell, M. A., Marcovitch, S., & Calkins, S. D. (2012). Measures of frontal
functioning and the emergence of inhibitory control processes at 10 months of age.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2, 235-243. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2012.01.002
Cuevas, K., & Bell, M. A. (2011). EEG and ECG from 5 to 10 months of age: Developmental changes
in baseline activation and cognitive processing during a working memory task. International
Journal of Psychophysiology, 80, 119-128. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.02.009
Cuevas, K., & Bell, M. A. (2010). Developmental progression of looking and reaching performance of
the A-not-B task. Developmental Psychology, 46, 1363-1371. doi: 10.1037/a0020185
Rovee-Collier, C., & Cuevas, K. (2009). Multiple memory systems are unnecessary to account for infant
memory development: An ecological model. Developmental Psychology, 45, 160-174. doi:
10.1037/a0014538
Cuevas, K., Rovee-Collier, C., & Learmonth, A. (2006). Infants form associations between memory
representations of stimuli that are absent. Psychological Science, 17, 543-549. doi:
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01741.x
Rovee-Collier, C., & Cuevas, K. (2006). Contextual control of infant retention. The Behavior Analyst
Today, 7, 121-132.
Chapters in Edited Books
Bell, M. A., & Cuevas, K. (in press). Psychobiology of executive function in early development To
appear in J.A. Griffin, L.S. Freund, & P. McCardle (Eds.), Executive function in preschool age
children: Integrating measurement, neurodevelopment and translational research. Washington,
D.C.: APA Press.
Rovee-Collier, C., & Cuevas, K. (2009). The development of infant memory. In M. Courage & N.
Cowan (Eds.), The development of memory in childhood. (pp. 11-41). Hove East Sussex, UK:
Psychology Press.
Rovee-Collier, C., & Cuevas, K. (2008). Infant memory. In H. L. Roediger, III (Ed.), Cognitive
psychology of memory. Vol. 2 of Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference, 4 vols. (J.
Byrne Editor; pp. 687-714). Oxford: Elsevier.
Invited Talks and Paper Presentations
Cuevas, K. (2012, February). The development of memory processes: Encoding, integration,
manipulation, and retrieval. Invited talk presented at the Psychology Department, University of
Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Cuevas, K. (2012, January). The development of memory processes: Encoding, integration,
manipulation, and retrieval. Invited talk presented at the Psychology Department Colloquium
Series, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Cuevas, K. (2011, December). Insights into early cognitive development: Learning, memory, and
executive functions. Invited talk presented at the Psychology Department, Mount Holyoke
College, South Hadley, MA.
Cuevas, K. (2009, May). The secret life of infants: What do they know and when do they know it?
Invited talk presented at the Institute for the Study of Child Development, University of
Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick,
NJ.
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Cuevas, K. (2007, March). The secret life of infants: What do they know and when do they know it?
Paper presented during the invited symposium, Comparative developmental models of learning,
at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Cuevas, K. (2005, February). The renewal effect: Contextual learning at three months. Invited paper
presented at the Biopsychology and Behavioral Neuroscience Brown Bag Series, Rutgers
University, Piscataway, NJ.
Paper Presentations at Professional Meetings
Cuevas, K., Learmonth, A., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2010, March). Reactivation of the memory of an
imitation task at 6 months of age: Social and nonsocial reminders. Paper presented at the
meeting of the International Society on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.
Cuevas, K., Giles, A. B., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2008, November). Developmental shifts in sensory
preconditioning: Looking time, verbal and motor skills, and number of trials. Paper presented at
the meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C.
Cuevas, K., Rovee-Collier, C., & Learmonth, A. E. (2008, March). The renewal effect in 3-month-old
infants: A dissociation on recognition and priming tests. Paper presented at the meeting of the
Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Cuevas, K., Rovee-Collier, C., & Learmonth, A. E. (2007, November). The renewal effect: A
dissociation on recognition and priming tests. Paper presented at the meeting of the
International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA.
Townsend, D., Cuevas, K., Bullman, A., Gomberg, J., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2007, March). Transitivity
of 6-month-old infants’ preconditioned memories and deferred imitation. Paper presented at the
meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Cuevas, K., Bullman, A., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2006, March). Timing shifts in sensory preconditioning
over the first year. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association,
Baltimore, MD.
Cuevas, K. (2005, November). Infants form associations between memory representations of stimuli that
are absent. Sandra Wiener Award Presentation at the meeting of the International Society for
Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C. (Sponsor, C. Rovee-Collier).
Cuevas, K., Learmonth, A., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2005, March). Contextual control of retrieval at 3
months. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Cuevas, K., Esson, P., & Whitacre, K. (2002, April). Drawing to remember: Facilitating young
children’s memory reports. Paper presented at the meeting of the Virginia Psychological
Association, Virginia Beach, VA.
Cuevas, K., Esson, P., & Whitacre, K. (2001, October). Examining drawing as a tool to facilitate young
children’s memory recall and accuracy. Paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Regional
Conference of Undergraduate Scholarship, Sweet Briar, VA.
Thomas, L., Cuevas, K., & Norquest, C. (2000, October). The role of inhibitory control on young
children’s use of strategic deception. Paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
of Undergraduate Scholarship, Sweet Briar, VA.
Poster Presentations at Professional Meetings and Institutions
Cuevas, K., & Bell, M.A. (2012, March). Psychophysiological correlates of executive processing during
infancy: EEG power, EEG coherence, heart rate. Poster presented at “Research Live!” Virginia
Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA.
Cuevas, K., Raj, V., & Bell, M.A. (2011, November). Two-year-olds exhibit EEG theta synchronization
during a memory task. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Society for
Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C.
Raj, V., Cuevas, K., & Bell, M.A. (2011, November). An electrophysiological investigation of attention
and inhibitory control in middle childhood. Poster presented at the meeting of the International
Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C.
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Cuevas, K., & Bell, M. A. (2011, April). Episodic memory at 3 years of age: The hide-and-seek task.
Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal,
Canada.
Cuevas, K., & Bell, M. A. (2011, April). Two-year-olds exhibit changes in EEG power and coherence
during a memory task: Baseline, encoding, and retrieval. Poster presented at the meeting of the
Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.
Hubble, M., Cuevas, K., & Bell, M. A. (2011, April). Pre-school predictors of school-aged executive
function. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development,
Montreal, Canada.
Raj, V., Cuevas, K., Marcovitch, S., Calkins, S. D., & Bell, M. A. (2011, April). Electrophysiological
changes in working memory and recognition memory at 5 and 10 months: Evidence from EEG
power and coherence. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child
Development, Montreal, Canada.
Cuevas, K., Morasch, K. C., & Bell, M. A. (2010, March). Recognition and recall memory performance
at 24 months: Individual differences and continuous EEG. Poster presented at the meeting of the
International Society on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.
Cuevas, K., Giles, A. B., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2009, April). Developmental shifts in sensory
preconditioning: Deferred imitation, looking time, verbal and motor skills, and number of trials.
Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
Cuevas, K., Giles, A. B., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2009, March). Sensory preconditioning and second-order
conditioning at 6 and 9 months of age. Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern
Psychological Association, Pittsburgh, PA.
Lee, S., Gomberg, J., Cuevas, K., Hsu, V., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2008, November). Retroactive
interference measures encoding speed in multiple tasks at 6 months. Poster presented at the
meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C.
Shafer, C., Porterfield, V., Kuhn-McKearin, M, Cuevas, K., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2008, November).
Extinction and noncontingent reinforcement at 3 months of age. Poster presented at the meeting
of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C.
Cuevas, K., Bullman, A., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2008, September). Transitions in the temporal
parameters of sensory preconditioning during infancy: Looking time, verbal and motor skills,
and number of trials. Poster presented at the meeting of The Pavlovian Society, Weehawken,
NJ.
Shafer, C., Porterfield, V., Kuhn-McKearin, M, Cuevas, K., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2008, September).
Extinction and noncontingent reinforcement at 3 months of age. Poster presented at the meeting
of The Pavlovian Society, Weehawken, NJ.
Cuevas, K., Bullman, A., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2008, March). Developmental transitions in latent
learning during infancy. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Society on Infant
Studies, Vancouver, Canada.
Gomberg, J. A., Cuevas, K., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2008, March). Retroactive interference and deferred
imitation in 6-month-old infants. Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological
Association, Boston, MA.
Bullman, A., Cuevas, K., DeCampos, A., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2007, March). Long-term memory of
preconditioning associations at 6 and 9 months of age. Poster presented at the meeting of the
Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Kuhn-McKearin, M., Cuevas, K., Shafer, C., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2007, March). Noncontingent
reinforcement in 3-month-old infants. Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern
Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Cuevas, K. (2006, October). Developmental shifts in associative learning during infancy. Poster
presented at the NWO Cognition Summerschool, Doorwerth, the Netherlands.
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Cuevas, K., Bullman, A., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2006, September). Transitions in the temporal
parameters of associative learning during infancy. Poster presented at the meeting of The
Pavlovian Society, Philadelphia, PA.
Townsend, D., Cuevas, K., Bullman, A., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2006, September). Deferred imitation,
transitivity, and declarative memory at 6 months of age. Poster presented at the meeting of The
Pavlovian Society, Philadelphia, PA.
Bullman, A., Cuevas, K., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2006, March). Memory for associations at 6 and 9
months of age. Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association,
Baltimore, MD.
Cuevas, K., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2005, September). Developmental shifts in sensory preconditioning in
young infants. Poster presented at the meeting of The Pavlovian Society, Anaheim, CA.
Cuevas, K., Learmonth, A., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2005, April). Contextual determinants of infant
learning: The renewal effect. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in
Child Development, Atlanta, GA.
Weimer, C., Learmonth, A., Cuevas, K., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2005, March). Secondary latent
associations and deferred imitation at 6 months of age. Poster presented at the meeting of the
Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Cuevas, K., Learmonth, A., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2004, September). Can human infants form latent
associations between stimuli that are absent? Poster presented at the meeting of The Pavlovian
Society, Baltimore, MD.
Cuevas, K., Learmonth, A., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2004, May). Forming associations between infants’
co-active memory representations. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Society
on Infant Studies. Chicago, IL.
Cuevas, K., Learmonth, A., Kijula, A., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2004, April). Excitatory associations
between co-active memory representations in infancy. Poster presented at the meeting of the
Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
Learmonth, A., Cuevas, K., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2004, April). The renewal effect in three-month-old
infants. Poster presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington,
D.C.
Schwartz, B., & Cuevas, K. (2004, March). The role of drawing in young children’s memory reports.
Poster presented at the American Psychology-Law Society biennial conference, Scottsdale, AZ.
Cuevas, K., Learmonth, A., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2003, November). Associating representations of
stimuli in absentia: A preview. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Society for
Developmental Psychobiology, New Orleans, LA.
Learmonth, A., Cuevas, K., Meyers, E., & Rovee-Collier, C. (2003, November). The renewal effect in
three-month-old infants. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Society for
Developmental Psychobiology, New Orleans, LA.
Cuevas, K. (2002, April). Drawing to remember: Improving young children's reports of an experienced
event. Poster presented at the Council of Undergraduate Research: Posters on the Hill,
Washington, D.C.
Schwartz-Kenney, B., Cuevas, K., Esson, P., & Whitacre, K. (2002, March). Drawing to remember:
Facilitating young children’s memory reports. Poster presented at the American PsychologyLaw Society biennial conference, Austin, TX.
Schwartz-Kenney, B. M., Thomas, L. M., Norquest, C., & Cuevas, K. S. (2001, March). Young
children’s understanding of strategic deception: The role of inhibitory control. Poster presented
at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.
Honors & Awards
International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), Travel Award
2007, 2011
NICHD, Executive Function in Preschool Children Workshop, Travel Award
2010
Rutgers University, Graduate Psychology Student Travel Award
2006, 2007
ISDP, Sandra G. Weiner Developmental Psychobiology Student Investigator Award (Winner)
2005
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Rutgers University Graduate Student Nominee for Outstanding Master’s Thesis,
The Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Honor Society, Associate Member
Phi Beta Kappa
Virginia Psychological Association, Frank B. Rowe Undergraduate Paper Award
National Psi Chi Undergraduate Allyn & Bacon Research Award, First Place
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College (R-MWC) Psychology Departmental Award
R-MWC, Jessie Ball DuPont Summer Research Grant
Teaching Experience
Conditioning & Learning Laboratory
General Psychology
Gateway Recitation Sections of General Psychology
Conditioning & Learning
Editorial
Editorial Board:
Infancy
Ad-hoc Editorial Consultant:
Child Development; Early Education and Development; Infancy
Professional Society Membership & Service
International Society for Developmental Psychobiology
International Society on Infant Studies
Biennial Meeting Review Panel
Member, “Developmental Neuroscience”, 2012
Society for Research on Child Development
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2005
Elected 2004
2002
2002
2002
2001
2000
Spr. 2003 & Spr. 2004
Sum. 2006 & Sum. 2008
Fall 2008
Sum. 2007
2011-present
2002-present
2004-present
2001-present