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Independent contributions of the central executive, intelligence, and in-class attentive behavior to developmental change in the strategies used to solve addition problemsDavid C Geary
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 113:49-65. 2012..The results also revealed that intelligence and in-class attentive behavior independently contributed to children's strategy development...- Fact retrieval deficits in low achieving children and children with mathematical learning disabilityDavid C Geary
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 2500, USA
J Learn Disabil 45:291-307. 2012.... - Cognitive predictors of achievement growth in mathematics: a 5-year longitudinal studyDavid C Geary
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 2500, USA
Dev Psychol 47:1539-52. 2011..Use of memory-based processes to solve addition problems predicted mathematics and reading achievement but in different ways. The results identify the early quantitative competencies that uniquely contribute to mathematics learning... 
Sex differences in social behavior and cognition: utility of sexual selection for hypothesis generationDavid C Geary
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri at Columbia, 65211-2500, USA
Horm Behav 49:273-5. 2006- Evolution of life-history trade-offs in mate attractiveness and health: comment on Weeden and Sabini (2005)David C Geary
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211 2500, USA
Psychol Bull 131:654-7. 2005..These life-history trade-offs greatly complicate the empirical study of attractiveness-health relations, and their potential importance has been underestimated by J. Weeden and J. Sabini... - Evolution and proximate expression of human paternal investmentD C Geary
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211 2500, USA
Psychol Bull 126:55-77. 2000..On the basis of this review, discussion of the evolution and proximate expression of human paternal investment is provided... - Cognitive mechanisms underlying achievement deficits in children with mathematical learning disabilityDavid C Geary
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia 65211 2500, USA
Child Dev 78:1343-59. 2007..Compared with the TA group, the LA children were less fluent in processing numerical information and knew fewer addition facts. Implications for defining MLD and identifying underlying cognitive deficits are discussed... - An evolutionary perspective on learning disability in mathematicsDavid C Geary
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri at Columbia, MO 65211 2500, USA
Dev Neuropsychol 32:471-519. 2007..Different forms of MLD are discussed as related to each of the cognitive and brain systems... 
Development of number line representations in children with mathematical learning disabilityDavid C Geary
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 2500, USA
Dev Neuropsychol 33:277-99. 2008..The central executive component of working memory contributed to across-grade improvements in number line performance and to group differences in this performance...- Evolution and educationDavid C Geary
University of Missouri at Columbia, USA
Psicothema 22:35-40. 2010.... - Consequences, characteristics, and causes of mathematical learning disabilities and persistent low achievement in mathematicsDavid C Geary
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 2500, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 32:250-63. 2011..These individuals have identifiable number and memory delays and deficits that seem to be specific to mathematics learning. Interventions that target these cognitive deficits are in development and preliminary results are promising... - Role of cognitive theory in the study of learning disability in mathematicsDavid C Geary
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211 2500, USA
J Learn Disabil 38:305-7. 2005.... - The motivation to control and the origin of mind: exploring the life-mind joint point in the Tree of Knowledge SystemDavid C Geary
University of Missouri at Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211 2500, USA
J Clin Psychol 61:21-46. 2005..The fundamentals of this motivation-to-control model are outlined and links are made to Henriques' (2004) Tree of Knowledge System and Behavioral Investment Theory... - Numerical and arithmetical cognition: a longitudinal study of process and concept deficits in children with learning disabilityD C Geary
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia, 65211 2500, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 77:236-63. 2000..Discussion focuses on the similarities and differences across the groups of LD children... - Mathematics and learning disabilitiesDavid C Geary
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, 65211 2500, USA
J Learn Disabil 37:4-15. 2004..The deficits are discussed in terms of three subtypes of mathematics learning disability and in terms of a more general framework for linking research in mathematical cognition to research in learning disabilities... - Evolution of human mate choiceDavid C Geary
Department of Psychology, 210 McAlester Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 2500, USA
J Sex Res 41:27-42. 2004.... - Strategy choices in simple and complex addition: Contributions of working memory and counting knowledge for children with mathematical disabilityDavid C Geary
University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211 2500, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 88:121-51. 2004..Individual differences in the strategy mix and in the strategy shift were related, in part, to individual differences in working memory capacity and counting knowledge... - Evolutionary developmental psychologyD C Geary
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri at Columbia, 65211 2500, USA
Child Dev 71:57-65. 2000..The basic assumptions and domains of this emerging field, as related to human life history and social and cognitive development, are outlined, as are implications for issues of importance in contemporary society... - Brain and cognitive evolution: forms of modularity and functions of mindDavid C Geary
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia 65211 2500, USA
Psychol Bull 128:667-98. 2002..The authors present a taxonomy of these modules and review associated research relating to brain and cognitive plasticity in these domains... - From infancy to adulthood: the development of numerical abilitiesD C Geary
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri at Columbia, 65211 2500, USA
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 9:II11-6. 2000..Variability in the development of secondary quantitative abilities greatly complicates the study of the relation between pathological (e.g., dyscalculia due to stroke) and age-related processes and these abilities... - Sex differences in spatial cognition, computational fluency, and arithmetical reasoningD C Geary
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri at Columbia, 65211 2500, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 77:337-53. 2000..Moreover, the results suggested that the male advantage in arithmetical reasoning is mediated by the male advantages in both computational fluency and spatial cognition... - Sex differences in behavioral and hormonal response to social threat: commentary on Taylor et al. (2000)David C Geary
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211 2500, USA
Psychol Rev 109:745-50; discussion 751-3. 2002..Finally, men's tending should result in the evolution of female-female competition over this form of parental investment... - Mathematical cognition in intellectually precocious first gradersMary K Hoard
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 2500, USA
Dev Neuropsychol 33:251-76. 2008..Individual differences analyses revealed that each of the three components of working memory contributed to different aspects of skilled performance on the mathematics tasks... - Fertility cycle patterns in motives for sexual behaviorMelanie Skaggs Sheldon
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:1659-73. 2006..Results suggest that sexual motives are rooted partly in woman's biology and are discussed in terms of plausible evolutionary mechanisms that might promote female "choosiness" at midcycle... - Sex differences in salivary cortisol, alpha-amylase, and psychological functioning following Hurricane KatrinaJacob M Vigil
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, 1 University of New Mexico, MSC03 2220, Albuquerque, NM 87131 1161, USA
Child Dev 81:1228-40. 2010..Implications of sex differences in biobehavioral adjustment to loss, displacement, and relocation are discussed in relation to evolutionary and developmental theory... - A life history assessment of early childhood sexual abuse in womenJacob M Vigil
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 2500, USA
Dev Psychol 41:553-61. 2005.... - A preliminary investigation of family coping styles and psychological well-being among adolescent survivors of Hurricane KatrinaJacob M Vigil
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, USA
J Fam Psychol 22:176-80. 2008..These results highlight the importance of future research on both potential benefits and costs of family coping styles in adolescents affected by a large-scale disaster... - Co-ruminating increases stress hormone levels in womenJennifer Byrd-Craven
University of Missouri Columbia, USA
Horm Behav 53:489-92. 2008..These findings suggest that co-rumination can amplify, rather than mitigate, the hormonal stress response to personal life stressors... - Biological and evolutionary contributions to developmental sex differencesJennifer Byrd-Craven
210 McAlester Hall, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 2500, USA
Reprod Biomed Online 15:12-22. 2007..Although these differences have strong biological origins, developmental experiences serve to flesh out and elaborate on these differences, or to minimize them, depending on the demands of the culture in which the child is situated... - Sexual selection and human life historyDavid C Geary
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri at Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
Adv Child Dev Behav 30:41-101. 2002 - Estrogen fluctuations, oral contraceptives and borderline personalityM Catherine DeSoto
Department of Psychology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614 0505, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 28:751-66. 2003..7; p<0.01). Research findings that link the serotonin system and estrogen are reviewed and theoretical and practical implications are discussed... - Parenting and community background and variation in women's life-history developmentJacob M Vigil
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211 2500, USA
J Fam Psychol 20:597-604. 2006..Implications for future research on the relation between parenting and child outcomes are discussed... - Standardized assessment of strategy use and working memory in early mental arithmetic performanceSarah S Wu
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 5778, USA
Dev Neuropsychol 33:365-93. 2008..We discuss the implication of these findings for early mathematical learning... - Second to fourth digit ratio and numerical competence in childrenBernhard Fink
Department for Sociobiology Anthropology, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
Brain Cogn 61:211-8. 2006....
Research Grants
- LEARNING DISABILITIES IN ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICSDAVID GEARY; Fiscal Year: 2003....
- Mathematical Development in Learning Diasbled ChildrenDAVID GEARY; Fiscal Year: 2007..g., working memory) that underlie MD children's developmental delays and deficits in these competencies. ..