Yinbo Wu, a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, was named a Buffett Early Childhood Institute graduate scholar. She will receive a one-year fellowship to examine the relationship between parenting, attention, and working memory in young children.
Her current study explores how parenting quality and attention are associated with verbal and spatial working memory in children 3 years, 6 months to 4 years, 6 months of age. The findings will clarify the roles of parenting and attention in working memory development in early childhood and could help determine whether working memory interventions that incorporate attention training and parenting interventions will result in working memory improvement.
Her faculty mentor is Dr. Anne Schutte.
