Dr. Margeaux Ciraolo received her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. During that time she worked on a variety of projects related to cognitive development. Specifically, she worked on testing novel predictions made by symbolic-connectionist neural networks and engaged in other studies related to children’s relational cognition. Later, she dedicated her scholarly study to auditory and visual dominance and attentional resources.
After leaving Hawaii, Dr. Ciraolo accepted a position at Arizona State University as a Research Analyst for the Child Language and Literacy Lab under the direction of Dr. Shelley Gray. Here she contributed to grant-funded research related to longitudinal studies of children’s reading, working memory, and learning.
Currently, Dr. Ciraolo works at the Action Lab at Ed Plus, Arizona State University as a Research Data Scientist. Leveraging her analytical skills she is working to help ASU better understand the needs of learners in the online modality. Dr. Ciraolo is specifically interested in digital equity and ways to close the “digital divide” that separates learners from accessing and engaging in online education.
Education:
- PhD in Cognitive Psychology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- MA in Cognitive Psychology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- BA in Psychology, University of Hawaii at ManoPublications:
Publications:
Currie, N. K., Francey, G., Davies, R., Gray, S., Bridges, M. S., Restrepo, M. A., ... & Cain, K. (2021). The process and product of coherence monitoring in young readers: Effects of reader and text characteristics. Scientific Studies of Reading, 25(2), 141-158.
Ciraolo, M. F., O’Hanlon, S. M., Robinson, C. W., & Sinnett, S. (2020). Stimulus onset modulates auditory and visual dominance. Vision, 4(1), 14.
Walker, M., Ciraolo, M., Dewald, A., & Sinnett, S. (2017). Differential processing for actively ignored pictures and words. PloS one, 12(1), e0170520.
Walker, M., Ciraolo, M., Dewald, A. D., & Sinnett, S. (2016). Effect of Aging on Inhibitory Attentional Mechanisms. In CogSci.
Ciraolo, M., O'Hanlon, S., & Doumas, L. (2014). Computational Comparison of Children and Apes on a Non-Verbal False Belief Task. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 36, No. 36).