About
Dr. Emma Macrae is a researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK. As a key member of the Brain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT) Project Team, she contributed to validating the BabyScreen app—a tablet-based assessment tool for measuring emergent cognitive control in infants aged 18-24 months. The study demonstrated the task's sensitivity to age-related development and stable individual differences, while revealing complex associations between attentional disengagement times at 8-months and 18-months with later cognitive control performance.
- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
Her research focuses on:
- Developmental trajectories of executive networks in pre-verbal children
- Translational methods for digital cognitive assessment in infancy
- Longitudinal relationships between attentional flexibility and sustained attention systems
The BabyScreen application she helped develop:
- Combines working memory and inhibitory control tasks
- Shows strong internal consistency (α=0.83-0.86)
- Demonstrates improved performance at 24-months vs 18-months (W(19)=18.5, p=0.006)
Key findings from her work include:
- Slower attentional disengagement at 8-months predicts higher cognitive control at 24-months
- Faster disengagement at 18-months correlates with better 24-month cognitive outcomes
- No significant associations found between Mullen Scales scores and cognitive control measures
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