Anastasia Kerr-German

Dr. Anastasia Kerr-German serves as Assistant Professor of Psychology within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Mercer University. Her primary academic appointment focuses on developmental cognitive neuroscience research and instruction in research methods, statistics, and neuroscience courses.

Her educational background includes a Ph.D. and M.A. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Tennessee, and a B.S. in Psychology from Georgia College & State University.

Dr. Kerr-German's research centers on developmental cognitive neuroscience, specifically examining how children's brains process environmental information through methods like functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and eye tracking. Her work investigates attentional processing, executive functioning, and ADHD risk factors in toddlers (ages 2-7), with emphasis on neural attention networks, functional connectivity, and dimensional attention mechanisms.

• Early attentional processing and executive functioning trajectories
• Neural underpinnings of inhibitory control in toddlers
• Maternal ADHD risk transmission to biological toddlers
• Scalable attention assessment protocols for young children

Recent publications demonstrate strong focus on developmental neuroscience methodologies and ADHD risk markers, with increasing application of fNIRS technology in toddler populations. Her 2023 work on the Visual Attention Processing Protocol (VAPP) represents significant methodological innovation in early childhood cognitive assessment.

Dr. Kerr-German maintains active undergraduate research supervision but no formal doctoral advisees are documented. Her laboratory work utilizes fNIRS and eye-tracking equipment to investigate neural dynamics in toddler populations.