Kelley Gunther

@kgunther.bsky.social

Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Maryland Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security. Brain enthusiast.

Excited to share my final dissertation paper! Motivated by work suggesting that dopaminergic activity may be a mechanism linking anxiety and effortful control, in a sample of school-age children we (tediously) counted eye blinks during the “Tower of Patience” task as a proxy of dopaminergic activity

Now it’s your turn!: Eye blink rate in a Jenga task modulated by interaction of task wait times, effortful control, and internalizing behaviors

Dopamine is a versatile neurotransmitter with implications in many domains, including anxiety and effortful control. Where high levels of effortful control are often regarded as adaptive, other work s...

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