Eric Pakulak Universitetslektor

Jag är co-kursansvarig för två kurser i psykologprogrammet: Vuxenliv och Åldrande och Samhälle och Samhällsanalys. Jag gör också gästföreläsningar/seminarier i flera kurser på grund- och avancerad nivå.

Pågående forskningsprojekt inkluderar:

• Kulturell anpassning av en tvågenerationsintervention riktad till utsatta familjer i Australien och Frankrike. Finansiering: Griffiths University, Australien; Université Paris 8, Frankrike
• Kronisk stress och andraspråksinlärning hos invandrarbarn och dess föräldrar. PI: S. Sayehli. Finansiering: Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs Stiftelse https://www.su.se/forskning/forskningskatalog/forskningsprojekt/9/calm---kronisk-stress-och-andraspraksinlarning-hos-invandrarbarn-och-dess-foraldrar
• Förbättring av studenternas inlärning genom AI-genererade övningsfrågor med flervalsalternativ. Finansiering: Stockholms universitets Rektors medel för kvalitetsutveckling av utbildning
• Nordiskt evidensbaserat forskningsnätverk för social rättvisa inom högkvalitativ förskola. PI: S. Frankenberg. Finansiering: Vetenskapsrådet
• Livsloppets psykosociala faktorer och tidiga tecken på Alzheimers sjukdom och relaterade demenssjukdomar. PI: H. Wang. Finansiering: Vetenskapsrådet
• Främjande av psykosocial hälsa hos barn till föräldrar i fängelse och deras icke-frihetsberövade vårdnadshavare genom utveckling och utvärdering av en intervention. PI: Å. Norman. Finansiering: Forte

Selected publications

Garvis, S., Pakulak, E., & Madanipour, P. (in press). The health and wellbeing of early childhood teachers in Sweden. In Harju-Luukkainen, Maunula, Knudsmoen, and Faldet (Eds.), A Nordic Perspective on Teacher Well-being in Educational Contexts.. London: Routledge Press.

Lindfors, H., Hansson, K., Pakulak, E., Cohn, N., & Andersson, A. (2023). Semantic processing of verbal narratives compared to semantic processing of visual narratives: an ERP study of school-aged children. Frontiers in Psychology, 14.

Hoyer, R. S., Pakulak, E., Bidet-Caulet, A., & Karns, C. M. (2023). Relationships among age, socioeconomic status, and distractibility in preschoolers as assessed by the Competitive Attention Test. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 227, 105584.

Pakulak, E. & Stevens, C. (2023). Changing brains for social justice. In A. Newman and G. Grossi (Eds.), Changing Brains: Essays on Neuroplasticity in Honor of Helen Neville. Abingdon: Routledge Press.

Pakulak, E. & Lipina, S.L. (2021). Neuroscientific approaches to optimize self-regulatory skills in children from backgrounds of poverty in different cultural contexts. In S. Garvis and H. Lenz Taguchi (Eds.), Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education and Care. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Pakulak, E. & Stevens, C. (2020). Applying neuroscience research to interventions addressing poverty . In C. Stevens, E. Pakulak, S.L. Lipina, and M.S. Segretin (Eds.), Neuroscientific Perspectives on Poverty. Erice, Italy: International School on Mind, Brain, and Education.

O’Neill, L., Pakulak, E., Stevens, C. Bell, T., Fanning, J., Gaston, M., Gomsrud, M., Hampton Wray, A., Holmes, K., Klein, S., Longoria, Z., Reynolds, M., Snell, K., Soto, A., & Neville, H. (2019). Creating Connections between researchers and educators. Journal of Cognition and Development, 20(2), 110-133.

Giuliano, R., Karns, C., Bell, T., Petersen, S., Skowron, E., Neville, H., & Pakulak, E. (2018). Parasympathetic and sympathetic activity are associated with individual
differences in neural indices of selective attention in adults. Psychophysiology, 55(8), e13079.

Giuliano, R., Karns, C., Roos, L., Bell, T., Petersen, S., Skowron, E., Neville, H., & Pakulak, E. (2018). Effects of early adversity on neural mechanisms of distractor suppression are mediated by sympathetic nervous system activity in preschool-aged children. Developmental Psychology, 54(9), 1674.

Pakulak, E., Stevens, C., & Neville, H. (2018). Neuro-, cardio-, and
immunoplasticity: effects of early adversity. Annual Review of Psychology, 69.

Pakulak, E., Hampton Wray, A., Longoria, Z., Garcia Isaza, A., Stevens, C., Bell,
T., Burlingame, S., Klein, S., Berlinski, S., Attanasio, O., & Neville, H. (2017). Cultural
adaptation of a neurobiologically-informed intervention in local and international contexts. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 158, 81-92

Isbell, E., Stevens, C., Pakulak, E., Hampton Wray, A., Bell, T. A., & Neville, H. J. (2017). Neuroplasticity of selective attention: Research foundations and preliminary evidence for a gene by intervention interaction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(35), 9247-9254.

Hampton Wray, A., Stevens, C., Pakulak, E., Isbell, E., Bell, T., & Neville, H. (2017).
Development of selective attention in preschool-age children from lower socioeconomic status backgrounds. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 101-111.

Pakulak, E., Gomsrud, M., Reynolds, M., Bell, T., Giuliano, R., Karns, C., Klein, S., Longoria, Z., O’Neill, L., & Neville, H. (2017). Focusing on families: A two-generation model for reducing parents’ stress and boosting preschoolers’ self-regulation and attention. Young Children, 72(2), 25-37.

Neville, H., Pakulak, E., & Stevens, C. (2015). Family-based training to improve cognitive outcomes for children from lower socioeconomic status backgrounds: emerging themes and challenges. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 4, 166-170.

Neville, H.J., Stevens, C., Pakulak, E., Bell, T., Fanning, J., Klein, S., & Isbell, E. (2013).
Family-based training program improves brain function, cognition and behavior in lower socioeconomic status preschoolers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(29), 12138-12143.

Neville, H., Stevens, C., Pakulak, E., & Bell, T.A. (2013). Commentary: Neuroocognitive consequences of socioeconomic disparities. Child Development 16(5), 708-712.

Pakulak, E. (2012). Individual differences in native speakers and the broader picture: socioeconomic status and neuroplasticity. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2(3), 277-280.

Pakulak, E., & Neville, H.J. (2011). Maturational constraints on the recruitment of early processes for syntactic processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23(10), 2752–2765.

Pakulak, E., & Neville, H.J. (2010). Proficiency differences in syntactic processing of native speakers indexed by event-related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 22(12), 2728-2744.