Prof. Amanda Waterman

Professor of Cognitive Development, University of Leeds

Bio

Amanda is an expert on children’s cognitive development, in particular memory and metamemory, as well as the interaction between memory and motor development. She is the academic lead for cognitive research in the Born in Bradford Study, which follows the lives of over 13,500 children and their families and is one of the largest cohort studies of its type in the world.

Publications by Prof. Amanda Waterman

Date published: December 19, 2024

Authors: Mooney KE, Cheung RW, Blower SL, Allen RJ, Waterman A.

Do executive functions and processing speed mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and educational achievement? Analysis of an observational birth cohort study

CHORAL team: Amanda Waterman

Date published: September 18, 2023

Authors: Clare Copper, Clare Copper, Amanda Waterman, Cheti Nicoletti, Katherine Pettinger, Lee Sanders, Liam J B Hill

Educational achievement to age 11 years in children born at late preterm and early term gestations

CHORAL team: Amanda Waterman

Date published: September 25, 2023

Authors: Liam JB Hill, Katy A. Shire, Richard J Allen, Kirsty Crossley, Megan L Wood, Dan Mason, Amanda H Waterman

Large-scale assessment of 7-11-year-olds’ cognitive and sensorimotor function within the Born in Bradford longitudinal birth cohort study

CHORAL team: Amanda Waterman

Date published: March 16, 2022

Authors: Kate E. Mooney, Kate E. Pickett, Katy Shire, Richard J. Allen & Amanda H. Waterman

Socioeconomic disadvantage and ethnicity are associated with large differences in children’s working memory ability: analysis of a prospective birth cohort study following 13,500 children

CHORAL team: Amanda Waterman