Dr Kate Anning

Research student

School of Psychology

: AnningK@cardiff.ac.uk
: Centre for Human Developmental Science (CUCHDS), 70 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT

I am a final year PhD student and one of the child testers in the Cardiff University Neurodevelopmental Assessment Unit. I am interested in self-regulation skills, such as ‘Executive Functions’, which include our attention, memory and inhibition. In the NDAU we use different tasks to measure self-regulation, assessing how well children can remember picture and number sequences, whether they can pay attention,

ignore distractions and plan, and whether they can switch between matching colours or

shapes. My research aims to understand better how children who have different needs or

difficulties at school or at home perform on these tasks. I have also developed a training to improve some of these skills, especially the ability to pay attention, which we are testing in primary schools.

Date
Type

2024

Anning, K. L., Langley, K., Hobson, C., De Sonneville, L. and Van Goozen, S. H. 2024. Inattention symptom severity and cognitive processes in children at risk of ADHD: The moderating role of separation anxiety. Child Neuropsychology 30(2), pp. 264-288. (10.1080/09297049.2023.2190964)
Ferguson, C., Hobson, C., Hedge, C., Waters, C., Anning, K. and van Goozen, S. 2024. Disentangling the relationships between motor control and cognitive control in young children with symptoms of ADHD. Child Neuropsychology 30(2), pp. 289-314. (10.1080/09297049.2023.2190965)
Anning, K. L., Langley, K., Hobson, C. and van Goozen, S. H. 2024. Cool and hot executive function problems in young children: Linking self-regulation processes to emerging clinical symptoms. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (10.1007/s00787-023-02344-z)

2023

Anning, K. L., Langley, K., Hobson, C. and Van Goozen, S. H. M. 2023. Dimensional associations between executive function processes and symptoms of ADHD, ASD, oppositional defiance and anxiety in young school-referred children. Cortex 167, pp. 132-147. (10.1016/j.cortex.2023.06.005)
Anning, K. 2023. Self-regulation difficulties in young children with cognitive, emotional and behavioural problems. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

2022

Burley, D. T., Anning, K. L. and van Goozen, S. H. M. 2022. The association between hyperactive behaviour and cognitive inhibition impairments in young children. Child Neuropsychology 28(3) (10.1080/09297049.2021.1976128)

I am a Graduate Teaching Assistant on the MSc ‘Children’s Psychological Disorders’ course, delivering tutorials, workshops and supervising dissertation projects.