About
Dr. Jennie Grammer is an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Psychology at UCLA in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Broadly, she is interested in understanding the ways in which experiences in elementary school contribute to children's cognition. Through her research, she examines changes in children’s cognitive skills from early childhood across the transition to elementary school and the contexts that promote this growth. Specifically, employing both behavioral and neurological methods, she examines the development of executive functions, memory, and metacognition between the ages of 3-8.
In addition, she works to identify aspects of the classroom and home environment that promote this development. Bringing together these two parallel lines of research, her goal is to understand the ways in which early enrichment and schooling experiences can positively impact brain and behavioral development.