Hannah Snyder

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Departments/Programs

Neuroscience
Psychology
Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Degrees

University of Colorado at Boulder, Ph.D.
University of Colorado at Boulder, M.A.
Oberlin College, B.A.

Expertise

Executive function, anxiety & depression, developmental psychopathology, stress, adolescence & emerging adulthood

Profile

Individual differences in executive functions (EF) are associated with many important aspects of human health and functioning, including mental health. Critically, EF processes continue to develop through the early 20's, a period when new stressors arise during the transition to adulthood and psychopathology risk is high. Our research seeks to better understand the links between EF, stress and stress coping mechanisms, and psychopathology (especially depression and anxiety) during this key adolescent and emerging adulthood period.For more information about our current research projects, please see our lab website: http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/psych/cope-lab Webpage

Courses Taught

NPSY	182a	Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Infancy through Adolescence
PSYC	33a	Developmental Psychology

Awards and Honors

R01 MH105501, Co-Investigator (MPIs: Benjamin Hankin & Marie Banich), Prefrontal Mechanisms of Selection: Disrupted in Internalizing Psychopathology? (2015 - 2019)

R21 MH102210, Co-Investigator (PI: Benjamin Hankin), Links Among Adolescent Executive Function, Effortful Control and Psychopathology (2014 - 2016)

F32 MH098481 Links Between Depression and Executive Function Impairments in Adolescents (2013 - 2015)

Scholarship

Snyder, Hannah. "Attention bias in rumination and depression: Cognitive mechanisms and brain networks." Clinical Psychological Science (2018). (forthcoming)

Vargas, T., Snyder, H.R., Newberry, R., Banich, M.T., Mittal, VM. "Altered selection during language processing in individuals at high risk for psychosis." Schizophrenia Research (2018). (forthcoming)

Snyder, H. R. & Hankin, B. L.. "Cognitive function in mood and anxiety disorders." Oxford Handbook of Adult Cognitive Disorders. Ed. Stern, R. A. & Alosco, M. L.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017 (forthcoming)

Snyder, H. R. & Hankin, B. L.. "Working memory and youth depression." Working Memory and Clinical Developmental Disorders: Theories Debates and Interventions. Ed. Alloway, T. P.. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2018. 196-209.

Hankin, B. L., Davis, E. P., Snyder, H. R., Young, J. F., Glynn, L. M., & Sandman, C. A.. "Temperament factors and dimensional, latent bifactor models of child psychopathology: Transdiagnostic and specific associations in two youth samples." Psychiatry Research 252. (2017): 139-146.

Snyder, H. R. & Hankin, B. L.. "All Models Are Wrong, but the p Factor Model Is Useful Reply to Widiger and Oltmanns, and Bonifay, Lane, and Reise." Clinical Psychological Science 5. 1 (2017): 187-189.

Snyder, H. R., Hankin, B. L., Sandman, C. A., Head, K., & Davis, E. P.. "Distinct patterns of reduced prefrontal and limbic grey matter volume in childhood general and internalizing psychopathology." Clinical Psychological Science 5. 6 (2017): 1001-1013.

Snyder, H. R., Young, J. F., & Hankin, B. L.. "Chronic stress exposure and generation are related to the p factor and externalizing specific psychopathology in youth." Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (2017).

Snyder, HR, Young, JF, & Hankin, BL. "Strong homotypic continuity in common psychopathology, internalizing and externalizing specific factors over time in adolescents." Clinical Psychological Science 5. 1 (2017): 98-110.

Hankin, B. L., Snyder, H. R., & Gulley, L. D.. "Cognitive risks in developmental psychopathology.." Developmental Psychopathology. 3rd ed. Ed. D. Cicchetti. Hoboken, N. J.: Wiley, 2016. 312-385.

Hankin, B. L., Snyder, H. R., Gulley, L. G., Schweizer, T. H., Bijttebier, P., Nelis, S., Toh, G., & Vasey, M. W.. "Understanding comorbidity among internalizing problems: Integrating hierarchical structural models of psychopathology and risk mechanisms." Development and Psychopathology 28. (2016): 987-1012.

Snyder, H. R., & Hankin, B. L.. "Spiraling out of control: Stress generation and subsequent rumination mediate the link between poor cognitive control and internalizing psychopathology." Clinical Psychological Science 4. 6 (2016): 1047-1064.

Snyder, H. R., Gulley, L. D., Bijttebier, P., Hatman, C. A., Oldehinkel, A. J., Mezulis, A., Young, J. F., & Hankin, B. L. "Adolescent emotionality and effortful control: Core latent constructs and links to psychopathology and functioning." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences 109. (2015): 1132-1159.

Snyder, H. R., Kaiser, R. H., Warren, S. L., & Heller, W.. "Obsessive compulsive disorder is associated with broad impairments in executive function: A meta-analysis." Clinical Psychological Science 3. (2015): 301-330.

Snyder, H. R., Miyake, A., & Hankin, B. L.. "Advancing understanding of executive function impairments and psychopathology: Bridging the gap between clinical and cognitive approaches.." Frontiers in Psychology 6. (2015): 328.

Barker, J. E., Semenov, A. D., Michaelson, L., Proven, L. S., Snyder, H. R., & Munakata, Y.. "Less structured time in children’s daily lives predicts self-directed executive functioning." Frontiers in Psychology 5. (2014): 593.

De La Vega, A., Brown, M., Snyder, H. R., Sigal, D., Munakata, Y. & Banich, M. T.. "Individual differences in the balance of GABA to glutamate in prefrontal cortex predicts the ability to select among competing options." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26. (2014): 2490-2502.

Snyder, H. R., Banich, M. T., & Munakata, Y.. "All competition is not alike: Neural mechanisms for resolving underdetermined and prepotent competition." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26. (2014): 2608-2623.

Snyder, H. R., Kaiser, R. H., Whisman, M. A., Turner, A. E. J., Guild, R. M., & Munakata, Y.. "Opposite effects of anxiety and depressive symptoms on executive function: The case of selecting among competing options." Cognition & Emotion 28. (2014): 893-902.

Munakata, Y., Chatham, C.H., & Snyder, H.R.. "Mechanistic accounts of frontal lobe development." Principles of Frontal Lobe Function. 2nd ed. Ed. D.T. Stuss & R.T. Knight. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 185-206.

Munakata, Y., Snyder, H. R., & Chatham, C. H.. "Developing cognitive control: The costs and benefits of active, abstract representations." Developing Cognitive Control Processes: Mechanisms, Implications, and Interventions. Ed. P. D. Zelazo & M. D. Sera. Hoboken, N. J.: Wiley, 2013. 55-90.

Snyder, H. R., & Munakata, Y. "So many options, so little control: Abstract representations can reduce selection demands to increase children's self-directed flexibility." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 116. (2013): 659-673.

Snyder, H. R.. "Major depressive disorder is associated with broad impairments on neuropsychological measures of executive function: A meta-analysis and review." Psychological Bulletin 139. (2013): 81-132.

Henderson Kaiser, R., Snyder, H. R., Gupta, T., & Banich, M. T.. "hen does stress help or harm? The effects of stress controllability and subjective stress response on Stroop performance." Frontiers in Psychology 31. (2012): 179.

Munakata, Y., Snyder, H. R. & Chatham, C. H.. "Developing cognitive control: Three key transitions." Current Directions in Psychological Science 21. (2012): 71-77.

Snyder, H. R., Banich, M. T., & Munakata, Y.. "Choosing our words: Selection and retrieval processes recruit shared neural substrates in left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23. (2011): 3470-3482.

Snyder, H. R., & Munakata, Y.. "Becoming self-directed: Abstract representations support endogenous flexibility in children." Cognition 116. (2010): 155-302.

Snyder, H. R., Hutchison, N., Nyhus, E., Curran, T., Banich, M. T., O’Reilly, R. C., & Munakata, Y.. "Neural inhibition enables selection during language processing.." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107. (2010): 16483-16488.

Snyder, H. R., & Munakata, Y.. "So many options, so little time: The roles of association and competition in underdetermined responding." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 15. (2008): 1083-1088.

Snyder, H. R., Feigenson, K., & Thompson-Schill, S. L.. "Prefrontal cortical response to conflict during semantic and phonological tasks.." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19. (2007): 761-775.